Monday, June 27, 2011

This post will be shorter in order for me to catch up.

This morning I cleaned and packed for heading to Pr. Toni’s. We headed to the church’s cucumber/tomato/pepper field which was developed thanks to a European brother’s gift of 120,000 Euros. The first and second years were good and so-so in regard to return, but because of the e-coli scares, this year’s crop has been deemed worthless by surrounding countries (though it’s fine to eat as we have been all along). From that field we traveled to Pr. Toni’s sister’s field where she had a heating system (which helps the crops grow more quickly so that you can get your food to market first and get the best prices). Then we headed to his home for breakfast (huge!) with Desi and to take her to a women’s prayer meeting. After dropping her off we headed to see the businessman brother (I had asked if I could get an appointment to meet him). We had an awesome meeting of a few hours in length. I learned a great deal and my mindset for Macedonia’s business climate changed again. From the meeting, Pr. Toni and I visited Desi’s parents and we went with her dad to their watermelon patch and grabbed some for home. At home we had lunch with Philip and Desi, and then we rested. I had about an hour to rest, but I slept for 2. We left for the mountains, to hike up a trail to a monastery. We hiked most of the way, and then came back down for the evening. On the way home we picked up Philip’s friends and took them to another friend’s house for movies. Then we went to one of the friend’s house for coffee and snacks with the adults. We picked up Desi and then went there, and had a couple hours of good conversation. I shared a few testimonies and plans for the future. We returned home around midnight. The young guys were at the house to watch the movie, and so I saw them for a few moments before cleaning up and heading to bed. I traveled to Negotino the next day.