Overdue Update and a Zoo

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Flat Etie

I have not put anything for a long time so I’m going to do my best to fill the gaps. After we saw our cousins we drove to Idaho and saw our friends and met some new friends. We stayed at an old friend’s house and it was fun. Then we went down to Texas and spent time with Mamaw. Mom worked at Samaritan’s Purse.

After Mom’s work, we went down to Grandma and Pa’s house and had Christmas and New Year with Great Grandma and Great Pa too. Then we went back to Dallas (that’s where Mamaw lives) but we are like 45 minutes from her.

Where we are staying is SO COOL 😎  WE LIVE AT THE ZOO!!!! Well, it’s like 50 feet away but still so cool, and there are cows, camels, and zebras that you can see without paying. Plus we got free passes. We might go to Montana after Texas but we are not 100%. That’s all bye 😀

   Flat Emily week 16!

Oh my goodness guys! It is literally week 16 (well more than that because I missed a few. Alright, fine! It’s been a year since we started.) 😉

I can play a little bit on the flute now! I got one for Christmas, and I absolutely love it. We are in Texas for now, well actually for about three months. At the church we go to they have a youth group so now I don’t feel too big in the kids’ church. It’s an awesome place.

My birthday is going to be so soon! February 20th! Oh, another really big thing. We live in a zoo. *pauses to let that sink in* You know with bears and stuff? Yeah we live there. It’s so fun because there are these cute “oreo” cows and they love me! And I love them too! Look real cuties! Byeeee! 😀

*Editor’s note* I apologize for the delay; it is my fault, and thank you for your continued support.  I also want to clarify that God has brought us to Texas for some church planter training. If it is the Lord’s will, we intend to head West by summer as we continue to work as missionaries, now in our own land, sharing the Gospel of Jesus. 

-Brian

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Blueberries, Birthdays, and Baking

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Flat Emily week 14!

We have been back in the US for 2 ½ weeks so maybe we have seen some of you by now!  If not, we will see you soon!  Right at the moment we are in Idaho and Daddy is hoping it will not snow but Winston is.  Sorry I have not got much to write. It’s been a bit hectic since we got here.  We got off in Fort Lauderdale, FL and the humidity was insane! Then we flew to Chicago and then got in the car to drive to IN. So yea the jet lag kind of got us. The birds in Idaho are so pretty like this one! Isn’t it so pretty! Ciao!

Flat Emily week 15!!!

Hei guys!!   Since we’ve been here in Idaho it has been a busy week.  I got to watch a movie at one of my friends’ birthday party. There were a LOT of people.   Also I had these popcorn chips and they were SO good (like so yummy I could have eaten all of them).  And yesterday for mommy’s birthday we went to some hot springs and had Mexican food for dinner with vegan chocolate fudge popsicles for dessert!  YUMMY!! Ha det, au revoir, bye, and ciao!!!

P.S I like to bake a lot!  So if you go to Thursday night dinner at church in ID you will have some of my baking!

Flat Etie

Hi, we are back in the USA! So let’s go back in time,after Romania we went to Norway,and we had my birthday there.  We stayed at are Norwegian friends (the ones from the DTS) house and it was soo fun, they found a blueberry patch in the wild! I had a blueberry cake it was yummy😋.We flew to Florida and then flew to Chicago where Pa and Grandma picked us up.  We had a late birthday for me and then we went to Bedford to my Uncle Chris and Aunt Becky’s house where we saw my cousins. It was sooooooo much fun,the day we got there it was my cousin’s birthday!    peace out✌️.

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Friends, Kittens and Exodus

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

I’ve finished my DTS (Discipleship training 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

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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)

 

Lunch at the Community Center

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Bob shares about Ukraine Trip

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One of the team members, Bob Flores, sharing about our recent trip to Ukraine at his church, Hope Chapel Santa Rosa.  Thanks Bob

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Blue dress and Bluebells

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Leaving Spain

This week we had a sleepover with our Norwegian friends.  For breakfast we had pancakes and a typical Spanish flatbread sort of thing. Since it stopped raining we have gone to the beach EVERY day! (seriously:)  Today we are having a BBQ at the leader’s pool.  Well it’s a shared pool but they are renting it for the day.  Then it’s our graduation on Saturday and I’m going to wear my blue dress. That is pretty much everything until we leave 😀.  Ciao!

Arriving in Romania

Hey ya’ll!  This week we are getting new experiences like riding the bus, walking home, and doing LOTS of cleaning at the community center.  The last couple of days its been raining but today it is not.(yet)

Hopefully I can get more flowers to plant for a fairy garden sometime.  Some flowers I would like to get are Bluebells, Daisies, Jasmine, Marigold, Primrose, Pussywillow, Snapdragon, Forget me not, and last but not least Columbine.  I also will need a little pond, rocks, shiny rocks, and some other supply’s.  Today we are going to a big strip mall type thing that has a vegan pastry shop.  Also the big store there has the best chocolate with coconut milk 😀. Ciao!!

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Cows with bells and Norwegians!

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Flat Emily:

Tomorrow we are leaving for Spain.  We are in Spain for 3 weeks then we will come back to Cluj for 4 or 5 months.  The Norwegians left yesterday, it was a little sad, but not too much.  Tomorrow we are going to fly to Italy and drive to Switzerland to visit some friends. We will stay there for 2? days then fly to Spain and see the Norwegians!  Today is one of the students birthday and they hopefully 🙂 got us something vegan yay! ciao!

