Day 46 – July 18th, Wednesday

Day 46 – July 18^th, Wednesday

Today, woke up, took a lot of time to be in the word, cleaned up and went and got coffee at Caffe Viale, and talked with Andrea and Sognia for a bit and then headed to the church and got lunch at Golden Pizza, which is right across from the church. After that we went back upstairs to the church and started writing. We had letters to write to people, a lesson to write for our last weekend here, and I had to catch up on this journal. So this is what I’ll be doing till church later tonight at 7. Oh and we’re going to Rome on Monday for Three days.

Day 45 – July 17th, Tuesday

Day 45 – July 17^th, Tuesday

Today we had language route, but I had to go get groceries for lunch, and I also needed to study some new verbs and pronouns. So I spent about 40 minutes doing that, then I bought lunch and a few extra groceries and dropped off

Day 44 – July 16th, Monday

Day 44 – July 16^th, Monday

Today, we woke up and had a bible study at Cardeto, which is a park/nature walk area on the ridge of the southern hill in Ancona. We had lunch, I went and took a nap. Got up and 

Day 43 – July 15th, Sunday

Day 43 – July 15^th, Sunday

Woke up very early to go clean the church up for the Phillipino church that meets at our church. And I skyped with a good friend, Ryan Bartnick. Then I went back and took a nap before we headed to the beach later. Hopped a train, headed to Senegallia, then…

Spiaggia Chiesa! (BEACH CHURCH!) it was fun, and awesome. 

Day 42 – July 14th, Saturday

Day 42 – July 14^th, Saturday

Long Day. We had the Evangelistic Outreach with a ton of other churches. All the other churches were either Pentecostal or like Jews for Jesus, with that strange Dispensational doctrine. It was a chaotic day, with all sorts of issues with the sound board. We had some time to practice before, but things weren’t going well, so I made the call to say that we should just do grazie in Accappella, and I would play “Always” by myself. We watched the African Pentecostal church sing, and they did kind of well. Some of their songs sounded great, but others seemed as though key wasn’t a focus. Nonetheless, it was good. They even sang “Because He Lives”, which was awesome. Then it was our turn, we sang grazie, and I was surprised, because it sounded fantastic. Then It was my turn, I was nervous for about thirty seconds, then I didn’t really care. I played through most of the song and then the speakers shut off and they came to fix stuff. I was pretty frustrated because I do have training in sound engineering, but I shrugged it off, not worth getting upset about. But they said “Anche! Anche!”. Which means Again, again. Apparently most of what I had played didn’t play on the speakers, so they wanted me to start over. The guitar didn’t have a pick up, it was just a regular acoustic, so we had to Mic it. In the back of my head I was thanking Mike Bowers (my Sound Engineering Teacher from Tulsa Technology Center) for teaching us how to Mic different instruments. So I started over, played all the way through and everybody loved it. So we stuck around to watch everyone else, and we had a drama or a “Mimo” to do. It was really good and went really well. We had to dress all in black, and have black and white make up on our faces. We ending up being there till 11pm. At the very end, I stepped up on a small wall, and my shorts ripped, the ones that I had bought in the market in Ancona. So the rest of the night I had to walk around with ripped pants. It wasn’t that bad though, you couldn’t see that they had ripped. No reason to freak out though, learned not to buy anything in the market, the quality might not be great. We had to take the girls home, and we had Brian drop us off at TaTaruga for a late dinner. We hadn’t eaten since early that morning, so we got some pizza and walked home.

Day 41 – July 13th, Friday

Day 41 – July 13^th, Friday

Today we woke up and had a prayer time for Marcus. Heidi, Lindsay and Kelley came over and we all prayed for Marcus for a good hour and a half or so, then we talked for a bit and headed up to Brian and Heidi’s house for Accountability. It was a great day. God used our talk to really teach me some things. Brian had told us that the main focus and prayer for the interns was that we would be changed by coming here, and that much of the internship was constructed to frustrate us, to show us the difficulties of the field and let God use those things to reveal issues in our own lives and to be changed by that. It was sobering and liberating to learn that. I still don’t understand what God is changing in me, but I’m sure it will make sense in due time. Brian also told us that we were asked to present some music to represent the church at the outreach on Saturday. We had nothing ready, so I started practicing some songs and decided on two. One is called “Grazie” which is an Italian worship song, and then I did “Always” by Kristian Stanfill. We practiced a little bit later on during the coffee house, and we also watched birds, by Alfred Hitchcock.

Day 37 – July 9th, Monday

Day 37 – July 9^th, Monday

We went to Grotto Di Frassasi, which is a huge cave in a mountain. The first room of the cave is big enough to fit the entire basilica of Milano in it. MASSIVE. They wouldn’t let us touch any of the stalactite or stalagmite. But we didn’t care, it was like a giant air conditioner down there and it was the coolest cave I’ve ever seen.