We Found a Place to Live!

The last three days have been very stressful. We saw over ten houses/apartments. Each one had its positives and its negatives, but most were out of our price range. We were getting frustrated at the experience. Today, Pastor Mirce (the senior pastor of the Evangelical Church in Skopje-pronounced Meerchay) had us meet with a realtor, who had an apartment close to the church for us to live. We walked up to the second floor and walked in. It had everything we wanted. It wasn’t too far up, had a small yard out front, allowed dogs, had an updated kitchen and fairly modern furniture and was within a five minute walk from the church. Here are some pictures. The view from the balcony is beautiful and the price was the lowest of any place we looked at. Praise the Lord for His direction! As soon as we walked into the apartment, we felt the peace of God. He is so good!

The View From the Balcony





Everyone went to lunch today with Pastor Mirce (pronounced Meerchay) and some of the other leaders of the Evangelical Church. One of them, named Stole (pronounced Stolay), was talking to me about his advice for us to get acclimated to the culture. He turned to me and said, “The one thing that Americans need to understand about Macedonia, is that you need to relax. If you get only 1% out of 100% of the things that you want to accomplish in a day finished, you should be very happy!” For an American who lies down in bed at night trying to figure out how much he has gotten accomplished that day, 1% seems like an utter failure. It will be challenging to slow down and learn to value relationship building over project finishing, but it is exciting to be here and we are enjoying our stay.