If you’ve read the newsletter you know already….we are moving! Actually we are currently actually in the process of moving (yes as I type my fingers are in motion therefor I am techincally moving and could claim that most of the time but, seriously…) we took all of our stuff to Vicenza on Monday, picked up our keys and turned on our gas and lights. Right now we are back in Florence wrapping all of the final things up (and getting our fill of Italian television since we will not be watching tv for the next year). We get on the train to move for good to Vicenza on Monday.
Everything has flown like a speeding bullet train. In mid-october I was sure moving anywhere was one of the longest shots in the world. I was so sure we would stay in Florence for our whole time even though it would have been great to go out and work with one of the churches. By mid-november the church in Vicenza is planning all of the things they could possibly do with us and we’ve vocally agreed to move into an apartment in Vicenza. It’s been two months since then now and those months have flown by as well….Christmas and saying goodbye to students and finishing work in Florence. Time telescoped big time.
Our apartment is wonderful and a blessing from God. The story goes like this….we went to Vicenza the second week of November to visit and kind of scope out the possibilities for places to live and how much they would cost and all that jazz. Thirty minutes after we start looking on Saturday morning barely after we had actually decided to go call any of the places we had circled in the ad pages, we stop into this shop owned by a Jennifer’s friend from highschool (Jennifer actually grew up in Vicenza). They say hello, How are you?, all of the appropriate questions … and then… What are you doing in Vicenza? The answer well… we are looking into apartments for Matt and Lauren (let me introduce you to Matt and Lauren, They’re great!) Hmmm…..well….you know what oddly enough we have an apartment for rent would you like to see it? it will cost ________ THE EXACT AMOUNT MATT AND LAUREN CAN AFFORD PER MONTH_________ and we go see it and it has two rooms a bathroom and a separate kitchen! unheard of on Italian apartment renting size scales for the price……and oddly enough it is only 5 minutes walk to the church as well as being on Vicenza’s most beautiful main drag. So we hmm and haw because that is what you are supposed to do right and say well we have to think about it we’ll call you later. After that we went to a rental agency and asked them what was usually available. They told us that for the price we were asking we would only ever be able to find apartments half the size and that nothing would be available now we would have to come back in January to even start looking. So God provided exactly what we needed when we needed it before we even tried our own solutions…isn’t it cool!
Next week we start this new project…pray that we do it well and that God will use us to the utmost. Pray too that we will find people at the church who will be willing to join us in working with their teenagers so that whatever we jumpstart will continue past this next year.
And just so you know our New Years resolution….communicate! so expect to see alot more of these posts….talk to you soon.
Lauren
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