A Day of Firsts!!!!

I got my first piece of real mail here today, a dear friend sent me a couple of CDs from her church. I know this sounds trivial, but it is still nice to get real mail now and then. And last week I finally got a *real* bed, and not one that’s 6 inches off the floor either, but a real grown-up bed. It’s funny about the things you miss and how much you appreciate them when you get them. I do have to say I’ve been sleeping *so* much better.

Today I was on T.V. !!! With Pastor Mitko of Kazanlak!
It’s funny because when I was in the states in Jan. I visited this same friend’s church (the one who sent me mail) and someone there had prophesied over me telling me that I would be on T.V., and now, here you go! I don’t usually put any stock into a prophesy from someone I don’t know, but when he was prophesying I was like: "ok is this the Lord??? ". And then the anointing was all over me, and he started telling me things that he could have had no idea of in the natural. And when he was saying that I would be on T.V. I was thinking "This is awesome because I can’t speak the Bulgarian langage, but we can use it for Mitko, Georgian and others that to get the gospel out!!! ".

So I was like, ok let’s see what happens here. And when I got back to Bulgaria, Mitko told me he had started doing these 5 min. spots on TV every week! Someone had donated the money to pay for the cost of getting 5 minutes a week on air. When you pay the money the film crew and comes out to the hood and films Mitko outside the church. The money is all spent on the TV time now, so now we are believing God for the finances to continue so Mitko can continue preaching on TV. Thankfully the station gave him a super cheap rate because he is a Gypsy and they know Gypsies have no money. So we’ll just see what Jesus does about it.


And I guess I should have started with this story………… last night in church it started out as normal, I was talking to the kids and this sweet elderly woman that I love very much, her and I just connect. We both love to worship and drink the Holy Ghost!!!! Oh, I just have to tell you this story about this same woman: The Gypsies do this thing where when they are, like, kissing your cheek, they suck in your cheek and then they bite! And the other day, my old lady friend, she went to kiss me and did that suck/bite move on me. It totally caught me off guard, needless to say, and I must have had this surprised look on my face cause she started motioning concern like "Did I hurt you?!" And she’s all rubbing my check, and all concerned that she caused me pain. You have to understand that the majority of her teeth are broken off (!!!) so when she bit me...and as she's all concerned she is showing all those broken teeth to me, she thought they hurt me! And I just started to laugh and laugh because that wasn’t it at all - it just caught me off guard and freaked me out! - You have to imagine the scene: Here she is, not knowing any English, and there I am, and I only know a little Bulgarian, so I’m trying to explain to her "oh no - your crazy teeth didnt hurt me - that’s not it - it just freaked me out." So I pray you can picture this, the sign language, the chopped up sentences, because of the language barriers, and the hysteria of joy all at the same time.

So back to last night, when worship had ended we sat down, and as soon as I sat down next to her I was totally over come by the Holy Spirit and I just started laughing, laughing, laughing so hard!!!!! (If you know me you totally understand.) So the pastor puts the microphone in my face to amplify my laughter, which always only makes it intensify. So I ended up falling onto my old woman friend's shoulders, and I’m still laughing! and now I’m crying because I’m laughing so hard! So she takes her scarf off and begins to wipe my tears from my face, which in turn only made me laugh more because the whole time I’m thinking: "THIS SMELLS! and I need to make sure I wash my face when I get home!" Which is so insane because why *wouldn’t* I wash my face when I get home?! and what a thing to think of in such a time?!?!?!?!?!?! And now the whole church congregation is just going off the hook in hysterics! It reminded me of the beginning days of Revival in our church, when services were always a roar of laughter and joy, as a friend would have called it a JOY EXPLOSION! *SO* the next thing I know is that the Lord is wanting me to pray for this man in the church that I know is sick, and I get up to do it, and then several others are wanting me to pray for *them*, and then the Pastor is calling all the youth up front for us to pray for, and need I say, within a few minutes there are bodies EVERYWHERE! Some are shaking, some, whom I know are not saved, are in this line, and as I’m praying for them I can feel their hearts beating so fast! And the look on their faces is beyond words! And then there are the others that are so just hungry for more. Oh my!!!!, what can you say about times like these?! I so wish that I was better about putting into words the things that I see. I’m so blessed to be a part of. I just pray that as you read this you are able to get some sense of what happened here in the last 24 hours. The Lord keeps saying to me ”winds of change” and I guess it has begun…………