God is so good!

God has been blessing us so immensely while we are here in Romania.
I was horribly sick last night and all today, and was sad to miss out on the last day of ministry in my favorite village, but God wanted to use it to teach me about His power, and His provision. I'm feeling significantly better but not out of the woods yet.

I came down with strep last night. Based on the timing we are pretty sure I picked it up in the States right before we left and it just was incubating. My throat was KILLING me, and I just lay in bed and cried. Today my friends went to the pharmacy to try and get me some drugs. They went back to the pharmacy counter and the pharmacist said, "You know I can't fill anything without a prescription" and they said, "Yes, but we need the medicine and don't have one" and the pharmacist said, "ok what do you need?" They said Amoxycillin, and she sold it to them without a prescription for around 2 dollars! God is soooo good! Apparently its easier here to get antibiotics. We called Dr. K (my dentist who happens to be Romanian) and asked her about dosage conversion, and she helped us out with dosage conversion!

Many amazing God things happened today, but you will have to hear the stories in person when we return. We went to church tonight, and Nathan gave his testimony and encouraged the congregation in light of God's sovreignty. I got prayed over by a Romanian woman and that was special. We leave Sighisoara for Bucharest tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. It's a two hour drive through some crazy scary roads. It will be 1 a.m. your time, so say a prayer for us before you go to bed! I can't believe our time here is nearing an end. It makes me want to cry thinking about leaving these people. Nathan and I have both had our hearts captured by the Romanian people, and are already talking about coming back. It's the strangest feeling when God makes you fall in love with a specific people group. You don't understand why or how, but everything in you is inexplicably drawn to them. Everything in me automatically and selflessly loves them. I was telling my Mom before we left that even after all the medical mess we went through, it was never even an option in my head to NOT go to Romania. It was as though there was a magnet in my heart that was so drawn to this country and these people, that it was impossible to not want to go. I am convinced that God is in the process of drawing the nations to Himself, and we couldn't pass up the opportunity to go!

Please continue to pray, especially as we travel back on the 27th and 28th!
We'll keep you posted about what happens in Bucharest!