No. I haven't died
Nor have I run away to join the Russian mafia.
Nor have I shunned the Internet as a thing of the devil.
Nor have I forgotten all of you.
Life is crazy...i dont think that changes whether you are a college student, mother of 8, celebrating your 80th birthday, or living in a foreign country doing mission work.
The variable is rather...technology, computers, and the invisible world of internet connections.
I have a computer...there are surely Internet connections zinging through the air all around me...but, it seems, I just don't have the technology.
Believe me I have soooooo much to tell...so much so that I'll probably have to pass up eloquence for the sake of efficiency. But alas, I am writing this short message to you from my iPod because my compute just doesn't like the Internet system in Austria. I have a small window of time right now between cleaning a chandelier from the 1700's (at least thats when it was last cleaned) and going to adoration, mass, then a visit with a family an hour away by ubahn, and of course with all the things I planned to catch up on and do in this hour break I have, this free Internet hotspot just won't let me have any for my computer. So all you will get right now is this little teaser that leaves you waiting for more. In fact, if you want to know what my life has been for the past month, I'm giving you a chance
to experience it for yourself
right now...every experience small or large,routine or special has required an almost
impossible degree of patience. So I have to be patient, and try not to think during adoration about all that I would have liked to accomplish on the Internet, and you have to be a little more patient before I can tell you about all the beautiful, difficult, hilarious, ironic, amazing things the Lord has been doing in the city of Vienna, the little apartment in the second district, the lives of friends and strangers, and the heart of one particular unconventional missionary now 2month a resident of Austria.
Bis bald (until soon...I hope)
M
-in other news...happy valentines day (2 days late), happy birthday Opa (right on time), and happy 23rd birthday Chad (early for once in my life)
Good news is... We're moving into the apartment in the next couple of days...and hopefully, although we are still lacking hot water among other things, we will hopefully be arranging the wireless Internet for the apartment tomorrow morning. So pray that all goes well so that in the next week I can spill all the beans about life here.
3 comments:
thanks for letting us know how you are love! love you :) praying for you! i haven't heard back which country i am going to but i am a heart's home missionary. <3
happy 22nd birthday mary! (i wrote on your fb wall and then remembered today you're not on it... )
Mary louise, i've been thinking of you so much recently. I have a letter awaiting an address to be sent to you (I had fantasies of getting it there on your birthday, but perhaps it will be better later). I love you, so much. I've been learning my own little lessons here about how I need to love better. It's humbling to see how easy it is to fall away from loving, to constantly remember that even the easiest or simplest tasks need to be done with full love of heart and mind.
I'd (love) to send this letter to you... I am thinking of you, hope you can feel me :) [perhaps a gust of wind will be my stand-in to offer you a loving embrace]
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