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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>Mission Moldova 2010 Feed</title><link>http://moldova.stranton-church.org.uk/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;We are a team of 13 people, most of whom are teenagers, going to rural Moldova for two weeks in August on a mission trip.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We have a gallery of our photos&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youthphotos.stranton-church.org.uk&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - please do have a look!&lt;/p&gt;</description><item><title>Video</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=27</link><description><![CDATA[ Here it is! A video that explains some - but certainly not all - of our experiences in Moldova!     
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:09:37 +0100</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>New pictures are up</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=26</link><description><![CDATA[ Finally :)   Click here      
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:54:28 +0100</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>almost home</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=25</link><description><![CDATA[ here we are - after 29 hours of traveling - nearly home! We've just left the airport in our taxi. See you all soon.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:20:08 +0100</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>Boiling in Bucharest</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=24</link><description><![CDATA[  Hello everyone! 
 Yes, Jeni was right, the train WAS hot and sweaty. We're not sure if it wasn't quite as bad, or if we're double-'ard and can take it now! 
 But, after a slightly restless night, at 5:45 we arrived in Bucharest. 
 A McDonalds breakfast was followed by a trip to the 'left luggage' office where we dropped off our bags for the bargin of 7 lei each. We then tried to walk into the city centre - but without a map or, really, any idea what Bucharest city centre looked like (how were we to know if we had found it. Maybe we'd walked straight through it?) After 40 minutes walking, we found a nice park - paused, bought a map, continued on, found another park with a cafe, drank, and then the group split - not, of course, a nasty kind of split, with cliques and gossips and such like, but an amicable parting of ways. Most of the group wanted to sleep rough on park benches for a couple of hours, so those with itchy feet seperated off and delved further into Bucharest (following the advice of the man in the cafe who brought us our drinks).  
 Here we found possible the nicest, if girliest, shop ever - with necklaces and funky wooden handmade toys. We also found a subway (as in, underground path rather than sandwhich shop) that had interactive projectors displaying games like football on the floor! 
 We had a couple of scares and concerns and stresses as we went into the Airport (usual pasport and ticket related stuff, I'm sure you'll hear about it at home) - but we are now all safely through checkin and security. 
 The almost-last leg of our eventful and fun trip! 
 See you all at home very soon! 
 Peter!!!! 
 (ps - Angus and David's poo update: Angus went to the seedy toilet in the train station, where you pay 2 leu for the priviledge of sitting on a toilet with wee at your feet with holes in his shoes. Upon entering he was present with four (4!) squares of toilet role. Lets not get into details, but safe to say he used the last one twice. 
 As for David, he went for a poo on the sleeper train (Why, David, why?). The train was without toilet paper so he used sheets from his nbotebook. However David, being a holy man, had a notebook with bible verses - and not wanting to use the word of the lord for such a task, he dutifully ripped of each bible verse from the pages of his book before use. 
 Both young men are a credit to their parents. I'm sure you're all very proud). 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:30:35 +0100</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>Travel Update!</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=23</link><description><![CDATA[  Hello parents and blog followers... 
   
 The team are on the overnight train safe and sound. Apparently it is once again very hot on there!  
   
 I'll keep you updated with any further travel info I receive. 
   
