God is good!

So we have now officially been on campus for 5 days now. For all of you who don't live in my world, that means going on campus at about 10 am and beginning spiritual conversations with students until about4 pm. Now let me just say that this was the scariest part about coming on STINT for me. But alas God is good and he has provided amazing conversations and of course some extremely awkward conversations along the way as well. For example, when they don't speak any English and I speak very very little Italian or perhaps when a group of students has to go because they have to go to class and they invite you to come along. As the dumb American desperately trying to make Italian friends, I follow them in the classroom. Lets just say it was a bad idea and there was a video playing involving George Bush and war...which was our que to leave. But besides all that, God is good and our team had the privelege of seeing 3 people accept Christ in the past 2 days! A-MAZING! I have always been one to doubt initiative evangelism and how effective it actually was, but this just goes to prove that it is completely out of our hands. Especially since we don't speak their language, very few of us have experience in evangelism, and half the time we're not even sure why we're here. But once again God is so good and He uses those who have nothing to offer, but filthy rags to expand His kingdom. For such a time is this...

Please pray for Paola, Nunzia, and Francesco as they learn to love Jesus.

In other news...
I have been meaning to tell you about each one of my teammates, but lets be honest I am never going to do that, but thankfully Francine (the assistant team leader) is on the ball. So here's a link to her blog in order to learn more about the people I spend 24 hours a day with. http://www.happyintheson.blogspot.com/

I went to Positano last weekend, which is a beautiful little city on the Amalfi coast about 1 hour away by ferry. It was a nice day of laying on the beach and walking around looking at shops. And we saw this girl that we thought was Nicole Richie, so clearly we stalked her until she turned around and we realized it wasn't her at all. All I have to say about Positano is "Che Bella!" (Which means how beautiful and is what the Italians say in response to everything...I love it...I'm bring it back to the States)