Hello Everyone,

I am so thankful for all your prayers and your emails. They have been so encouraging over these last two years. It’s really great hearing all of the stories of how I was able to be a blessing to many of you. You don’t know how much joy I get from reading each of your emails. For this reason have decided to start a blog so I will be able to share to all of you what God is doing in my life. Kenny Kim (our webmaster), my wife, and I have been trying to keep you all updated by downloading pictures on the website, but I felt it was necessary to personally address you on a consistent basis.

Now to update you on my injury, as many of you know I broke the roof of my mouth. It was really interesting! I didn’t know my mouth could break like that! It was totally a different experience. The funny thing is the pain was not bad at all. I guess I was pretty tough at least until they told me I had to eat out of a straw for about two weeks! All my toughness went straight out the window! The first thought I had was all this good Italian food and now I have to watch and smell for two weeks. I almost broke down ?. But I remembered Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Now almost three weeks have past and praise the Lord, I can eat!!! Life is great! You never realize how big little blessings are until they are gone… like eating food with a fork not a straw. The doctors told me I had to sit out of every game for about a month maybe longer. But I didn’t believe that. That would have meant I would not be able to play the first three games; my God is bigger than that. My month is healing quickly and there is a good chance I’m going to play the second game. (Phil 4:13) I started practice about a week ago. I just can’t do any contact play until I get my mouthpiece, which I believe will arrive this Friday. So that’s good news, because it was really hard for me just watching the guys play. I hate just watching because I really love playing and having an injury to the mouth can be deceiving because your body feels great and you feel like you can play but one hit to mouth and you’re done. So I had to run stairs and shoot free throws, which is not so bad. I needed the extra work.

Well enough about the injury, Italy has been great! Tara and I have had a chance to really get acclimated with everything here. We are learning the language and Tara is has learned how to cook the food pretty quickly. Although we in America make pasta all the time, the pasta here is different. After you get used to it, you really grow to like it. Recently Tara and I went to Rome and it was really cool. We took a bus tour of the whole city and we did a group tour of the Coliseum, which probably was the highlight of the trip. We have many pictures that will be added to the website of our recent trip to Rome. Well my friends, family, and fans there is so much to tell but you will have to wait until later. I wish I could call you all but that would take too long so I will continue to communicate with my Mac. That is Mac not PC! ? I love you all and I will be in touch.

Roger P.
“The Rev”