Temperature is back up to 90! Spent the morning doing the usual routine. At lunch today I had 1 staff member from Russia, 1 student from Russia, 2 from Latvia, and 1 from Uzbekistan. They all spoke Russian except me! However, the staff member Tanya was nice enough to interpret much of what they were saying. Vladimar, the student is very funny...always kidding and smiling. He told me about how cold it gets in Siberia where he lives. So dangerously cold that they cannot be out long at a time for fear of freezing to death! He said it gets warm in May and starts getting cold again in August! He said summer is really only 2 days and grinned!
The lady sitting next to me was from Uzbekistan and spoke fairly good English so we were able to communicate. When I asked her what she did, she told me that she teaches an underground Bible study. She went on to say that Christians are persecuted in her country since it is mainly Muslim. Blows me away to realize that some of these people put themselves in great danger to preach the gospel. I was a little ashamed to think that sometimes I don't stand up for my faith when there is no danger of being persecuted. God is so good. Please pray for these students who will go back to their countries and have to hide what they are doing in God's name.
Most of the group is taking a pool break but since I didn't sleep well last night, I think I'll have a little resttime instead. Love to all,
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