 Jeni 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:52:56 +0100</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>Goodbye my Moldova, Goodbye my friend.</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=22</link><description><![CDATA[  Eve, Mark and Angus is here doing the last ever blog from Moldova (it’s very upsetting time in our lives)  
 To start off the blog today.....RACHEL HAD A POOOO!! First one in 15 days she was that excited that she ran out of the toilet and shouted this but not noticing we were filming Sharon so we have now got this comment forever!!!  
 We started the day off with a sleep in for breakfast for 9:30am however for the girls this wasn’t going to happen we woke up at 8:00am and decided lets pack and get things sorted and cleaned before 11am very proud of ourselves =D. The boys also got up at 7:30am (they just wanted to top us girls) we all left presents at our host families and the boys left money for Juliean’s church so that they can keep going.  
 Everyone left clothes for Sharon so she can give these clothes to the children and we left shoes, shampoo etc our suitcases are now very light and marks suitcase is extremely lighter from his 19.9kg luggage he started with.  
 We had our last ever bible study in the valley near the lake this afternoon which was lead by Peter , we found a shade bit under a big tree that Angus climbed up. The bible study consisted of peter saying about relationships etc which was really interesting. It was a beautiful last bible study. 
 Now we are waiting for 6pm to arrive so that we can get on slavic’s bus to go to faleshty for the train one hour left.  
 This is the times and details we are going by 
 The flight information/travel information for the journey home is as follows: 
 Overnight train on Tuesday night from Moldova to Romania 
 16.50 flight from Bucharest to Munich on Wednesday tea-time, (Flight No: LH3423) 
 21.30 flight from Munich to Manchester on Wednesday night, (Flight No: LH4868) 
 Arrive back on the minibus in Hartlepool some time in the early hours of Thursday morning – 1-2am. 
 We will ring when we are near Hartlepool so that everyone can get there to see us arrive and be all happy to see us.=D 
   
   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:05:30 +0100</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>ISUS te iubeste!</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=21</link><description><![CDATA[  Charlotte and Hannah here J 

 Today’s been mint! Finally, we got to meet the children of
Risipeni and give them the fun and games which we’ve all been waiting for. 

 To kick start the day, we went to the school’s playground
(consisting of little more than an overgrown field and a metal climbing field)
at 9.00am to prepare for the children coming at 10.00am. Despite this, many
kids were waiting eagerly for us an hour early – the turnout was brill! 

 We paired off to make sure there was plenty for people to
do. Hannah and Tom were controlling the parachutes which proved to be very
popular with the smaller children. It started fun, soon to be crushed by a
little baby who found the concept of rolling on TOP of the parachute a lot more
fun than running underneath. At least he enjoyed himself. Hannah and Tom
rejoiced in spending all morning lifting him off! 

 Charlotte and Eve were joined by Diana who proved to be a
bit of a whizz when it comes to face painting and there were little girls running
around as butterflies and disco divas whilst the boys roared around as tigers
and pirates. 

 Rachel and Angus controlled the ball games which were a hit
with the older boys and Mark and Suzie were kept thoroughly busy ALL morning
blowing balloons in all shapes and sizes. You name it, they had it... flowers,
hats, belts, swords, dogs and the list goes on. There was one boy running
around completely invincible- you could not see a single inch of his body due
to his armour of balloons! 

 David spent his morning being pelted by Velcro balls, he
found it hard to understand how the kids did not tire of it! Meanwhile Mary
befriended the sweetest little girl who was mesmerised by blowing bubbles and
Anne worked her magic with the hair braiding before joining Tom and Hannah
pulling out kids from the parachute.  

 After lunch, we prepared around a hundred party bags and
perfected our bible stories to perform. One by one Angus wiped out the team as
the muscular Goliath that he is, but the day was rescued when David, the Good
Samaritan, stepped in! 

 The party games were a huge success, musical bumps around
Julian’s guitar got lots of laughs and we have put in to practice today some of
what we have learnt. Making do with what we have here in Moldova rather than
popping to Tesco to grab what we want has taught us all a lesson that perhaps
being more appreciative of what we have rather than what we don’t is more
worthwhile... and cheaper! Rachel’s apple bobbing game was looking not very
hopeful when we found all the trees here had been plucked of apples. No fear
though! We turned to the walnut trees. It was a very ‘tasty’ game as walnut
shells taste erm, bareable? Nonetheless, the kids here didn’t mind and were
more than happy just to have some attention. 

