Another one of those non stop weekends. Saturday morning there was the usual house cleaning and shopping, then all the afternoon I was at Rovereto at a bookstall. There were about 20 people that we had some sort of contact with and received some literature – having the Scripture calendars in this period of the [...]

Last night the Monday night cell group, that Pinuccia belongs to, had its end of calendar year dinner. It is one of the big groups, and with family members and a few extras, it meant that there were 26 people there. Since we have one of the few homes in the church at Trento that [...]

We all left home at 6.45 to get Daniele to the hospital and ready in time for the 8am operation, then I came back home with Stefania to get her off to school. Just when I got home from school at 9am, Pinuccia rang me to say that the operation had been cancelled because too [...]

We went to the hospital this afternoon (which in itself was an adventure – more on that later), and they confirmed that Daniele was well enough to undergo his operation. So it will be tomorrow at 8am Italian time. Probably he will then be let out of the hospital in the late afternoon, although if [...]

Today was a public holiday, which meant a long weekend. Although as usual we filled up the time, and was in one sense tiring, it was also an enjoyable and restful time with the family and friends. On Sunday there was the monthly church lunch, and when we got home we went straight out again [...]

The hospital rang this morning, to say that Daniele’s operation has been postponed a week. So you can pray the same way, but for next Friday instead of this Friday.

The fund raising for the school in India was a success, with more than $1000 being raised so far, and there is still some money to come in. There was a problem with the snow, that prevented a few people from going (especially those in the mountains), so the numbers in church were a bit [...]