March 09 and Beth's in romania ...again hehe

Hi guys
Well its wednesay and i was meant to come home yesterday, but we decided to extend our trip a few days and we are now staying in romania untill thursday...im sure if you know me even a little bit you wil know im really excited abo this.
So far wwe have had a really amazing trip and have been and visited alot of friends we have here in a very short time. we managed to visit the adult institution Ungereni, which is a plac i have been able to visit eveytime i have been in romania since i started coming. we didnt call before we arrived so wernt sure if we would be alowed in, but we were recieved really well and had a really lovly time with the patients and the staff up there, it wasa real joy to visit them.
on the same day we also went to a very poor village, a long way out of the main town, we visited these children at chirstmas and it was really on my heart to go back there. somebody from the church had donated some money for the trip so we were able to buy gifts for these guys. we brought 90 filled corrisants for the patients at Ungereni and we also brought loaves of bread and oranges for the children and there families in the village. we had a really blessed time with the children playing with balloons and handing out sweets and hair bands.
i was also really blessed to be able to spend alot of time at casa lumina this trip, the young people there are so much fun, and they really touch my heart everytime we go there. its really great to dance with them and kind of get lost in their joy.
We have been staying in casa Albert which is the hospice cry in the dark have built. and we had the priviledge of going out with the community team to meet with some of the patients. this meant for steve and i that we got to visit some old friends, that the nurses are now providing care for, but also meet some new people, who will now stay in our hearts. we met the most adorable little boy who has sevire respitory problems and some kind of muscular disease, it was heart rencing to hear him struggle with his breathing, and when i had a little cuddle with him i managed to just pray with him, his mum attends the support group for parents at casa albert and for her this is a real lifeline, if she didnt have this group, she would sit all day, day and night indoors with her baby, listening to him struggle to breath, with no one except the nurse to talk to. we shared jesus with her and told her we would continue to pray for her and victor (her son) and hope to visit her again.
Going out with the nurses also meant we got to visit the hospital (the HIV/AIDS unit) as some of casa alberts patients were in there. steve and i were able to talk with alot of the girls in there, and when we decided not to catch out plane yesterday, the first thing we did was drive back to the hospital, with Jackie, another lady out here with us. we sat and talked to the girls for over an hour and just laughed with them and listened to them....the girls thought HIV only happened in romania, they had no idea it happened in england or any where else in the world. we were really shocked by this.
we are now getting ready to go back to the hospital becasue we tole the girls we would take them some food and drink as alot of them do not eat properly becasue the hospital food doesnt really resembly anything you or i would eat. we are going to use the rest of the donation made from a lady in the congregation to supply these things for the girls.
please pray for us today as we hope to be able to pray for some of the girls, and as it will be very hard to leave the hospital knowing it may be a few months before we return.
thankyou for your support and prayers while im away, it relly makes a huge diference
sorry i waffeled so much...lol and sorry about the appauling spellings (mother dont correct them please hehe)
lodz of love
Beth Daisy xx

Comments

[neil]

what a brilliant post, looking forward to hearing more when you get back

[Lorraine Johnson]

Beth its a joy to read the update you have put on here and i can feel the love and joy thats in your heart for the people in Romania!
I know you have had a blessed time but what you need to know is the joy and love you are prepared to share with these people blesses them too!

safe journey home,
much love
Mum
x
p.s. I'm getting use to the spellings i think!!!