Hello everyone!! It's so nice to be able to write you about all my experiences!! Well if you havn't read the last couple of entrys.... I'll sum it all up for you! =P
For my two week Spring break. I left (first) with my friends; Trip, his friend Marcus from New York, and Jason. We took a train to Levice, Brataslavia. Where we met up with our friend Andrea. She goes to school with us also, this was her home town. We arrived there Saturday evening. She met us at the train station and her pastor (Mitca)came to pick us up. We dropped our stuff off at Andrea's old room mates home. Which was on the top floor of a "flat" (appartment) building. We had to ride up this crazy most scary elevator i'v ever been in! i called it the "death box" lol. ok so right when the door opened to the elevator it was like a box! so tiny! and it didn't have a door that shut between the walls. Well like six of us got in. We wernt sure if it would even hold. Ahh! that was scary! after that we went to Mitca's house to have dinner! In slovokia we learned that they say AHOY- for Hi! almost like a sailor haha. Mitca's house was very nice. It's very beautiful how they decorate their homes here. Alot of hang made things. Also the food was really good. They had so much!even had real Heinze Ketchup! =0. The wife spoke a little english, but more hungarian, so we got to test out our language skills on her! ;) After that we went to Andrea's church where we went to the "College" group they had. They were all so friendly! Alost of them spoke decent. english. two girls could translate. The speaker that night shared his testimony with us. He shared about "the will of God" and our own will. How no matter what we choose to do in life. If it is for God's glory than He will bless us in it! It was really encouraging to hear that. I felt like it was so awesome to know that God has the peices of the puzzle we just have to choose which one to pick. Than God will take that piece. and fit it perfectly into a beautiful picture! I got to share my testimony with a couple of people there! Later we had to walk back to andrea's flat, it took about 25 min. to get there. We had some good talks! haha we were messing around on the t-ter-toters outside. The guys actaully went back to the Church that night becuase they were staying the night there. than adnrea and i stayed up talkin with her room mate and her crazy cat pretty much kept us awake all night =P. the cat wouldn't stop making loud noises and scratching the door.
EASTER ~*~
We got up earlier than we wanted, but thats ok. The shower experience was interesting.. lets just say.. they do things differently here. haha, but it's all apart of the "going with the flow adventure!." =P. we were a little late for church. so after walking around we found a seat in the front row. talk about NOT making a scene haha. we got head phones for translation. the service was good. Jayson, Marcus and I went to a families house after church. They were so nice. We walked to their house after church. "we do alot of walking here." Matthew who was the taller older son. was amazing at the guitar! his brother jacob was totally different, was more of a sports guy. When we got there. we tryed to talk, but they didn't know english too well either. haha. we looked at photo's and well Jacobs girlfriend came and she was good with english. so we talked alot! she actually reminds me and looks alot like my friend Alisha from my job at Dunhill. We were invited to play volleyball with people from the church after lunch. later we went to a coffee house and hung out with Andrea and her friends. They had a sweet climbing wall outside. and even played movies on the wall outside. They had some really good hot chocolate there also. almost was like pudding it was so thick. Andrea's friends were alot of fun! we took alot of pictures. We ended up being late for dinner. Andrea's youth pastor Mitca invited us over agian. we walked there and as we went. Andrea was saying goodbye to her friends. and Trip put me on the Street sign! haha it was halarious getting the looks from people. i was trying to keep my balance all the way up there. u know me =P. people prolly thought we were crazy! We finally made it for dinner, their little one Lucas sat on my lap, at one point he was drinking his water and chocked. and spit water all over me! and there other child Samual gave me a lil chocolate bunny :) hehe. than we watched some weird Chezh cartoon. more of Andrea's friends came. and we said goodbye to mitco's family. than we fit all of us in Mitco's car. haha it was like a mexican car. for ppl in the front and five in the back! =p HEHE and they drive like crazy here! played around at the church. than walked back to the flat.
MONDAY
We woke up to her stupid cat moaning and scratching at our door =P The guys came in and started throwing water all over us! water got everywhere! we even nocked over a plant! Ok ok.. so it's a tradition in Slovokia, the day after easter each year. the guys in the village will soke the girls with water all day long. and than later spray stinky perfum all over them! and why??!! haha whatever. it was funny! Well we took a train from there to Brataslavia to a Andrea's spiritual familys house! They have 7 kids! It was crazy! right when i walked in, i felt like a celebraty! these kids were soo cute! they were all talking to me at once and wanting to show me all their cool toys, what they made, or what can do! haha. the oldest i think is 12.. than it goes down from there. so What do u think about that!? it was so awesome how Brenda ran her family! each child was so caring and nice to one another! i never saw any of them fighting while i was there. You could even learn alot from these kids! well Andrea and I stayed in Brataslavia for another day or two, while the guys went to Vienna to pick up the car.We stayed with the missionary family, and saw the city.
