A LITTLE BIT AT A TIME

Hello world (or anyone...anyone??? who might be reading)!!

      Jess and I celebrated our 25 year friendiversary a couple days ago by going on an incredibly short (two days smashed in between a 9 hour day in service and her Drama practice today) and incredibly cheap (free accommodations and food) trip to the beach.  That's how broke pioneers roll! It was nice to spend a few days with my BFF before I leave for 4 1/2 months.  Being the wild and crazy kids that we are and have always been, before we listened nostagically to my recently unpacked teenage collection of CDs, I read the yearbook aloud to her as she drove : )
      The courage and zeal for the ministry that the brothers and sisters in Norway showed was super inspiring, and the persecution and outright slaughter and genocide in Rwanda just makes anything I'm stressed about seem pretty outrightly insignificant.  There was one sister in Norway who went BY HERSELF back to a city than had been bombed during the war.  She didn't have a place to stay when she got there so she slept on a kitchen floor of a packed house for an entire winter.  I guess I should just start praying for space on someone's kitchen floor in Bologna!  I have to admit I'm pretty nervous about going back to Bologna by myself with currently no plans for accommodations.  But reading about that sister reminded me that Jehovah will always work things out and we are never really alone in His service...and that I might have to prepare myself to sleep on the floor or in a box or something.  At least it will be an Italian floor or box :)
       So far my problem of figuring out how to get to the convention has been solved!  The family I am going to work for offered for me to just come a few days later than originally planned so I can go directly to the convention in Rome.  AND I am hoping that it might work out for me to stay with an Italian couple in Rome for the convention.  It seems like everything is working out a little bit at a time.
                                              A LITTLE BIT. AT. A. TIME.