Etie:

After we were in Medias we went to Cluj, which is still in Romania.  In Cluj we made lunch for the Ukrainians everyday except Sunday.  I really liked the English classes that we did for the Romanian kids.  Another fun part about Cluj was they had a ping pong table.  There were parks everywhere.  The park that I liked the best we called the alligator park, because it had a really big slide that was an alligator.  It was really fun to go down it on your jackets, to see how fast we could go.

After we were in Cluj we flew to Italy and got yummy vegan pastries and they had bread that was like pizza crust that was really good.  Then we drove to Switzerland and yes they do have  very good chocolate and cows with bells like I expected.  We saw the Swiss Alps there. When we were driving we saw lots of waterfalls.  We visited our friends in Basel that we met in Spain.  We went to an Aldi in Germany. They had lots of vegan stuff, even vegan kit kats.  Then we drove back to Italy and flew to Spain.  I am really glad we are back!  Guess what, we live right next to the Norwegian family!!!!🤩 The End.🙋

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Cactus, Pumpkin and Donuts in Romania!

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Flat Emily week 8

In a few days we are going to Cluj Romania for three weeks.  On Sunday we went to Sibiu and went to church there and also we got long donuts too!  If you ever go there make sure to get them 😀.  I have two snails as pets and thirty outside in a great little area for them.  I’m writing about raccoon dogs and I will put a pic here.  Yesterday we went to a different YWAM base that has a school for Roma kids and helps build houses for them.  Where the Roma kids live there are 150 houses and 600 people!  That is a lot of people and still more coming!  I can count to 19 in Swiss – German now!  Au revoir!

Let me tell you how we go to Romania.  First we went on a plane ride from Dublin, Ireland to Germany for a little layover, then to Austria, and then to Bucharest, Romania.  That night we went on a train ride.  It was my first train ride ever and we were in a sleeper car.  I got to sleep on the top bunk.  When we finally arrived we were supposed to get to Medias at 7:30 am, but we really got here at like 8:30. 

We are staying in a house with 19 people, so it’s kind of crowded but not really.  There are three families including us and four students.  I am really glad that we could see the Norwegians again.  It has been fun playing with them. 

Today we went to a Ukrainian school and I was the dinosaur there.  It was very fun. We played red light green light, hide and seek, and danced around.  Also when I was here I accidentally got poked by a cactus when we were playing pumpkin.  Because for pumpkin you have to close your eyes.  We are making a little home for snails outside, because we found a bunch in the backyard.  All the kids are helping.  The End! 

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Morocco Ireland Romania and learning German!

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 FE week 6

Last week we did a lot of different things and I shall tell you about them.  On Monday we got Starbucks and ice cream.  On Tuesday we went to the park that I will tell you more about later.  Wednesday we did a bible study that was super fun. Thursday was just school and Friday was also kind of boring.  Ok, now I will tell you about the park.  It has a zipline type thingy, a super fast slide, a really weird merry go round type thingamabobber, and other playground things.  

Lastly, I will tell you a secret, THE ICE CREAM HERE IS SOOOO GOOD!!! Auf Wiedersehen für jetzt!Good bye for now in German.

 

 FE week 7!

This week we are in Romania!  When we got here it was SNOWING!!!  Soooo fun right?  It was almost everyone’s first time riding on a train. (It was not Kati’s first time)  Another fun thing was that the Norwegains are here. We had not seen them for 3 weeks, 5 days and 8 hours but who’s counting? We all had a snowball fight and we taught them how to play pumpkin.  The only bad thing that happened was that Winston accidentally touched a cacti.  (It must have hurt) Ciao!

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Monkeys, Snakes, Camels and Tea!

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This week might have been the best week ever!!!!  Can you guess what we did in a country that I can’t tell you the name of right now?  You might not be prepared for this but here we go anyway!  We rode camels, saw cobra* charmers, and cute monkeys. The camel riding was something I thought I would never do.  At the beginning it was a little bit scary but I got used to it.  When I got down off the camel that was more scary.  At the Medina (where we saw the snake charmers) there were a lot of different things there, some interesting and some not.  The best thing there was the juice smoothies (if you go there get orange and pineapple).  P.S. My camel’s name was Cactus!

*Snake

This week we are in a country that I can’t say the name of right now, for a few weeks!  We went camel riding.  We didn’t do it in the desert, it was closer to town.   We were given head scarves to wear and a long shirt while we rode the camels.  There were two really cute baby camels.  I named my camel Desert, sometimes he was a bit stubborn but he liked mom.  Her camel was in front of mine.  After the camel ride we had some tea, I didn’t like it.  Tea is drunk a lot here.  After that we went to the big market called Medina.  There were snake charmers and monkeys that did tricks.  The poor monkeys were in chains and lived in a box.  There were really good smoothies. I got mango and pineapple. They cut them up right in front of us.  There were people everywhere and we almost got run over by motorcycles.  In between the shops was very narrow where we walked and then motorcycles kept driving past and expecting us to get out of their way.  Daddy got  his foot run over!  We also got finger bananas, they were very good. 

The end.

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