5 Days at Sarata

April 24th, Thursday

Went to an Easter play at church, had tea and cookies afterward, goofed off when we got home dancing and singing




Tomorrow we are going to Sarata, a village not too far from Cupcui. We will be staying there around 5 days. The girls are SO excited. The house that we are going to stay in is the house Philip Cameron and his family first started taking the girls to before Stella's House. They say they love the house because it brings back memories.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MAY 1st, Tuesday

Hey! We're back! We had so much fun in the little village of Sarata Noua! It's so beautiful and peaceful out there, a small country village basically, very sweet neighbors, little village stores, goats, chickens, roosters and turkeys roaming the streets, horse and buggies...I loved it!!!!!! It was refreshing!!!!!!!!! I almost feel like I'm on vacation here! lol


April 25th, Friday

The first night was pretty uneventful, we unloaded, roamed around, and watched a movie

April 26th, Saturday

The fun began when Nina came to visit and brought fresh fish for lunch and might I add they were still alive as the girls started cleaning them! ahhhhhhh! lol

After lunch we walked to the Magazine (the store) to get icecream. And leisurely walked around taking pictures and goofing off.

Then we had some good old girlie fun doing french manicures, pedicures, messages, hair and makeup and back to back girlie movies...fun fun fun

April 27th Sunday

Easter in Moldova, another day of fun. We made friendship bracelets and necklaces and taught the girls a human video, In Return. They picked it up very quickly and loved it! We sat down with them and explained the meaning of the song. After Leah and I shared our personal testimony of a time when we gave something to God and He gave us so much more in return, we had the girls share as well. Their stories were similar as they shared through their tears about being in the orphanage when they were young and praying for a family to love them. And how God answered their prayers with not just any family, but the Cameron's, who all 13 of the girls call mom and dad and love dearly!

Later that night we had a Bible study and wow, God completely showed up! We planned on playing a few worship songs on my laptop but turned into many songs as God's presence fell and we were all in tears! God gave Leah and I words to pray over the girls as they were all broken before Him. It was such an amazing time! God is so good! After prayer and worship we read the story of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection in remembrance of the reason for Easter. We will never forget that night!...end of coarse ended the night with another movie

April 28th, Monday

Took a walk, Played games, had a traditional Moldovan lunch at the neighbors house. It was very good food, but some was very interesting! Lol. One of their special dishes here is to cook chicken and cover it in gellatin. Imagine jello that vaguely tastes like gravy, mostly without a flavor, covering your room-temperature chicken. It doesn't taste bad necessarily... just very different. The lady's husband was one of the funniest people Leah and I have ever met!
We all cuddled on the couch to watch yet another movie. lol

April 29th, Tuesday

This was an especially fun day. We all went to the Cupcuii Orphanage! Only 10 of the children were there. All the children, except for the kindergardeners, are sent to other people's houses to stay for a week, to celebrate the Easter holiday. All but 2 of the kids were in kindergarden so we went to visit them and give them candy after their nap.

At five, we all walked back to the orphanage and changed all the kids out of their school clothes and then we headed downstairs to an open area where we taught them the hit new game of "Duck Duck Goose!!!!" Of course we said all the words in romanian; you would think as many times as I said those words I would remember them! Lol!!!! Afterwards, somehow Leah and I became horses hawling kids on our backs all over the place. Lol!!!!! We LOVED it!!!!!!!!!!!

After dinner had another Bible study and worship with the girls, we taught them about Esther, some of them had never heard of her! It went great and the girls loved hearing her story, we tried to put a twist on it and tell it as if they were Esther, etc. Twas good

April 30 MY BIRTHDAY!!!!! :)

I had a nice peaceful morning, opened the cards my family sent with me, thank you mom dad karen and grandparents :), went home and then had a dinner at stella's 1 with a "surprise" birthday cake to celebrate my 21st birthday!!!!! The cake wasn't so much a surprise, because my new buddy, Vladuts (Nina's youngest son), made sure I knew they had just bought me a cake, lol!!! It's ok though, I absolutely love that boy!!!!! So yes, I had a nice birthday!!!!
May 1st, Thursday

slept in, washed clothes, came to the house, went to a huge market but it was closing early as they are still celebrating Easter, lol. We're going back tomorrow though. Arriving home it started to rain but Vladuts wanted to play football(soccer for the states) so we played in the rain for a while :) Had dinner, noodles in milk pretty much, I liked it alot!

Then Leah and I realized it was 8:50 and the bus's last rounds are at 9pm so we booked it to the bus stop, and missed the bus!:( oh well...I'm sure we were a sight to see as we were trying to walk back in the dark, both of us about to fall on our faces while slipping in the mud (it rained earlier), Leah tripping on the flat asphalt, go figure, hurting her ankle, me stepping into a huge puddle making a splash and both of us laughing and about to pee in our pants! lol, yeah, we're crazy!

So when we finally made it back to stella's house alive ;) we had a dance party with the girls, teaching them swing, the electric slide, and the cha cha slide, it was so fun!!!!

Well that's all for tonight! hope everyone is well! I can't believe I'll be home in 2 weeks! I really wish I could stay here longer, I'm really growing attached to these amazing young ladies!!!!!!


*Everyone please be praying for Raisa!!!!! She caught a virus so moved her to another room. To my unerstanding she is by herself in that room now. No one is allowed to see her. She is a fighter, and we are believing that she will soon walk in complete health and wholeness, as a testimony of how great and powerful our God is!!!!!!! By His stripes Raisa is healed!!!!!!The hospital here is not very modern. Kids here with TB walk around with thin masks and talk to other people in the hospital who are in the recovering process of TB. Five girls were staying in Raisa's room. There is not every good ventilation either.