We finally made it to Vienna and we headed up to germany to see out friends Beni and Whitney! They brought us to Nurnburg where Hitler's community was! It was so beautiful and I got alot of Artisy pictures to prove it! We stayed with them for two days! After that our next adventure... we headed to Prauge in Czeck Republic! walked around for a few hours than headed down windly scary roads getting lost on the way to drop jason off and the WOL camp there in Czeck Republic! Which was a crazy night in it self. haha. finally finding out where to send jason. We headed off that same night to Poland! we were meeting a friend in Poland and staying with her until the next morning. We headed off to auchwitcz ? sp/ that was an experience. its so much more real when u are there. very sad.
We headed off that same day to meet sabina's friends in Krokow, Poland! were we stayed for two days! that was awesome! went to church with them there. stayed in a samll little app. about 7 of us! on the floor. haha.
After that we headed to the tetres mountains to go hicking for two days where we stayed at a hostile!
after that we headed back to Vienna to give back to rental car... where well haha ended up back in czeck republic after going to wrong way for 3 hours. than finally made it to bratislava to stay the night at the same missionaries house. than to vieanna for a night to drop off the car. soo our plan was to take a bus back to Budapest. but ended up being a whirlwind of trials and God leading us in a obsticale course to find a way home. Which was amazing how in any struggles when we don't know why God is letting soemthing happen to us in our life. Just trust and relay on God in every moment and step. we had to prepare for anything that came our way. and on that way home we got to witness to so many people! it was an amazing trip! and was so cool to see how God works and the people he put in our path!
Never miss an expeirence like this is u have a chance in ur life time!
Peace&Love in Christ alone
<3 amanda joy
Monday, April 7, 2008
Saturday, March 29, 2008
LOST!!
I am currently in Poland right now at my friend Sabina's house! haha ohh man yesterday was a trip!! we left germany at 8 inthe moring.. went to Czech in prague for about 3 hours! and we all lost each other for a while... than we left and went to find WOL Czech where we were going to drop off Jayson... haha we made weird pbj sandwiches in the car.. i say weird.. because it wasn't really bread. and it was very interesting how we did it.. haha. broken forks and all \=P soo ya we went down several wrong roads..got lost a TON of times. those roads are very scary and the ppl go soo fast.. ohh talk about fast! we went on the Autoban like the whole time!! wow u know they don't have a spead limit on that high way!! we had an adventure once we found the WOL Czech also.. usee no one was there. it was so strange we were looking around the whole campus for about 2 hours.. we didn't know what to do. we prayed. and we asked near by neighbors.. which prolly scared them since it was already late. like 9 and finally looking around one last time. we found a hidden note!! haha.. which read.. : Jayson.. no one is here right now.. BUT you can come to our house witch is.. blah blah blah.. haha it was like we were playing capture the flag!! so we searched for the house.. I FOUND IT! hehe. they were soo generous. they let us inside. and we wererreally hungry.. we didn't have diner yet. they were missionarys and had 6 kids!! wow.. so i think missionarys must have alot of kids.. it's just the normal things that i am seeing so far. haha. they had the cutest rabit!! reminded me of my stuffed one back home haha.. we were almost tempted to just stay there that night. since it was so late. and it was so comfortable there. but we were Determind to PRESS on to POLAND!! well u see it was only going to ttake us about 2 and a half hours to get there.. but of course it took about 4 since we got lost another 5 times lol... but its ok~ Andrea and I are going to count how many times we get lost on this trip! haha. it's actaully alot of fun! we are maping down all the times we get lost. soo yes we finally made it to Sabinka's around 2 am.. we had some tea and talked for a while.. went to bed around 3... =D It's about 10 am right now. we are about to leave and pick up the boys. they are staying the night at the church! than we are having breakfast and going to .. =( were all the holocust stuff took place. i guess it is really huge. i'm not going to be able to sleep tonight~ ahh..
alright i GOTTA JET!!! I LOVE YOU!!!
alright i GOTTA JET!!! I LOVE YOU!!!
Monday, March 24, 2008
AHOY!!
