Happy Birthday CJ!

It's CJ's Birthday! 

He turned 6 today! It's his first step to manhood or so I have heard. The evening was spent celebrating with tacos, cupcakes, and caramel ice cream. And this weekend there will be more celebrating with the rest of the team :)

Busy Schedule

I know you all have been waiting in great anticipation to hear what I am up to in my life. And I am trying to stay pretty busy. This is what an average week will look like for me. 

Monday: Language Lesson

Tuesday: Jenny's Orphanage

Wednesday: Free Day 

Thursday: Jenny's Orphanage

Friday: Language Lesson

Saturday: Baby Hospital

Sunday: Church & the Gypsy Village

Please Pray that God will grant me with the gift of language. Sometimes it is so hard to communicate but the hardest part is more often then not I can get away with speaking English but then I am not building great relationships with the kids. When I was in France I prayed for a friend and God gave me the best friend I could ever ask for so now I am praying for the gift of language cause Lord knows I need to learn to communicate better. 

With my roommates being out of town this week on vacation. I have almost two whole weeks at the apartment by myself. Luckily the Guess Family has adopted me and I will be going to the Black Sea with them this weekend. Yay! And I got in contact with Sarah who runs a non-profit organization called the Anchor of Hope, since my roommates are gone I will be spending sometime at Sarah's orphanage volunteering and the baby hospital. Tomorrow is my first day at the baby hospital by myself, wish me luck! This is one of those instance when speaking Romanian would be helpful but God knows. 

Roommates

I got to say having roommates has been fun. With late night movies, funny quotes through out the day... It's like having a sister(s) except with less fights. 

Jenny and I have become so much a like we pretty much wore the same outfit to church today. We didn't realize till we were running 5 minutes late to church so we just decided to accept the fact and be twins. But nobody seemed to notice. .. But I still thought it was blog worthy. 

O Saptamana buna! Have a good week!

I will blog later about all the activities I have been getting involved with this week. A little something to look forward to on my blog :)

How Plans Change so Quickly.

Just last month I was thinking I was going to leave Europe behind and head back home. Well funny thing is God sorta had a different plan. After talking to the Romanian team and to the Stoner's a little more. I decided to try to extend my visa. I am still in the process but it looks like a done deal considering the Pastor in charge of the Baptist Union for Romania is the one writing my recommendation. The only way it wouldn't go through at this point is if the secret police decide to throw me out of the country. Which I am pretty sure I am no real threat. 

The rest of my time in Romania will be spent helping my roommates with the orphanage and village out reach. I am hoping to learn some Romanian so I can maybe venture out to a baby hospital by myself. We will see if that happens but I did start my first Romanian lesson today. I think it went well. I guess I will know  now in a couple weeks if I am learning anything by whether people can understand me or not. 

I feel really good about staying here. Kim and Jenny's church has already welcomed me and it helps a lot to know your welcomed and they are willing to let me serve with them. A lot of them are already trying to convince me to stay forever. And I just keep on smiling at them... haha.