Kale a facut trei ani!!! Kale made three years!!!

Many of you have been asking to post more updates.  I am sorry that I have not kept up with the blog very well.  Because of the places we work and what we do I don't want unfriendly eyes to find us.  After talking with a friend of mine (I have at least one) we came up with some good ideas on how to keep people updated safely. 

Kale celebrated his 3rd year of life last Saturday.  He is doing well.  He speaks in Romaglish.  For example the word for bye-bye in Romanian is pa-pa.  Kale will say "pa-bye".  The word for "you have" in Romanian is "ai".  Every time we go the car Kale will ask "ai key"? That poor boy has to be confused. Sheena checked out the preschools for Kale starting in the Fall.  I can't believe he is that old already.  Sheena said the preschools were nice and very full.  Kale will probably go to the all day school.  We will see.   

We celebrated Kale's birthday with the 112 group last Sunday. 

Now a story.  We (us and the Bucharest people) invited some friends to our house to have a Bible study.  Our friends are from a different town but the logistics worked so we did it.  There is one boy in particular that I wanted to come but he is wheelchair bound.  He was heart broken when he found out he could not go.   Honestly I threw a fit but some phone calls were made and I went back for my friend.  We could not fit his chair in the car so I carried him.  At the end of the Bible study we all prayed and he prayed thank you God for having Eli carry me in his arms.  I cried.  I love the ministry we get to do.

There is a girl that I met Andi from our town.  I started teaching her english and eventually we were translating verses and we even started praying together after our english lessons.  A while ago she asked us not to come see her anymore.  I am not for sure why but I think her friends told her not to talk to us anymore because we are not Orthodox. We honored her request.   A couple of weeks ago she showed up at my house and talked for more than an hour.  She said she wanted to come over once a week and hangout.  What an answer to prayer.

We attended our first Romanian wedding last week.  Spooky a translator for FGCI and his girlfriend Ana a girl who grew up in the FGCI Home of the Good Shepherd house in Moldova got married in Bucharest.  Blessings to them both!!

Now a funny story. In Romania there is the government wedding and then afterward the Christian wedding.  We attended the government wedding together but I had an appointment the same time the Christian wedding started.  Sheena and Kale went with some friends and I would take a van when I was done.  I took the van to the right town but after I got out of the van I took a wrong left turn and ended up about a mile away from the house.  I could see the house and a the large pasture that separated us. I felt a little like Forest Gump when I took off running in the thunder and rain.  About a quarter of the way through I met a couple of shepherds tending their sheep.  One of the shepherds said I can't cross the field because there is a wheat field up ahead.  I responded with I will go through the forest then.  With a strange and glaring look in her eye the other shepherd warned that the ticks will eat me.  The way she said it would make you think that a giant tick is roaming the forest and devours whole humans.  I received a phone call and took that chance to run away.  Turns out the the wheat field was small enough that I could jump over it and smaller than the stream that I couldn't (I lost my shoe in it). Anyway I got the the party just in time to see everyone leave.  Asta Este Romania.

We are doing quite well and enjoy the bing cherries from the tree in our yard.  Thank you for all the prayers and support.  Now I am going to scrub the carpet with my wife.