What we do in life echoes in eternity

I struggled slightly with tonights title, but then in a moment of zen it came to me, and it stems from 1 Peter 1. The chapter talks a lot about faith, and touchs on genuine faith which is an area that we talked about a lot in our study group this morning with the team. We are studying 1 Peter on our mission, and it works out nice because we can take it one chapter a week and really disect it. I am also studying Colossians for AIA, and I think that the two pair together well. I think I am going to set up at time with April where her and I can sit down and talk about Colossians together and bounce ideas off of eachother about what we think it means. But back to 1 Peter and the study group this morning, I like it so far, it isn't speaking to me a lot directly but I feel like indirectly through how others have interpreted it I am being spoken to, which is fine as long as I am hearing what God needs me to hear. I also came to some conclusions indirectly that aren't directly related to the bible study but will benifit me greatly. Like I mentioned yesterday we went to the medical campus today, which was awesome, it's a bigger campus and has more of that university feel to it, there are also more students there so you didn't feel quite so cramped as you did yesterday. We split up into groups of two, and Jack and I ended up being together which was great. We are still going through the decoding, and exploration process, so we are just meeting students and getting to know them. It took Jack and I to find some people to talk to but when we found them we knew we had some good people to talk to. Their english was great, so it was easy to talk to them, difficult at times with some words or phrases but overall it was fantastic! We talked to three guys Andrea, Davide and Davide who were very open to just telling us all about what life was like for them and other medical students on campus. It was hard to even ask questions they just were willing to share everything with us which was fantastic! But we did get to ask some, and it was great to hear some of what they had to say about religion and church and God. They were also very excited about getting together with us in the future and talking more and sharing more about life for both of us, and our views and beliefs on God, and politics and other things that are important and hip today. We talked with these guys for almost an hour and it was so much fun, they were funny, and just really friendly, and willing to talk to us, which is so cool, because I feel like you were to do this in the States it would definately not go over this well at all, chances are likely there would be some sort of bodily harm done or something like that. It really is great though to just learn more and more about the culture every day. The more I talk to people about life in Siena and at the University the more I feel like it is very much like Pullman. It is a small town that is mostly about the University, and its in a rural part of Italy, surronded by the Vinards of Tuscany, quite similar to the wheat fields of the Palouse. Also the majority of the population here is the univesity students. So it is nice that we can relate to them on that level. Jack and I were talking later and we both feel like there is something big in the near future and we are excited about it, very excited. Tomorrow is kinda of a less active day, we do stuff just at the Pardisio, and with writing and translating emails to send to some of our new friends, and then we get to go to the Open air market, and possibly do a little shopping so that should be fun. You wouldn't think that going out and talking to people for part of the day would be so exhausting but it really is! It's probably because they don't speak english very well so you are having to engage your brain in a different way and think more about what you are trying to say. I am really praying that Jack and I will get to meet with these guys again! We have faith that if God wants us too, he will make it happen. "Faith is not a belief, belief is passive. Faith is active" -Edith Hamilton