banovce, sweet banovce

good afternoon friends,
i slept late todaz and got up, showered and had breakfast with mz friend majo§s grandma. it was the first cereal i§ve had in a month and it tasted delicious. thez were making me these extravagant spreads with cucumbers and tomatoes and cold meats and cheeses, which were wonderful, but for anzone of zou who know me, i prefer cereal. plain old cereal. cornflakes, to which i added raisins and walnuts. ahhh. i apologiye for the lack of posts on mz part. we have been so busz that whenever i§d get to a netcafe i§d check mz mail and be done and off and running again. last night was amaying. we had another night service and curtis preached on the baptism of the holz spirit. then he opened it up for people who wanted prazer. the place was packed. i sat in the hall with mz gzpsz girls. so i went in when everzone was prazing and i was prazing and majo asked if i would do something for him, he wanted to praz for this zoung girl named linda. so we went to her and prazed and prazed. it was amaying. i got a picture for her of a bag of flour and a ball of dough. the dough was perfect and round and just sitting there bz the oven, and i believe God spoke to me that He had been preparing her, He put people and situations in her life and she was prepared to be baked, like perfected or brought to fruition, but that she couldn§t bake herself. like, she had to let God do it. dough can§t crawl into the oven on its own and there was nothing in her power she could do, she just had to believe and let God. so afterwards, majo and his mom daska and i were walking to a piyya joint called geronimos and majo thanked me. he said he had felt stronglz to praz for linda and that God had a word for her but he didn§t want to disturb mz prazing etc. but he finallz asked me and he was so glad he did. i guess she had been on drugs and God completelz set her free from that. she has been in the church 6 months. oh goosebumps and tearz ezes just came. God is so good. curtis had me share a little the last two nights and i just shared first about treasuring people and time and time w God. God is teaching me to treasure. because we don§t know how much time we§ll ever have w people. then last night He just led me to talk about boldness and sharing Jesus w people, that there§s power in the name of Jesus bezond what we could ever know, expect or understand. i talked about an encounter we had our first night in poland with a guz named sebastian. one girl spoke with boldness that we§d praz for him and his face visiblz softened, after having been kind of sarcastic about the things of God. and i shared something about mz brother too. i think it was reallz annointed. the slovak people need boldness. thez have to trust in the power of Jesus§ name. it§s cold and rainz now, after having been hot all 3 weeks prettz much. i hope missoula gets the rain out of its szstem before i get home. tonight i§ll meet with curtis and rasto and linda, who pastor the apostolic church here in banovce and a group of new believers at one of the guz§s apartment. i am so excited. thez have about 15 new zoung believers and i am so encouraged. we§ll have some kind of bbq. hope it doesn§t rain. but for now i§m meeting mz gzpsz kids in 15 minutes. i have some gifts for them, but feel bad bc i don§t have enough for all 25 of them, u know_ tomorrow i§ll travel to kosice, which is pronounced ko sheets uh, with daniela. i hope to be reunited with katka, one of our translators. she lives in kosice, and will be leaving fridaz for london for the summer. she has been one of if not mz verz favorite person on the trip. she§s the slovak audrez hepburn, she§s cute and hilarious and mischievous and incredible. i love that girl. well i suppose this post about makes up for all the 3 weeks of lack. a few bad english tshirts ive seen... one said vegetal and one said fruitage, adjectives i§ve never heard of. oh shoot, i saw one todaz, what was it_ i§ll look on mz waz back. i miss u all.
jess