Post #4 for 2 days October 24th and 25th

Report #4 24^th October.

Today is going to be different with both Daniel and Jana at work, so have time to relax and get caught up on reports and things.

This area is quite different weather. They say that it is quite foggy every morning and only clears about 11 or noon. It is quite humid but warms up quite nicely after noon to about 25c.

Lots of options of fod left for me but they arranged for Daniella, their daughter, to come home from school at about 1 am with 2 pizza. So she ate one piece with me and rushed off back to school.

Daniel came home after 3pm and said we would eat and head to a town named Lucenec where there was an assembly of Gypsy brethren and sisters. The wanted me to visit them and speak. It was a very old town but with a lovely new assembly building with an upstairs suite, when an elder and his family lived. After meeting, about 10 of us met upstairs for “supper” of mini homemade pizza and hotdogs. About 30 people came to the meeting.

And so I visited my 3^rd assembly in Slovakia. Once we got home and to bed, I realized I should not have eaten 2 mini pizzas. I suffered for many hours and eventually got to sleep at about 3am.

This was not good as we had to be up at 4;30am to be ready to leave for Lviv for the conference.

 Report for Friday 25^th.

I was awake before my alarm and washed and finished packing my bags. Daniels son Timothy had come from University and Daniella was coming with us too, plus another girl who arrived the night before.

At 4:45 am anther brother Jacob arrived and we loaded every up in two cars. Two other people were arriving by train in another town, but the train was running  late so we had to wait at the station for 20 minutes until the train arrived, then we started off.

Slovakia is in the EU and so the roads are very good, with speed limits of 130k at times, but our drivers did not drive that fast. Once we reached Poland, the roads were even better with speeds of 140k.

We stopped roadside to eat on the way, having brought much food with us. We stopped a couple of times at a Gas Station for coffee.

Sometime after noon, we arrived at the Polish/Ukrainian. It looked as if there was going to be a long wait but we moved fairly fast and got through in about 90 minutes with no problem. About a 10 hour drive, I think, as there was a time change.

Once we got into Ukraine, we found again what it means to not be in a EU country, as the roads are very bad once again, as they had be fixed for the World Soccer, several years ago, but are deteriorating once again, ESPECIALLY when we got to Lviv. Worse than I ever remember them.

We went straight to the Baptist church where the Conference is held, relaxed for an hour or so and had the first meeting, where I and a visiting brother from Ireland Paul Andrews preached the gospel. Most people had arrived but some arrived later or on Saturday.

After meeting, we were all assigned our lodgings, six of us men to bed down in the assembly apartment on Shafarika St. All very cozy.

Will close off with this as it will get too long for you to take time to read.

Thank you for praying, your prayers were heard.

Malcolm.