Mildura

Seriously, last weekend was amazing!
We arrived in Mildura on saterday evening (30/5) around 6.45 pm after a 7 hour drive from Melborne. (sand (red), trees, kangaroo signs!!, no cars, one straight way kind off)…
Mildura is a small place (in the south of Australia) and the Church of Christ invited us to stay there for the whole weekend to do some programs. It was great!
7.30 pm our first program started and it went quit well. It was mainly a youth event and afterward I had good conversations with some of their teenagers. That was really encouraging!
A lot of times we have a book table (with OM books and information) afterwards, but to be honest, I never reach the book table before we are about to go, because there are too many people to talk to.
It’s great to see that people are interested and encouraged and we don’t feel that we do anything special.
When we came to our place where we were staying this weekend it was a boat! A houseboat! Unbelievable. We could see the sun come up and go down. Beautiful! (Today when I woke up I saw a pelican next to my window).We also had a barbeque on the boat, we could eat kangaroo again, and for the first time we could have some time to relax (on the top of the boat, in the sun, 27 degrees!
But not for long, because also on Sunday we had different meetings. In the evening we were able to teach the people from the church how to share your testimony (and how not to).
Yesterday (3/5) we had the opportunity to go to some schools. Normally our program is only for adults or the older youth, but they booked us for primary schools!
With improvisation we put some programs together and it went very well. The head teacher was really happy and one teacher wanted to take some pictures from me with the flags. (Each program I start with a flag presentation) Hopefully soon a picture to get a better picture.
Yesterday 2 people from the church took us to some tourist places. I’ve been in the desert! It was such a nice experience. We prayed there together and after that some people invited us for dinner. Somehow it was so good, that I needed to cry a little bit when we said goodbye…They were so hospital and it really made an impact on us but also on the family. They took us out to see kangaroos in their jeep and we saw one. Very exciting! It was so special! The man from the family came very early this morning to give us a little present… (He was crying!)
Now we are sitting in the bus (for 5 hours) on our way to Adelaide. We will stay here one week and have many meetings.
Thanks for reading this long story... I’m doing well, and I enjoy my time here very much, but you can pray for energy because we are kind of busy the whole day!