Hello everyone!! I am finally on SPRING BREAK!! and it feels soo good! I decided to get up and leave.. go exploring the world. hehe. A couple of friends and i are on a EURO trip right now! we areplaning on hitting up about 5 or 6 different countries! and see how God can use us along the way! Right now i am in Slovokia with Andrea,Trip,Jayson and Marcus. the guys are staying at a church, and Andrea and i are at her roomates flat. We left saturday morning, and stayed here for Easter Sunday! wow the people here are so nice, we got to go to a college youth group on saturday night, and got to share our testimonys with people, it was so nice to fellowship and see God move through other countries. ohh and on the train ride here. we met a guy from the exact same town as Jayson Warran. talk about crazy! what are the chances huh? well anyway. andreas friend lives up on the top flooor of this 13 story building. and the elevators here are CREEPY!! ahh yes i felt like i was in a death box haha. Sunday morning we went to Andreas church and met alot of her friends. Marcus, Jayson and I where invited over to a familys house for lunch. They didnt speak english much, but on of the guys girlfriends came over and she spoke better. IT was so much fun. It made it even more interesting when we couldnt understand eachother. but mostly it wasnt that hard. haha. they had this sweet translating advice. that had certain phrases and words u could say. it was nice. than Matthew one of the boys was teaching me some stuff on the guitar. he is amazing at the guitar! After that they took us to a school to play volleyball with members from the church. we didnt stay too long and we headed to a near by coffee shop. it had a rock climbing wall and everything. Andrea met with more of her friends there. almost saying goodbye to them all one last time.. because u see.. her and Trip. karwl tweaten that is.. ahaha. well they have some future plans in mind. Im so proud of Trip because he talked with Andreas parents. and they arent christians. but he shared his faith with them. We walked to Andreas youth pastors house. and had dinner there. they are all so nice and their kids were so cute! Lucas was sitting on my lap most of the time, and samueal gave us little easter bunnys, and some slovok candy. hehe. we watched some funny Slovokian cartoons with them also. than her pastor brought us all back to the church. me and andrea§s friend plazed some beautiful music on the piano and than we went back to andreas flat. we walk alot here. too haha. not alot of ppl drive. well this morning we are heading out to Bratlaszlava to stay with Andreas spiritual family.. than we are going to Vienna.. to Germany to meet some friends, than to prauge.. poland and hopfullz hiking the Tetrus.. than to Vienna agian!! well keep me in ur prays!! i have got to jet!!
LOVE YOU ALLL
Hello everyone!! I am finally on SPRING BREAK!! and it feels soo good! I decided to get up and leave.. go exploring the world. hehe. A couple of friends and i are on a EURO trip right now! we areplaning on hitting up about 5 or 6 different countries! and see how God can use us along the way! Right now i am in Slovokia with Andrea,Trip,Jayson and Marcus. the guys are staying at a church, and Andrea and i are at her roomates flat. We left saturday morning, and stayed here for Easter Sunday! wow the people here are so nice, we got to go to a college youth group on saturday night, and got to share our testimonys with people, it was so nice to fellowship and see God move through other countries. ohh and on the train ride here. we met a guy from the exact same town as Jayson Warran. talk about crazy! what are the chances huh? well anyway. andreas friend lives up on the top flooor of this 13 story building. and the elevators here are CREEPY!! ahh yes i felt like i was in a death box haha. Sunday morning we went to Andreas church and met alot of her friends. Marcus, Jayson and I where invited over to a familys house for lunch. They didnt speak english much, but on of the guys girlfriends came over and she spoke better. IT was so much fun. It made it even more interesting when we couldnt understand eachother. but mostly it wasnt that hard. haha. they had this sweet translating advice. that had certain phrases and words u could say. it was nice. than Matthew one of the boys was teaching me some stuff on the guitar. he is amazing at the guitar! After that they took us to a school to play volleyball with members from the church. we didnt stay too long and we headed to a near by coffee shop. it had a rock climbing wall and everything. Andrea met with more of her friends there. almost saying goodbye to them all one last time.. because u see.. her and Trip. karwl tweaten that is.. ahaha. well they have some future plans in mind. Im so proud of Trip because he talked with Andreas parents. and they arent christians. but he shared his faith with them. We walked to Andreas youth pastors house. and had dinner there. they are all so nice and their kids were so cute! Lucas was sitting on my lap most of the time, and samueal gave us little easter bunnys, and some slovok candy. hehe. we watched some funny Slovokian cartoons with them also. than her pastor brought us all back to the church. me and andrea§s friend plazed some beautiful music on the piano and than we went back to andreas flat. we walk alot here. too haha. not alot of ppl drive. well this morning we are heading out to Bratlaszlava to stay with Andreas spiritual family.. than we are going to Vienna.. to Germany to meet some friends, than to prauge.. poland and hopfullz hiking the Tetrus.. than to Vienna agian!! well keep me in ur prays!! i have got to jet!!
LOVE YOU ALLL
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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.
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.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Let the Children Come...
