Friday, December 17, 2010

Home

My dad came to pick me up in the morning and I thought my mom was coming as well but she wasn't with him so I asked my dad if she had to work but he said she had some medical problems and she's in a hospital. And then I asked what's wrong with her and he said she had a pretty big heart attack on tuesday morning.
They didn't want to tell me before because they didn't want me to worry. They thought I couldn't do anything but that's not true. I could pray. Thanks to God my mom is better, out of the hospital today with no consequences. She will need to change her lifestyle though. She hasn't been smoking for the past 5 days and hospital signed her up for some kind of a exercise training.
I'm still shocked, I can't believe she almost died. It was so close.. my dad drove her to the emergency room at 3am and she was barely with him. They went through all the red lights and my mom was so weak.. it was terrible hearing what all happened and.. I'm so scared. I don't want my mom to die!

Please, please, please... pray.
I know God is with her, I know He'll use all of this for good and I can't tell you how thankful I am that things are changing, concerning the smoking.. but please pray for soft hearts right now, please pray my mom, dad and sister will all realize they need Jesus. Please, pray for my mom's strenght and her body and especially her heart.
Please.. pray.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

The last day

It's the last day in Vajta, I'm leaving tomorrow at 11-ish. I'm so excited to go home but saying goodbye to people made me feel so sad to leave this place. It's only for 6 weeks but this castle became my home and people here became a part of my big family in Christ. Most of them are returning next semester but some aren't.
It's hard.
The ones that are still here are together in the Coffee shop, spending time together, watching movies, listening to music.. and I think we'll go and play in the snow, we have a lot!! :)

I'm so thankful I got the opportunity to study the Bible every day and got to be a part of this College. Sweet times.
+ I'm thankful I'm coming back next semester :)

And I'll see you guys in just a day or two... ;)

Sunday, December 12, 2010

The last month.

Finland outreach.
It was great and at the same time a bit discouraging but it's not anymore. What I mean by that is that everything went smoothly, there was no real opposition, there was unity in the team, our friendships got better, we enjoyed Finland and snow.. but the discouraging part was that I thought we would do more. We were a part of everything that church there usually does + we did some street evangelism but I felt like I'm on vacation.
I talked to a bunch of people about it and I learned that God sent us to Finland for different reasons than I imagined.
I know why He sent me there. I was able to experience how to lead an outreach, how to be in charge of certain things, He helped me to prepare for sharing morning devotions on the book of Ephesians, it was perfect for an outreach and He really spoke through me. It was amazing. It was one of the steps in faith that I had to do, even going on a plane and spending some hard time up in the air with turbulence and snowy weather. But I knew He was with me. The team was great, guys went to home sauna while us 2 girls didn't want to go (we don't know each other that well yet :) and we had a lot of time playing games, fellowshipping and just having fun.
The flight back was so scary. It was snowing in Finland and raining heavily in Budapest and the whole flight was shaky. I was praying for the whole 2 hours and a half, but knew God is in control.
I did learn a lot on that outreach.

Finals.
I had Acts, IBS and G. of Mark Finals and they were.. well, a bit easier than Midterms. I had to do the same thing for Acts Final as I had to do for Acts Midterm. I chose to write about prayer because I learned how important it is on our 10-day outreach.
For our IBS Final we had to do a study on the book of Philemon. First of all, I didn't even know there's a book of Philemon in the Bible. It's really short. :)
We had to do 5 steps;
The 1. one was to do a background study on it and we could use internet to find info.
The 2. step was to read the book in 3 different versions (NIV, ESV, NKJV) and write down 100 observations altogether and to breakdown the whole book.
The 3. step was to answer some questions that teacher gave us.
The 4. step was to come up with a theme title for the book and 3-5 points that backed up that theme title.
The 5. step was to write a 4-5 page message – sermon.
It wasn't that easy, I struggled with it for a while but I finished it on time.
Mark Final was.. interesting.
The 1. step was that we had to read the whole gospel of Mark and write down 50 principles of leadership (of Jesus or His disciples) and we needed to write down why do we think that's a principle of leadership.
The 2. step was to pick 10 weaknesses of ours from that list of 50 principles of leadership and write down why do we think that's our weakness, what the Bible says about it and what is God teaching us about it.
The 3. step was to pick 10 strenghts of ours from that list of 50 principles of leadership and write down why do we think that's our strenght and what is God teaching us on how to use it.
The 4. step was to pick 10 positive characteristics of others here at CCBCE from that list of 50 principles of leadership and write down who they are and how they demonstrate it.
It was a 40 pages long Final and it took me forever but it was great to think about our own characters and just see what God thinks about it.

Sickness.
I finished my Finals on Saturday morning and then went to babysit 2 precious girls but I didn't really feel ok. I woke up with a huge headache but went to babysit anyway. During the day my sickness got worse and I ended up throwing up and having fever. That was Saturday evening. I slept during the whole Sunday and didn't drink a lot, threw up a lot.. so I got dehidrated. I went to the doctors on Monday evening and … it was horrible. I was so dehidrated that the minute I got to the doctors I fell into a shock, my whole body was in a biiig cramp, I couldn't talk and my throat started closing up. They examined me right away, gave me water with calcium and a shot. It was the scariest thing I've ever went through and I literally thought I was going to die. BUT I also learned a lesson of trust. God didn't leave me, He was the one that told me and our nurse here at the same time that it's time to go to the doctors. It was so amazing.
I didn't sleep all night from Monday to Tuesday; I was waking up every 7min, drinking a few sips of water because I was still throwing up big time. I wasn't doing better on Tuesdy evening and I talked to my mom and dad and my dad was REALLY worried and said he can come and get me the next morning. I was almost ready to go home but I prayed to God and told Him that I'm scared of not getting better and that I'll stay if He shows me I'm doing better. In less than 30min I was eating, drinking, sitting up and laughing. It was amazing how He answered my prayer so quickly and told me to stay here and not go home because He's going to take care of me. And He did, He is so AWESOME! :)
I'm doing better right now and am trying to do homework that I didn't do during the week. Thank you all so much for your prayers, they helped!!

The last week.
We're in our last week of school right now. As I said, I'm finnishing my homework during the weekend so I can be free during the week.
On Monday we have Dove Awards which is a Christmas party with a game and a lot of fun. Check out the pictures on facebook :)
On Tuesday we have Graduation dinner and it's gonna be all fency and pretty. Check out the pics :)
On Wednesday we have cleaning day when ALL of us will clean up the whole castle. It's gonna be a lot of work but also a lot of fun :)
People start leaving on Thursday and I'm leaving on Friday! :)
Esther, my Korean roommate is coming with me and it's gonna be a lot of fun having her with me. I'm so excited :)
But mostly I'm really excited to go back home, to a known place, with known people who I love. It's been a wonderful semester and I'm thankful I'm coming back next semester but it's also so nice to go home and enjoy some family and friends time.