Thoughts, Roses, and Budapest

Hey Everyone,

Sorry for the lack of activity here. The schedule has been packed and it is hard to figure out where to begin, so I decided to start off with a quick story.

On Valentines Day, the boys in our DTS decided to make our day a little brighter by putting on a pleasant evening for us. Let me tell you, it was beautiful to see these brothers in Christ come together to honor us as sisters. They started off with individually walking us into the room and seating us at tables. They then proceeded to sing and do a dance for us, serve us cookies, and the icing on the cake was the fact that they had gotten roses for us, complete with an encouragement note rolled around the stem. They had planned some games to play as well. It was a sweet evening and I'm very thankful for these classmates of mine.

Some of the guys found their inner DJ

I think all events here end with a dance party. 

I am now in the middle of my eighth week here in Switzerland. It seems crazy to think of how quickly the time has gone by and how much we have covered in our classes. Because of this I have had a hard time figuring out what I should try to put on the blog. We've covered a lot of topics and had our minds blown numerous times by the new perspective offered to us by our many wonderful speakers.
I will share a thought with you from our speaker this past week. 1 Corinthians 13:13 says, "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." (ESV) This verse is quoted a lot, but have you ever really thought about what it says? It says that the greatest between faith, hope, and love is the best. So often we talk about faith, desiring to find leaders of great faith, to get to the level of the heroes of faith mentioned in Hebrews 11, and yet Paul says that love is greater than faith. Why then do we not spend as much time on seeking to be people of great love?


And last but not least, in just over three weeks I will be headed to Budapest, Hungary for the Outreach Phase of my DTS. I'm super excited to heading to Budapest and spending eight weeks serving the people in Budapest.

My Outreach Team - Left to Right (Top) Me, Cho, Courtney.
(Middle) Ester, Tyler, Rebecca, Emily, Kevin
(Bottom) David, Helen, Royce