Day 9 and 10: Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, with all Thy quick’ning powers; kindle a flame of sacred love, in these cold hearts of ours."

Yesterday was Pentecost. We spent the entire day visiting and speaking at different churches, and today we are still celebrating, so we went to three more churches for a day of worship and adoration for the great gift we have in the Holy Spirit.

I finally bought a dry erase board at the Selgros today for my beginner class(we have one for the intermediate and advanced classes), so I'm excited about finally getting to use that! I think it will make teaching a lot easier, especially now that the beginner classes are starting to form sentences and learn simple grammar.

Last night, we had Zolie and Abigail over for dinner, and it was so much fun! Katie and I love having people over here every once in a while, and it was a great opportunity to get to just sit and speak without having any time constraints. We were able to find out a good deal about life during the rule of communism here, and the changes that have taken place in the last twenty something years. It is still incredible to me, just how much has happened in such a short time, and how terrible things were about the time I was born. I am humbled when I think of the difference in my and Katie's childhood versus Attila's and he is only a few years older than us.

This is our last week to teach in Gornesti, and as Katie and I were walking to lunch today, we spoke about how much we will miss this village. Everyone here has been so good to us, and we feel at home in pretty much every house we have visited. Plus the students are a joy to teach, so I think it will be a little bit hard for us to leave, but we must. I am going to try to take a lot of pictures this week, so hopefully I can post some of our classes soon.

Next week we will begin in Reghin, but we only have one week there before we start camp at Harghita. I'm looking very forward to that because I have heard great things from everyone who has been; and Katie and I are looking forward to seeing the Borzasi families again.

Katie and I didn't have to go to the third meeting at Peris tonight, so we stayed home and made our OWN dinner and started to work on our lesson plans for this week. We made grilled cheese sandwhiches and ate Pringles - such a typical college student dinner. It made me extraordinarily happy. :)

We actually went to the store by ourselves tonight before we made dinner because we needed some bread. We were pretty proud of ourselves because we didn't have to have Attila with us. Katie and I both crave independence and it is pretty much nonexistent lately, so the little things we do by ourselves make us really happy haha.

It's funny, Katie and I have mastered the art of nonverbal communication; we just realized this the other day though! It just cracks me up at how often we use it and we didn't even know we were for the longest time. Sometimes we don't even have to look at each other, we just know what the other is thinking. I am so thankful for her; I really don't know what I'd do without her to keep me laughing. God has blessed me with such a beautiful friendship, and I will forever be grateful for this experience with her.

"Come, O Holy Spirit, come. Come as the wind and cleanse; come as the fire and burn; convert and consecrate our lives to our great good and your great glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord."