Wednesday, November 23, 2011

First few days in Switzerland!

We are here finally! Switzerland so far is not that different from Germany. We are staying in a smaller town on the outskirts of Zurich called Winterthur so I haven't really "seen" it yet. On saturday we are going to the city center so that will change my mindset for sure. We are staying in this huge church, four girls to a room, all with beds. Hallelujah! We can also shower everyday! It doesn't get any better than this. There is also the church chef cooking our meals so our cook can have a month's break, not to mention the team we are partnering with has taken care of our outreaches/schedule, so our leaders have a little break as well. Thank goodness, they need it after all the hard work they have been doing for us. Our lectures this week are being done by a guy named Bart ( I don't know his last name, although he is from Holland) and the topic is the Holy Spirit. Now for me, a girl who's grown up baptist her whole life, this is strange. There are new concepts and it's a perspective of christianity I haven't discovered a whole lot of. I know the basics, but I don't realize its the Holy Spirit and not my mind telling me/showing me stuff. Now I know, pheww! But I am learning a lot and praying a lot because some of the teachings go against my past and I have to make sure it is right before I believe just anything. God is really stretching me! I have been pretty frustrated but it is a good frustration. The outreaches have been interesting. We split into groups of four and were assigned a strip of houses/apartments to put letters in the mailboxes talking about a "Jesus film" that we will distribute the next day if they want it. It was very interesting. But who knows the impact we are making! Today we went back to the houses and knocked on the doors to see if they wanted the film. Some people slammed the door in our face, some said no right away, some didn't answer the door and seven people took them! Out of the 50 we asked, seven took them. Thank the Lord! Tomorrow we will do the other 50, my group was overcommitted. The other groups only handed out 30 envelopes. We did 100 haha way to go!

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