Okay, so I feel as if I should keep up in my blog with some "words", not just photographs, about how and what I am doing lol. So here is goes.

At the current moment I am here in Vilnius, Lithuania teaching English to young children as a volunteer. This is my home for four months and I plan to do some traveling while I am here.

This Blog it mostly made up of photographs I have taken (except Nicaragua, and the pics I'm in) of my adventures in the past couple years. I hope you enjoy them :).

In the past couple weeks a lot has happened, from wondering around the city of Vilnius to getting sick lol. As of this moment I am safe and well. Yesterday, the day I got over my sickness, I ate a feast because I was finally able to taste and swallow food. My first week here the four of us girls had to sleep in a small room, so our sleeping arrangement ended up being very close, laying side by side. In turn,  the sickness leaped from one person to the next until it got to me. For a could days I could not teach and I had to stay in the room, I felt like I may have gone a little crazy lol. I was lucky that one of the girls stayed home with me for a day due to her sickness as well lol. She introduced me to some very interesting movies that I enjoyed very much :).   

Today at church I learned how to sing in Lithuanian, because my fellow teachers and I have been asked to sing at a church conference. It is really hard to sing in Lithuanian because of the way the language is spoken. In turn, there end up being a lot of people with an inability to distinguish differences in pitch lol. Yet the best part about the ward is that no matter what the people will still sing their heart out, and that is what I love. They seem to be under the impression that all american's can sing well lol.

Everyone at the Vilnius, Lithuanian church is very nice and humble, I feel very comfortable here. I know that I am short to begin with, but the people here make me feel even shorter due to their naturally tall build. The children here are unnecessarily cute, its almost enough to make me want to marry a Lithuanian man. ;) lol.

Another thing that has been brought to my attention by some young girls at church, is that I look like Lady Gaga.... lol aaand now every time the kids at church see me they will sing a Gaga song lol. 

Church was very good and I was especially moved by the testimony of this particular young chap, about the age of 7, that only spoke Polish. His father stood next to the boy as he translated his testimony to Lithuanian and then a missionary translated it to English for me. The boy's testimony was not long and there was no story or parable that went with it, yet his testimony was amazing because of how well he understood the love of our Heavenly Father. A child's testimony is truly the strongest and most touching. One can always feel the spirit in their testimonies, never forget the importance of a young child's words and feelings.

The weather today stayed nice just long enough for my fellow teachers and I to get home from church. As of right now the sun has been covered by clouds, rain, wind, and thunder. It is pretty to see the trees bow in the wind and the rain rush from the sky, it reminds me home home in Washington.

Well time to break the fast Sunday and eat some yummy food, thanks to my awesome roommates! So I will leave you with some things to be grateful for.
Be grateful for:
Napkins
Light bulbs
Toilet paper
A working toilet

I hope you will enjoy my future updates :)

Experience is the most effective way to learn, and example is the most effective way to teach.