Leaving Friends in Bucuresti Romania and Meeting Others in Chisinau Moldova

Wow, it has been way too long since we wrote on our blog. Between Facebook, the blog, and our prayer letter we have not updated lately. We completed our language class in Bucuresti, and we loaded up a colleague's van and headed for the border. We did not have any difficulty getting across either of the two borders, and we know that it was due to prayers that were lifted up on our behalf. Thank you so much for your prayers!! We are excited to be in our new home, and we wanted to share a few things that might give you a laugh or two. We have some very kind neighbors, and we were told that the elderly man and woman across the street from us had lived here for years. They can give you the history of IMB personnel who have lived in this house. The elderly gentlemen has taken care of the yard for some of those that lived here in the past, and he evidently wants to start back at his job of making our yard beautiful. We are really afraid that he will overdo and hurt himself, but he is so persistent. If our gate is unlocked we find him out in the yard trying to work, i.e., lifting rocks that are way too big for him to lift, taking the cover off of the well and I'm afraid he will fall in, shutting off the water which means we have no water inside our house. Please pray that we will not offend him as we try to relay our thoughts to him. It is bad to want to keep your gate locked every minute of the day. If we don't unlock it he calls and asks us if he can come over. Well, we need wisdom on this one for sure! We have met a young boy, Andre, who is 11 years old. He has been to the grocery store with us twice already. He is very sweet, and he knows a little English. Mike helped him with his English homework tonight, and of course it is British English, which is normal in this area of the world. We may confuse him more than help him ... we'll see. While we have been trying to get settled into our new home, we also need to start on our residency process through the Baptist Union. This will be a long process, but please pray that the documents that we have will be all that is needed to help us gain our residency. We will write more later, but we wanted to let you know that we are where God has called us to minister. Please pray for our friends, Frank and Diane, who are trying to get their visa in Romania. They are having a very difficult time, and they have been told that they may need to leave the country for 3-6 months. Please pray that God will show them His perfect plan! God bless each of you! We love you and look forward to hearing from you soon. Smile, God loves you!