Twenty Percent!!! Gym Dates, Nerves, and Love

We are at 20% of our final goal! Wow. This is cool! 80% to go seems like a lot... But we have faith! Every little bit helps and we feel so honored to be a part of this!

Here's how we're doing aside from finances:

Health: Shena has a sore throat. Dave loves Mexican food. Otherwise we are doing awesome. We have a date at the gym tonight. It's actually pretty exciting.

Emotions (from Shena's perspective): I'm actually starting to feel nervous. This Friday we have a team meeting to learn how to teach ESL classes to the Czech people. I've seriously been dreaming about this class... I think I'm afraid because I "should" be well-equipped and have some expertise in this area. After all, I have been to Czech English camps twice before. I have a degree in English, plus a teaching certification, plus a year's experience teaching high school English... But I'm still nervous. What if I misspell something? What if I stutter? What if I totally fail the Czech nation and my team and my church and every donor that supported me?!?!?! Yeah... I have fears. AHHHHHHHHHHH!

Spiritual: We feel very enveloped in God's presence and His love right now. We really feel His blessings. We are trying to balance good stewardship of our time and resources with humble faith that He will provide for all our needs. We're not always the best students. But we do feel the love of our eternal Teacher.

Reason 5793 that we are excited to go to Czech:

We get to see the oldest stone bridge in Europe. It's called "Stone Bridge" or "Old Bridge" (hahaha) and is in Pisek, Czech Republic!