1-20-08
Sunday's are always fun!! but this day was by far one of my favorite!! My friend Dan, had two of his friends from Quebec, Cananda come and visit. So they ventured off with us and several others around 6am to take the train and go to breakfast! They are alot of fun! Once we got to Sunday school. i got serveral people to come on the roof with me. It was a beautiful site. We could see the hilly side of buda and the flat lands of pest. =D very beautiful. During sunday school we had the Agupe puppet team doing a program for all the kids. It was my first time seeing them, and they did amazing! The lady that runs it actaully was our teacher this past week. Her name is Linda Summers! She is one of the most Godly women i have ever met. She has such a passion for children and love for christ. she is very experienced in missions. Each year she goes to 3 or 4 different countries, and do puppet shows, go ont he streets and tell stories with chalk boards, and she is so exciting when she gets into her stories. This past week, she's been teaching us " Child Evangilism" We had to take a bible story from the bible and present it to her as if we were talking to kids. haha she liked mine, so Thursday she made me come infront of class and present it to the class. several other students did the same thing! The stories she told of so many children around the world. and there lives. the stories the children bring her. have been so heart breaking and has put such a passion in my heart to let the Lord use me in a ministry with children. To reach out to those kids around the world. I suppose the Lord has always put a desire like that in my heart. This week has made that dream more clear. To see children all around the world call on the name of the Lord.
MISSIONS CONFRENCE
" Let the Children Come "
Was the theme of this missions confrence. It was to support two minsitry's " Agupe Puppets" and CEF of Hungary. To pray and also to learn more about missions. I was leading this confrence with a couple other students. So i was in charge of decoration and was apart of a skit. The confrence was amazing! and the weather was perfect for it! Feels like spring here.This confrence made me realize how important it is to evangilize to children. Just like in Matt. 19:14 we should believe as children. There are so many children these days that have never even heard the name of Jesus Christ. My feelings can't express in words right now all that i'v learned and felt this weekend. I'm sure i'll be posting more soon. Or talk to my on Skype.com it's free. =D
Prayer
We are raising support for those ministry's. If you'd like to participate let me know!
That I will be able to to pay for my tuition here.
For the children in Hungary that we can speak to them with what we learned.
For God to open doors for my ministry this summer, and for my school plans next year.
To use this year to my fullest and to take everything i'm learning and store it in my heart. so i may use it as a foundation.
All I am, all I have, all I ever hope to be..
... I now and forever dedicate to the LOrd Jesus Christ for His use and glory, absolutely, unconditionally, now and forever.
Romans 12:1-2;Prov 3:5-6;Phill. 2:12-15
Thank you or all your prayers.
<3 Amanda Joy
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The past week...Ohh how I LOVE the Christian World! <3
SuNdAy. 1/13/08
I went woke up at 5am. To get ready for church.. i walked into the village with Dan to get on the bus.. to go to the train station. took the train to Budapest than got on a metro. Usally we would walk to anyother bus stop. but we decided to walk around and get coffee at the sweet Mc Cafe' a couple blocks away. the coffee's not
by far as good as starbucks. or dillenbecks ;). but it would have to do. So after chating for about an hour. we figured out that we had an hour and a half to kill before church started. It was a pretty nice day out. I was in a huge mood to go ExPlOrInG! so we went on an AdVenTuRe!! walked across the Danube River. on the chain bride. and headed along the river..I never been along that side. and there were several things that looked interesting to me. I went inside a catholic church. It was beautiful!! I went through a door that had cilrcled stairs going up. hehe so i thought i'd take a gander to see what was upstairs. Some hungarian guy tryed to talk with me.. and he showed me around. there were really old papers and documents. the balcony overlooked each detail and curves in the architect's work.. after that we walked, and walked. but saw many sweet things. i'll get my pictures up soon! but we also went places we prolly weren't suppose to haha. well finally made it to the church. I got to see my sunday school kids for a lil bit. They were soo cute! about 15 of them trying to tell me storys of their break and hugging me. than we stayed in the service! saw Salo, Stephen and Lili for the first time since comming back from the break!! The preacher was really good! and it was an amazing message. about how the church is not like a "country club" for christians. but a "hospital" for sinners.
> After church i went out to lunch with Dan, Randale and this British guy that taught Randales class. He will prolly be helping him out the next couple weeks since, our dear friend Aurther from Uganda is still trying to get his Visa. Pray for him.. But it was really awesome talking with David " the british" He was funny!
> saying our goodbyes to our new friend. we decided to go Iceskatting!! <3 hehe but we really didn't know where we were going. or where it was. so we hopped on a metro. it was the yellow line. Prolly one of the oldest. I never been on it before. but very sweet looking. We made it to our stop. and saw some sweet statues and buildings. and right were the iceskating rink was. infront of it, was a BEAUTIFUL Castle!! we walked around the castle for a while and got on the ice. We met a couple ppl from different bible colleges! They invited us to come for coffee and a bible study in Budapest Friday!
>On our way back we were being really crazy! haha making up random words and just laughing the whole time. i got a coffee at the mc cafe' and they gave me a straw/ spoon.. a Stroon! haha. any way..moving on..
Classes stared on Tuesday!! We are learning in Philippians right now. Our Guest teacher is Ed Hart! he's a real great guy and i'm learning so much in that class already! I'v even got a chance to talk with his wife who is a very Godly woman. and helps women in her church. and leads them to help others! They are doing this amazing thing in their church right now. You should check out their website. adirondackbible.org go to ministries, than click ministry center. =D
The book of Philippians is a great book. It talks about Joy and how we should be joyful in everything since we know we have christ in our lives. I love the verses.
"I eagerly expect and hope that i will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficent courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." Phil. 1:20-21
"Then make my JOY complete by being lifeminded having the same love being one in spirit and purpose." 2:2
"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it agian: Rejoice! Let ur gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is Near! Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with Thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of god which transcends all understanding , will gaurd your hearts and your minds in christ Jesus." 4:4-7
"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death." 3:10
Now this verse, always reminds me of my Dad. When i was little and i couldn't sleep because i was scared. I remember my dad comming in my room and always reciting this verse to me. =D
" Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable if anything is excellent or ppraise worther think about such things." 4:8
^ My Dad is Awesome!
It's been a good week reflecting God's grace and his passionate love for us. how he works in Great ways, and in everything it is for His perfect plan. I am realizing more and more how Thankful I am, and greatful that I listened to the Lord's calling in comming to the bible college here. I'm praying that the Lord will open my eyes and my heart while i am here. and that He will lead me in the path that i need to go. I'm willing to let Him use me where ever I may be, but also pray that He'll give me the wisdom to make the right descisions. I'm not too sure what this next year is going to look like. But I believe right now that Lord wants me to trust in Him and to focus on becomming more like Him and making the bond of our relationship closer. He will open the doors and close them, and show me the best one to climb through.
FrIdAy!! <3 Why I Love the Christian World soo much!!
So I called the girl that we met at the iceskating rink and asked her about the deatils and where we should meet for the Biblestudy. I dragged along Andrea and her friend from Szlavkia, Dan, Tyler, Trip and Tez. We met the two girls, and they brought us up like 6 floors in a building, where i think she works for a chritians orginization. In the Bible study was about 20 other ppl. They all go to different churchs and met randomlly either in church or in bible schools. i love the christian world! it's just so cool how u can meet a random christian. and than be able to be best friends almost with out knowing the person that well and fellowship and praise God with them! It seems like only in the Christian Relm can we do this without fear. =D it was an awesome experience. we Sang many songs and we all talked together as a guy lead us. It went about 2 hours. we talked about making "New Years resolutions" and how come nobody ever "committs" to it. and how we are committed to christ. Even though we make mistakes, God will forgive us. We talked about David and how He praised God and is characteristics. How God forgave him. and even though David knew that he sinned. It was only by God's grace that he was forgiven. It's not by his power to DO anything to get his forgivness.
> We all prayed together, and i got to talk with many ppl and exchange facebooks, and we made plans to meet agian! I'll be getting a newsletter from them now that have updates and fun activity days we cna get together with them and hang out and fellowship!! =D it's exciting.
> Rachel and Lian wanted to bring us all to the coffee shop. so we had to cut or conversations and head out. On the way out some cute hungarian guy stopped me and wanted to say goodbye. He kissed me on the cheeks which caught me by surprise and made me blush a little. haha i'm not use to that. but it's totally normal in their calture there.. well finally meeting everyone in the street to walk to the coffee house. we were taking photos and acting crazy! It was a fun walk.
> We got to this building on a corner. and a guy was standing outside. He smiled at us and told us to follow the light rope. on the ground inside. It was an underground Christian Coffee Shop!!! It was really beautiful and made out of brick. Lian introduced us to more of there firends. Mostly from all around the world!! and a couple other americans were there! :) we met and talked with them..than we went to get some coffee. and there were some really good suti's there *cookies* hehe. and whats even more AmAzInG about this coffee house was that everything was FREE! the coffee.. the cookies.. tea.. all they asked for was donations! WHAT a MINISTRY!! This is by FAR my FAVORITIEST coffee shop ever! <3 the guy that runs the coffee shop actually goes to the Danube church where i am a Sunday school teacher! We all plan to meet up agian on Sunday and have lunch or any other sundays! it will be sweet.
