Update #2: Wednesday, June 11

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Our 2 days here so far have been amazing! As Roxi previously sent, we had great travels here, and have done very well traveling in the city as well. We rode the subway for the first time today, that was cool. It was also very special to our team, because the stop we got on at is the exact place where a documentary we watched during training was filmed. Pretty neat!

We got to spend time at the orphanage yesterday, and we will get to do so again tomorrow and Saturday. As soon as we arrived there, the children were running out to us, taking us by the hands, and soaking up the attention we were more than willing to give. Loving them and playing with them was our main way of communicating, though we had more than enough people around to translate for us. We are very blessed. We are all anxious to return to the children there. We had a great time playing sports (basketball, catch, soccer, American football) and we hope to do more with them as the days go by. On Saturday we will have about 4 hours to spend with them, so our hopes are up to build even more relationships.

Today we spent time with our field worker's family. We met at their house, split up in groups to prayer walk and invite neighborhood kids over for play & a BBQ. We had about 12 kids show up, and they LOVED waterballoons!! We played sports with them as well. A wonderful opportunity presented itself and we were able to share some stories with the local children. We had a felt board, so Luke told the story of Jesus making fishers of men, while Aura (Roxi's sister) translated. The kids liked it. We had more time, so Dave decided to read the story of the crucifixion from a Romanian Bible!!! He did GREAT! A little boy helped him to pronounce some of the words he did not know, and the other children did the story board for us - very interactive. After, we discussed about the resurrection, and they were able to tell Aura that Jesus rose on the 3rd day.

Our days are long, because we still haven't fully adjusted to the time change, please pray for rest. Also, health has been getting to some of us. We're not sure if it's food, heat, lack of sleep, or a combination of all of the above - but please pray for the few under the weather to have Jesus' healing hand on them & that we'd all be back to our normal selves.

It's bedtime for us...Noapte buna (Good Night) 

by Jeni