Lugano prayer requests - Day 2

This week I am in Lugano, Switzerland with twenty-two eighth grade students and four other staff members. The purpose of this trip is to stretch the students academically, physically, spiritually, and socially. Throughout the week they will be experiencing "school without walls" and completing activities related to their history, English, science, art, and physical education classes. I'll post a day-by-day update with pictures when we return, but while we are gone I would like to request your prayers for some specific things each day. Even though I am going "off the grid," I have scheduled posts so that there will be new prayer requests posted each day.

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Today we will rise bright eyed and bushy tailed ... ok, maybe it will be a stretch for some. The majority of the day will be spent on Mt. San Salvatore. After riding a cable car up the mountain, we will spend the rest of the morning and afternoon hiking down. We stop for lunch along the way, and after the hike we will catch a ferry back to our starting point. By the time we drive back to the hostel it will be dinner time, and then we will proceed with our evening activities of group games, worship, and devotions.

If there is only sunshine on one day of the trip, today is the day we need it!

Two years ago it was freezing and it POURED on hike day ... (May 2010)

... and last year it was so sunny we couldn't open our eyes!! (May 2011)

Ways to pray:

• SUNSHINE
• Protection from injury, bee stings, asthma attacks, allergic reactions ... basically anything that can go wrong while hiking down a mountain miles from any medical assistance!
• For the one (possibly two) student who will have to skip the hike due to a persistent foot injury, that he would have a good time hanging out at the hostel with our principal and not feel left out
• Meaningful conversations with and between the students during the looooong hike
• A non-complaining spirit from the students
• That my knees survive the descent of the epic Stairs of Death (see below)
• Grace for the leaders

Multiply by infinity and that's how many stairs we will walk DOWN.

Thanks for your prayers!! Ciao bella!!