Happy Birthday to Me!

So it is my birthday today! I am so thankful that I could spend it here in Croatia. As Katie said in the last blog, we had a party for me yesterday. I had lots of fun and I was glad for everyone that came. Today started off a little rough. Katie and I each had some readers not show, but after we contacted them, many rescheduled for a different time. We both had very good sessions this afternoon/evening. Katie and I talked about our readers and we both felt excited and hopefull for the ones we had today. While last week it was hard to start good conversations, today we both had some very good meaningful conversations. Praise be to God! He is Great! Although we still only have about ten readers each, we are still being contacted by new readers via our cell phone. We also plan to go to the University and high school later this week to advertise some more. Another cool thing is that some of my readers are adding me as a friend on facebook. I think that is great. It encourages me that I am building a good realtionship with them. I continue to pray for all the readers as well as the people of Croatia. I hope you are doing the same. Croatia is not alwasy the easiest place to evangelize. Ivan was telling me and Katie today about some of the difficulties. He reminded us that you can not measure the impcact of a church or mission trip by the amount of converts, church memebers or bible studies. The church here is small, but the members are all so very nice and friendly. Even the ones that only speak Croatian try to talk to Katie and I. It is very encouraging and I think that maybe we will be able to encourage them as well. I hope that through these LST sessions this year that someone will be touched and the church can grow some more. I would really like to see this church grow, it has so much potential, but I know that getting people away from their Catholic background is difficult. Tomorrow a few people from Dewy, Oklahoma are coming to visit for about a week. Katie and I will share the top floor with them, so we will have to remember to go to bed earlier again. It will be good for us to get some more rest. We have been staying up late talking. I feel like we are really bonding and I am very glad that we are here together. While today has not been a typical birthday for me, it is still one of my most memorable. Who else can say they celebrated their 22nd birthday in Zapresic, Croatia?

~ Stacey

One of my seed thoughts today was GOD CAN DO ANYTHING which comes from LUKE 1:37