It's been awhile

We have been in and out of the country for the last month-lots of busyness with construction going on at the church, friends visiting, etc.
We went to Austria a couple weeks ago with some friends and then on to Venice so they could see it a bit and then Jim taught the Sunday service in Italy and they asked him to teach the Sunday night one at another spot in Italy so we ended up staying an extra night. Italy is my favorite place!!!! I just love it there-the people, the food, the church there-it's just wonderful...not to mention the gelato is out of this world delicious. You have to go to the right spots though-beware of touristy places because it's not always as good.
After Italy, we drove back to Hungary, did some laundry, got a bit of sleep and then up early the next day to take our friends to Budapest airport for their flight back to the states and we continued on to Germany for a Pastors conference. This was my first visit to Germany and I loved it! I didn't know how I would like it, but in my mind I just couldn't picture the country. I think because I have watched so many WWII movies that I had a weird picture in my mind about the place. Anyway, it was great, we stayed with a nice family during the conference. The guy was a Doctor and of all thing, knew all about asthma and gave me a years worth of inhalers!! How blessed am I!!!!!!! Unfortunately, he thinks I have more than asthma, but the COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) doesn't really sound right to me. It says you were a smoker and something about emphysema and I don't smoke and haven't in more years than I could remember. So, I will take the inhalers because they work for asthma and COPD and I will see what happens. Praise the Lord though for the free inhalers!!!
What else, oh, after Germany, we wanted to go to The Netherlands and visit friends because it's only 2 hrs from where we were, but they weren't around. We head straight to Switzerland to stay at some other friend's house and that was amazing too. I love the country! The scenery is beautiful. It is exactly as we would imagine from the movies or Heidi! Everywhere you look is beautiful mountains and pastures!
I had to stop and just thank God in amazement. Here we are just a normal pastor and wife living on the Mission field and yet God arranges for us to see all these beautiful places! I couldn't imagine it if I tried! The places Jim gets invited to speak are so wonderful and it's so neat to see the Lord at work all over the world! I am truely humbled to serve our great King!! People always think that when you leave the states and go on the mission field you are giving up so much-and it's true in a sense-our families and friends we have to leave behind, our culture, conveniences, but we have gained more than we could have ever imagined! I remember just looking through my parents' time share magazine in my early 20's and wondering about Austria and Europe-never even dreaming it possible to visit those places, and here I am -just blessed behyond belief to see God's beautiful creation all over the world!
On the scrapping side...I am looking forward to Wed. to see Shabby Princess's new designs. Should be exciting and some awesome new products I am sure.
Here's a quick LO I did of Switzerland. I do pray for a new camera. It seems such a shame to go to these neat places and not have a good camera to take picture with :) Oh well, they will do!
Hope you have a blessed day :)

I used Nancy Comelab's photo cluster and doodles, Misty Cato's paper