> we had to rush our way out of there to cetch our bus. haha that was interesting. and i got to talk with Andrea's friend on the bus the ride home! She is a smart girl! I love how Europeans learn like 4 different languages. they do alot of schooling too.
> once i got back to my room. The girls found out that our heaters weren't working so we all slept together on the floor, on matresses! haha we stayed up talking about the Philippians class and funny stories. =D
> Satuday..
Well Today it's rainny. and i'm just going to be studying and reading all day. Later i'm going with Dan to pick up his Canadian friends that are comming to visit. =P
SOME PRAYER REGUEST >>>
* Finacial issues, and paying for my tuition.
* ohh no more salad nights or hot food nights. =/ those were my favorite nights. the schools going a lil low budget right now.'
* the two student from Uganda, to get their Visa's and come back to school. Also Kenya and the problems there... There is another WOL college there. so just pray for those students safty and that they will keep Firm and Strong in their faith. That they will have many oppertunities to minister to others.
* I have alot of work to get done by March. and some hard studying. so pray that i'll be able to focus and use my time wisly.
Thank you for all your prayers! love to hear ur comments and how things are back home! <3
" Fogetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13b-14
I went woke up at 5am. To get ready for church.. i walked into the village with Dan to get on the bus.. to go to the train station. took the train to Budapest than got on a metro. Usally we would walk to anyother bus stop. but we decided to walk around and get coffee at the sweet Mc Cafe' a couple blocks away. the coffee's not
by far as good as starbucks. or dillenbecks ;). but it would have to do. So after chating for about an hour. we figured out that we had an hour and a half to kill before church started. It was a pretty nice day out. I was in a huge mood to go ExPlOrInG! so we went on an AdVenTuRe!! walked across the Danube River. on the chain bride. and headed along the river..I never been along that side. and there were several things that looked interesting to me. I went inside a catholic church. It was beautiful!! I went through a door that had cilrcled stairs going up. hehe so i thought i'd take a gander to see what was upstairs. Some hungarian guy tryed to talk with me.. and he showed me around. there were really old papers and documents. the balcony overlooked each detail and curves in the architect's work.. after that we walked, and walked. but saw many sweet things. i'll get my pictures up soon! but we also went places we prolly weren't suppose to haha. well finally made it to the church. I got to see my sunday school kids for a lil bit. They were soo cute! about 15 of them trying to tell me storys of their break and hugging me. than we stayed in the service! saw Salo, Stephen and Lili for the first time since comming back from the break!! The preacher was really good! and it was an amazing message. about how the church is not like a "country club" for christians. but a "hospital" for sinners.
> After church i went out to lunch with Dan, Randale and this British guy that taught Randales class. He will prolly be helping him out the next couple weeks since, our dear friend Aurther from Uganda is still trying to get his Visa. Pray for him.. But it was really awesome talking with David " the british" He was funny!
> saying our goodbyes to our new friend. we decided to go Iceskatting!! <3 hehe but we really didn't know where we were going. or where it was. so we hopped on a metro. it was the yellow line. Prolly one of the oldest. I never been on it before. but very sweet looking. We made it to our stop. and saw some sweet statues and buildings. and right were the iceskating rink was. infront of it, was a BEAUTIFUL Castle!! we walked around the castle for a while and got on the ice. We met a couple ppl from different bible colleges! They invited us to come for coffee and a bible study in Budapest Friday!
>On our way back we were being really crazy! haha making up random words and just laughing the whole time. i got a coffee at the mc cafe' and they gave me a straw/ spoon.. a Stroon! haha. any way..moving on..
Classes stared on Tuesday!! We are learning in Philippians right now. Our Guest teacher is Ed Hart! he's a real great guy and i'm learning so much in that class already! I'v even got a chance to talk with his wife who is a very Godly woman. and helps women in her church. and leads them to help others! They are doing this amazing thing in their church right now. You should check out their website. adirondackbible.org go to ministries, than click ministry center. =D
The book of Philippians is a great book. It talks about Joy and how we should be joyful in everything since we know we have christ in our lives. I love the verses.
"I eagerly expect and hope that i will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficent courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." Phil. 1:20-21
"Then make my JOY complete by being lifeminded having the same love being one in spirit and purpose." 2:2
"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it agian: Rejoice! Let ur gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is Near! Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with Thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of god which transcends all understanding , will gaurd your hearts and your minds in christ Jesus." 4:4-7
"I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death." 3:10
Now this verse, always reminds me of my Dad. When i was little and i couldn't sleep because i was scared. I remember my dad comming in my room and always reciting this verse to me. =D
" Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable if anything is excellent or ppraise worther think about such things." 4:8
^ My Dad is Awesome!
