Thursday, November 28, 2013

Dan Perez #70 Monday the 14th of October, Arrived in Moldova safe and sound, Praise God! Was picked up by Gabriel who is from Romania a commended worker that has been here for a number of years. The village where the assembly is, is about two hours south of the capital where the airport is. We rushed back to make it for a meeting they were going to have to discuss the preparations for the seed sowers distribution. As the meeting started I greeted every one and just sat there not knowing what was being said. I started to get sleepy, hardly any sleep on the plane. They saw that I was nodding off and said to go to sleep on the back couch but I took a walk outside instead. We then went to Gabriel’s house and met most of the family; this is where I’ll be staying while in Moldova, a town called Cahul that mostly speaks Romanian south of the country. More than thirty thousand people live in the town. Tuesday) The kids went to school in the morning then Gabriel and I had breakfast and afterword went to a place where some were preparing for seed sowers and I joined in and helped. There was an older couple there from England what may also move to the area to help with the work here. We then went back to the house where I prepared invitation for the Gospel meetings and Gabriel went to pick up his wife from the maternity hospital. When he got back I met his wife and their 4 days old new baby boy, they now have one girl and four boys. The rest of the evening we continued with preparing the invitations. Wednesday) The kids went off to school and Gabriel and I went to distribute the invitation house to house. It rained some throughout the night and in the villages there are no paved roads, you know what that means, mud everywhere! Some of the small hills were difficult to walk up and I kept sliding down though Gabriel seemed to do better. Once we got up these hills there were two to three houses all this only for two or three houses, you got to love it! There is a heart here to reach the people with the gospel message which is good to see and makes it all worth the mud slides! Two and a half hours later our shoes and pants were filled with mud but were able to distribute all the invitations we had! We got back to the house and after dinner prepared more invitation for tomorrow. Thursday) The kids went off to school and Gabriel and I went to distribute more invitations. There was no rain last night so made it not as muddy as yesterday. There was another man that helped from the assembly here named Oleg who lives in the same area. As we were passing out these invitation we visited another man that lives in the area also from the assembly, he was doing a big remodeling and addition to his house. We then went a little further and came to Oleg’s house and stopped in for something to drink. As I enter the yards to his house Oleg tuned to me and ask ” how long have you been saved” with a serious look, he continue to let me in I guess I gave the right answer? We continued with the distribution and came short, there were still houses that did not get an invitation. We went into town and printed more out and went back to finish the area, we needed to hurry because tonight is their meeting night. All went well in the end we think the total was 700 invitations; the distance between houses and the rough terrain caused it to take most of our time. The meeting went well. After the prayer meeting I gave a little word to try to encourage the saints here. There is a large new building that has been purchase by the Adventist’s and has discourage some but I reminded them that the truth will always stand in spite of any obstacle that stands against it, we can never lose if we are standing on the truth!! We will be starting three days of Gospel meeting before the seed sowers and need prayers for these meeting! There will be some coming from Scotland and some from Romania on Saturday to help. Please pray for safety and blessing in this time and for this assembly to be strengthened, Thank You!! In Christ our Lord! Dan

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