Home Improvement

Italians certainly know how to demonstrate Paul's injunction to "Practice hospitality" (Romans 12:13b). Over the past week, a family from church invited me to share a meal in their home just about every other day. I greatly enjoyed these times of fellowship and getting to know my brothers and sisters in Christ!



The last two days we have had adventures with wall repairs in our apartment. Workers came to fix the falling interior wall in the bedroom and the moldy walls and ceiling in the bathroom. I wasn't expecting the process to be quite so chaotic, but I am thankful to have a landlord who takes care of such matters for us! Also a couple weeks ago we had workmen rappelling off our terrace to fix some precarious marble on the side of the building so that it would not fall on unsuspecting passersby below!



We had more visitors from Searcy yesterday, Carl and Frankie Mitchell and Bob and Joyce Corbin! While people seem to be always coming and going through Florence, not as many make it all the way down to Sicily, and it was great to see them! Dr. Mitchell is speaking about depression at a series of conferences today through Saturday in Messina, Enna, Paterno, and Catania. We've been distributing flyers in these cities and are hoping for good attendance! Please pray that the conferences go well and are able to positively impact people's lives.