Some New Things

hayy guys! heather is back again!

so alot of things have happened in this past month! i came back from my mission trip to Germany. I got kicked out of UPA cause of new management wanting to remodel buildings A B and C (DUMB). I moved into a new house with the Diva Den on Gen. Mouton in Lafayette. im attending summer school. but all in all im having a great summer so far!

ok so mission trip!

i really wish i could have stayed here for like 4 more months. i just love the city, the people, the culture, the multitude of carbonated drinks... yes carbonated drinks. ever since ive come back from germany i havent stopped drinking  homemade Apfelschorle and going to sonic during happy hour and getting a route 44 coke with orange in it.

so the first Monday we were in Berlin we played S and U-bahn golf. We basically split up into teams and went looking for landmarks on the metro system. This was to get us used to getting around the city. My team got to see the Brandenburg Gate (where the famous line by President Reagan " Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down this wall!" was said) , the East Side Gallery (the largest section of the Berlin Wall that is still standing) , the television tower and so much more.

For the next few days we went on to the Technical University campus and handed out iced tea and talked  to students about SFC (students for christ). We also went to Humboldt university where Einstein taught and Karl Marx attended. We also did outreach here but it was just talking to students.

On Friday we had a Louisiana night and we cooked jambalaya and gumbo with German ingredients.... surprisingly it came out good, i just wish i would have gotten some :(

then the second Monday we went back to the campuses and invited more people to their Tuesday night service called the Living Room.  And Tuesday night we hosted the Living Room. a few of us gave our testimony on how we came to Christ. then our pastor Eric talked about how our lives are like an airplane ride, we are all on planes flying to a destination and sometimes peoples planes will land and wait for a layover (when you fall away from the church) and then as we get older our planes will reach our final destination (when we die) and how if we accept Christ as our savior we can be sure that when ever our plane lands we can be sure that we are going to Heaven. After the message was over Eric asked if anyone would like to make sure their plane was going to land in Heaven, and we had one student give his life to Christ for the first time and then we had another student renew his life in Christ because he had fallen away from the church.

I was really sad to leave. I miss my Friends i made there oh so much! but i still keep in touch with them via Facebook.

we left on Wednesday morning  at about 9 am we had to take the U bahn and a bus to get to the airport and when we got there we said our goodbyes and there was lots of crying and promises from me and Caroline of meeting up with each other in New York for a Green Day Concert. we have some strong Headwinds so we have to make a pit stop in Canada. this pit stop made us arrive to the Newark airport 2 hours later than we were supposed to and a half an hour before our flight to Houston. so we were late to our flight but we watched our flight sit at the airport terminal for about 45 mins because it was raining but they wouldn't open up the doors to let us in. so we watched our flight leave with out us. we finally got another flight at about 7 pm that nightwe get to Houston around 10 pm luckily we didnt have to sleep in the airport until the next morning cause Eric had one of the People from Crossroads church in Lafayette come and pick us up from the Houston airport and we drove back to Lafayette. we finally got home around 2:30 am i crashed in my apt until about 2 pm the next day (curse you jet lag!! lol)

well thats about all i have for now gotta get back to class! lol