LOTTIE MOON

It's Little Lottie time!!!

It's Lottie Moon season in the states and that means a lot for us here in Napoli. Considering that Lottie Moon supports every thing that we do, have, eat, etc..... I like Lottie Moon time. But more than just the offering, I just like Lottie Moon. There is a reason that the offering is named after her. I love what she fought for. I love that she fought for people to support what God has called us all to do. I am thankful to be a part of the SBC and I am thankful that my work is fully supported. I'm thankful for all the people who faithfully give year after year. I pray that our work here and all over the world would continue to be supported by all the great people back at our churches!

I'll be posting a video soon of what Lottie Moon does for us here in Napoli.

Thanksgiving in Napoli

Thanksgiving was our first holiday in Napoli, away from home. And it was great. We had a volunteer team here last week. They were from Sulphur, Louisiana. It was good to have a little bit of home here in Napoli! On America's Thanksgiving day, we had a big dinner at Peppe and Assunta's house with the volunteer team. It was good time with good food and way too many people in that house.

Our team celebrated Thanksgiving on Sunday. We had way too much food, but it was so so good. Apparently no one outside of Acadiana eats rice dressing for Thanksgiving. Which I think is silly because that is the best part of Thanksgiving dinner. Anyway, that's what I wanted, so that is what I had to cook. Except that became difficult when I realized there was no Richard's rice dressing mix here or a rice pot to cook my rice in. But being the amazing cook I am, I managed, and I made some real good rice dressing from scratch. All of the food was good, and again I ate so much I felt sick. That seems to be something I do a lot here. I need to join a gym, soon.

Yesterday I wasn't feeling good. But I got a lot of rest and today I'm doing better. Good thing.

The Saints are 11-0 and that means the world is all good! WHO DAT!!! the saints are going to the super bowl. Of course. when i'm not in america!

here are some pictures of our already eaten thanksgiving meal.

Life with Peppe

Ok so here in Napoli we do things differently than in America. Except it takes me a while to figure that out and to learn how to live like they do. Peppe doesn't like that. Peppe has expressed to me more than once that in Napoli we hang the clothes outside to dry, not inside. But I keep hanging them inside because I don't want them out all night. Well I tried hiding the clothes from him last night. But he is not stupid and he barged in our room because he knew I hid the clothes in there. And he found them. and it was really funny. I tried explaining, but remember he doesn't speak English and my Italian is limited, so it didn't work. We laughed really hard though. And then decided that we would finally surrender. So from now on I'm leaving my clothes outside!

Sloppy's Video

Sloppy Joe

So I have some bad news.... Sloppy Joe is in bad shape and quite possibly will no longer be with us soon. Sloppy is our team van. We like her because she gets us places. But not only us...she gets volunteer teams from America who come here places too. But sadly, on Sunday Sloppy began having some health problems. Here are some pictures for you mourn with us. There is also video footage. We hope and are praying that Sloppy will get through this rough time. :)

here's the picture that didn't post....

Legal stuff and lines......

So today Grace and I had to go to the Questura di Napoli, to request permission to stay here in Napoli. Sort of like getting a green card. It's an experience to go down there. The doors open at 8:30 but the line forms much earlier. We got down there at 6 in the morning. There was already a line starting. But here in Napoli lines work a little different. It's not really a line, just a secret line. Whoever gets there first starts a list, and as you show up you sign the list. That's if you know the list exists. Luckily, thanks to everyone else on the team doing this before us, we knew the list existed. Well, Jason brought us and he knew the list existed. So we got our names on the list, number 13 and 14. Then we just waited until the doors open and the "line" is a huge crowd pushed up against the doors. The guards chose to take the list and follow it so we got the numbers 13 and 14 and we got inside. We waited a couple more hours but eventually everything went great and we got all of our stuff done. THANK YOU JESUS. this process was not easy for everyone so we are grateful for such an easy process.

and here's a picture for you!