World's.Worst.Blogger.

No, you are not mistaken...it has in fact been almost five months since I've posted. I'd like to blame it on not having internet at home, but that problem was resolved two months ago, so I am excuse-less. The problem now is that so much has happenend I couldn't possibly fit it into one blog post without overwhelming you all, or potentially causing the entire website to crash with an overload of information. So I have come up with a plan... and that plan is to summarise.greatly summarise. Let's see how it goes...

I had an amazing Christmas. My first away from my family but that wasn't as difficult as I'd thought it would be, largely due to the sense of being a family unit and not just a church here. I also cooked a Turkey for the first time..and successfully at that might I add, despite cooking it upside down because I just simply had no idea which way is up on a raw Turkey. but it turned out well and there were no bouts of food poisoning... to my knowledge.

Then came the new year, which I brought in with Pastor Imir, Janette and Gabriel (sharing our first of many new years together, I hope). Word to the wise if you ever find yourself in Kosova over New Year: Full body protection will probably be neccessary if you plan on roaming the streets around midnight. Thanks to the lack of health&saftey regulations the sky looked like it had been tie-dyed with the fireworks...which were being shot off peoples balconies. Yes, from their balconies. What a crazy bunch of people...although I guess that means I'm crazy too since I'm living in the midst of them :)

Then on the 16th of January, on my three month anniversary of moving to Kosova, something really great happened. Lois Shields stepped off a plane.into Prishtina airport.to come be my roomie for a little while.And with her she brought copious amounts of snow...snow blizzards, snow storms, feet upon feet of snow. Freezing, fluffy, fun snow. I loved it...for the first three weeks..then I just really wanted to be able to walk down the street without being at risk of freezing or falling. But for the most part it was wonderful.

Then it cleared and we got back to normality. Sarah and I were able to get into a real swing of things with our English courses again and the church felt more vibrant and alive. The spring has been a real joy so far, and I've even broken out my flip-flops on several occassions (despite being looked at like I'm a crazy woman for it...they don't realise it but March here is like the hottest summer for N.I...mkaes me nervous for the hot summer months though.eeek!)

So, now comes my favourite part of sharing for my blog. Prayer requests...
- relationship building with our English students. they're such wonderful people.
- monthly women's meetings. we want this to be a real opportunity for outreach.
- Lois's work with the autism centre.
- all of the missionaries in the church. that a renewed energy will come with the spring time.
- for Pastor Imir&Selim, and for their wives and children.
- all ministries.
- new ministries.
- revival.

So as Easter week is upon us and we come to celebrate the incomprehensible love, death&life of Jesus let us all be willing to walk in boldness and shine for Jesus. He died for us, let us not be ashamed to live for Him.

 Mountain-esque pile of snow which we waded through, just to get out of the house.

 There's nothing quite like a power-cut in the middle of winter, when your heating is electric. Looks pretty though :)

 Due to the weather we had to cancel a lot of our classes :(

 Some traditional food which you eat with your hands while sitting on the floor. This picture cannot portray just how incredible it tasted.

Enjoying the fresh air and shinning sun :) some quality time with Janette and Gabriel.