Let me try and catch up...

Things have gotten pretty crazy pretty fast around here. I am going to attempt to organize my thoughts a little more. Ok,

For work:

    I work with three guys: Jonny, Dorel, and (the other one XD). Here is a picture of them (Dorel is on the right)! My name when I work with them is "Little" for several reasons. =D 1: There is a popular TV series starring "Little Will". 2: I am much younger than them. 3: Dorel cannot remember my name being "Will" so he calls me little instead. =D We have been working on insulating and sheetrocking the top of this house as seen below. Waking up early and finishing at sundown. When finished it will house whole teams of vollunteers when they come to help each summer. This will also open up more space for more orphans.

    I dont know yet what all the purposes of this house are, but I suspect it will be used a lot!

    If you want to do some home improvement, then you should really talk to these guys in Romania. They know how to get a job done. XD Let me show you a little Romanian home improvement project that we began today. The front door to the orphanage is broken and needs to be replaced. Well lets take it out yeah? How about like this! (Video)

     That, my friends, is how you do things the Romanian way! We just replaced the whole door frame and got a bigger door. But there is no door in place at the moment! =D HAHAHAHHAHA

    So as some of you may have seen on Facebook, I went with some of the group here to a tongue speaking church. I was unable to take pictures or anything, which is fine. But I have never been to a church like that before. We walked in to a structure no bigger than a small house painted a strange assortment of peach and cyan. Inside everyone was on their knees in front of their seats talking aloud. And a man dressed in all black was at the front looking happy and was indicating for us to sit in the front. Now this is probably where you should know something about me. I see life through a humorous lens, and when I tell stories of happenings, I poke fun at different things that I thought were funny. I also tend to over exaggerate a little bit for comedic effect. Many of you in Bozeman, and even some of you in Romania probably practice tongue speaking. I fully believe that it does happen and it is genuin, However, I also have other opinions about it that I won't talk about here. In no way do I mean any bad things about the practice, but I am going to tell you about what it was like going there for the first time.

    HOLY LANTA MOTHER OF PEARLS AND ALL THINGS UNBELIEVABLE! That is about what went through my mind as I was walking up to the front. I glanced over at the way up to the balcony as a tear of longing dropped from my eye. Arne, Jonny, and all the girls got on their knees and started praying I guess. So, without hesitation, I did the same thing, but faced a wall and got comfortable. Oh my Bonkerville it was LOUD. People yelling... lots of yelling. There was this old guy, like from the Roman Empire era, singing behind me. It was something along the lines of "God you are praised, God you are..." This very point in time is when I said a prayer to God, "God, what the heck did I just get myself into... Why?? What is the purpose of this?" Five minutes pass, no relent, and my knees are hurting. At this time, I began stealing glances from my position. I would wait until the man in black was looking away to learn more about my surroundings. Then some men started singing. It sounded more like chants because there was a lot of repetition in what they said. But remember, I cant understand that much! XD I noticed on one of my glances that one of the singers was staring at me, giving me a dirty look. So I played it off cool, you know, acting like I was doing something holy. Yeah, It was so loud, I could not hear myself think. I had such a hard time even talking to God.

   Finally, after what seemed like a mother hugging hour, the chants up front stopped and everyone sat in their seats. It got really really quiet. "Now that that is over, maybe I can sing some songs!" I thought. After the man in black said some things everyone got back down on their knees. Ohh I wanted to say "poopy" soooo bad. However, I was a little more smart about it this time. I stood up! YES! Some other people were doing it, that means I had the GREEN LIGHT BABY!! Well, I swear this next time was a little louder and lasted about 5 times as long. AND THE ENTIRE TIME, THAT ONE SINGER GUY WAS GLARING AT ME. Ohhhhh snap, I think I need to reconsider my stratagy. Just then I looked down and noticed that someone was recieving a phone call. Yup the phone was RIGHT next to me, and ringing. But that is ok, no one else could hear it. Ohhh the temptation to just hit the green button. XD HEHEHEHEHE noo, I am being watched by chantsville up there. Another day passed and the chanting stopped and we sat down. This is when I took the time to pray. I thanked God profusely that it was over... At that moment Jonny leaned over and told me that the man in black said, "May the Holy Spirit descend on this place and rest here..." Oh no, God, I appreciate humor, but sometimes Your's comes with a knife on the back! After chuckling inside myself, the pain began. Ahhh HA! I have this solved! I will just sit the whole time! BOOM. so I did. Except this time... This time was the big mama. Screaming! Everyone was Screaming! Clapping randomly! OH NO MY EAYEAEYEYEAEYEARS!! This is when it hit me. God used Paul to speak different languages if it was needed, so what if i listen for English! No one here is going to speak English unless they are speaking through tongues right? So I prayed, "God, if I am missing something here, now is a really good time to tell me because no one else would understand, and I could really start opinionating tongues correctly!" So I listened, listened, listened.... All I heard was the man in black yelling at Maria with his hand over her head, and a lot of annoying sound. Not a lick of english. Then finally for what seemed like several months, it ended. The man in black talked about me a little bit(he looked at me and said "American" and "Happy" in Romanian obvously).