 What did strike the entire team here was the sheer delight of
the children’s faces when we handed out a slice of cake and a cup of pop. This
then was multiplied when we dished out the party bags. Filled with a pack of
biscuits, a tube of sweets and some colouring goodies, everyone was desperate to
have one! We did notice a couple of children (the older ones) who we named the ‘mullet
crew’. Those with mullets, we noticed, were shall we say more boisterous and
evidently the ‘cool kids’? Tom’s going to revive the mullet in Hartlepool.
Saying this though, Hannah, Suzie and Mark were ready for a fight when the
leader of the gang sussed that by packing his goody bag into one he could go
back for more and more trying to trick us that he hadn’t got one. FURIOUS at
his cheek whilst some kids went without, our hearts were nearly broken when a
little boy was left in tears due to a lack of party bags and being left with
nothing. Despite this, we then went on to realise the vibe of ‘survival of the
fittest’ and how desperate even the leader of the cool crew was for a child’s
party bag here in the village. Look at this, we’re made to feel shan over a
hoarding cool kid! Eeesh, Moldova air is getting to us all. Let me reassure
you, the little boy left in tears had the last laugh as we unloaded the
suitcase for him at the end. Again quoting the bible, ‘those who are first will
be last and those who are last will be first’ ;). 

 Between kid’s things today, Mark joined Sharon to deliver
some charity shoe boxes bringing back some tearful stories. One of which
included a little girl left outside of a house with no clothes on whilst her
father was sleeping inside in a drunken state. Apparently he was ashamed of his
state but it’s stories like this that we don’t appreciate until seeing them
first hand. Risipeni shall stay in our prayers. 

 On a lighter note (ish) Suzie set her own record! *Drum
roll* it was her first time of....... Being STUNG BY A WASP :O Taking it like a
man, she made little fuss. It was only an hour later when we found her sobbing
in the girl’s house. Joking, she is made of steel. 

 It’s our last night here in Moldova and so PARTAY time on
Sharon’s patio! :D the later we stay up tonight, the easier we shall sleep on
the hot, sweaty and now smelly sleeper train, so LET THE FUN BEGIN! Missed you
all lots but will see you very soon! (Just to clarify, it’ll be the early hours
of Thursday morning when you can drag yourselves out of bed for us). 

 TEAM MOLDOVA OUT! x 

   

   

   

   

