::: Prayer Requests!!

- SAFETY!!! - A few nights ago, somebody tried to break into the guy's apartment. They walked back to their apartment after walking the girls home, and when they got their they couldn't open their door because something was jammed in it or something. There were scratches on the side of the wall by the lock and stuff so it looked like somebody tried to break it. They called the landlord and waited and slept in the stairwell for 2 hours in the cold until he showed up and then called the locksmith... ahh. Then last night we thought somebody tried to break into our apartment (the girls apartment) becasue one of the locks on the door was undone and one of the cabinets was broken off. It was scary and I was honestly raelly scared and scared to go to sleep last night... and on top of that walking around ont he sidewalks is really dangerous becasue the drivers here are INSANE! ... so just pray for safety and discernments as we walk around the streets every day. And pray for the casting out of fear and that none of us would be afraid.... that's important to not live in fear.


- HEALTH!!!! - Its cold here... a huge drastic difference from the humid gorgeous Hawaiian Islands. There is a lot of drowsiness due to the change of pace and jet-lag... so pray if you can for complete health and strength from the Lord... that's the only way we'll make it:)

So far its been an awesome adventure. We're getting used to the towns and the "Bizaars" (marketplaces) and the Beta Stores (grocery stores) and everything. :)

The people here are BEAUTIFUL... they're asian, with dark hair, but with like LIGHT GREEN/LIGHT BLUE eyes... its gorgeous!!
The locals here are very serious tho, you can tell they have come from a comm government because they walk around the streets and nobody smiles at each other... thus the Americans stick out like a sore-thumb. :) Its funny. But we're getting used to it.

I'm learning a little bit of Russian!! I've learned the whole Russian alphabet so far, and am practicing reading the signs on the stores and labels on things and such... its awesome!! I love learning a new language!!! :)

We met a lot of Kyrgyz University students a couple of days ago... they were SO cute and they practiced their english on us a lot. There would be like 6 students that came and surrounded each one of us and just bombarded us with questions... "Do you like America??" "Do you know Bred Peeet?" (Brad Pitt:) "You Singoo?" (Are you single:) "You come back to Kyrgyzstan yes? Bring your boyfren nestime yes?" :) They were so cute. I LOVED meeting them and getting to know them... that's been my favorite part of the trip so far and I'm looking forward to doing more stuff with them as the week goes on.

COOLEST STORY: The like VERY FIRST day we got here, we were walking around one of the Grocery stores and this random Kyrgyz man came up to this guy on my team named Will and he goes "Jesus loves you!!" ... it was COMPLETELY out of the blue!! Then he went up to this other girl on my team, my roommate Kelsey, and said "You loves Jesus yes? I love Jesus, Jesus loves you!!"
Reason why its such a cool story: You have no idea how dangerous that could be to say something like in a comm country... he had to know that we were Christians or something because the man just came up to us RANDOMLY and said that... SO dangerous but SO SO cool!! Its like Jesus was waiting for us here and Kyrgyzstan, and the first day we got here and were walking around, He was welcoming us and telling us He loves us:) That makes me so happy!

So yes. God is good. Thanks for your prayers and support... miss you guys! love you! :)