It's weird to think that we're so close to coming home. We're not within' one week of flying home. Mixed emotions are definitely being felt.
The music session with our new friend was fantastic. He brought over some of his favorite traditional Serbian classic albums and they're beautiful. I've made a Serbian playlist on my iTunes already and plan on having it on repeat as soon as I get home. We also shared some American music with him and he knew a few of the more recent popular songs so we sang those together and had a lot of fun laughing about that.
Later that night we met back up for laser club, round 2 with party girl. It was the same as before but a little better because we had rested up well before and knew what we were getting ourselves into. The music wasn't as loud and we were able to dance a little more freely having felt out the place the first time around. By "dance a little more freely" I mean that we bobbed our heads more noticeably and would sometimes venture into actually moving from side to side. It was super hot but we made it til' 2 in the morning before heading back.
The sports fest that we were going to begin this week has been completely cancelled. There just wasn't enough happening to actually do it and the volunteers decided that it wasn't worth the trip if only a few teams had signed up instead of the expected 50 something. It's ok though because we know that God has something planned in place of that time. We definitely are in full swing with meeting friends we've made over the last month and want to give them as much time as we can before we leave. Now we are able to do that with more freedom. Still, the sports fest would have been great.
Please continue to pray for the missionary family in Belgrade. It could be any day now and it would be so exciting to be able to see the newest member before we fly home. We will be going to Belgrade to meet them sometime Friday, spend Saturday with them doing a quick tour of Belgrade, and then flying home early in the morning of the 12th, Sunday.
We have a few more things we'd like to do here in Kraljevo though and will do our best to knock them off our Kraljevo bucket list before Friday. We still haven't eaten a meal on the roof of the Tourist hotel (the tall building in the center of town), we need to try out the city pool, and we want to check out the movie theater in town as well. If we leave without those things it's not a big deal but if we can do all three in addition to the meetings and things we've already planned we will have gotten the absolute most complete Kraljevo experience.
We can't wait to be home, but please pray that we can make the most out of our last week here :)
The music session with our new friend was fantastic. He brought over some of his favorite traditional Serbian classic albums and they're beautiful. I've made a Serbian playlist on my iTunes already and plan on having it on repeat as soon as I get home. We also shared some American music with him and he knew a few of the more recent popular songs so we sang those together and had a lot of fun laughing about that.
Later that night we met back up for laser club, round 2 with party girl. It was the same as before but a little better because we had rested up well before and knew what we were getting ourselves into. The music wasn't as loud and we were able to dance a little more freely having felt out the place the first time around. By "dance a little more freely" I mean that we bobbed our heads more noticeably and would sometimes venture into actually moving from side to side. It was super hot but we made it til' 2 in the morning before heading back.
The sports fest that we were going to begin this week has been completely cancelled. There just wasn't enough happening to actually do it and the volunteers decided that it wasn't worth the trip if only a few teams had signed up instead of the expected 50 something. It's ok though because we know that God has something planned in place of that time. We definitely are in full swing with meeting friends we've made over the last month and want to give them as much time as we can before we leave. Now we are able to do that with more freedom. Still, the sports fest would have been great.
Please continue to pray for the missionary family in Belgrade. It could be any day now and it would be so exciting to be able to see the newest member before we fly home. We will be going to Belgrade to meet them sometime Friday, spend Saturday with them doing a quick tour of Belgrade, and then flying home early in the morning of the 12th, Sunday.
We have a few more things we'd like to do here in Kraljevo though and will do our best to knock them off our Kraljevo bucket list before Friday. We still haven't eaten a meal on the roof of the Tourist hotel (the tall building in the center of town), we need to try out the city pool, and we want to check out the movie theater in town as well. If we leave without those things it's not a big deal but if we can do all three in addition to the meetings and things we've already planned we will have gotten the absolute most complete Kraljevo experience.
We can't wait to be home, but please pray that we can make the most out of our last week here :)
Glad you're able to see God's providence in canceling the sports fest for something different and intentional. And now I can't wait to hear what you'll experience as you watch Him use all that's transpired so far in your final days there. I love you.
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