During part of spring break, Paul and I ventured home to the North Pole, also known as Fort Wayne, IN (my hometown) for one last visit before we leave. The first night we were there, the plan was to hang out with some of my friends from my old church. We had already contacted most of the people that were going to be seeing that evening, but at the last minute, we called a married couple (Scott and Dawn) who I had not seen for a few years. Dawn was able to come and enjoy coffee with us (Scott had to work). While we were catching up, she was informed that Paul and I were going to be moving to Romania for a couple years to serve a campus ministry. Here is where the amazing sovereignty of God comes in, so be prepared. She got really excited and told us that a couple years ago she was going to go to Romania to do mission work, so she bought this Romanian workbook and audiotape set to attempt at learning some of the language. Immediately she offered it to us to use for as long as we needed it! Here are a couple things to highlight the sovereignty of God:
1. She wasn’t originally going to come, but did at the last minute.
2. She had a Romanian workbook and audiotape that she freely offered us – not everyone just has Romanian lesson material just sitting around. Some people might have Spanish or German or some common language, but Romanian?
3. Paul and I have been discussing purchasing this very type of material, but just had not made the time to actually do it yet – therefore, it is saving us money and getting it into our hands immediately, which may not have happened for quite sometime. It’s actually harder to find Romanian material than you might think.
I bet you can guess what we did on the ride home. You guessed it! We listened to Romanian vocabulary words and grammar lessons and attempted at learning some Romanian! We don’t know how much we’ll get down before we go, but we are going to try! We figured that any exposure to the language is a plus and we’re looking forward to putting what we are learning into practice!
P.S. Thanks Scott and Dawn for letting us borrow the Romania material! It’s really serving us!
Monday, March 31, 2008
Learning Romanian
1 comments:
ptrr! I făcut el înăuntru Român!!!!!!! Dragoste tu tot! ave faun învăţare Român!!! I probably spelled a bunch of stuff wrong but you should get what i am saying!
Whoa(as i said), I can't believe that i said that in Romanian! So, how was your all trip to Fort Wayne? It's awesome how God is working in ways we don't know, seeing sometimes it is bad, then it all works out in ways unexpected!
Love your friend,
Shelby
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