Before leaving Romania I came to some realizations:
Prayer is powerful and effective
Patience is necessary in every thing you do
And I am going to fall in love 11 times and have to say goodbye 11 times this year…
I got to help celebrate baby Emma’s 1st birthday which was a HUGE blessing, Lori and I got her a little purple outfit and she had a lady bug themed party with the cutest cake and cupcakes ever!
Someone said that it seemed awful far for me to travel all the way to Romania just to babysit and paint a fence, which then made me question again “am I really supposed to be on the World Race?” I have gone over this question a hundred times this month and could never seem to find peace with the answer. I constantly struggle with wanting to go home to my comfort zone and then remember that I am giving just one year of my life, one year of comforts, one year of selfish desires up for the Lord. If painting a fence and babysitting doesn’t seem like something huge to you in America, you should travel here to Romania and meet the people that I was able to bless by such small deeds. I was able to give small, but the Lord blessed me and the people I worked for.
I would have babysat in America for free… but you would have had to twist my arm. Which now seems crazy to me because what is 2 hours of my precious time? What else would I be doing? Being able to give a couple hours of rest / alone time to Emma’s mother and then see how such a small amount of my giving blessed her in so many ways. But I couldn’t wait to go pick up baby Emma and spend time with her wonderful mother over coffee and conversations. I fell absolutely in love with the family at Caminul Felix and I was so broken hearted having to leave such a wonderful place with such wonderful and godly people
to see pictures, they are public on facebook at facebook.com/emily.watkins
