For the next few months at least, most of my activities are concentrated in the first half of the week. So now it is Thursday morning, and I have already done the three cell groups that I am attending. (I still have the Youth Group study to prepare for Saturday, but I do that study only about once a month.) The three groups got off to a positive start. On Monday night, Andrea and Carmelo (who have taken my place leading the group) did a good job with the introduction to the year, and have worked hard in the past couple of months preparing and organising for the group this year. On Tuesday, when the Rovereto group meets this year, there was only one couple from there, but it was a very helpful meeting in encouraging them with the vision that exists for the group (to grow into an autonomous church) and to think about ways of making it grow. In the Wednesday group, which has always been a difficult one because the people in it are very different and there has not been a sense of ownership to the group, there was a good spirit, and so I believe a lot more promise for this year. It is the group that the best cake shop owner and cook at Trento comes to, which worked out well because yesterday was also birthday number 44 for me, and he always brings along a cake or similar for supper. So I got a cake there, even though he hadn’t remembered that it was my birthday. Actually two cakes, as one of the ladies in the group who did remember brought one as well.

Yesterday we also went to the hospital in the morning with the results of Daniele’s thyroid hormone exam. The two important values have returned to the normal range, but a secondary hormone is still too low. So for the moment he is OK, but the pediatrician told us to repeat the exam in a month to make sure the thyroid is still working properly.

Now it is time to get the house ready for the Sunday School teachers’ meeting this evening. It will be mostly my job cleaning up all of Stefania’s toys strewn around the lounge room, and cleaning the public part of the house, as Pinuccia still has some work to do to prepare what she will be saying when she leads the meeting.

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