Frauenfreizeit and Seth's birthday!

This last weekend I was gone again but this time for a women's retreat (I'm pretty excited to finally be home for this weekend). It was for Christian women within our state, Tirol. There were 65 women there! It was really cool to meet so many women pursuing God. Many were from Innsbruck but there were only three that were from our church. It was great meeting women that are attending the other churches in Innsbruck as well as many of the mom's of our youth kids. We had a speaker from Germany that was speaking on how to hear God's voice. I really enjoyed what she shared and a lot of it was challenging and very practical for growing closer to God so we can better distinguish when He is calling us to do something. I was sharing a room with Cathrin (our team leader's wife) and had a really good time getting to know her better and getting the opportunity to talk through my thoughts about our baby's birth and what facility we would want to go to. She had a lot of great input and shared different possibilities that I hadn't heard of yet. Since then Seth and I talked it over and we now have a plan and will be taking tours and meeting with those that we will need to over the next couple weeks. So if everything goes according to plan and we like this idea as much as we think we do, we will have an official plan about 7 weeks before the baby is due :)

Tomorrow is Seth's birthday! Normally in the states we would celebrate together and then normally have a meal with each of our families to celebrate (not always on our birthday). Knowing that we wouldn't get that chance to celebrate with our families (at least not for the next couple months), we planned a party, inviting just about everyone we know here. You can pray that it will be an encouraging time and lots of people will come to help celebrate! Seth is also organizing a football game as well. He would normally try to do this each year around his birthday in the states. It was always something that he really enjoyed and there weren't too many injuries. Here though very few people actually care about football or even know the rules. There are a few guys that said they would be coming and lots that said they would maybe come. Please pray that enough people will come for them to play football (although if they didn't have enough they would play basketball and Seth is fond of that too) and that it functions well with so few people knowing how to play.

Please also continue to pray for our team. Dave is still sick, which is 2 weeks now! He has a conference that he needs to attend at the start of November. The plane tickets are already bought, please pray that he is healthy enough to go.

Thank you all for your prayers!

Alyssa