Titles are hard...

Hi everyone! I hope you all are enjoying a lovely Labor Day weekend. Special shoutout to my ballet girls who are anxiously awaiting the posting of Nutcracker parts tomorrow...good luck, love you guys!! I have been enjoying some downtime these few days as well.

We visited all the kids in apartments this past week, but unfortunately I didn't take pictures. Go to my previous post if you haven't seen it already...there are some apartment pictures there. We are continuing to build relationships with the kids and their caregivers and show them Jesus, so please keep us in your prayers.

Saturday is orphanage visit day! We did a fall craft (can't believe it's time for that!) and I was in charge of explaining the whole thing in Romanian to rowdy orphanage kids. Thankfully, because of my prayers and the prayers of my mom and grandmother, I'm sure, they were quiet, listened to me, and did their craft. :) It was a great moment and a very encouraging visit overall. Here is one picture from that day.

This is Nicu. He is new at Ciresarii orphanage and has a very cheerful, carefree attitude, which is refreshing because a lot of the orphanage kids are very hardened and rough. He was so proud of his fall leaves!

Also this week, I toured a Romanian foundation that works with preschoolers, disabled children and young adults, and the elderly. I'm hoping to volunteer there at least twice a week after our trip to Greece this Thursday-Monday. Bummer for you guys though...I'm not allowed to share pictures of that place or of the children I'll be working with..sorry. :( Just know that it is a state-of-the-art foundation, pretty much the only one of its caliber in Romania. It's a preschool, therapy center, and nursing home all in one huge complex a bit outside of the city. So amazing to see what God is doing through it and its founders!

Speaking of Greece, we are finally taking our post-camp vacation! We're leaving Thursday and coming back Monday. I'm really looking forward to visiting this island, Thassos, again. 

Praises:

-Encouraging visit at the orphanage Saturday!

-Greece vacation! :)

Requests:

-Safe travels as we drive for 12hrs through Bulgaria to Greece (also pray that the border crossings would go smoothly--we've been hearing some discouraging news from people who have gone through the Greece border checkpoint who are saying that it's taking over an hour just to get through).

-I would get my schedule with the Romanian foundation set up for these next 2.5 months

-Paris, an 11yr old orphanage boy, is having a hard time right now. Keep him in your prayers, please.

With love,

That crazy girl in Romania for 6 months