    Then we left. That whole event left me tired, sad, frustrated, and confused. None of those are emotions I have an easy time connecting with God about. (My favorite emotions are, hope, love, fear, humor, anger, and distress because I find it really really easy to connect with God there)

 -Was it genuin? Yeah, i believe so. They seemed like they were dedicated to Christ.

 -Is that something I will try? Sure, alone in my room when not a soul is around.

 -Is it completely necessary to follow Christ? Absolutely not.

Please, I know that I will never be 100% correct. This is my blog so a kind of window into my thoughts deal. I respect the people who do this for sure. But Matthew 6:6 says, "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

What do you think? =]

Ping Pong People!

So much is going on! Its hard to write enough about all of it! Oh man, well let me get started with this.

On sunday, I played the drums for church! It is so much fun getting back into the swing of things with music. The only problem is that they have a different genre that they like that i must say... I am not too fond of. XD I will try to find a link in the future for you to listen too. But I continue to play it to my best ability and play it regardless of how much i like or dont like it! =] 

And after that (and some sleep talking during the day and stuff)((I was told that I laughed and talked in my sleep)), the group I now call "my peers" came over and we had a ping pong party! Yay!

It is a huge blessing to have a group of friends here! And they are so funny too. Needless to say though, I only won an game. YEAH AN GAME! But that was fine! =D We also practiced dance moves, swing dance moves, and wrestling. Can you guess who lost at wrestling?? =] Oh yeah, and Ninja.

On monday, I went to Maria's school. The classes are set up like at Heritage Christian. Each class has certain students in each grade, they all travel together in one group between classes. I went to, YOU GUESSED  IT, English class and Computer class (T.I.C.) English class was, lets be honest, a pretty easy class even though the teacher left about 15 minutes into class. XD So I played Tic Tac Toe with Naomi the rest of the time. When that class finished, we all went to Facebook Class. (T.I.C.) We all chose a computer and sat down, turned it on, and got on facebook. =D HAHAHAHHHAAHA ONLY THE GREATEST CLASS EVAR!!! The teacher was grading things I guess??? I dont know but Naomi and I shared a computer, played Cats vs Dogs, and watched "Just for Laughs". It was seriously the most fun I have ever had in 50 minutes, except maybe paintballing. That stuff is INTENSE!

The rest of the day, I am working on construction. Lots of insulation (Vata) needs to be put in. That is what I do for most of my days!

Also, for the first time.... Someone called, "MASA" which means it is time to eat. So I went to the table and sat down. And there were things... things on a plate. I was like, "Ce este?!" When I picked up a fin. Then i realized it was a headless cooked fish. XD Oh this is new! Picking out the bones was not working. I ended up mutalating (SORRY SPELLING) the poor fish. Then Nuti tried to show me how to do it. Lets just say I swallowed a lot of fish bones. I was still hungry and there was a little bowl of soup next to me. "Oh, some soup!" I thought... Nope, after chugging down half of it, I realized that my mouth was on fire and that it was a sort of onion/garlic/nasty mix of things. I sprinted to the sink gaging! HAHA All this kids started laughing. =] I almost puked everywhere, and I came back to a laughing room. Well that was interesting!

I am trying to keep up with everything on my blog. I want to take more pictures and stuff. Put any requests in the comments below!

OHHHHH! And i caught Larry! He is now in a Jar in my room. I am going to find out what he is and then let him into the wild!

My Precious!

Well, let me just show you a normal clip of me doing ...... normal things.....

