Day 2

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Today was a really good day just to put the project into perspective.  A guy named John who is on staff with Crusade explained to us what the vision was for Milan.  He is the person that his visited Milan for 4 years now and has basically tried to start this movement there.  He explained to us that the end goal for Milan is to have students there at their universities start a fellowship much like the one we have in Boston (Real Life Boston Ministry).  Our purpose in Milan is to plant a seed in those students and allow the Lord to let it grow if He so desires.  John and the rest of the Crusade staff hope that there will be 4 people that decide to spend a year in full time ministry in Milan to continue reaching out to those students to start this big spiritual movement there.  When he put it into perspective how big Milan was and what us going there meant I got overwhelmed and excited at the same time.  They’re actually depending on us. On ME.  I’m important in starting this great spiritual movement in MILAN.  And what if the Lord calls me to do that year in Milan?  The Crusade staff hopes that at least one of us will want to do that but only if the Lord is calling us to it.  For some reason when John was explaining this I felt this excitement and desire to raise my hand and say ME!  I’m going to be that person!  I will definitely pray about it throughout this trip because that is obviously a big leap of faith and shouldn’t make that sort of decision without intense prayer.  I would obviously do it after I finish college… how amazing would that be though if the Lord was calling me to live in Milan for a year to help start this ministry?  I know I’m on this project for a purpose so who knows.  And if things go well then they hope that the person in Milan decides to stay 3, 5, 7 years until the ministry can run on its own with Italian Crusade staff that we have trained during our time there (if I decide to do full time ministry there).  I’ll let you know what God tells me :]

John then started to explain to us about the culture and the background of most of the students.  He explained to us that most of them have a Catholic background (duh).  He also gave us this really good analogy about how Catholic people who have never heard of having a relationship with the Lord are like people wearing glasses and the Catholic church is the glasses and when they look out these glasses they see this one picture of a Jesus that’s blurred and distant but if they were to take the glasses off he would actually be much closer and clearer to them.  So all we’re asking these students is that they take these glasses off for a second to discover what having a close relationship with Jesus would mean.  This lead us to talking about project goals and going through a Bible study too basically emphasize how important our personal time with the Lord is. 

Later in the day we all did the Myer-Briggs test to just discuss each other’s personalities so that we could work better together.  When I took this test in my Organizational Behavior class in Fall ’09 I was an ENFJ and today it said  I was an ESFJ.  I remember when I first took it that my S and N were pretty close so that’s probably why those changed but besides that part of my personality I’m pretty strong in everything else.  I was a really high E,F, and J (google Myers Briggs if you don’t know what those mean).  It was interesting to see what other people were.  There are a lot of introverts here so that will definitely be a challenge for me just because I’m so extroverted but I love getting into deep conversation with people so hopefully I’ll be able to pull them out a little. 

We also talked about team norms and what we expected from each other.  I said my top 2 were cleanliness and respect of property.  I can’t handle messiness or disorganization so I just ask everyone keeps there stuff orderly and neat!  I also don’t mind sharing my things but just ask or put it back where you got it so I’m not looking for my stuff later when your not around. 

After going through all this it was basically time for dinner and at this point Sarah and Cenia weren’t feeling well :[  so Cenia took Sarah to see a doctor and they’re back now but Sarah got some medicine so hopefully she’ll feel better the rest of the trip.  Hopefully after they get some rest they’ll feel better. 

After dinner we played Frisbee, football, and man hunt outside until it got dark.  Oh, I almost forgot… we did the Myers Briggs test outside because everyone wanted a little bit of sunshine since it was such a beautiful day but there were so many bugs! OMG.  I killed about 3 ginormous fly/bee things it was disgusting they kept attacking me so it’s their own fault.  And the ants here are HUGE!  So I killed those too.  Anywho, playing outside was fun though.  We’re (the girls) are really trying to make Pat feel included in everything with him being the only guy and all.  I think doing some outdoor activities helped us get to know him better and allowed him to get to know us better. 

After playing outside we just hung out in the Administrative building and had some girl talk (Pat left for some quiet time with God).  Kat told us about how Micah proposed to her… so cute!  Then we got to talking about how what a rough year this has been for everyone with deaths and all… so that got pretty emotional but it was a very good talk to get everyone vulnerable with each other.  And now we’re back in the room… Ryan told us to try and stay up late because we don’t have to be ready til 12:30PM tomorrow.  He did that on purpose so that we would be exhausted for our flight to Milan which leaves Boston at 8:20PM.  I wasn’t able to sleep well last night again so I’ll definitely be exhausted for the flight.  

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