What we do in life echoes in eternity

Sunday, they day of rest according to Moses' accounts in Genisis, and thankfully it was a day of rest, and also rejuvination. We went to Ciesa today, italian for church, and we heard more on Mr. Nehemiah, and again it was very good. Church was not the rejuvinating part of the day, how ever, what was was after church, when we all got invited back to Pastor Rocco's place for lunch and fellowship. His house is out a little ways into the country side, so we had to pile into cars and drive out there but it was well worth it! The house was beautiful, and we got to enjoy a bit of a Thunder storm and rain which was nice, but just a little and it was still warm. We also got a chance to talk to some of the more active members of the church and some of the students. I met a guy named George who lived in Isreal before he came here to study, great guy. There was also a guy who is in his 30's named Antonio, who looks almost identical to Gatuso, which was kind of humerous.And I met two wondeful ladies from Austria who were both very sweet and friendly, very cool girls! I also got to talk with Giovanni and Hannah about the Catholic church, and share with them my upbringing and all of those good things, and of course there was food! Tons and tons of food, and it was all amazing! Real home made Italian food, there isn't much that compares to that. Oh it was a beautiful thing. We got back to Siena about 4 and hung out until 6:3o when we headed to the Campo to watch the lottery for the horse race. The contrada that we reside in and have adopted as our own, Drago (Dragon), won last years race so there was a huge procession in with all of ther flags and their drummers it was pretty cool. There are 10 horses who race, but 17 contradas so the 7 from last year are automatically in and then from the other 10 they pick 3. Our contrada was the second one picked so some of us burst into cheers in what we thought was the section for our contrada, but we didn't realize they had all moved to the very front, and it wouldn't have been a big deal, except that the third contrada picked was the one we were surronded by, and they all broke into cheering and singing and kissing each other, it was pretty crazy to watch. For a second we thought it might get a little hairy but we were able to leave while they were still singing. Unfortunately the race is in July so I am going to miss it, but i will have Emanuele and Dominico send me the results! "Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell, fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them."