Hey all! I have been in Stoenesti, Romania for most of September! So many things have happened this month. Here are just a few:
- Moved a ton of corn from a yard to a loft in a barn
- Started passing out Bibles on the street for maybe 5 minutes, and then walked passed a police station; the police said–in Romanian–that what we were doing was illegal, so we sat at the police station for about an hour and gave each other back massages. I don't know all the details, but one of our squadmates ended up having to get in touch with the American Embassy. Everything was fine and they let us go, but after that we called it a day.
- Helped run kid's club. Some of us were dropped off on a dusty road to play with kids in a village. What I learned after we were dropped off, was that we had to go around the village to find kids to come to the club. We were a club with no kids for the first 10 minutes. But they weren't hard to find–especially when you walk around with a soccer ball.
- Went to Greece! About 20 or so of us from our squad had the chance to make a 15 hour drive from Romania through Bulgaria–where we were last month… –to Greece. It was beautiful. The water was very clear, blue, and warm.
- Chipped a small piece of my tooth flipping into the Mediterranean. We were jumping off of a rock that was maybe 15 feet high, and I over rotated on a front flip and hit my face kinda hard on the water. Somehow a tooth on the left side of my head got chipped from the impact.
- Helped drain our contact's outhouse. Stinky.
This month has been the most restful of the three so far, and its been a huge blessing. We have a two hour prayer time scheduled into our day almost everyday. Through this time–and during some of my introverted hours before bed–I've come to a realization that I want to/maybe need to go deeper with my heavenly Father. I am not really even sure what that totally looks like, but for the past week I've consistently been getting this yearning for something more; I've been wanting to be more in tune with what is going on around me spiritually. I know I have the Holy Spirit within me already, but I want to tap into that source more and more. So all that to say, please be praying for me to learn how to go deeper with Him, and then actually go deeper!
Also pray for perseverance for my squad and I. A lot of different things have hit hard this month–just like hearing about the floods back home in Colorado, deaths in some people's families, people dealing with sicknesses, and an awful car crash that involved some of our squad recently.
Thank you so much for your prayers, I am so blessed to be here on the Race!