   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:29:38 +0100</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>I&#039;m going to stay clean today. LOL, jk we&#039;re in Moldova.</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=20</link><description><![CDATA[  Buna Zewa! Tom and Hannah here :) 
 Today's update stems from Ungheni, where we set off to a pentecostal church for some hardcore worship. Going to a church which preaches in literally NO english proves to be so inspiring when it comes to singing a worship song which we recognise from England. Charlotte in particular commented on how touched she felt by the service, it was great to see such energy in their prayers and there was a good range of young and old attending. Saying this, the first hour was truly mint but the second hour of non-english preaching began to get a little confusing. By the third hour, well - we now know how to speak both Moldovan, and Russian. NOT. We lost track, completely. 
 Once again, we wowed the congregation with our AMAZING voices, in Amazing Grace. However having to follow such an upbeat Moldovan Worship band with Team Moldova's acapella remdition, the congregation listened intentively. You could have heard a pin drop. 
 After a long and inspiring service, we wholeheartedly crossed over the road to find a lovely pizza shop :D 
 Despite a long wait for our pizzas to come, we delighted in watching Mark wait for all of us to finish before he was served, following him stealing a slice of our Margherita when he ordered MOZARELLA:O so we don't believe in karma, however I'm sure the bible quotes 'those who are last will be first, but those who are first will be last'. 
 As far as the pooh updates go, Angus has had an unpleasant experience yet again. It was a messy one. Diane, please could you send some baby wipes as he is running low! David has become quite accustomed to the toilets here in Risipeni, so much so that he waited around 8 hours to visit the toilet here rather than using an 'actual real proper flushing toilet'. The rest of the team however felt differently and most of the girls made the most of pooh time! 
 In our Sunday bests we began the day feeling relatively fresh now the gardening work has come to an end. However this didn't last for long despite spending all morning in chirch and all afternoon eating pizza as the hot weather is back! 
 It was nice spending the day with Phil and Diana. Diana was a true star and managed to translate our testiomonies in church - it was strange being able to communicate with the congregation! We would like to thank the loved up newly weds for tearing their attention away from each other long enough to spend the day with us. :) 
 Phil went crazy dancing with Angus and Rachel nearly got castrated - we don't have a clue what this means either... 
 Suzie managed to find some Mountain Dew, a drink sought after back in England. The flourescent bottle looked somewhat radioactive and we are all excited for watching her glow under moonlight this evening. However she was not overly impressed as it tastes like overpriced, sweet, flat lemonade. Ah, so that's why it's hard to find in England. 
 Thinking of all those at Harvest (or not at Harvest anymore), we know Debbie's visited today (or yesterday) - these blogs are a little confusing. Either way, we know they will have had an amazing week and hope that they are as smelly as we are! 
 Going to wrap this up now because we are off to prepare for tomorrow. The party bags have been packed for the children and we are going to put together a couple of dramas based on bible stories, but more of that tomorrow! I'm sure our last full day in Risipeni will go off with a bang :D but hopefully not literally! 
 Love to you all x 
   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:52:17 +0100</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>Insert witty title here.</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=19</link><description><![CDATA[  Holla! Anne and Suzie here! Mixing up the Kitchen-Robinson duos! J 
 We shall fill you in with the exciting times of last night, after Tom was ditched to finish the blog by himself! 
 Diana, who we met on our last trip, now lives in the capital city with her new husband (Phil, from England, who Mark knows from his other crusoe trip to Moldova) arrived in the village to help us with our funday Monday (distraction for the children) and visit Diana’s Grandma –Mama! As soon as those who met Diana three years ago knew she was back, there was a lot of screams and hugs as we ran through the house to meet her again :D. She took us back to Mama’s house, and gave us the grand tour of the newly refurbished house! It was so great to see that Mama (who is a similar age to many of our grandparents) has a flushing toilet and running water, even with a boiler :o she also has an indoor kitchen now, making her home completely different to how it was three years ago, when we thought she had the best toilet in the village, simply because it was painted white! With Diana as a translator this time, it was much easier to talk to Mama- who’s English is as good as our Romanian :p and we were lucky enough to be invited back for dinner today, which is where we have just came back from. We had a fabulous time, sitting in the garden to eat, with the cat wondering under the table making everyone jump every now and then.  
 Rachel still hasn’t had a poo (12 days now), even after trying on Sharons proper toilet. Tonight her plan is to take 2 more Senna, and hope for the best, because if that doesn’t work she may have to take some other medicine, which let’s just say, isnt taken orally. 
 The team has reached a clean peak, with everyone now having washed their hair! David being the exception as he has already washed it 4 times with shampoo and conditioner (I have no idea how he managed it either). Rachel had the luxury of having an actual proper shower at Sharon’s, and the rest of the team were reminded of what clean actually smells like.  
