Well we are back at the castle now, some are a little disappointed but I am looking forward to resting for the weekend. It's hard coming from such a big city to a small village. But we head out for Switzerland early monday morning in a bus, thank goodness! It will take us around 10 hours to get there. But we get to drive through the german/czech countryside, it is going to be beautiful!
I have a few stories I want to share from this past week in Bautzen. First off, we did not have lecture because it was a mini outreach week, meaning we do more ministry stuff. This leaves more room to be open to what God is telling us to do, and we have more freedom to go out to the streets. Tuesday morning we were invited to attend a youth service that only happens twice a year. We arrived and realized there was no translator, luckily I was sitting next to Jona, he volunteered to translate! Thank goodness! However, something I have noticed in Europe is the lack of filter when it comes to profanity, the pastor cussed quite a few times. It is so normal here! They use those words like everyday language and it throws me off every time, mostly because you don’t expect christians to use that kind of talk, but it is so ordinary here. I was laughing so hard during the service. Afterwards we got to hang out with some of the youth, but it was so awkward! Barely anyone spoke english and the room was extremely loud, so any language spoke was covered up by noise. I did get to somewhat talk to three german youth, they were very sweet girls and they thought the service was boring which in a way is a good sign, they are searching for more than the average teenager in their walk with God. Wednesday we had an off day so a few girls decided it would be fun to go to the local community pool (indoor), oh man. If I had known the experience I would have, I wouldn’t have gone! It started off fine, there was this beautiful, shy girl named Goldie who heard about “the americans in town” and helped us get in. Then through hand motions and facial expressions from other germans we found our way to the dressing rooms, lockers and eventually the pool! We swam around for a while, managed to find our way to the shower room and BAM, I’m scarred for life. I forgot how open people in Europe are. There are no such things as private showers! So I manage to take as little time as I could and at the end I notice a towel hanging by my shower so thinking it was there as a hand towel I start wiping off my bottles and am suddenly approached by a angry bare old lady who says “mine,” grabs her towel and walks back. I was so petrified!! But thinking back I laugh pretty hard about it haha good times in Germany! Thursday I got to spend the day working with kids at a day care center and that night we got invited to an open mic night at a youth hostel. It was a very heavy place, as soon as I walked in the graffiti, dark cellar walls and the stench of corn nuts overwhelmed me. We followed the music and discovered it was “devil music” as some call it, an I just couldn’t handle it. My heart was pounding and my spirit wasn’t right. I don’t think it was just the music, it was the overall atmosphere. So Dianna and I stepped outside and prepared ourself for the night. We got to see a few different bands show off their music, and then our guys got up and rocked the house with Jesus music! It turned out that they got to pray for numerous young people and one guy gave his life to Christ! Go God! We were so pumped up afterwards that it was hard to sleep. I think it is amazing how God sets up appointments like that! Early friday morning we took off for the castle and we came right in time for a base picture, there were at least 180 people in that picture, and the three red heads stood together! Front right just in case you were wondering :P
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