Meeting people in Rome

Yesterday afternoon we all.... 600 of us got on the train and headed into Roma Termini. Quite a lot of us headed for the Coloseum. On leaving the train we immediately bumped into a girl we´d seen 2 days before creatively begging - helping people to use the ticket machine. She was sitting alone looking bored and so it was easy to go and talk to her. Despite not having a shared language we were able to communicate something. I gave her a book that she was excited to receive, it felt great just to be able to tell her that she´d been noticed. We had an opportunity to pray for an old man who had a bad leg. When he understood we wanted to pray for him he cried and cried. Lots of people didn´t want to talk to us or to be given something by us, but it was the conversations with people from all over the world which felt like such a privilege.... chinese girls who´d never even heard the name of Jesus, or who´d heard he was famous in other places in the world but didn´t know why. Joseph and Ethan really enjoyed giving people things and the ice cream but mainly they were too hot.