Viaţă în România --------- Life in Romania

some happy, sad, funny, frustrating, incredible, discouraging, wow, joyful and "what the heck is going on?" moments from the lives of kelsey (mama) and caleb (son) serving Jesus in romania. TOATE SUNT POSSIBLE CU ISUS! (all things are possible with Jesus!)

Monday, September 22, 2008

Waiting for a translator...

Can be really frustrating at times. (Why the heck is my neighbor using a drill through cement at 10:18pm???)
Back on topic now. Sorry. Tonight we had majority Swedish at our team's worship and Bible Study. My boss, Lars, spoke SO MUCH tonight about all the cool ways God had shown Himself to him over the past 10 days. I have to be honest, Lars doesn't really open up that often. He almost couldn't be stopped tonight he had so much to share. This is an answer to prayer, really it is.
Anyway he kept saying things and all of the Swedish people (about 20 of them) would ooo and ahh and ohhh about what he was saying. There were 4 of us there who weren't born in Sweden. 1 of them is married to a Swede so she understands. That left 3 of us to have to wait for the translator to figure out how to translate, and for us to also (HELLO PUT THE DRILL AWAY NEIGHBOR MAN) hear him through the ooo's, ahhh's and ohhhh's.
I think I need to learn Swedish. You wouldn't think so seeing as how I live in Romania. When 90% of your team is Swedish and 90% of all visitors are Swedes wellll...you start rethinking why you ever learned Romanian first!
I should share one huge thing that Lars spoke about tonight.
TODAY he met with the HEAD OF CHILD PROTECTION in a private meeting.
She invited him to this meeting - can you believe it? Child Protection in this county is known to be the worst of the counties in Romania. Most people kind of say things like this "Oh in Bihor county they are really messed up there with Child Protection." This county is known, at least when it comes to abandoned children, to make it SO SO difficult to do anything on behalf of the kids. Well Lars says that he has this meeting today and that he didn't know how it would go. He said that the Foundation's relationship with Child Protection has been very rough for about 6 months now (I had no clue.) He had never met the head head honcho lady before and she actually invited him to a meeting with her. He said that it was AWESOME and that he considers her a "friend to the Foundation" now. OH MY GOODNESS.
Maybe it's selfish but I am praying that God uses this relationship to open up a door for Caleb and me. Is that wrong to admit that? I mean it's not all I hope for with this incredible miracle from today...it's just that I almost started crying hearing Lars speak tonight knowing that it could maybe make a breakthrough from the dead end I'm at right now.