Sorry I haven't written in a long time. To fill you in, I'll just cut and paste something that I posted on our family facebook group. Here it is!
Hello family,
We want to give you all an update on where we are, since there are a lot of you that we haven't been able to talk to for a while. We got Christmas cards from some of you giving us an update of your lives, and we were grateful and wanted to share our own update.
We were blessed with the opportunity to go back to Italy to visit family for Christmas. It was the perfect moment, because we bought our tickets very cheaply by buying them a year in advance, and because it was the year in which all of Giada's aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents from all over Italy and other parts of Europe were all together under one roof for christmas. It was so great to see people that we hadn't seen in over three years. While we were there, we even got to see the Rome temple from the outside, although we missed the open house by two weeks. If you want to see pictures, they are here. https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtOky3rv8AwRapKOtwo0ytzbjFA
I am still in law school. I'm starting my fourth of six semesters, so I'm more than half way done. In addition to a 17 credit semester, I started an internship at the Ohio Supreme Court, in the Language Services department. Right now I'm working on a training for state judges, to help them deal with foreign-language evidence submitted to the court while keeping it legally within the bounds of the federal and state rules of evidence. In my spare time (haha) I'm still writing and working on genealogy.
Giada is still working at a Catholic medical clinic, as a medical assistant. She does phlebotomy work, rooms patients, takes vital signs, and other gross medical stuff. Last year, she was given a transfer to a clinic in the same town where we live, much closer to home, which is fantastic. In her free time, she's working on her mentoring and life coaching business, and hopes to have a website up and running this year.
Last week we got hit with the epicenter of the polar vortex, and we reached the coldest temperatures in Ohio history. At one point we reached negative forty, with wind so cold and strong that exposed skin can develop frostbite within ten minutes. Pretty crazy. The house we live in is very old and drafty. Luckily, Giada's coworker's husband came over and together we used caulk, styrofoam, plastic, and duct tape to fill all the holes we could around the house.
We're enjoying working hard in our church callings, and with our ministering assignments. I'm a counselor in the elder's quorum, and Giada is in the young women presidency. We're going through the church's self reliance course, which is very useful, and which we recommend to everyone who wants to learn how to be better with money or with starting a business.
Yesterday we had a baptism in our ward of one of the law students in my class. She had heard of the church back home in Nigeria, and she was excited to learn that it exists here too. Now there are four members of the church in my law school.
On Sunday nights, one of our favorite activities is using cardboard, toilet paper tubes, and popsicle sticks to build houses, mazes, and castles for our neurologically-impared hamster named Chobi, which you can see right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-EHQI4Wm2M
We'd love to hear updates from you guys and from what's going on in your lives. If you have Marco Polo or Voxer, add us and send us a message. We'd love to hear from you.
We love you all,
Alan & Giada
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