An Overflow

My heart is overflowing with a good theme;

I recite my composition concerning the King;

My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Psalm 45:1

My heart truly is overflowing. I am so abundantly blessed. 

Sunday I got to travel to Budapest with my dear friend Chelsea to meet up with some friends from my home church in California. Some of my old bible college friends also joined up with us. It was so surreal to see them here in HUNGARY! We went to the church that they had been serving at and it was so great to see how they blessed them with a great VBS for the children at the church. It was a double blessing because I wont be seeing my California friends for another year, as I wont be going to California for Christmas. And a TRIPLE blessing still because they were able to bring over to me some clothes that my mom gathered for me, and toothbrushes, and vitamins, and all those little things you take for granted when you live right by convenience stores. 

This week the conference is for the Golgota Budapest Youth Conference. I'm so excited to serve these kids and see them grow in the Lord this week.
The Budapest church is raising up some wonderful young men and ladies. My dining room crew has been so amazing (they are from the Budapest youth). They even come to serve when they aren't even scheduled to do so! Such servant hearts!!!

It's becoming a little easier to be a leader...but I still have quite a ways to go. Luckily, I have 12 and a half more months to be built up in this way. Praise the Lord for wanting to grow me...because I am quite inadequate on my own. 

And I am just so thankful for the pastoral staff and their wives here. They are so encouraging and so willing to be involved in our lives and see us grow. They have certainly been such great council in my life recently especially as I pray and submit to God in certain things. God is definitely giving me plenty opportunity these days to practice submitting to His authority. I'm actually reading a rather good book that touches on this subject: 

"To have God’s best, we must unconditionally surrender our lives to Him, which includes submission to our delegated authorities. This choice, however, will not come without suffering in the flesh. The old habits we have grown up with as rebellious children of Adam don’t die easily. But there is one thing I am certain of: Anyone who deeply hungers to know the living God and to touch godliness will relentlessly pursue submission to God and His authority."

-Yohannan, K.P.  

In other news, Noemi (the woman I taught English to last semester who became quite a nice friend) invited me to her new home in Paks. I hope to go visit her very soon! I'm so happy that even though she has moved, she still wants to continue this friendship we have. Pray for her!

I haven't had much time to go out to the village these days, unfortunately. I miss the kids quite a lot. Please pray that I get more opportunity to do this. In the moments where I do have time I am just so tired that I just want to sit and rest! But I do hope to make a trip out to hang out in the village sometime this week since the AVFL kids are gone to Slovenia for the week. 

So that's whats up these days! :)