Great Day

The past few days have been a little difficult.  The heat plus exhaustion plus the heat plus cultural confusion plus even more heat equals a difficult few days.  Today was quite wonderful, though. I don't have much time to post pictures, but I'll try to get a few on here right quick like.

I want to introduct you to a few of the people we have met so far.

This is Peter.  We ate lunch with him today.

His great-grandfather came to Hungary from--of all places--TEXAS.  He is a very friendly young man.  His English is terrific; he began learning it by watching English-speaking cartoons when he was three or four.  Peter is also exceptionally smart; he wants to study at Cambridge and dreams of becoming a surgeon so he can help people.  Will you pray for Peter? 

This afternoon, I had the privilege of attending "tutor time" with these great people:

Meet Agi, Lilla, Rebaka, Orsi, and Ingrid.  Ingrid is my discipleship leader, and the other girls are Hungarian students who are campers at SpeakOut this week.  Today, we played games and talked girl talk.  Oh, and I got to share my testimony with them :)  AWESOME time!!!  These girls were so sweet, and they reminded me so much of my students back home.  Their topic of discussion in one of their meetings today was "Guy/Girl Relationships."  Ingrid and I shared some with them about how we met our husbands and such.  The girls were so cute--they "ooh-ed" and "aaahh-ed" and squeeled just like my girls back home did.... When I told them that Phil was my first and only real boyfriend, they all squeeled and said, "AAAAWWWWW!!!  SO-O-O SWEET!!!" --just like my students:)  I think one of them may have even done the happy clap thing, too.  (You girly-girls probably can imagine what I mean.)

Ingrid is a huge baseball fan, and Hungarians don't play much baseball.  So, we went outside for some catch and batting practice.  This was the first time they'd ever put on baseball gloves and picked up baseball bats.  They were great!

Tonight was our staff scavenger hunt.  We staff members and our families dressed up in costumes and "hid" in town and by the beach.  The campers had two hours to find us and to collect as many staff signatures as possible.  We dressed up in military camoflauge.  I have pictures, but I can't post them just yet.  The great part about the evening was that our waitress at the cafe where we "hid" came to have her picture made with us, and then she kept coming back to our tabe to talk with us about SpeakOut and about God and her beliefs.  Someone else from camp had spoken with her yesterday, we spoke with her tonight, and then she ended up speaking with our friends Tomo and Betti and THEN with the national director of Campus Crusade's work in Hungary!  Please pray for her--her name is Ranni.

We also found out that four people in town accepted Christ today, thanks to the witness of some of our campers and staff!  Thanks for all your prayers and encouragement!  Gotta run!