 This morning 5 people went with Sharon to Philesh to purchase some chickens to fill our nice new chicken coop and run. The rest of the team stayed to hand out flyers for our funday to children in the village. The handing out of flyers was pretty productive as by lunchtime we had handed out none, but had had an ice-cream. We know our priorities. The reason for this was because permission hadn’t been granted for us to use the school or the Casa del Cultura for our funday, so we had a wander round to scope out the grounds and try to find the mayor to plead with for permission. Unfortunately we didn’t find the mayor but after we had finished dinner, apparently contact had been made because we were able to actually go and hand out flyers. Before which we had to welcome the new chickens! The coop looks absolutely awesome now it is filled with feathered birds, and the rabbits have also moved in there. It’s like a mini zoo. Anne also touched a chicken, and there is photographic evidence to prove it. So many phobias are being overcome on this trip! Hannah was even seen to utter the words “oh, well that’s ok” without a hint of sarcasm after being told that it was a wasp crawling up her leg a couple of days ago. Anyone who has ever seen Hannah within a 100m radius of a wasp will know how much of a big deal this is. David let Sharon’s dog (Lady) sleep on him for about an hour the other day, without so much as a tear, and Suzie has been sharing the toilet with a spider the size of her fist. It’s so big that on the first day, she managed to elbow it in the face. 
 After dinner, the team split into two to hand out flyers, half going left and half going right down the main road. The team on the left had very little luck and only got rid of around 3 flyers, whereas the team on the right must have just been more welcoming and friendly and inviting to the children as we managed to lose almost all of our flyers to the village children. This was mostly due to Hannah walking into people’s gardens and giving them to random children and saying ‘thank you!’ in Romanian. If we did this in Hartlepool I don’t think the outcome would be so positive. That’s something that is pretty different about this village, everyone knows everyone and everyone says hello to everyone whenever they pass them. It’s such a friendly place that you literally can’t walk down the street for two minutes without sharing a greeting. Maybe it’s just because were English, and people are actually secretly laughing at our mispronunciation of their language. Several times our shout of ‘Buna Ziewa!’ has prompted the Moldovan on the receiving end of the greeting to launch into a reel of Romanian, expecting an answer, to only have blank stares and ‘da..?’ in response. It sometimes gets quite awkward. Anyway, hopefully lots of children will turn up on Monday, and if they don’t, then hey, we can always have a nap. 
 Happy news comes today in the form of David’s multiple engagements. He has made a back-up list of people to marry if he isn’t married by the time he is 27. Starting with Mary and finishing with Natalia, the list includes the whole team, and I’m sure there are going to be a lot of people trying to hook David up with somebody very quickly...  
 It’s now 10’o clock and we are tired so I’m going to wrap this up. Tomorrow we are going to Ungen to a church, and will fill you in on the happenings at some point. Probably.  
 Napta Buna! 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:11:30 +0100</pubDate><category>News</category></item><item><title>Isus is amazing!</title><link>http://iloapp.stranton-church.org.uk/blog/moldova?Home&amp;post=18</link><description><![CDATA[    
 Mary, Tom and Eve here because we are sooooo AWESOME!! (but not as awesome as Jesus of course)Today we’re going to write a super spiritual blog for you, because let’s be honest it’s been kind of lacking in some of these updates...  
 Mark did the Jesus slot today and it was all about John 10:10. He said this is one of his favourite verses and one that he always turns back to read when he feels like he’s struggling as for him this verse is all about living your life to the full and not wasting one moment of it, working hard to make sure that you can have life in its fullness. We also spoke about the fact that even if you have all the money you want, the best career, an awesome family and everything you think that you need, unless you have Jesus, you life will never be full. Having a relationship with Jesus is the only way to have life in all its fullness. Because, Isus is amazing! 
 We had a later start of the day today, 9am a whole two hours later! (sleep in! Bonus!) Today was our last day working so it was all about finishing off and cleaning up! Weeding the front of the house, finishing our mint fire pit (now complete with rubbish), making a run for the chicken house, fixing some wire underneath our fence, painting a final few boxes to match the fence, clearing MORE rubble, moving the same rocks back to their original place after moving them to a different spot each day, adding an edge to our path, picking apples for our LUSH dinner and playing with Roberta and Jessica (sisters of the Moldovan Boys). When we first started working it was MEGA HOT (we might have mentioned this) we have since learnt that we were picking potatoes in 50 degree heat. 50 DEGREES! But since our proper work in the grounds started the weather has been much cooler, arguably even cold at some points (shock horror). This has meant that we can get so much more work done, we haven’t needed to stop working in the middle of the day and have had loads more energy and I’m totally confident in saying that there is absolutely no way we could have achieved this amount of work without the cooler weather. You might say that the weather isn’t a big deal, that it’s just how it works over here, that we should be ready to work in the heat. But for us there’s no doubt, we really were given the best weather for our work. Isus is amazing! 
