Salem, Selgros, & Sunshine

Yesterday the three of us got picked up by Rach, Dave, Iza, and Samuel and we went to Oradea to go to church at Salem. The church service was about 3 hours long which I know probably seems like a nightmare to some people, but it amazingly goes by pretty fast and is pretty awesome. Rachel translated a lot of service to us so we could understand what was going on. It's really cool how they do some of the same songs that we do in contemporary church services in America but in their language. It's a good reminder that we all worship the same God despite a different language and culture.

After church we stopped through McDonald's and got some lunch and then went to Selgros to go grocery shopping. I think this was a little more overwhelming than we thought it would be. Jordan, Brandi, and I exchanged some money and grabbed a shopping cart and started to explore. Selgros is like Wal-Mart on crack. The bad part was that we couldn't read any of the labels so it made shopping difficult. We got lots of fresh fruit & veggies, meat, and bread. We also got some huge 6L bottles of water for the week since we can't drink the water in Tinca without getting dysentery or something fun like that. We also found this stuff that's like Nutella but a different name and is super cheap and delicious.

We got home around 4:30 and took like a 3 hour nap. It was awesome. Then we just kinda hung out around the house. We noticed that there were a lot of people just kinda walking around in the house so that was kind of weird at first. Maria's family had come over to do a cookout type thing. One of her sons who spoke English came in our room and invited us to go outside and hang out with them. They were all super nice and hospitable. It's really hard to say no to people when they offer you things here.

This morning we were all pretty much wide awake around 7 AM so we went outside to go lay out in the sun. Maria gave us blankets and insisted we go lay out in the huge field next to the house that has a bunch of chickens, tires, and just random things. We laid out there for a little bit and then went inside to get ready for the day. Now we are at the Center just hanging out and will probably work on organizing some stuff. Tomorrow is our first day with the kids!