Hey everyone:) I know it has been a full month since I last blogged, and what a full month it has been! This past month I have been in Alba Iulia, Romania, spent half a week in the city of Cluj-Napoca, and also went to London for a brief 3 days. I am now back in Romania, and am leaving tonight for Africa. It has been another whirlwind of a time. So let’s reflect on this past month.

We started off in the city of Alba Iulia. Our ministry was mainly focused on youth outreach with the church we were partnered with, Biserica Armonia. My teammate Lindsey also made a lot of local connections that led us to helping with the Red Cross, packing items to send into Ukraine; YWAM Cluj, joining them on their base for a few days and getting to support the missionaries there; working with a nonprofit called to sort through donations for refugees; and meeting refugees and spending time with them. (Shout out to Linds for finding all these awesome connections to serve!)

Packed up hundreds of boxes of food to be sent into Ukraine

Sorted through many donations to send into Ukraine

During our time in Alba Iulia, we met these two awesome guys Andrew and Dani who ended up becoming our good friends! They showed us all around their city and took us to some really cool places. We were able to share why we were traveling the world for Jesus, and they got to refresh us with their fun personalities. 

Our new Romanian besties!

The rest of our time we spent reaching out to high schoolers and inviting them to different events we hosted, such as game nights, a youth conference, or bible study nights. It was a whirlwind of a time, and we ended up traveling quite a bit around. We ended the month with 3 days in London, and now we are packing up and preparing for our flights to South Africa tonight.

**Prayer for our squad as there has been challenge after challenge hitting us and many of us are barely hanging on. Many of us are on empty, as we are on month 9 and have nothing filling us up. Pray that we cling to the Lord so much that we can participate in the ministries we have been placed in for the last few months of this trip.

The race is draining, ya’ll. I know I said this in my last blog too, but I just don’t have a lot of words to give. I will share pictures with everything that we’ve done recently. I hope that’s okay. I am so thankful for all of your support and messages of encouragement. I could not do this without you guys. And despite how challenging this year has been, I am thankful for where I have been able to serve and reach people and bless different hosts, etc. Just two and a half months left and I’ll be back on American soil. Love yall.

Kids event we served at with our church in Alba Iulia

My shoe fixing hero! Met this girl and casually mentioned how my shoes were breaking. Less than 24 hours later she's getting them fixed by a professional shoe maker, giving me her shoes for a day while mine are getting fixed, and tells me its her BIRTHDAY that she's spending doing this for me! So I got her some of her favorite chips and she got my my shoes back all fixed and wonderful.

On our trip to London we got the chance to visit Hillsong Church London, where I got to listen to my first sermon completely in English for the first time in 8 months!

Went to Buckingham palace and saw the changing of the guards. Really cool culture here.

Went to Big Ben. I was so thankful to have these 3 days to step outside of our normal "routine" and process. Back to reality now!