Vienna - Days 2 & 3
It's beautiful in Vienna today. The sun is shining and the city is gorgeous. I'm actually starting to figure out the public transportation system, which impresses me. I'm not that good with directions, as most of you know, so it's really something to be impressed about. Listen, I would just like to say that the Austrians make the most amazing sandwiches. We had sandwiches for lunch yesterday and I had another for breakfast today.
Yesterday was a day of orientations and meetings with the Pastor and the staff. We also met with Karrie the children's pastor to go over some of the details of the services we'll be helping with. We're assigned to the English speaking African fellowship and the Filippino fellowship. We'll be rotating between the different age classrooms, and possibly helping some with the Filippino service itself. I'm excited to meet the kids and see what the services are like. It's going to be a little bit challenging since the classrooms are a little small and attendance is high -- then there's the whole language thing, because apparently some of the kids pretend they don't understand you when they actually do -- but I think it's going to be fun. :) We had dinner last night at TGI Friday's for Allyssa's birthday - it was so good, but the service in Austria would merit immediate firing in the States, no lie. And that's true at pretty much any restaurant here I've been told.
This morning we were up at 5:30 am so that we could leave at 6:30 am to make it to the UN. Supposedly it was going to take us 45 minutes to get from our apartment to the UN. We caught the ubahn at 6:45 and arrived at the UN at 7:05. O.o It was actually really funny. We grabbed breakfast from a bakery in the ubahn station while we waited for Jordan (another intern) and Pastor Shawn (on staff at the church, not senior pastor, that's Pastor Tom). We passed out flyers for the youth camp and kids' camp that we'll be helping with this summer. There were about three hundred flyers for each event and we passed them all out in about an hour. Awesome! Later today we'll be going on a prayer walk through the city, and then heading back to the UN to hand out more flyers. We're catching the morning and evening rush that way. It's kind of funny because we came back to the church and everybody's like "we didn't expect you to hand out all the flyers, that's great. now we have to print more" haha.
Also on the agenda today, I still have to go to the grocery store. I did change money yesterday, so now I have money I can actually spend. They don't really use debit or credit cards much around here, almost everything's done on a cash basis. I have my first video footage of Vienna, so that will be posted soon. I also have to buy an English Bible over here -- I think the church has some for sale -- since I apparently left my Bible and my Smith Wigglesworth devotional in Houston. Oops. I'm so sad about that! I want my Bible and my devotional! I can't even look up Scriptures online like at night or in the morning because there's no internet at the apartment. Sad. So, that's the other thing I have to take care of. I can make it without the devotional (I will be sad though, because it's so good) but I need a Bible. I'm just hoping they have a New Living Translation. Not that I'm OCD or picky or anything, lol. I'm going to sign off for now, I'm sad that it's too early in the States for me to call my mom! :( I miss my mom soooo much!!! That's honestly the hardest thing about this trip is being away from her. It's a good thing we have Skype! Free calls! :)
Yesterday was a day of orientations and meetings with the Pastor and the staff. We also met with Karrie the children's pastor to go over some of the details of the services we'll be helping with. We're assigned to the English speaking African fellowship and the Filippino fellowship. We'll be rotating between the different age classrooms, and possibly helping some with the Filippino service itself. I'm excited to meet the kids and see what the services are like. It's going to be a little bit challenging since the classrooms are a little small and attendance is high -- then there's the whole language thing, because apparently some of the kids pretend they don't understand you when they actually do -- but I think it's going to be fun. :) We had dinner last night at TGI Friday's for Allyssa's birthday - it was so good, but the service in Austria would merit immediate firing in the States, no lie. And that's true at pretty much any restaurant here I've been told.
This morning we were up at 5:30 am so that we could leave at 6:30 am to make it to the UN. Supposedly it was going to take us 45 minutes to get from our apartment to the UN. We caught the ubahn at 6:45 and arrived at the UN at 7:05. O.o It was actually really funny. We grabbed breakfast from a bakery in the ubahn station while we waited for Jordan (another intern) and Pastor Shawn (on staff at the church, not senior pastor, that's Pastor Tom). We passed out flyers for the youth camp and kids' camp that we'll be helping with this summer. There were about three hundred flyers for each event and we passed them all out in about an hour. Awesome! Later today we'll be going on a prayer walk through the city, and then heading back to the UN to hand out more flyers. We're catching the morning and evening rush that way. It's kind of funny because we came back to the church and everybody's like "we didn't expect you to hand out all the flyers, that's great. now we have to print more" haha.
Also on the agenda today, I still have to go to the grocery store. I did change money yesterday, so now I have money I can actually spend. They don't really use debit or credit cards much around here, almost everything's done on a cash basis. I have my first video footage of Vienna, so that will be posted soon. I also have to buy an English Bible over here -- I think the church has some for sale -- since I apparently left my Bible and my Smith Wigglesworth devotional in Houston. Oops. I'm so sad about that! I want my Bible and my devotional! I can't even look up Scriptures online like at night or in the morning because there's no internet at the apartment. Sad. So, that's the other thing I have to take care of. I can make it without the devotional (I will be sad though, because it's so good) but I need a Bible. I'm just hoping they have a New Living Translation. Not that I'm OCD or picky or anything, lol. I'm going to sign off for now, I'm sad that it's too early in the States for me to call my mom! :( I miss my mom soooo much!!! That's honestly the hardest thing about this trip is being away from her. It's a good thing we have Skype! Free calls! :)