Yeah, so that happened. I think it might be because Roxana has not given me my ring back. Thats ok, patience is a virtue. =D

So I took a trip downtown with Jonny recently! And for those of you who wanted to see... Here it is, the Cathedrial! (im sorry spell check doesnt work right now)

Sorry, the door was locked and lights were off. X.X And i promise i have a video for you, i just have to get it uploaded. XD

So WILL, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING FOR YOUR DAYS OVER IN DAT DER COUNTRY?!?! Well Chris Cooper, I have been working construction. XD Yes, construction. We have been putting up insulation and sheetrock for the new place that is being built. I had some pictures but we cant find the camera that took them. Well that is lame! But it has been hard work bringing all the insulation, sheetrock, and I expect more up the 3 flights of stairs to the top of the building. But God has been giving me a happy heart regardless! I usually dont like physical labor, and I want that to change. So it is really cool to see God changing my heart in the small things. =D

Also I tried to take the kids into the church to teach them some music. Well i forgot how hard it is to teach when I dont speak their language. So it turned into a free for all more or less. =D I DID, however, get them all to play Amazing Grace around the same time! So, close... then today an ACTUAL teacher came in and taught the kids. THANK GOD! I guess he heard that I was a drummer and willing to teach Florin the drums. So I sat down and tried to teach him. But here is the thing.... Florin is notorious for having absolutely no attention span. That guy has sooo much energy and is about 11 years old, and he really does not like to show respect to anyone. If he were to focus all his energy toward a single thing, he would learn it almost instantly! So at first it was quite frustrating, while the teacher was teaching others, every 5 seconds telling him, "Tu nu cind acum!" "Ai rubdare!" and "Gata!" which in very bad Romanian grammar means "You no play now" "Have patience" and "Finished/ready". So, I was getting tired of saying all those things over and over, but I didnt want to get angry or anything so i thought of another plan! I told him to play on the chair next to him until he is supposed to play. He started WAILING on that chair so hard! It still made noise but it was sooooooooo much better than him hitting the snare drum constantly as hard as he can! After that, I told him, "MERGEM!" (We go) and I ran around the orphanage with him. When we came back, the teacher looked over and gave me a thumbs up. =] Over all, Florin has a lot of raw ability to play. The only things holding him back are his mindset(he doesnt feel like he can play the toms because they are like new territory for him) and his attention span. None the less, I still love him! He is a really neat guy and is also really really smart! Please keep him in your prayers!

My heart has been in turmoil, My mind is running too fast.

An interesting thing has been happening to me ever since i came. In America, sin happens and it is hard to pin point where exactly it comes from a lot of the time! So many things happened, so many things are pulling our eyes away to watch, ears away to listen, hearts away to socialize. Something goes wrong and I said, "I better not do THAT next time." But that is not how it is here. Simple, very simple. Easy, in a difficult way.

(take this next part how you want to, but this is what i felt)

Why is my heart in turmoil? Well, I have confronted not only my sin, but my inner evil desires. In my prayer, God rattled the bees nest. My sinful nature made a cameo. I felt all the horrible, awful desires and longings that i had been "neglecting" over the past weeks. It was angry, I was angry. My flesh was enraged but I knew God was with me, protecting me from myself. I let myself loose on the keyboard infront of me. I literally met the side of me I hate, face to face. Honestly... I felt like Golem from Lord of the Rings ironicly enough.

You think you are doing good. Doing ok, doing fine... Until you meet yourself. It's not something I want to do again. I still dont really understand why God would love me after that. He has every right to leave me behind, forget about me. I deserve it! I totally do! Yet for some reason... that I will never fully understand... You pick me up, tell me You won't let go, and hold my hand as I begin to learn how to   walk again. 

Absolutely incredible!

Some cooooool cats!

Ahhh, fresh air! So crisp, clean, and humid. Not like Florida but still there is an annoying humidity (compared to Montana). Sometimes, Ill just sit down for a minute, wherever i am at, and just talk to God. Life is good here. Its simple, straight forward,, easy to connect with God, and really silly too. XD For example, down here people are notorious for being on Facebook... ALL THE TIME! =D Men want romantic relationships, and the women just want their cars. Just hilarious stereotypes and stuff!

So, I think i am going to put Larry in a jar.... BEFORE he reproduces. =]

And speaking of pet friends, My new friend is this sweeeeeeety kitty!!!!

I named her Pessic! You call her by rapidly alternating the sounds of "S" and "P". She will come to a specific spot in the basement and expect food from you. However now that i gave her food, then showed her what it is like to be pet and held and loved. Now when i call her, she doesnt even ask for food! She just walks up to me and follows me! She is so cute and such a sweetie.

