Time is flying by!

It has been a while since I have posted and the time here is just flying by! Last weekend was the YAGM Discernment-Interview-Placement event in Chicago that I attended just one year ago and found out I was coming to Slovakia. It is hard to believe that now there are new volunteers for next year!

Things have been going well here in Veľký Slavkov and it has been really nice to have some Spring weather. Two weekends ago Kristen, Ashley and I travelled to Košice to visit Mary. We spent some time in Košice, which is the second to largest city in Slovakia and some time at Mary's placement in Sečovce. We had a really nice time together and shared a lot of excitement over little things, like making and eating pizza (a lot of the pizza here is unusual...). We also got to go to an English church service in Košice and loved being able to so easily understand everything! It was so wonderful to hold a bulletin and an English hymnal and have the familiarity during the service.

The work here has been going about the same. The English classes and Bible studies with the guys vary each week, but are enjoyable. One of my favorite Bible study moments was when one of the guys said that he used his Spiritual gifts by lighting an old woman's cigarette, because she was having trouble doing so while holding her cane. I wasn't really sure what to say to this... yes it is nice of him to be helpful, but lighting a cigarette? Needless to say there is always something interesting happening here, and each day is quite unpredictable. This past Monday we had a nice time during our Bible study, because we went outside and made a fire. We sat around the fire and cooked sausages, which brought many more guys than normal! It was a lot of fun though, and nice to have some more time to just talk with them. The past few days Kristen and I also had a visit from Linda, one of the volunteers in Slovakia from Germany. We had a nice time together, and had a free day yesterday so we went to Poprad and Levoča. Everytime the other volunteers and I get together I am reminded how thankful I am for them, and how wonderful our group is. I am excited for us all to get together the first week in June for our seminar, but it will be sad that it will be our last one! I can hardly believe that in just three months I will be going home. The next three months should be busy and I am trying to take in and enjoy every day here because it is going by so fast.