Memorial Day Weekend

Sorry for the lack of recent "postage." We have been out of town every weekend in May and currently we are in Nashville. After spending all day Friday packing (with the help of Eva Cochran and Jessica Watson - thanks!!!), we loaded up a U-haul trailer with essentially everything we are not taking to Romania. By the way, thanks to Josh Sagraves, Marko Priestley, and Eric Gamble for helping us carry everything downstairs and loading the trailer! We greatly appreciated everyone's help that day.Here's a run down of the weekend so far:On Saturday afternoon, Paul's parents planned an open house for us. A lot of Paul's friends stopped by to see him and I enjoyed meeting a lot of people that I have never met before. It was great finally being able to put names with faces.During Paul's parents' Sunday...

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Quick update

One thing that Cris and I have been getting a lot of questions about lately is, "Do you have a place to live set up in Romania?" This is a reasonable question, and I have an answer for it now. Our friend, and the leader of the campus ministry in Romania, Bobby, is getting married just a few days after we arrive in Romania. He is also going to need a place to live with his wife. So, at the end of this month, he is going to go apartment hunting for two places close together. We like Bobby and his fiance Raluca a lot, and we are excited about getting to know them better while we are there. In fact getting a place close to them was our idea, not theirs. (Cris jokingly suggested that we could share a refrigerator.)Also, we have seen a lot more support come in recently, which is very encouraging,...

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