Rest, then more meetings
We have had a bit of free time in the last few days, which have been good for getting the talk for Friday finished. I just have to go over it a couple of times now to practice it. I am feeling a lot more comfortable about doing it now, than when I accepted the invitation - thanks to those you prayed. I also went into the cathedral yesterday to hear one of the other talks in the series, and to get a feel for what is going on.
We also took advantage of these free days to do a bit of tourism - with the prayer week last week we had not had much time to relax together as a family lately. So had a great day catching a ferry across the harbour, then having a picnic in a park on the foreshores with play equipment (Stefania’s highlight, although she enjoyed the boat as well).
Now we have another busy few days. Tonight (Wednesday) there is dinner with the family, then on Thursday small groups to speak at both at lunch and in the evening, and another family meeting in the middle. Then on Friday lunch there is the talk in the cathedral, Saturday night another family dinner, and then on Sunday we will be speaking at two services in the morning before having our recommissioning service in the afternoon. Keep praying for energy and enthusiasm for all these meetings, and that there will be new partners for the work at Trento as a result.
PS I just checked my blog, and realised that my previous message was missing, which would make parts of this message a bit hard to understand. I have now published the previous message, which appears has having been posted a bit after this one, even though it was in fact written a week before.