WELCOME TO MOLDOVA!
Audrey is coming back from the well with two buckets of WATER! (notice the clean hair…this must of been after one of the 2
showers that we got to take this month 🙂
Laundry day!! We would take our clothes down to the creek, wash them, and then bring them back up to the house and find “something” to hang them on to dry 🙂 MOLDOVAN TRADITION!
caveMOLDOVAN CAVE. Don’t let this picture mislead you…. it was DARK down there… one flashlight for 10 people!!
MOLDOVAN TRADITION!!!
Cooking ourselves some delicious sausages over the camp fire!
Easter Dinner. Celebrated a week after Easter in the USA. MOLDOVAN TRADITION!
Our Village. Ocnita, Moldova! From one of the MANY HIKES UPHILL we went on with Andre! He was such a kid at heart! Always exploring… he said everything was “Very INTERESTING place”… SO GOOD! I will miss his HEART for FUN 🙂
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Larissa (Andres wife- our contact) and Eric their son!! “Poopy” is “kiss” in Moldova… so he would ask us for a “poopy” and we would kiss his cheek. What a ladies man!!!
Train ride to Romania!! (little out of order) None the less it is always FUN on travel days….
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Visiting an Orthodox monistary… little too caught up in the “religious” practices still. As you can see with the head coverings. Andre tells us in their eyes its okay to hate a family member or friend, but if you do not have your head covered you will not be spoken to.
Very sad that the idea is put into their heads. Andre is super fun though. He laughs and says “It is also a sin to clap in church… I AM A SINNER” and just laughs because he knows that God loves him even if he claps!! He is truely one of the most Godly giving people I have ever come to know. AMAZING HEART.
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Andre and Larissa at the entrace to the Moldovian Cave. It was a very little entrance. Andre told us that Dogs and Cats made it as a home to stay warm… haha he is such a jokester… he later told us that God made the cave. MOLDOVAN TRADITION!!
Our toilet facility! Anyone have to pee? It was an adventure in itself this month!! LUXURY.
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PULL THAT UDDER!! We got to go across the village to visit with a woman named Lidia (she is a BABUSKA- grandmother) she FED US AND FED US until we would BUST…and then she let us have free milk….we just had to MILK THE COW ourselves…. very hard to do…. takes a lot of skill. I clearly was not very good at it.
Our Kitchen slash Dinning room area…. One house was for sleeping, the other for cooking and eating. Andre has a vision to turn these houses into a Rehabilitation Center for Alcoholcs & Druggies because that is a big problem in their area.
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Braedon Tilling the garden. One of our tasks while we stayed at the house in Moldova was to prepare things for the Rehabilitation center!
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Our house in Moldova! Audrey and I thought it looked like a little BEACH HOUSE…. if you forget about the FREEZING COLD WEATHER once the sun went down!! During this photo Bekah & Audrey were soaking up as much SUN as they could!!
MOLDOVAN TRADITION!!
Thank you Andre, Larissa and Eric for allowing us to be Friends, Family, Sisters and Brothers. We learned so much from your hospitality and unbelievably giving hearts this month. Your faith is contagious through action!! You are walking testimonies… never lose that PASSION FOR GOD!! I WILL MISS YOU & MOLDOVA VERY much!!
LOVE WINS.
