An added opportunity

It was very unexpected, but it looks like half of my spring break here is going to be full. I am going to Romania. I was asked to be a leader to go on the trip. There are ten students going and 2 leaders. We are going to a center that works with youth where we will do a Bible school thing and also a building project.

I wasn't planning on this and I was looking at a relaxing time, but there was a need. Please pray that I will have the energy for this and that the trip preparation will go well. If you could also pray that the finances for the trip would work out well that would be great.

Thanks.

Pictours

Hey everyone, I decided to post some pictures of where I live with snow. These pictures were taken out of my 3 windows in my room.

This first one looks up the hill. Hochblauen is in the top right of the photo. It is a bit concealed by cloud cover.
This is the second pic. It looks down the hill towards Kandern.

This is the third pic. It looks up to the middle of Marzell and beyond. The Blauen dorm is the first house across the street on the left. Those are our vans in the driveway.


You can click on them to make them bigger!!

Oh the weather outside.

Well it took a while, but winter is finally here. It started to turn cold on Sunday and has gotten colder ever since. We had snow last night and then again it started tonight. It is falling lightly and beautifully and isn't supposed to stop until tomorrow night. Yeah, I am happy.

Also, if you could pray, fellow RAs Matt and Sarah recently had a baby. Her name is Anna Pearl. I had said before that the right side of her heart didn't work. She has heart surgery tomorrow. They are putting a shunt between her aorta and pulminary artery. Please pray for her and them.

Windsday

Crazy weather. I have been told that the weather was wonderful here and have yet to see any snow. January has been rainy and in the 50s. What crazy weather. People here are even shocked about how it is. We also have had crazy winds over the last couple of days. I don't know if you have seen it on the news, but Europe has been getting pounded by a system that brought winds upwards of 120 mph. We here have experienced winds around 60 or so mph.

Oh well, besides that the guys are back. They have come back rested and excited which is crazy. Unbridled energy can be a scary thing, but it is good to see them and I am glad that they are back. I hope y'all are doing well.

Announcement

I HAVE A PHONE!!!!!

That's right. After 5 months of not having a phone, I have one. It has been a hard thing, but this is a great happy thing. Much better now.

YIPPEE!!!!

It's coming

Well, it is about to start. The next semester of stuff at BFA. The guys start coming back on Sunday. And then school starts back up on Tuesday. The fun insanity will pick back up.

God give me strength.

New Year's

This was quite the strange night to behold. The bigger towns and cities have an official fireworks thing, but a small town like Kandern doesn't have anything. That does not mean a lack of fireworks though. The grocery stores sell a bunch of fireworks for anyone to buy. And then at midnight people come out of their houses and spend 30 minutes or so lighting fireworks. Some are bigger than I expected, but there are a lot and there is trash just everywhere.

It is a very un-German thing to do to just make a mess and a lot of noise late at night, but it seems that 1 night a year they let loose. In other news, yours truly had to light his share of fun stuff on fire. Yippee.