We have arrived!

Thank you all for praying. Our travel has been safe thus far. We finally reached our destination in Romania yesterday morning. We spent 2 days in Vienna after a long drive to NYC from Oswego and a layover in Madrid, Spain. Let's just say we were super tired. God has already blessed us so much. Our guitar (which we are using quite a bit for music ministry in the church and orphanges) did not arrive with us to Vienna. It finally arrived to the airport, but they never delivered it to the hotel. We left for Romania at 5 am and our airline was not yet open, so we didn't think we would get the guitar since it was a different airline. We stop and asked God to help us with this tool we needed for our mission. Low and behold when we got off the plane in Bucharest, Romania there was the guitar! We are now in a small village 2 hours north of Bucharest called Valleni de Munte. We were told we would not be able to take a shower for the 6 days we were here and would in essence be "roughing it". We got here to find we have exceptional accomodations with showers and the heat is not to bad here. Also, a little blessing for Austin and I is that the pastor's daughter and her husband are allowing us to stay with them together in their home!

Yesterday afternoon we got to go to the state orphanage here to play with the girl orphans their. We sang with them and practiced our very bad Romanian. We played games outside and I got to sit and talk with some of the older girl orphans. They are 18-21. Some of them had great English and we talked about what they liked and their relationship with Jesus. We will go back this afternoon. It is such a huge blessing to be there to love on them and give them the attention they are in such need of. Please continue to keep us in your prayers and I will keep this updated. I won't be able to put pictures on until I return, but it is beautiful here. We are in the mountains and there are lots of gardens and animals and some people even travel by horse and buggy! So surreal.