Week Two

Sigh ... the weekend is here, but I still feel like I have so much to do! I'm leaving on Monday for Bratislava (just across the Austria/Slovakia border - about an hour away) and will be there until Thursday interviewing and taking pictures. I'm very thankful that I have the weekend to prepare for that. I need to fine-tune interview questions and review the history of the TWR office that I'll be visiting. It's their 20th anniversary with TWR, so I'll be highlighting their past and future with TWR and some of the (many) things that God has done through and for them. I'm excited to hear the stories and really get an inside view of the great things the Lord has done there. I almost feel like I snuck in somewhere - that I should be paying to hear and experience things like these!

I hope you got to see my pictures of Vienna on Facebook. I can't describe to you guys what it's like! There's so much to see and we only scraped the surface, so I can't wait to go back. I didn't go into any museums or palaces because we were really on the move, but we did manage to go into a couple of churches. Oh. My. Word. I've never seen anything like them. There is so much detail - I mean from the very bottom to the absolute top. It's not surprising that so many of them were hundreds of years in the making.

One of my co-workers was describing to me that the early Catholics wanted to give to God in the most honorable way they could which resulted in these incredible churches. Because they worked with such excellence and conviction, their monuments to God still stand. And I know we shouldn't make our focus the physical church over the spiritual church, but it did make me think about whether or not my spiritual efforts will stand for God. That's the way the body of Christ should be, though - so magnificent that it stands as a monument for ages to come (but of course not as a relic!).

Speaking of relics, I'm going to visit Lichtenstein castle tomorrow with some friends. It's my first time in a castle, so I'll probably do something embarrassing in my excitement. Pictures to follow (of the castle, not of the embarrassing thing I do ... but if I can catch it on camera I'll put it up).

But I think it's time for bed. I'm watching Switzerland and Honduras broadcast in German and I think it's the longest game I've seen yet. Bed sounds more appealing :)

So thanks for reading once again. Let me know if I can improve these blog posts in any way, jah? I appreciate that you even read my dronings so if I can make it more comfortable for you, let me know! Weidersehen!

"Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men" (Proverbs 22:29).