Hey everyone, Well it's Sunday evening. Sorry, I didn't get the chance to blog yesterday. We had the graduates come over and spend the day with us here at our dorm. We had four girls and one boy. They're ages ranged from 18-20. It took a while to break the ice. We told them a little bit about ourselves but they didn't like a lot of personal questions. Such as how they got to where they are today etc. We kinda kept it light. Like the differences between America and Russia. The differences between families here and there. It was very interesting and eye opening. When they first came in and were very reserved I couldn't help but have a few tears. I couldn't help but keep thinking of my life back home. Of my brothers who were the same age as this boy sitting in front of me. Of how I am so blessed to have family and friends that love and support me. How I am not on my own like these kids are. I feel it was actually more sad for me to be with these older kids then it was to be with the younger kids, because the younger kids, didn't care if you didn't know Russian. They just wanted to play, and hang on to you...they loved visitors! These older kids, have been through so much more, they have so many walls up, understandably so. Fortunately we had two translators with us, but it was still difficult, we told them a little about our testimony and about why we were here. About what Christ is doing in our life. Like I said, they had a lot of walls up but as the day went on, it got easier...We cooked Taco's for them, some had never had Taco's before! lol It was pretty cool. We played some games, and the boy Alex is now in his first year of college and going to get some sort of IT degree so therefor needing to learn English! So we kinda helped him with that...which was kinda cool! The other girls taught us a few words in Russian! And laughed at us, as we tried to pronounce things! lol It was fun! We gave them some gifts and had Ice Cream for dessert:) It was a pretty fun day...We are hoping to see them one more time, maybe one Saturday before we leave.
The rest of the day was pretty relaxing just the four of us girls and Anya here at the dorm, naps and YouTube videos! Until it came dinner time...Anya decided to teach us how to make Russian pancakes! Very yummy! :)
This morning, Sunday, got up, dressed and ready. We pretty much walked around the corner to the Baptist Church here..all Russian speaking, we are so glad we got to experience that, including a traditional Russian communion. The people were so welcoming. Anya interpreted some. We met this one missionary family that works with Campus Crusade for Christ and the wife is from the US and speaks English..we spoke to them for a little while..they have two kids...she married a Russian man and has lived here for 8 years now! Pretty neat! :) Anyways, today has been pretty laid back as well, took a nap, did our normal evening devotional together and just packed up all of our stuff because we are going to an orphanage camp, outside the city of St.Petersburg tomorrow for the week. So this will be my last blog until next weekend. No internet at the camps! We are just taking enough things that we need for one week, clothes, things for the kids etc. and the University is letting us store all of our extra stuff here in a locked room. So that is nice, we won't have to lug everything around with us! This week a church from Texas will be with us. So they will be in charge of this camp and we will be working along side them. It will be nice..we can just ease into it, and see how things are done..then the next two weeks we will run our own VBS (Vacation Bible School)camps.
Well anyways, everyone is heading to bed, the bus is picking us up pretty early in the morning. So I gotta go. Be praying for us, the Texas team and all the kids this week. Love you all! Miss you! :)
Dear Lamb of God,
Spaseeba(Thank You) for having such a marvelous plan for our lives. You know the beginning, middle and end. Lord please help us trust in you and trust in your plan for our lives. Lord we pray for the team that is coming in to join us, we pray for our team, and also for all the children that we are about to meet. Prepare our hearts and theirs. Lord we also lift up in prayer all the graduates that we met this past weekend. Lord, let them know your unconditional Love, let them know that you will never forsake them nor abandon them.
Your Daughter,
Melissa
No comments:
Post a Comment