Have you tied ur Shoes??

March 2 2008
The past couple of days starting Thursday morning, was not very good. I felt sick. I Was told it is just a stomach virus. So lets just pray that it is ONLY that. The trip to the doctor is the village was a new experience. Lets just say they do some "different" stuff here. haha but over all it gave me a laugh. Well all i know is that God will keep me in good hands... as much as i wish to question.
I'm at a point right now in my life where I'm questionting myself where my next "steps" are. I guess it can be difficult to pull it all together and just Know that God's in control and he Knows my future plans. All i have to do is be willing to follow him through anything. To be positive to know that he has a PURPOSE for your life. I've been having struggles..surprise surprise.. with giving more things up to God an put it in his hands... The more i think I am good with with everything. The Lord shows me more problems with myself that i need to fix.. (Bible school students say.. this is the hardest part of your first year) God revealing your weaknesses so he can rebuild you and make you strong. The times that you feel you've been through a similar lesson, and you ask yourself..."why did i fall again? I know what I should be doing." -- For me I relate it with tying your shoe laces.. If you just tie them once.. they will easily come loose again and you'll trip. But if you double knot them. They'll be twice as strong and you'll keep from falling.
This reflects our life with our devotion to Christ. We can study the word, and grow in it. But if we don't store it in our hearts and treasure the knowledge. we can lose our focus on the truth. There are many other things that we find more important to look at around us, the many things that surrounds us.. including ourselves. Instead of realizing our laces are untied, we soon find our self fallen to the ground. -- So Lord wont you pick me up. take me to the top so i wont give up, ur glory ur splendour i will dwell in. Use the soul of these shoes to guide me, let these laces keep me strong.
This past week we have had JIMMY DEYOUNG as our guest speaker on the book of REVELATION. The honest truth I think this is my first time ever reading the book of Revelation. It is a very Scary but Exciting book at the same time! Makes me realize that Jesus is definetly coming SOON AND VERY SOON!! I'v also been studying very diligently for my Oral exam over the Entire OLD TEST. =0 .. haha. I have to recall all books and themes.. with the important event, dates, and people. Soooo i need ur prayers in that! haha. never had an oral exam like that before.
OHH yes and I preparing my way for SPRING BREAK!! If you met and remember my friend Georgy that came to the States over Christmas break. He is from Romania. Well a couple of us girls want to hang out with him for our two week spring break in Romania exploring!! Starting March 22 till April 7. Pray for safty, Fun, and oppertunities to share the gospel!!

February 26 2008
We had a guest speaker this week on CULTS! Did you know how many cults are in America today?? and where most religions started?? America?! creepy.. those NewYorkers are WEIRD =P lol. any way it was so good to fianlly understand where these religions come from like. Mormons. and the JW's. Why they believe such thing. and how many people fall into them. The reason most people join Cults, are because they are in an emotional situation, and they feel like the cult welcomes them in. Like its a "warm fuzzy" sort of thing. These are the people that prolly don't know or studied the bible before. Today most Cults are made of "feelings." "do what you please." "it's all about love." - It's really actually scary how lost people are.

I went to my friend LILI's house this weekend!! It was soo amazing! she lives right outside of Budapest in the Cutest Little village! the roads are made of stone and everything is like a block away. Ohhh man do i have some crazy stories from her house! She has the Sweetest family! her mom and grandma are believers. They all know a little bit of english so i could talk with them, and sorta understand and respond with their hungarian. Her sister is living there now and she was two kids. Jade..8 and Beni 1. Wow they were so cuute! Beni was in Love with me! he kept saying my name! the funny thing is, he has never said Lili's name before! haha



February 14 2008
VaLeNtInEs DaY!! Yess we do celebrate it here! I got some very speical cards from family and people back home! Thank you all so much for your LOve! <3 and Thank you daddy for the note in the box and the chocolates!! <3 it definetly made my day.. and the rest of the girls in my room haha!
This past week we had a Class on ISLAM. Our guest speaker that week was an actaully former Muslim who turned and converted to Christianity. He was an amazing story... This religion is growing more and more today in the world than any other religion!! It's a very scary thing. Many people don't even know whats going on in the religious world around them. There is this website that shows a short clip about Muslims today and how they are spreading across the world. It's called Obsession. I would really recommend you check it out if your curiosity is as big as mine. ;)... www.obsessionthemovie.com.
This class had an effect on me. To focus on the reality around me. Sure we can easily get comfortable in our bubble of safety, and christian fellowship around us. Most of us don't get persecuted every day.