 During breakfast Sharon told us about Dan’s family (he is one of the much blogged about ‘Moldovan Boys’ and his mother works in the centre) Dan’s father and brother have been working in Moscow to earn money for their family. They have decorated a big house, doing very similar work to the work we have been doing this week, but on a bigger scale. They finished the job and were owed around 800 Euros for their services but when they lined up with the six other men who had been working with them to receive their money, the owner of the house stayed inside and pointed a gun out of the window and told them to get off his property and they didn’t get paid. Dan and his mother found out this morning and were very upset and she told Sharon what has happened. This money was very important to his mother as there are four children in the family to support and it is soon time for them to go back to college and school which as you’ll know is expensive. Also, like most of the men in the village their father will spend a lot of the money they earn in the bar and so any money left for the family has to go a long way. This is not the first family this has happened to and it certainly won’t be the last; this is the harsh reality for the people of Moldova. 
  Here’s the amazing part. Due to a lot of the materials here being cheaper than expected and obviously more to our awesome fundraising efforts back home we brought more money than we needed and had almost a week ago now decided to leave it with Sharon to continue the work in the centre. But due to our forgetfulness (honest!) no one had actually handed over any of the money. Less than an hour after Sharon found out about Dan’s family problem, Tom brought down some of our extra money to give to her. Sharon told us this story and we all agreed that we should give some of the money to Dan’s family. We think it’s amazing that at the moment when someone is in real need of some money Sharon was provided with it. Isus is amazing! 
 One of the things that really surprised me when I arrived here in Moldova was how well off the people here appeared to be. The houses we are staying in are beautiful, the families here seem to, on the most part, have plenty food, decent clothes and nice possessions. The people are really happy and on the surface everything seems to be going well. It’s so easy think that everything is awesome for them. But you still can’t hide the fact that the people here are poor. They have the possessions which have been passed down to them, the houses which were built during the communist period and the food which they work hard all year to produce. People here don’t have any money; they live off the land and manage with what they have. Yet still they have so much love and seem so much happier than we do. They have such a strong faith and it’s really inspiring to see that despite all the problems the country faces, some of them seem to be able to see that Jesus is the only solution! 
 Another thing that we have noticed the last few days is that since we talked about fear and about God’s protection one morning a lot of the group seem to getting over some of their pretty major fears! Today Rachel nearly touched a caterpillar and didn’t even freak out! (Believe me this is a big thing. You didn’t see her at the beginning of the week.) A lot of us got a huge shock yesterday to walk round the corner of the house to see David sat with Lady (Sharon’s dog) on his knee. Not only this but he was sat stroking him and smiling, anyone would think David was enjoying himself! Now I’m told that David is far from being a lover of dogs, and it’s awesome to see that he managed to get over this fear. But yet more shocking still is that the following sentence actually came out of Hannah’s mouth one mealtime, “OH NOOO WHATS THAT ON MY LEG! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF! Oh. It’s only a wasp? That’s good I thought it was something scary.” For those of you who haven’t seen Hannah at Harvest the usual protocol for a wasp approach is ditching any food items and screaming and running in the opposite direction (even if it does result in tripping over tent pegs) until you reach a safe distance of around ten feet. If you had told any of these people that these things would happen when they came here none would have believed you. I mean I saw it and I can barely believe it! But people this week have really started to realise that they can really put their trust in God, that they don’t have to worry all the time about small things like wasps and dogs, and that this trust is actually really liberating. We have started to realise that just knowing we can trust God is not enough, that simply knowing we don’t need to worry or that we are being looked after is not enough. We need to start to really believe it and live it! And I think that these fears being conquered are just a small way of starting to show that Isus is amazing! 
 And to top it all off, we were printing out our flyers for the children’s party on Monday just before writing this and the printer ran out of paper with seven sheets left to print. Sharon came to get us some but there wasn’t any paper where she expected, she found some old, already printed pieces of paper for us to print on the other side of but just as we went to put them into the printer realised that there were a few pieces on the bottom of the pile that were still clean. Yep, you guessed it. Seven pieces. Isus really is amazing! 
 These are just a few of the examples of the times when we have really seen Jesus at work here in Moldova and I’m sure that there are loads more. But this blog is getting pretty long now and there’s only Tom left here as Mary and Eve have left to see some old friends from their last trip. My fingers are starting complain at this silly amount of typing after being without Facebook for over a week now they’re totally not used to it. And actually now I come to think about it I actually don’t know where everyone else is! So that’s all for now guys! Thanks for reading!  
 Isus iubeste!  
 Xxx 
   
   
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