"Se we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
II Corinthians 4:18
Month 1 in Romania is over and our 2nd month is in full swing in Moldova.
I loved the time I got to spend in Oradea, Romania. I saw many beautiful sunsets and did mainly physical labor there. I was getting comfortable. The Noble House at Caminul Felix was becoming home, well, you know. I continued to develop some really great friendships from the team we were with. I realized one day as I was in the kitchen that I was completely comfortable being the only one speaking English while everyone else around me is chatting away in Romanian, and I can't understand anything they're talking about. It became completely normal to take a crazy taxi ride into town and shop for groceries in a foreign country. It was becoming completely normal to go and get fresh milk from the dairy farm beside us for about $2. This and much more was becoming my normal every day life. It's amazing how quickly things so foreign to you can become so normal.
The last week there our teams had the priviledge of painting a fence around the dairy farm. That may seem like a small thing, but I think it really meant a lot to one man that worked there in particular. Tao really wanted that "white picket fence" look there. He wanted that place to stand out in a good, different way than other farms in the area. The previous WR group that had been there started it off by putting the first coat of primer on. We put on the 2nd coat of primer and then 2 coats of white. It was a great project to end on!
I'm going to miss the adorable faces of the children at Caminul Felix. They will just steal your heart in about 1 second! I fully support the heart and mission of Caminul Felix. "Family for Life." Taking in battered, abused and abandoned children and giving them a family for life with the love as Christ. It was a blessing to be a part of that and a wonderful way to start off this amazing journey of the next 11 months.
Now I've been taken out of my normal, comfortable life and thrown into a completely different atmosphere. More to come on that…
Love and blessings,
Jessica
P.S.
There were going to be pictures, but the uploader is not cooperating with me right now…maybe later 🙂
