Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
typeTAP
My ah-mazing friend, Tiffany, has guided me to this project that is going on called typeTAP that is trying to bring clean water to people around the world. Tiffany and 3 other people created this ridiculously ambitious goal to raise 
$10,000 in one day in order to help others. On March 22 (3 days) an organization called The Adventure Project is using the blogs of 100 different people in order to make this goal know. I'm blogging about it a little bit early because I know that people don't read my blog that often. So- I'm doing my part and asking four of my readers to go to the adventure project site and donate at least $20 in order to help those in need.
In my Bible study recently, I've been learning about loving to those who you don't even know. Paul was a great example of this. Paul was constantly praying for and acting on the behalf of those who he never met and probably never would. My friend Tiffany is a great picture of this. I ask you to truly consider donating to this amazing goal on March 22nd. We're all very excited about it. :)
PLEASE DONATE AT:
www.theadventureproject.causevox.com
(I'm sorry if the link is not working, I'm having some trouble with it in my blog, but you can just copy and paste if nothing else)
$10,000 in one day in order to help others. On March 22 (3 days) an organization called The Adventure Project is using the blogs of 100 different people in order to make this goal know. I'm blogging about it a little bit early because I know that people don't read my blog that often. So- I'm doing my part and asking four of my readers to go to the adventure project site and donate at least $20 in order to help those in need. In my Bible study recently, I've been learning about loving to those who you don't even know. Paul was a great example of this. Paul was constantly praying for and acting on the behalf of those who he never met and probably never would. My friend Tiffany is a great picture of this. I ask you to truly consider donating to this amazing goal on March 22nd. We're all very excited about it. :)
PLEASE DONATE AT:
www.theadventureproject.causevox.com
(I'm sorry if the link is not working, I'm having some trouble with it in my blog, but you can just copy and paste if nothing else)
Friday, March 18, 2011
The Motherland!
This past week on the 15th was a national holiday for Hungary to celebrate their '56 revolution. So- lucky for me I got a 4 day weekend!!! Where did I go? Sweden!!! I say it's the Motherland because my friend Nicki's 
(who I travelled with) great-grandparents came from. It was absolutely fantastic and so relaxing. The best part of all was the fact that there were no plans- it was a "wing-it" type of trip which was exactly what I needed. We walked around the city, shopped, visited second-hand stores and the like. (The picture is one of the streets that we got to go shopping on- a pretty popular tourist area, I believe)
We even took a day trip to Norway which I will never do again- it was the most expensive place I've ever been. It was approximately $5 just for a Sprite!!!! The trip to and from was quite beautiful though. Nicki high-jacked my camera and proceeded to take about 100 pictures of the same place.
BUT I was superrrr excited because on the way back on the bus I saw a legitimate Norwegian moose on the side of the road! I know most wouldn't find that exciting, but I was quite enthralled. (This is NOT one of the pictures that Nicki took- all of hers were at sunset and therefore slightly blurry. This was on the way in to Norway- the city looked like it was floating because of all of the frozen water)
We met some AMAZING people too. We were both very sad to part at the end of our journey, but I know that we'll see them again soon. :) (These are two of the most amazing people in Sweden; Ivar on the left and Jonas on the right. Ivar is studying to be a clown and Jonas is studying magic... it's pretty awesome. They gave us a magic show before we left just so we'd leave laughing- it was great!)
(who I travelled with) great-grandparents came from. It was absolutely fantastic and so relaxing. The best part of all was the fact that there were no plans- it was a "wing-it" type of trip which was exactly what I needed. We walked around the city, shopped, visited second-hand stores and the like. (The picture is one of the streets that we got to go shopping on- a pretty popular tourist area, I believe)We even took a day trip to Norway which I will never do again- it was the most expensive place I've ever been. It was approximately $5 just for a Sprite!!!! The trip to and from was quite beautiful though. Nicki high-jacked my camera and proceeded to take about 100 pictures of the same place.
BUT I was superrrr excited because on the way back on the bus I saw a legitimate Norwegian moose on the side of the road! I know most wouldn't find that exciting, but I was quite enthralled. (This is NOT one of the pictures that Nicki took- all of hers were at sunset and therefore slightly blurry. This was on the way in to Norway- the city looked like it was floating because of all of the frozen water)We met some AMAZING people too. We were both very sad to part at the end of our journey, but I know that we'll see them again soon. :) (These are two of the most amazing people in Sweden; Ivar on the left and Jonas on the right. Ivar is studying to be a clown and Jonas is studying magic... it's pretty awesome. They gave us a magic show before we left just so we'd leave laughing- it was great!)
Women's Retreat
I know this post is...oh...two weeks late, but in my defense, my computer has been in the shop! But I can't express what a great time we all had together "shippin" as Petra called it. We just spent the entire weekend hanging out, spending time together, reading magazines, and laughing a ton. It was all of the women from CEO (plus Laura) for the weekend at our house. We were supposed to go to a little town call Pec, but that wasn't going to work out since my roomie's poor ankle wasn't healed yet.
