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Just thought that I would start my blog off with a cliche 'joke' about Turkey :)

Man alive what a strange journey I am on right now. Sometimes it blows my mind.
BUt anyways I have been putting off writing an update on everything and I am really not sure why. But I thought that I would stop putting it off.

To start my update I need to bring you all back to Bulgaria, a place called Demetrograd. We were told that our train left at 11pm, and around 8 pm me and my team were chilling and eating supper at a cafe and then one of our contacts comes in and tells us that they heard that our train leaves at 9:30. So we were just like ok keep us posted (none of us were packed at all yet.) So after we just went back and packed and another one of our contacts came by and told us that our train wouldn't leave until 5am cuz there was a train accident. Well we weren't allowd to stay at the hotel. SO there was a big long decision process to decide where we would go until 5 am. Finally Nascow our one contact got a hold of a church for us to stay at. So we get to the church and we get settled in and I am on the top floor of this church and some people were in the bathroom on the bottom floor, and i heard someone say 'unbelievable'. and it turns out that Nascow called and said that our train was coming in 15 minutes. So I announced to all the people who were upstairs "A STAT HAS BEEN CALLED, THIS IS NOT A DRILL, I REPEAT A STAT HAS BEEN CALLED"

So we frantically got ready to go and rushed to the train station. We all got settled into the train and we didn't leave that flippin place til after 4 am. I couldn't believe it...we rushed to get on that flippin train and we stayed in one spot for over 4 hours.

So we were late to our church service that we were supposed to do. We didn't get to the border of turkey until about 8:30am. When we were at the Turkish border we had to get out and we had to buy visas, which they tried to charge us double for. But we fought against it :) and won.

It was much more frantic and exciting at the time...I guess my story telling abilities are dwindling.

But ya our time in Turkey has been quite good. We stayed at a church for about 5 days. We got shuffled around to a bunch of different contacts. We were involved in various prayer meetings and worked with different "christian" organizations.

One of my favorite afternoons was we did 'evangelism' with a group called BCC (bible course correspondance) me and this girl...the 2 most ironic people to be picked to deliver tracts...ya we were sent not knowing any turkish to walk around and give people tracts. Well the man sent us down an absolutely empty street. So there was noone. And so finally we turned giving tracts into a game. We ended up going to this mall and pretending we were spies and putting the tracts and random locations. Like in a pair of jeans at a store, or ya it was a lot of fun when we turned it into a game.

We also, I don't know if you read my last blog. We got to witness a demon manifestation. I know it sounds really silly but its true. It was a real learning experience. I don't really feel like getting into the details right now. But i will if you wanna hear more about it. BUt apparantly God has blessed me with a whole bunch of gifts that I don't necessarily want.

But this whole thing has really spurred different thoughts in my head. Like why don't we see these kind of things all that much in North America. Is it because our churches don't have true worship.?

Anyways this was kinda a fast blog/update thing my heart is not really in this update but i will update more later
angee