It’s been a great first week here in Lehze, Albania! We are living in World Race luxury and enjoying every minute. Here is a look into what I have been up to so far, and a few pictures to boot.
A look into our ministry and daily activities this month:
- Assisting a team from Virginia in English classes. I’m helping in the reading class where we are working through a comic book version of bible stories. These students are very smart and ask all sorts of hard questions about what we are reading.
- Spending the afternoon at the beach with a student preparing to study in Canada to be a surgeon. Having her over another night while our team cooks her Mexican food. Learning that her entire family is Muslim – she is the only Christian.
- Drinking coffee. A lot of coffee. Sometimes coffee with ice cream mixed in.
- Having high school students take you to their favorite dessert bar. Enjoying every minute.
- Learning that these students have very few people to mentor them and encourage them in their faith. They are often the only Christians in their entire family.
- Getting eaten alive by Albanian mosquitoes. Already 2/3 through my tube of cortisone and it is week one.
- Eating ice cream. It is everywhere. And the perfect way to have a date with your teammates or get to know the students.
- Cooking dinner for the team. But first going to the produce market and making friends with the sweetest ladies selling vegetables who insist on giving us much more than what we paid for.
- Walking around the city with students. Learning about their culture and history. Learning about their interests and favorite music.
- Traveling on off days. This one is in Kruje.
- Learning Albanian. Impress the guy at the electronics store when buying speakers (because watching a movie with a headphone splitter is difficult, see below). Make fools of ourselves at the grocery store when we don’t have exact change and our meager Albanian doesn’t help.
- Team time every night. Challenging each other. Learning about each other. Laughing together.
- Playing all kinds of card games with the students. Competitive spirits coming out.
- Listening to the Lord and acting on His promptings.
Thank you for all your prayers!
