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Safely in London.

We are safely in London airport with a five-six hour layover. See many of you soon. We land at 735pm today. Pray for safety as we fly over the big pond!  More updates and photos coming once I can access my computer!
Ciao!

From the Hannahs

Hi everyone! We just finished rehearsal, so now for an update. After our two successful nursing home visits, Pedro brought some of us ( those who were interested) to a cave up in the mountains where the Christians used to hide out to pray. During the Christian persecution  here in Italy the Christians used to flee to the mountains in fear that they would be found elsewhere. The cave we visited was the original place where they would meet. It's really incredible because they would have to walk two-three hours just to get there.  Getting in the cave was quite exciting as we had to hike a little ways and then crawl on all fours to get inside. Once inside, the cave opened up and it was quite large. Pedro said that 20-60 people would meet there, I'm not sure how often, but it was incredible to be witnessing such history. I think it was a great reminder to all of us just how lucky we are to be able to practice our religion freely without fear of death. After visiting the cave we attempted to hike a little farther to a monument which represents the place where the Christians decided to translate the bible to Italian.  Because we were on a bit of a time crunch we didn't have time to find it, but the view we got was incredible. We finished out day with an American dinner, chicken and mashed potatoes and our final rehearsal!! - Hannah bush. 

Hey everyone! Today we danced at two nursing homes. It was really cool to minister to them and they seemed to love it.   After this we had the choice to go caving. I didn't go because I don't like getting dirty but for the people who did go seemed to really enjoy it.  I think some of them even got some pictures. Overall we had a great day and  can't wait to see what lies ahead!!                -Hannah miller.                                            

From the Christin a/e s

Hi everyone, this is miss Chrissy and Christine! Well I can honestly say that this trip has been a dream come true for the both of us. For me dancing at the train station in Turrino was the most powerful performance we've done. After learning of the history of the city of Turin it made our being here that much more meaningful. Turin is one o the largest cities in the world for white and black magic practice. They were given the underground abandoned railway by the Government and told they cold do whatever they wanted as long as it doesn't come to the surface. Obviously they are not aware that spiritual stuff like that builds up a spiritual wall. It was awesome to think that we were dancing and praying out the demons of that area and so many people just stood there and watched the whole time. 

    We had another experience after dancing at the woman's luncheon where a lady came up an told us that she is not a Christian but after seeing us dance and seeing our expression now she wants to be. For the first time she said she cried for joy instead of sadness. Another lady today came up and spoke with Pedro telling how hearing one of our testimonies truly ministered to her and helped her because she was currently going through a rough time after losing her 15 year old son. For the first time she felt as though there was hope for her to get out of the state of depression she is in. God is truly working in these people and the girls are loving that they get to talk with their audience and hear how God is using them as vessels. Julie and I feel like proud Momma's. 

    Christine says that one her favorite parts of the trip was going up to the cave where back when the Protestants were being persecuted its where they would have service. Going inside of the cave was awesome, cold and wet. It's hard to imaging that the people would hike so far, especially in the winter time so that they could go to church and we can complain about just having drive 30minutes. She was also very touched by the lady who came up to her and talked after the luncheon who now wants to be a Christian after seeing us. Two years ago Christine told her mom she wanted to dance in Italy and here she is, doing exactly that and loving every minute of it. 

   For the collegiate's, this is our last night here in Italy before we head back to Belgium. Everyone is pretty sad to be leaving, but most of us feel very strongly that we will be back! 

A little late....

Hey everyone!! Hope everyone is doing wonderful , I know we are!! Sorry we didn't get to post last night by the time we could blog we were all exhausted so we went to bed. Well yesterday we woke up and then we passed out leaflets around Torre Pellice. We did that for about two hours then we went to the Salvation Army. This is where we had the international luncheon. The international luncheon is where Christian and Muslim women come together for a meal once every two months. So we ate with them and then Mrs. Julie did a workshop with the women there. They learned a dance to How He Loves. After we finished that we went back to the place we are staying and had dinner then rehearsed. We were doing Freedom and the man who is playing Jesus for us is absolutely amazing. His name is Michael . Micheal shared his testimony with us last night. He is such an amazing person and God has done such an amazing work in his life. 

And he told us that he asked God to bring him a ministry opportunity and Michael said that we were the first thing that has been brought to him. Also this morning we went and danced at one of the nursing homes. God is doing wonderful things here can't wait to tell everyone about everything that's happening!! See you soon!!! 

- Elizabeth

Update from Tuesday

Hey y'all! Today was fun and hot. I for one was tired, so I slept through breakfast. We then rehearsed for a while, although I half way slept though that too (haha). Then we ate lunch. It tasted soooo good, especially the rice. Then we went up a hill to pass out cards. It was hot but fun. I met a sweet little old man. Then I ate Nutella gelato. It was the best hands down. Now I'm doing what I do probably 96% of the time-sleep ;) shout out of love to all my family and friends. -Lily 

Hey guys, well today went pretty well. We had bunches of fun, and really felt God. We got to sleep in an extra hour!! Half of us slept through breakfast, but that's because we got in last night around 1:30am. After eating, we went to rehearse with our "Jesus". That went pretty good. After that, we went to lunch which was pretty good, too. Their food is delicious here! 

After our showers and stuff, we met at the Salvation Army to receive our cards and brochures to pass out to people. It was so hot, though. But hey, we got a nice tan! (Haha). I have to say, the best part about being out was getting the gelato! Yummy! It's way better than American ice cream! As we headed back, we stopped to shop. But guess what? A bird pooped on me! In my hair, on my scarf and arms, everywhere. It was just amazing... not. Then we finally made it back and had an amazing dinner. I'd say my day went pretty well with my amazing friends, and I'm looking forward to  many more days.

- Sydney 

Hard to post

Please be patient as all blog posts and anything using wifi can be limited due to our location!  We are all doing great!  Will have the alpha girls blog tomorrow. My phone was in the other van today! :) (so don't worry Jocelyn). Love y'all!!!

Update from here

Today we went to Monaco. We expected it to be a nice day for shopping and observing the history. Well it turned out to be a very rainy day. But we didn't let that stop us from enjoying the beautiful city. We had a lot of fun and had an interesting dinner. We were in France but we ate at a Italian restaurant. Still had a lot of fun. 

~Sara 

Well today we ate breakfast in Italy. We decided to go visit Monaco, which was very BEAUTIFUL! We ate lunch in Monaco.  We were going to visit the beach, but it rained so we decided to enjoy the cathedrals and the palace. It was very nice.  After that we went to go eat dinner in France! It was really cool to know that even though our plans did change, God provided us with our awesome guide, Pedro, to guide us around and helped us enjoy our day!

~Anniston 

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