It's been a good week reflecting God's grace and his passionate love for us. how he works in Great ways, and in everything it is for His perfect plan. I am realizing more and more how Thankful I am, and greatful that I listened to the Lord's calling in comming to the bible college here. I'm praying that the Lord will open my eyes and my heart while i am here. and that He will lead me in the path that i need to go. I'm willing to let Him use me where ever I may be, but also pray that He'll give me the wisdom to make the right descisions. I'm not too sure what this next year is going to look like. But I believe right now that Lord wants me to trust in Him and to focus on becomming more like Him and making the bond of our relationship closer. He will open the doors and close them, and show me the best one to climb through.
FrIdAy!! <3 Why I Love the Christian World soo much!!
So I called the girl that we met at the iceskating rink and asked her about the deatils and where we should meet for the Biblestudy. I dragged along Andrea and her friend from Szlavkia, Dan, Tyler, Trip and Tez. We met the two girls, and they brought us up like 6 floors in a building, where i think she works for a chritians orginization. In the Bible study was about 20 other ppl. They all go to different churchs and met randomlly either in church or in bible schools. i love the christian world! it's just so cool how u can meet a random christian. and than be able to be best friends almost with out knowing the person that well and fellowship and praise God with them! It seems like only in the Christian Relm can we do this without fear. =D it was an awesome experience. we Sang many songs and we all talked together as a guy lead us. It went about 2 hours. we talked about making "New Years resolutions" and how come nobody ever "committs" to it. and how we are committed to christ. Even though we make mistakes, God will forgive us. We talked about David and how He praised God and is characteristics. How God forgave him. and even though David knew that he sinned. It was only by God's grace that he was forgiven. It's not by his power to DO anything to get his forgivness.
> We all prayed together, and i got to talk with many ppl and exchange facebooks, and we made plans to meet agian! I'll be getting a newsletter from them now that have updates and fun activity days we cna get together with them and hang out and fellowship!! =D it's exciting.
> Rachel and Lian wanted to bring us all to the coffee shop. so we had to cut or conversations and head out. On the way out some cute hungarian guy stopped me and wanted to say goodbye. He kissed me on the cheeks which caught me by surprise and made me blush a little. haha i'm not use to that. but it's totally normal in their calture there.. well finally meeting everyone in the street to walk to the coffee house. we were taking photos and acting crazy! It was a fun walk.
> We got to this building on a corner. and a guy was standing outside. He smiled at us and told us to follow the light rope. on the ground inside. It was an underground Christian Coffee Shop!!! It was really beautiful and made out of brick. Lian introduced us to more of there firends. Mostly from all around the world!! and a couple other americans were there! :) we met and talked with them..than we went to get some coffee. and there were some really good suti's there *cookies* hehe. and whats even more AmAzInG about this coffee house was that everything was FREE! the coffee.. the cookies.. tea.. all they asked for was donations! WHAT a MINISTRY!! This is by FAR my FAVORITIEST coffee shop ever! <3 the guy that runs the coffee shop actually goes to the Danube church where i am a Sunday school teacher! We all plan to meet up agian on Sunday and have lunch or any other sundays! it will be sweet.
> we had to rush our way out of there to cetch our bus. haha that was interesting. and i got to talk with Andrea's friend on the bus the ride home! She is a smart girl! I love how Europeans learn like 4 different languages. they do alot of schooling too.
> once i got back to my room. The girls found out that our heaters weren't working so we all slept together on the floor, on matresses! haha we stayed up talking about the Philippians class and funny stories. =D
> Satuday..
Well Today it's rainny. and i'm just going to be studying and reading all day. Later i'm going with Dan to pick up his Canadian friends that are comming to visit. =P
SOME PRAYER REGUEST >>>
* Finacial issues, and paying for my tuition.
* ohh no more salad nights or hot food nights. =/ those were my favorite nights. the schools going a lil low budget right now.'
* the two student from Uganda, to get their Visa's and come back to school. Also Kenya and the problems there... There is another WOL college there. so just pray for those students safty and that they will keep Firm and Strong in their faith. That they will have many oppertunities to minister to others.
* I have alot of work to get done by March. and some hard studying. so pray that i'll be able to focus and use my time wisly.
Thank you for all your prayers! love to hear ur comments and how things are back home! <3
" Fogetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:13b-14
Friday, January 11, 2008
अर्रिवल तो थे कास्तले <3 lol thats totally in Hindu!
