We arived in Rome safely. The plane trip from London to Rome was the best ever. We flew over Paris and could see the Arc de Triumph and the Eiffel tower. Then over the Swiss Alps. We looked down the French coastline and flew down the Italian Coastline.

We arived Thursdy afternoon and were picked up from the airport by Jesse Schafer. He is from a Canadian missionary family who have been here for over 30 years with Christ is the Answer. It is a mission that does tent crusades around Italy. He took us to accommodation being provided for us at a Pentecostal church (Alpha and Omega) in Rome. The Pastors are lovely and looking after us. The church is one of the only ones in Rome with a building. They have 4 floors and one of them are apartments which are not used yet, so we have a 3 bedroom apartment with a balcony to ourselves.!

I spoke at their youth on Friday night and am speaking at their church service Sunday night.

They are one of the biggest Pentecostal churches in Rome with about 200 people. The biggest church is Romanian which meets in the samer building on Sunday mornings. Alpha and Omega only meets Sunday nights. The second biggest church is Chinese.

We have spent the last couple of days wondering around Rome and trying to practice our Italian.

I had my first 10pm dinner last night with the Pastors - pizza and pasta. It was very good.

It is pretty cold. The weather has been atrocious, but cleared the day we arrived. It is supposed to rain again tommorrow.