July 2023 - F4 Missions

Friends, Kittens and Exodus

1 Comment / Winston Hawkins / July 26, 2023

June 2023 (Etie had some catching up to do!)

I’ve finished my school. It was sad leaving everybody. Did I tell you that we are going back to Cluj, Romania? It is kind of sad because we can’t go back to the USA😞 until we leave Cluj. I have been learning some Norwegian. I will show you some Norwegian; øæ¤ and how to say tea and coffee thanks: te og caffe takk. I’m so excited to go back to the USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bye for now!

July 2023

Hello guys and welcome back! In Romania there are a lot of interesting things; we have to take the bus everywhere because we don’t have a car, (update: we actually just got a car yesterday!) For a while we didn’t have a car and we took the bus everywhere which is actually really cool. I like having a car because we don’t have to walk to the bus stops and stuff like that. Also, did I tell you that I am playing futbol (soccer)? Here it is called futbol, I think that makes way more sense honestly. My coach speaks English which is really nice, so he just mostly translates everything into English for me. We have a four story house counting the attic and the basement which is pretty cool, me and my sister have made the attic into this secret hideout which is fun. They use the basement for storing supplies to be shipped to Ukraine, so we don’t go down there. My sister and I are sharing a room which she is irritated with lol😂. I have also met a lot more friends than I thought at first. I have made a friend from North Ireland that is here in Romania and I also have a friend that is from Romania, actually I have a bunch from Romania which is pretty cool. See you next time bye🙋

Flat Emily week 12

This week we got to walk some really cute doggies(we really wanted to foster one, but our landlord said no) and we are going to do it again next week too! Today I’m going to my swim lessons and after that we have dinner with some people from church then I’m going to a sleepover!! Yesterday we went to an Exodus base to see what it was like there and there they have lots of hammocks right by the creek and some super cute little kittens. On Monday we went to the library with some other Americans. The library has an American Corner with English books! Some really exciting news is that I’m going to learn to play the flute! It has been REALLY hot here so the swimming pool will feel good. Ciao!

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See the Lord Working

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

Wow the Lord is amazing! I am in the kitchen at the community center helping make lunch for some of the Ukrainian refugees with the help of a few Ukrainians and some fellow volunteers. I am hearing Romanian spoken and played in the Christian music while trying to use my Google translate to talk to a very sweet Ukrainian grandmother. She is telling me about her granddaughter who is living and working here in Romania. I just think how delightful it will be in Heaven when we can all understand each other without the use of our phones or an interpreter.

My heart goes out to the Ukrainians, a lot of the people that we have met are older and probably already retired before the war. Now they have fled from their country with not much and in a new country for who knows how long. Some of them are mother’s with children whose husbands are back in Ukraine. They can’t leave due to the fact they have to be there to fight if called.

I met one older woman who was a missionary and is writing out her testimonies in Russian and I then take a picture of it and use Google translate to English. Her sharing is reminding me to take time out of my busy day to see what God has put around me. To see someone on the bus I can help or talk to or even the lady who is alone and doesn’t have family here. I love to see the Lord working through so many people.

for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Philippians 2:13 (We are his hands and feet)