Today we started work on the house that is being built. I met the two other guys who brought a TON of insulation that we had to carry up several flights of stairs. We started on, and will continue to work on taking the existing sheetrock down and putting in insulation. Its not extremely hard work, but Josh Pummel definitely made a name for himself here! Even the two sheetrock guys said they loved Joshua. XD

Now there is a kid here who is 7 years old, he goes by "Nin" (pronounced Neen). This kid is just too smart for his age. Like seriously, he figures out any game, electronic device, or trick in less than a minute. For his weekends, he goes to *Not sure, but it might be a friends house or his parents house* and he will play Counterstrike, Starcraft 2, and such. During games of Sandwich, I swear he has his deck memorized! He has quickly figured out that the Jack is the most powerful card along with other face cards. And every time he lays a card down first, its ALWAYS a Jack. Plus he will know sometimes a sandwich is coming before he lays down his card. We have frequently caught him cheating, but somehow he still does it and most of the time we dont notice. He gets really upset when I ask him to give me his deck so i can shuffle it, so mad in fact that he will yell or start crying. He really needs prayer because he has the potential to be a very good professional thief. God has blessed him with incredible smarts! I hope God is glorified with them.

And just last night, I got to hang out with cool people. =D While Jonny slept and Maria played Dota 2(silly Maria is addicted =D), Naomi and I goofed around on Youtube and Facebook for like 3 hours. Naomi is awesome and hilarious! And Naomi drew on Jonny. This is a picture of a pen stache. Much more was drawn on him though. XD

So that was awesome!

Any questions? SHOOT ME A FACEBOOK MESSAGE OR EMAIL DUDE! =D

Until next time! Dont smell your feet, that is gross.

Oh no! My ring is gone!

Thats right folks, my ring is MIA. But hopefully I will get in back today. XD

It all started around the same time as our little party shananiganry with the movie. I was sitting next to six girls (added for dramatic effect) and watching an Adam Sandler movie (one of his more clean ones). My redhead friend had watched me drift off into the abyss of women on the couch where moving up there caused me a bloody back (Lame little planks of wood that surround the beds jabbed my back) BLOOD HAPPENED! it was epic. Now I have set the conditions for this occurrence.

So there is this girl named Roxana.... She is the thief! After Maria took it to see it (Both sitting near by), Roxana put it on her finger and left with it! Oh man, how dare she! Just kidding. ;] but really, I can now say she has stolen my purity........... ring. XD HAHAHAHA LOLOL OHH THAT IS A GOOD ONE!

Anyways, I write you from the Camera de Zi. Translated "Day room". Ok ok, ill just show you.

There! You happy Jacky? cool, good to know.

So today i will probably be going to Maria's English class with her today! XD Ironic... my worst class was ENGLISH. Thats ok. Maria made a deal with the teacher yesterday that if she brought me to class, then she would get out early that day. Well she did so now i get to go and tell people what my last name is. And maybe speak in English, and be understood. =D yay!

And I got to feed pigs. They are loud when they are hungry...... =O

Paradox of the Day: Sarcasm is my best friend... =3

My roomate! And an interesting observation!

Well This is kinda an interesting story!

So I had been having dreams about a spider... Every single night... Long legs, small body, tan/whitish completion, perfect recipe for a mean lookin spider. So this morning when i woke up, I was determined to find the little bugger, no pun intended. ;]  And guess what i found.....

So I promptly named him Larry!!!!!!!! He is my roommate!!!!

Now you may be asking in a grumpy upset, slightly scared voice, "WHY HAVE YOU NOT KILLED HIM YET???????" Well that is a fair question good sir/ma'am. Think of it this way, he is one of the few things I have to remind me of home. Everything is so DIFFERENT, but he is not. Larry is just the same as back home.... Maybe a bit bigger (A lot bigger actually) But he holds memories!!!

One of the other big things that reminds me of home is this; people who can speak English really well. First and foremost, Maria Urs (Bear translated ^^) she is so awesome wanting to speak English around me and helping me out so much. Thank you Maria!!!!!!! And Jonny Farcal!!! He is a stud and a half if i ever saw one!!!! super neat guy!!! <3

Now for an observation.... OBSERVATION OK

So people, you take this or leave it however you want but I am allowed to make this observation as a gentleman and a man. Every single girl here is BEAUTIFUL! I have never seen one who is my age and not super pretty. Its seriously the strangest thing ever.

Now with that said, being pretty is nice, but the heart is what matters. So, no cake for you Felicity. Muncesc.

Anyways, I was just hanging out with people in my age group, and they are super funny and I can kinda communicate with them (mostly with Maria's and Jonny's help). But it is so nice to fit in around here!

Keep them in your prayers, i dont know specifics and i cant remember their names. But pray for them and the kids here. Life can be frustrating for them.

