Ahoj! (Hi to a friend)

Well, I made it! I am here in Zbraslav, which is a tiny little village on the outskirts of Prague, at the Farniks house. We left LAX on Monday at 6pm California time, then flew to Heathrow airport in London on a flight that was about 10 hours long. Fortunately, one of the girls on my team is just as crazy as I am, so I had someone to be silly with without disturbing anyone else. I have to make this semi=short, because the rest of my team is also wanting to use the Farniks laptop,but I will note the important details.

Once we got to Prague, at 6pm local time on Tuesday(which is 5 hours ahead of all of you in PA,) we met up with Autumn, the Farniks middle child, and Mr. Farnik. Then we split in half an I took the bus and metro with Autumn and 3 other girls while everyone else went in the Farniks van with all our luggage. After getting lost a couple of times, we finally made it to the Farniks house and had a REALLY REALLY good dinner made by Mrs. Farnik. We left early the next morning to catch a few busses to Prachatice, which is a small town at the base of the Sumava mountains, and toured for a while before going to Dobra Voda (Good Water) where we were until Saturday helping out with a conference on how to resolve conflicts biblically.

Our job was basically to take care of the Czech parents kids, most of whom did not speak English, while they attended the conference. We were teaching the kids about God and how He is the treasure that we look for our entire lives, with the help of translators of course. It was really difficult because we had only 5 translators and about 40 Czech speaking kids who needed instruction. But thanks to God for allowing some of the kids and parents to know a few words in English. My favorite fart of this last week was the last two days, when I was not the sole caretaker of Kubik, a one-year old Czech baby. I was able to spend the last two days with two small Czech girls, Terezé and Anezka both about 3 or 4, and teach them English words.

This week we will be teaching another VBS in Prague, which the Czechs call Praha, to a group of non-Christian kids. Since they have had little, if any exposure to the gospel, we would like to ask for you to pray for us as we try to teach them about God. And also thank God that we got here safely and that we got to see some of Prague and will continue to see more of it as the weeks pass. Safety is also a very important issue in Prague, as it is a very common place for pickpocketing, so prayer for that as well. I found out that I cannot upload pictures from this laptop, so that will have to wait until I get back to the States, but I will also be doing a presentation on August 31st in the adult Sunday school at church, so you can look at them then!
Čau čau! (bye,bye to friend)