Kirbys in Catania

This has been an incredibly busy spring/summer. I apologize for just getting this out. My goal for this school year is to get these out more often so they aren't so lengthy. First, the most important news.... We have 7 new brothers and sisters in Christ since the last blog post I wrote. In February, a couple Sebastiano and Rosita committed their lives to Christ after several months of studying. In May Monica and her mother, Rosetta, became Christians as well. Monica is Davide's (our student who became a Christian last summer) wife. In June, another young woman, Agostina, became a Christian after several months of studying. She's friends of one the young couples at church. Then, in July, Lydia became a Christian. And just last week, Erika, who is also one of my English students, became a Christian. So in a years time there have been a total of 8 new Christians. Please, if you already pray for our work here, add these names to your prayer list...that their faith will grow

We've had a busy year so far, and I'll do my best to catch you all up on the highlights. I might break it up into a couple of blog posts over the next week if it gets too long. Davey got to have his own personal crib on the flight to Italy At the end of January, we came back to the States to visit family and friends, and to rest a bit.  It was a whirlwind of a trip. We had to take Davey to meet several relatives so we did a lot of traveling. We also had several run-ins with snow storms and blizzards on the days we were flying. The airlines lost our luggage, but they found it two days before we returned to Italy - so basically they found it when we were at the point of being ready for it to be lost so we could just get reimbursed. Instead, we ended up not getting reimbursed and spending our trip in borrowed clothes. So, thank you s o much to those of you who lent us clothes so we didn't have to shop for a whole wardrobe during our short visit back! We traveled from