Everything From Babies to Symphony

These last few weeks have been a flurry of activity for us and we have just been trying to keep up. It has been good though, we are being stretched but we know God is blessing us greatly. We started out the first week of October by helping get the girls transition house ready for the new girls to move in. We went to meet the new girls on their first day and really enjoyed getting to know them. We also enjoyed a wonderful Romanian lunch of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, cole slaw, and bread.

It is always good spending time with the H2H staff and it was nice to meet the new girls.

We also went to the baby hospital a few times and we will be going there twice a week from now on. We really enjoyed loving the babies there and the nurses gave us some very nice compliments on how we were with the babies. Not to brag at all, we just were very encouraged by their comments. We now really look forward to the days we get to go to the baby hospital.

We continue to adjust to the city life and find that our apartment has plenty of space for us. We enjoy being within walking distance to everything.

Using our gas stove has been working out fine, we haven't burned anything yet. We were having a craving for brownies so Rebecca had to figure out how to use the oven with no temperature reading. Notice also how slanted the stove is, the gas line is hard piped into it so it can't be propped up either.

She also had to figure out how to get the door to stay shut, and she came up with a great solution.

The brownies turned out wonderful and tasted so good. They used up quite a bit of our precious peanut butter and chocolate chip stash but they were so worth it.

We also enjoyed our six year anniversary and we celebrated by going on a date to the symphony. We had to use some of our newly acquired Romanian to buy the tickets and that went really well. The building is very nice inside and out, as you can see from the pictures.

It was fun dressing up and going out and the concert was really good. It lasted two hours and we enjoyed the special pianist and the violin soloist. This is something we might do more often because in addition to being very fun it was very inexpensive.

This is the inside of the dome, which is very ornate like the rest of the place.

The rest of our time has been spent studying the language. We have so much to learn and it feels overwhelming sometimes but we know that God will help us through this just as he promised. This continues to be a big prayer request for us - that we would be able to learn this language so we can be effective at ministering to the kids here. Please continue to pray for strength and endurance for all the busyness and studying. Also please pray for the kids here, that the babies would be blessed and would develop well, that the kids in the orphanage will come to know Christ and be transformed, and that the transition boys and girls will be given hope for a future.