Europe 2010

We are still in Germany! Yesterday we went to another city for the day called Heidelberg (I think). We plan on leaving Thursday morning for Paris!

God has been teaching me so many things about Himself on this trip! He has been working all over the place. I don't get to see most of what He is doing but He shows me some of it! We are forming relationships with all kinds of people and most of them are accidental. A good number of the people we have met were not supposed to be where we met them and I think the fact that they were was a God thing. And really we were not supposed to be in any of the places we have been in until a later date. If the trip had gone in the order I planned it in we would not have met any of the people we have now. Praise God for putting us where we need to be when we need to be there!

Keep the prayers coming! Pray for the hearts of all the people we come into contact with. That they may see God when they see us.

Location:Mannheim, Germany

Rome was amazing!! We stayed at a little hostel right close to Vatican City! We saw the Vatican and the Colloseum and had a great two days!! We made friends with people from as far away as Austrailia and as close to home as New Jersey! I really enjoyed it!

We were going to leave Rome and go to Venice, Italy. We had met two girls in Barcelona who were vacationing and they live in Venice and we were planning on catching up with them, but when we tried to book a hostel not a single one was open that was priced under 100 euros each! With our budget of 70 euros a day TOGETHER (for food, transportation, shelter, all of it) we could in no way afford that. We then looked into a few cities in Switzerland and found the same problem! It was not that any of these cities didnt offer cheaper hostels, it was that they were all booked up! We finally settled on Paris. We were planning on going here later and just thought we could do it now and not have to worry about it later. We booked a cheap hostel and headed to the train station. We waited in line for ticketes only to find out that all the trains for Paris were full! So I guess that is not the path we were supposed to take either... So we decided that Germany was where we were supposed to go. Grant has a friend who is graciously allowing us to stay with her in Mannheim, Germany so here we are.

I am so thankful that God keeps us on his path. He is in controll of all of this and it does not really matter where we think we are going, God remains faithful to us taking us where he leads.


Another change of plans has been happening over the last few days. My Photosafe broke. That is the device that I use to store all the videos from my video camera so I can record new ones on the memory card. It worked at the start of the trip and has been in a nice padded case the whole time but for whatever reason it has decided to break. This means we can not empty the memory card to record more footage. I spent some time in prayer and considered my options. I decided that this is God telling me to just live over here, to not worry about this documentary and to just love the people and show them the love of God. So, while it saddens me to not be able to film over here I have realized that this is was never about what I want to do. This trip is and has always been about what God wants so I praise Him for making things so clear as to what He wants from me. I am sad that I will not have videos to show you all, but trust that this is the best way.

"When a person's steps are directed by the Lord, how than can anyone understand his own way?"

Keep the prayers coming!

-Lexi

It is crazy how God works everything out. We have met people all along this trip and today I was thinking how if God hadn't redirected us via the huge volcano we would have run into any of these people! I don't know how God is using us to touch them, I feel like we are a part if the "planting seeds" stage, but one thing I have come to realize in the last few days is that it doesn't matter if I realize how we effect these people or not. Really, if anyone is effected it is not by us, it is totally because of God. It may have taken a volcano to show me that God is the only one that can change things and that He is in 100% controll. And I praise Him daily for that awesome reminder that this is His trip, not mine. I am so thankful that He showed me that at the very start.


We are in Milan now and the plan from here is to go Rome for a couple days then maybe Vience then make our way towards Germany.

Thank you all for the prayers!! Keep 'em coming!

Location:Milan, Italy

We are in Milan, Italy right now but here are some pictures from our stay in New York City!

In Madrid. We flew out of NYC Monday night and got to Lisbon, Portugal Tuesday. Yes Portugal, and yes we had no intention of going to Portugal, but thank God that he can take us where we need to be even if we have no earthly idea. I had never heard of Lisbon until Monday when the airport lady told us we could be numbers 19 and 20 on the standby list, the shortest standby list to anywhere in Europe. thinking there was no way we would make it but having to wait to fly back to Tulsa anyway, we figured why not. We then asked what country Lisbon was in at it had not crossed our mind that we were about to get on a plane and go to a country we know nothing about and where they speak a language we don't know. This was because neither one of us really thought we would make the flight. Then when the plane was boarding they called our names and we were as shocked as if we had won the lottery! That's when we realized that we have no idea what we are doing. It was such an amazing feeling getting on a plane to a place you know nothing about trusting God will keep you safe.
On the plane we sat next to a n Irish man named Leo. Come to find out not only was he supposed to be on our original flight he was also supposed to be on our flight Monday! We became friends with him sharing about our trip and then stuck with him the day we were in Portugal. We later found out his seat on the plane was not the one by us but a row back but another standby passanger took his seat and he decided to give sitting with us a shot. I think it was a God thing that we met him. We plan on visiting him in Dublin.

We are now in Madrid and plan on moving on tomorrow maybe to Barcelona. But as we have found out now that is all up to God.

Keep the prayers coming!!
-Lexi

Location:Madrid, Spain

We are in Queens for tonight staying with a gracious family that works with a Korean church here. Tomorrow we head back to Manhattan. We have gotten a really great NYC experience.. We've seen central park, statue of Liberty, ground zero, chinatown, times square, grand central station, the museum of natural history, mastered the subways (well, Grant has that is, I just follow him) taken the bus and a cab... All kinds of stuff. We still don't know if we will be able to fly Monday. Pray God makes His plan clear to us! Pictures will be uploaded tomorrow or Monday!

Location:Queens

We left Tulsa at 7 this morning and made it ti Newark, NJ at 11 only to discover a volcano has or is going off in Iceland causing all European flights to be canceled due to the ash. So here we are in NYC waiting for the next flight we can get to Ireland, and that flight is on Monday. We extended our trip because of this delay and are now coming home on June 2nd. So we will have fun seeing NYC and see what God has in store for us here! Keep us in your prayers and also the people of Iceland.

-Lexi

Location:New York City