In Hungary

Well, I made it! I’m sitting on a train right now headed to Miskolc. It has been a long day. I was at the BART station at 2pm June 29, flew out of SFO at 6:50pm, landed in London at 1:00 pm the 30^th, and landed in Budapest at 6:00pm. Here’s the thing though; the plane to London was so small and there was no room for anything that I did not sleep at all! And there was no time to sleep on the flight to Budapest—I’ll get to that in a second. Now I’m on the train, its 9pm and I am tired! But all is amazing and I am so grateful and excited to be here.

So about my travels: I and others were praying for a specific thing for the flights—that I would make friends on the plane and not be bored out of my mind! So I get onto the plane at SFO and find out I am sitting between a guy and a girl, both probably in their early twenties. I sit down for a couple minutes and realized that these people were not ones to reach out; so I did. First I turned to the guy, Chris, and found out he was traveling to Finland for the first time. We talked for a couple minutes and then the plane started take off. Then I turned to the girl and asked where she was going. Turns out she was French and was heading back to Paris where she lives. She had just come from visiting her brother in San Francisco. Of course the conversation immediately switched to speaking in French and I don’t think I have to tell anyone how excited I was about that! So for the whole flight, I was talking back and forth with these two people, and even after the flight we stuck together until after getting through security in London.

Then on my flight to Budapest, I was sitting next to two girls, one who was part of a missions organization going to Debrecen to minister to refugees there, and the other a native Hungarian. We started talking about Hungary, the language, God, what Christianity means, I got a lot of good Hungarian language tips. It was perfect! I was so uplifted by my travels, even though I had not gotten a wink of sleep, that when I and Lili (who was helping me to get on the train I am on now) were running all around Budapest trying to find the right bus to the right train and it was hot and I was tired and sweaty, even through all that I’m still in a great mood and excited to God move even bigger and more astounding than He already has. Thank you all for your prayers and support. The best has yet to come.