It was so refreshing to spend the weekend with all of these godly women who are willing to share all of their experience and just have a good time with you. It's also fantastic to have so many women who are willing to play with your hair :) I'm at a different stage of life than most of them (most of them have been married for several years with kids), but I never once felt excluded because of that. We all had such a great sense of unity. This is a picture of all of us when we ventured out to a restaurant (which did NOT help Joanna and I'd diet...). From the left it goes: Petra, me, Laura, Joanna, Keri, Jo, Lea.
It was so refreshing to spend the weekend with all of these godly women who are willing to share all of their experience and just have a good time with you. It's also fantastic to have so many women who are willing to play with your hair :) I'm at a different stage of life than most of them (most of them have been married for several years with kids), but I never once felt excluded because of that. We all had such a great sense of unity. This is a picture of all of us when we ventured out to a restaurant (which did NOT help Joanna and I'd diet...). From the left it goes: Petra, me, Laura, Joanna, Keri, Jo, Lea.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Biggest Loser Budapest
So my roommate, her fiance, and I have become recently addicted to the show the Biggest Loser. Joanna and I especially get really emotional every week when we watch it... Will makes fun of us, but we know he's getting chocked up too. Every time we'd watch this show we'd sit around and talk about how we need to eat better and lose more weight. So, one day I was doing dishes and I decided that we should have our own Biggest Loser challenge.
We do our "weigh in" once a week on Monday's to measure weight and check our measurements. We're doing it for 15 weeks, so we're doing a tally. We each put $50 in the pot and decided that for every pound that you gain you owe an extra dollar. That way we have an incentive to not gain the weight back. The first week was great, of course, because I lost 2 kilos (4.4 pounds) but then this week I gained 3 of those pound back. (I blame the women's retreat and all of the delicious temptations that they put in front of us!...which shall be my next post)
It's a great motivator for sure and I'm really excited to get into shape and lose the weight the right way. I just have to push myself really hard so I don't lose that $50. :(
We do our "weigh in" once a week on Monday's to measure weight and check our measurements. We're doing it for 15 weeks, so we're doing a tally. We each put $50 in the pot and decided that for every pound that you gain you owe an extra dollar. That way we have an incentive to not gain the weight back. The first week was great, of course, because I lost 2 kilos (4.4 pounds) but then this week I gained 3 of those pound back. (I blame the women's retreat and all of the delicious temptations that they put in front of us!...which shall be my next post)
It's a great motivator for sure and I'm really excited to get into shape and lose the weight the right way. I just have to push myself really hard so I don't lose that $50. :(
Sunday, March 6, 2011
WOW!!!
I don't have much time to blog right now considering it's way past my bedtime and I have my super long day tomorrow, but I just HAD to blog to let you know something amazing. God is good. I've known this all along, but sometimes God just does a sneak attack and drops this huge bomb on our lives to remind us. My bomb happened today.
I Skyped with some really good friends of mine that I haven't talked to in a while. They knew I had been praying about whether I should come back for another year or not, but never knew my final decision. So, they asked if I had my decision yet and I told them that I decided that God wanted me to stay here for another year and continue to ministry that I had built. She replied, "Good, because I'm not sure what else we'd do with the $7,000 that we decided to donate". Yes, you read right. There were 3 zeros after that 7. I was eating an apple slice as she said that and I literally chocked. I was speechless. I told her that I needed a minute to let that sink in. It's been over an hour now and it still hasn't, really.
They told me that they had been incredibly blessed recently and they wanted to share that blessing. They had also been convicted because recently they've heard so many stories about all these missionaries that have had to take a year off from the work that God has called them to in order to go home and raise money. They prayed and decided that they didn't want me to ever be in that position. God is so good. I can't stop saying it. God laid it on their heart to give that money to be me BEFORE they even knew I was coming back. I JUST started praying about my finances for the next year and God has already take care of half of it before this year is even out. WOW!!!!
I have tons more that i have to blog and catch up, but that will have to be later this week. I just HAD to write about this and share my story of reassurance of God's grace and provision.
I Skyped with some really good friends of mine that I haven't talked to in a while. They knew I had been praying about whether I should come back for another year or not, but never knew my final decision. So, they asked if I had my decision yet and I told them that I decided that God wanted me to stay here for another year and continue to ministry that I had built. She replied, "Good, because I'm not sure what else we'd do with the $7,000 that we decided to donate". Yes, you read right. There were 3 zeros after that 7. I was eating an apple slice as she said that and I literally chocked. I was speechless. I told her that I needed a minute to let that sink in. It's been over an hour now and it still hasn't, really.
They told me that they had been incredibly blessed recently and they wanted to share that blessing. They had also been convicted because recently they've heard so many stories about all these missionaries that have had to take a year off from the work that God has called them to in order to go home and raise money. They prayed and decided that they didn't want me to ever be in that position. God is so good. I can't stop saying it. God laid it on their heart to give that money to be me BEFORE they even knew I was coming back. I JUST started praying about my finances for the next year and God has already take care of half of it before this year is even out. WOW!!!!
I have tons more that i have to blog and catch up, but that will have to be later this week. I just HAD to write about this and share my story of reassurance of God's grace and provision.
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