I was blessed last month to have my sister
Jill visit during my school’s Energy Break from February 16-22 and we had a
great time in Salzburg, Munich, and Vienna. I was able to be a somewhat decent
tour guide since I know the ropes and can speak a little German now. Our
favorite part was the Third Reich Walking Tour in Munich, Germany where we
learned a lot of history on how the Nazis came into power.
At ICSV I have been given the opportunity
to serve as a chaperone on the school’s mission trip to Romania in April. I’m
in charge of the skits so please pray that all goes well with that. We will be
doing 3 to 4 skits about Christ and Easter and maybe a dance.
Since the fall I’ve been blessed to co-lead
a bible study with four girls from school and I’ve included a picture of them
at the top posing with a bag of candy for Valentine’s Day. They are all juniors
and seniors. Please pray that our time together is well spent.
Adjusting to life in Vienna is going well,
and now that I’ve been living in my apartment since November, I feel pretty
settled in. I used my birthday party in January as an
opportunity to finish all the little details missing from my apartment like
paint, shelves, hanging a couple pictures, and finally getting rid of extra
boxes lying around.
I turned 26 this year, and it feels great
to be on my way to 30 and hopefully a little older and wiser. I joke that I’d
rather not round up to 30, but actually it’s not as scary as other
20-somethings make it seem. God has blessed me and I give him all the praise.
I feel that the verse below is true
for my life at the moment. Not everything is easy, but sometimes it’s necessary
to stay put and grow, like a tree. A tree cannot become big and strong unless
it stays in one place. Teaching and being in a foreign country and making new
friends isn’t always easy, but, like the tree, I have to daily choose to get my
source of strength from God (water).
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