Until next time, try tipping your waitress 100% just once this week! Try it.

Now for the Fun!

Read the previous post! It leads into this one!

So, I just realized that I have a limited posting space on this tablet so I have to split it up between certain sizes

So after Jonny showed me my room, he asked me if i was hungry... Oh no, I see God... Everything is going to be fine except for the food... Weeeeeeeeeellll, Actually it was amazing. So incredibly full of flavor! But let me tell you, these dishes look and sometimes smell really bad. There was a "pepper sauce" that Jonny told me was good. Let me describe it to you... It smelled like SPAM, looked like oily SPAM, and was in an unlabeled jar... So I said, "what the heck" and it tasted nothing like Spam! It was actually kinda delicious. Ill try to get some pictures of the food. Also, they named dog food after me.

So there i slept. And slept. And slept. Except when i woke up, it was 11am which is 2am for you. So my body HATED me. Even though i had 9 hours of sleep, it was though i was made of molasses. And the kids had an early day at school so they all came home. I met several in the hallway while they peeked their longhaired 7 year old faces from behind a wall. I turned around and they all pulled their heads back, followed by very loud giggling. So I turned back around and then WHIPPED my head back to see them pull their heads back and just start laughing! You can see two of them, Ela on the left and to the right of her is Ana.

There are about 15 kids in the orphanage and they are all soooo cute!!! There are also some older mid/early teens here too that usually are doing homework. But I did get to hang out with a few of the older kids.
Now here is the really cool part. I got to play with them and most of the younger ones dont speak a lick of English, but i know just enough Romanian to understand some of what they say and talk to them as well! God really blessed me with Dorin to teach me what i know now! And from this point on, the kids are teaching me more Romanian than i thought was possible! I am able to understand almost a third of what they say (With help from a R-E Dictionary)!! They are seriously the sweetest kids because they are super patient with my lack of understanding them, yet still as crazy as kids should be.

God has already done some amazing things! I met with an older lady named Joanne who was from the states. She was the lady i was supposed to give the large sum of money to, And wow did i learn a lot!
She is 82 but is a VERY powerful prayer! When she prays, you better hold on to your seat or else you are going out a window. Absolutely an amazing lady! And It was also very nice to someone who doesnt have an accent and can speak english really well.

Culture shock? I dont know yet. The hardest thing for me is not being able to understand everyone. Otherwise I feel very at home, especially around the kids! And my suspicion was correct! They do need someone to help teach drumming and maybe to drum as well! More on all of that later though, it is late and I am very tired!

Now here are some pictures of the country. It is quite post communist looking if i do say so myself.

Carrier has arrived!

You know what the strangest and cutest thing is on the whole planet? CHILDREN SPEAKING ROMANIAN!!!! Ohhhh, ill get to that in a minute.

So!!!! After EVERY flight being delayed.... I arrived 7 hours late. This is the first picture i took of Romania!!!

What a sight to see!!!!!! The towns have very few lights and there was a heavy fog over the entire country. I get outside on a standup bus in the rain. When i got inside I stood in line for immigration things. They checked my passport and let me in! Woot! As I walked through the door, i didnt even know if someone was going to be there. =O But low and behold, there was a short, bearded, glasses man holding a sign with my name on it and "Lipova" under my name. I gave a huge smile and I got accented English in return! YES, I am here!!!!

     So we got in his car, a little odd looking thing. And as he drove we talked. His English name is Jonny ("Innute" is Romanian I believe). And I learned different things about the orphanage, but it was midnight so i was just sooooo tired. Anyways, we got "Home" and he took me inside this building! On the right. 

And on the inside is my room and the hallway!

Packing!!

Started with some packing the other day! I hope you like seeds because I got 41.6 POUNDS of seeds inside my two suitcases! 

What can i say, they really really need seeds. Going through the airport might be kinda silly... "Sir, why do you have all these seeds?" "What can i say? I get a little hungry..."

Also I am bringing some winter clothing, Gospel phlanalgraphs(Dont even check my spelling), toys, writing and drawing shinaniganry, and medicine. (For the record, you can see some of the stuff above... XD)

And those are the two bags, quite large if you ask me! 50 pounds a piece and ready for a ride. Lets see what God can do!!!

5 Days left
~Will

Going away party invites!

Sooooo, one of my friends (Andy Holm, he is a stud) is setting up a going away party on Monday the 14th of January from 6-8pm. Feel free to just show up for as long as you want to say goodbye . The address is 312 S 9th Ave, blue house, right door. Any questions? Comment below, I check this blog often XD.