A video tape of our appointment service in September, DVD sermons from our church and some food packets to help make dinner a little easier and faster to prepare. When the doorbell rang, the postman was waving a package to let us know it wouldn't fit in the little slot of the mailbox! We're not sure what he would have done if we hadn't been home. Anyway, we're glad we were home and we admit Cile was like a child opening a birthday present! Thanks Elizabeth and Brennon! (Cile ate the Kraft macaroni and cheese on Saturday night when Glenn was out of town.)
Other than studying Hungarian, we try to get to know the folks as they come to the guest house in Budapest for medical care, vacations, meetings or for any other reason. Often it will be just one family member who has come to see a doctor, and it gets lonesome for them to have to fix meals in the guest house or go out to eat by themselves so they don't usually turn us down when we invite them to our house for a meal. This is right up our alley and what we love best! Anyway, it is helping us to get to know folks as they come and go, and hopefully, when we get to our Annual General Meeting in Poland (April) and Greece (June), some of these folks will talk to us! (Cile is paranoid that no one will befriend us because of the assumption that if you are talking to Member Care, you must have a problem.) We want to get to know them so that when they have a problem, they'll feel comfortable talking with us.
This is Milton. He is one of our newest friends and he was brave and kind enough to let us put his picture on our blog. Milton is originally from Brazil and has a heavy accent, but occasionally when he was talking, this slow drawl would come out of his mouth! It was such a strange sound, a Portugese accent with southern drawl! It turns out that he went to college in Alabama and picked up that wonderful southern accent!
Glenn left on Friday morning to go to another country to meet with a family so Cile had the whole weekend and house to herself and plenty of time to work on 10 projects she wants to complete before Kari and Jonathan arrive on April 6th. Cile spent 6 hours on Friday responding to emails and then the rest of the day doing laundry, organizing bookshelves, unpacking a couple of boxes and a little bit of painting. (cabinets, not pictures)
Laundry day at the Borders
While the husband is away, the wife will play. Cile left the house Saturday morning at 10 am with a friend, Kesha, to go downtown to do some shopping and didn't return until 7 pm! Fortunately, there is still money in the bank account and stuff still on the shelves. They took public transport (buses and trams) and had a leisurely day strolling down the famous Vacsi Street, eating lunch at Pizza Hut, stopping in all these cute little shops that Glenn and Darrin never want to go into, and then hitting a big grocery store. In the middle of the day, they entered a coffee shop (neither Cile nor Kesha drink coffee) and ordered an Oreo milkshake with real Oreos! (We've yet to find Oreos for sale here.) It was $5 and a big disappointment. It was crushed Oreo cookies and finely chopped ice! No milk. Not very sweet. Very expensive. Other than the milkshake, the day was wonderful, but Cile didn't get a lot of her projects done!
Doggie bags instead of boxes for left-overs
Still picking up coins!
Those of you who know Cile well know that she has this thing about picking up pennies (she prefers picking up nickles, dimes and quarters, but usually finds more pennies). She is saving all the coins she finds and maybe, just maybe, by time she retires she will have enough to do something special with the fortune. Unfortunately, the smallest coin here is worth about 1/2 of a cent! All that bending over for less than a penny. Money is to use for good purposes, but God doesn't want us to trust in money to provide for our needs; He wants us to trust in Him for that; He reminds us of that on every coin in America. Every penny I picked up was a reminder to me to Trust In God.
Glenn and I leave on Friday for Poland to attend our Annual General Meeting so our next update will have pictures from there! Each missionary or couple will have a 30 minute appointment with one of the 5 or 6 counselors to talk about anything they'd like to discuss. Please begin praying now for these families that we will meet. Pray also for this time of fellowship, worship and training. Cile will be facilitating a small group discussion on serving on the mission field with children with special needs, and she would appreciate your prayers for her! We will return on April 6th, which is the same day Kari and Jonathan arrive! (On Kari's blog, she has this cute little clock that counts down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until they come to Budapest! I'm as excited as she is but I don't know how to do the little clock-thing!)
See you in Poland next week!
1 comment:
Hi Mom! That picture of your goodies looks so strange! With the tablecloth and hutch behind it, it looks like Marietta!
Glad to hear you had a good week...and are still picking up coins. I passed one up the other day and thought of you. I think (I hope) you'd have passed it up too since it was under a "sidewalk decoration".
Love, K
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