theres been an old man convert at every temple thing for the past year, every service, just about every class too. he showed up in my intermediate hebrew class despite being in beginner hebrew just because he wants to keep learning as best as he can - in my kabbalah conversational class despite also being in intro to Judaism (my dad is taking it despite being an active jew for his whole life, i guess hes still learning some things), hes even in the ensamble in our Purim Spiel.
Anyway, his official conversion was Wednesday, and tonight was our Shabbat service where we celebrated him and I hadn't actually had too long of a conversation with him before, just enough to know he went to the same university as me, and that he seems like a really good guy. Rabbi said during their first conversation, Frank, this Italian man 84 years old, told him that he'd wanted to be Jewish for 60 years. I got really emotional emotional, and was not expecting to.