First, my apologies for such a long interim between updates. I can't believe it's been two months since I last shared with you. Please know that I am thinking about you all and praying for you regularly. The good thing is that I'm busy... SO busy and I just haven't found the time to update regularly.
This week we are in our spring blitz. We're spending all of our days March 5-12 in classrooms, advertising for our big outreach, Battle of the Bands, on March 16. We have a project team here from Orlando this week helping us with classroom talks and evangelism.
The last couple of months have been so busy. I've been doing a lot of initiative evangelism and I've had a lot of personal appointments with Hungarian girls. I've really been able to get into some deep conversations and relationships with students. It's really helped my emotions; I enjoy being here and that makes the time fly.
Here are some pictures from the past few weeks:
At the end of January, my friend Lorraine invited me to go to Romania. She has missionary friends in Arad and ended up with two extra train tickets to visit them. My roommate Ashley and I went with her for the day. We were able to visit the church that they have built there, as well as an orphanage that the church supports.
Here is Lorraine with one girl. A lot of the orphans in Romania actually have families and know them or see them regularly; but their families simply cannot afford to take care of them. It was really sad.
I got to play with another dog! This dog lives at the church and was so excited to get petted. I loved her!
Here I am in front of one of the church buildings.
In mid-February, I went to a town near the Slovakian border with my friend Juli to visit her family for the weekend. I met Juli in the summer of 2005 at SpeakOut, we kept in touch all last year, and now we meet every few weeks to talk and hang out. It was a wonderful weekend filled with good family times and good food! No one else in Juli's family speaks English, so it was a bit of a struggle, but we had fun :) Here I am with Juli's parents. They were so wonderful!
A few weeks ago, my roommate Ashley was invited to sing at a local Rec center. She does the music at our Friday night programs and one of the students that comes told her father about Ashley. He runs the music program at the Lighthouse club and asked Ashley to perform. I went with some of our regular students to support her.
Here is Ashley and our friend Andrew accompanying her:
Hanna, Lilla, and I had some fun before the show started :)
Here's what they normally look like! :p
Ashley got in on our picture :)
So, hope you enjoyed the pictures and I'll try and update again before two months go by... !Take care, all my love,
Lauren
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