Tbilisi, here I am!

Hey all, sorry for taking so long but moving into a new country is a little crazy. Also, I only get internet about once a week here so it's a little harder to keep up to date with "the real world". Sorry.

My team just got in to our own apartment the other day (we were staying at the YWAM base here, but it's way out in the country so a little inconvenient). Apartments here are like nothing I'm used to. You've got your basic rooms like everywhere else, but then there's only 1 heater in 1 room for the whole place, and water is shut off for 5 hours in the middle of every day. This is absolutely normal for Georgians, but I am not a Georgian!!! Oh, adjustment. I'll get used to it by the end of these 2 months.

Also, since it's still the holiday season here we don't have a set ministry schedule yet. Next week we're cooking lunches and dinners for a YWAM conference they're having here so that will keep us busy and by the week after that we should be connected with the ministries we'll be working with the rest of our time here. We started a Kid's Club in the village where the YWAM base is. It's only been 2 weeks, but it's been going really well! We had 18 kids come last week and 13 this week, not including parents who sit in the back and drink tea the whole time. Our whole team is excited for this ministry that we started from scratch and that we will continue to set up while we're here. The other ministries we're planning on working with is with the street kids of Tbilisi, a college group called IFES, Teen Challenge (probably teaching English classes at a rehab center), and possibly helping YWAM start another base in a village a few hours outside of Tbilisi. We're going to be visiting other cities in the future as well and doing work there.

Our team is made up of 4 girls and 1 lonely sad little boy. The'res Kate, our leader (from Michigan), me, Sevinch (a girl from Azerbaijan who also acts as our translator), Elya (a 17 year old from Ukraine), and Ruslan (the one boy, also from Ukraine). We have had some difficulty communicating across cultures, languages, and personalities so prayer for that would be appreciated. Overall however, we are doing really well and I can see us fighting for unity with one another rather than just letting issues build up.

That's about it for now. Thanks for being patient, thanks for loving me (I hope, haha), and thanks for reading! Love and miss you all!