Wrapping it up with Albania!

So sorry everyone for only blogging once last month.  It was a really crazy and amazing month!  Well, the last blog I wrote was about my work in the first week of being in Albania.  Over the next few weeks I got to do some other interesting projects.  The second week we worked most of us were placed with our teams to work together.  This was done because the whole squad was together and we still needed some time to interact with our teams.  My team had the pleasure of trimming huge pine tree's! As well as going through wood piles and splitting wood and removing nails.  At one point I was hoping for a little alone time while we were working.  So I got the job of making the dirt under the trees level with the grass.  Although, under the tree's just happened to be flooded because the pool was being emptied that day, and the water was quite dirty.  As well as the dirt I was using was from around the poop hole. haha A BIG MUDDY MESS!  The price you pay when you want to be alone.  I did enjoy being alone so I did not complain at all.  It gave me a lot of time to process some things that were needed to be processed.  At the end of the week Andi and I were placed on another team to clean out the rest of the pool.  To our surprise this included catching seven frogs and having Jake fish out a dead rat from the bottom.  The rest of the job was clearing out the remaining water and mopping and sweeping.  After the pool was pretty much clean, we cleaned the grout between the tiles.  Honestly it wasn't bad.  It gave me a lot of time to think again.  (I needed a lot of time to think in Albania! haha)

It's funny a majority of my last week and a half in Albania was sanding or scraping something.  At one point I laughed to myself and was like what is God trying to teach me here.  It was a great time though.  I had the opportunity to pray for friends, family, and such.  As well as time to just think about deep things that I normally wouldn't think of.  It was great.  He put so many idea's in my mind.  God knows our heart's and what we need.  He has taught me so much this past month.  One being just learning how to rely on him, and another being we just need to praise Him just because of who He is.  He is great, He is love, He is faithful, He is our father, He is our protector.  He is all that and much more.