I MADE IT! <3>
My family brought me to the airport around 3pm. With my bags all checked in we headed for the loundge area to say our goodbyes. We had a while before the flight took off. and i was soo happy to see my BEST friends there! =D It was hard to say goodbye, but i choked down my tears until my mom hugged me. I had the Best time with my mom while i was home! she's such an amazing person! i don't know where i would be without her encouragement and love in my life <3
The Flight to New Jersey wasn't that bad, i was looking forward to see my friends Leighann and Tyler from school! I was staying with them for a night and than flying over seas with em..
Well as i was getting picked up from Philly. I couldn't hear a thing. The last flight i was on.. the pressure from being sick, never let my ears pop.. haha so my amazing lip reading skills had to kick in. Tylers parents picked me up. and we went to their church. The youth group was there. and I saw Georgy!! Julia brought me georgy and kenny to tylers, than we drove to Leighanns where she was having a little party. I was soo excited to see that girl! =D We were up till about 2 in the morning talking and hangin out with ppl. The next morning we got up at 830 and went out to breakfast with her sister, mom and grandma. She has a very funny family! than we did a little shopping before we left.and we jammed in the car with her sister. thought we would do something adventerous before we left. so we headed up to Philly to see her brother and we walked up and down South Street!! which is an awesome place!! It was such a nice day out! we were taking pictures with random things. haha. and they had some sweet stores there.
We left for the Airport around 3 pm.. drove for two hours and than waited to board at 830pm. The flight had NOO BABYS on it!! i never knew how quiet it could get on a plane. the only bad part was the turbulance. and being sick didn't help much. so i didn't get much sleep at all either. we made it to Munich, Germeny. It is so beautiful their! I could see gorgeous mountains! :) i was singing some Micheal W. Smith while i was praising God. haha.
~We had to RUN to make our flight to Budapest. that was not pretty! haha. one lady was being a crab and i almost couldn't bring my guitar with me. But we made it! and when we finally made it to the Castle, it was soo nice to take a shower! haha. and unpack a bit! i tryed so hard to stay up all night. the nightquil kicked me out tho. I went to a lil fellowship and saw more ppl! =D i missed everyone here!! IT's soo good to see them agian!! <3>
& now it is currently 7:30 a m and i can't sleep anymore! haha. so i thought i'd write u my FIRST post!! arn't u LuCkY! ;)
I MISS YOU ALL ALREADY!! <3>
My family brought me to the airport around 3pm. With my bags all checked in we headed for the loundge area to say our goodbyes. We had a while before the flight took off. and i was soo happy to see my BEST friends there! =D It was hard to say goodbye, but i choked down my tears until my mom hugged me. I had the Best time with my mom while i was home! she's such an amazing person! i don't know where i would be without her encouragement and love in my life <3
The Flight to New Jersey wasn't that bad, i was looking forward to see my friends Leighann and Tyler from school! I was staying with them for a night and than flying over seas with em..
Well as i was getting picked up from Philly. I couldn't hear a thing. The last flight i was on.. the pressure from being sick, never let my ears pop.. haha so my amazing lip reading skills had to kick in. Tylers parents picked me up. and we went to their church. The youth group was there. and I saw Georgy!! Julia brought me georgy and kenny to tylers, than we drove to Leighanns where she was having a little party. I was soo excited to see that girl! =D We were up till about 2 in the morning talking and hangin out with ppl. The next morning we got up at 830 and went out to breakfast with her sister, mom and grandma. She has a very funny family! than we did a little shopping before we left.and we jammed in the car with her sister. thought we would do something adventerous before we left. so we headed up to Philly to see her brother and we walked up and down South Street!! which is an awesome place!! It was such a nice day out! we were taking pictures with random things. haha. and they had some sweet stores there.
We left for the Airport around 3 pm.. drove for two hours and than waited to board at 830pm. The flight had NOO BABYS on it!! i never knew how quiet it could get on a plane. the only bad part was the turbulance. and being sick didn't help much. so i didn't get much sleep at all either. we made it to Munich, Germeny. It is so beautiful their! I could see gorgeous mountains! :) i was singing some Micheal W. Smith while i was praising God. haha.
~We had to RUN to make our flight to Budapest. that was not pretty! haha. one lady was being a crab and i almost couldn't bring my guitar with me. But we made it! and when we finally made it to the Castle, it was soo nice to take a shower! haha. and unpack a bit! i tryed so hard to stay up all night. the nightquil kicked me out tho. I went to a lil fellowship and saw more ppl! =D i missed everyone here!! IT's soo good to see them agian!! <3>
& now it is currently 7:30 a m and i can't sleep anymore! haha. so i thought i'd write u my FIRST post!! arn't u LuCkY! ;)
I MISS YOU ALL ALREADY!! <3>
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