Kendall
Today, we went to the Grand Bazaar!! It was bizarre! Haha :) We got the chance to barter with the shop owners as they said hilarious things to get us to stop, such as "I have your color!" and "You been looking for me?" and "Yes! Here I am!" and the ever-repulsive "I kiss your lip?" A couple guys gave the girls specific prices simply because "you have such beautiful eyes" and "You so beautiful!" The Bazaar is miles of little shops full of souvenirs, scarves, pottery, and jewelry. We found some amazing things!! Many of us got gifts for family and friends, and we can't wait to give it all to you.
Jenna & Rachel
Though the highlight of our day was clearly "serving evangelism," that is serving the Turkish people simply through chatting or helping in any way we could. While hard to explain, we spend a full hour afterwards sharing our incredible God-stories of how He used us in these few hours. Some cleaned in a restaurant, others shared God's love with locals at a cafe, and still others prayed fervently for those in mosques as the call to prayer rang through the air. God is at work here in Turkey, count on it!
Some of "this" would be the group of Sarah, Sieben, and I (Rachel,) after wandering around trying to share the love of Christ somehow, we ended up sitting in the outer courts of a Mosque just praying for all the people going in and coming out of the main worship area. After covering three of the four sides in prayer Sarah started "talking" to some Turkish children; meanwhile I got up from my moderately comfortable seat and walked across the courtyard and sat next to an elderly woman and and younger woman. After about 5 min. of attempting to talk in English to people who only knew a little English and me who only knew a little Turkish the elderly woman called over the little children who were talking to Sarah, and somehow by the grace of God our whole group got together and talked to a total of 4 women and 2 children who were very interested in our Bible and what was written in it. When we were done talking in broken English and Turkish one of the women gave me her ring, another gave Sarah a keychain, in case you didnt know gifts are very important in this culture, and Sieben gave them his necklace which had a little cross on it. I hope we made connections and showed who believers really are and what the love of Christ truly looks like, please keep praying for the team and everyone we meet!
Nate
So we went to dinner at a street restaurant tonight and it was a great experience!! We had some of that previously mentioned pide. It was the best stuff in the world!!! They also had Turkish pizza which was a lot like American pizza but a little different (helpful I know). Anyway, we had a great time at dinner, it was full of laughs and stories (the best were the college ones about Mulvihill... told by Andy) but the highlight of the night was when I laughed so hard that I started to fall backwards off the chair. Mulv tried to catch me but only succeeded in following me down too. So there we were two Americans laying on the street. Everyone was laughing and applauding us. Mulvihill said, "We were just providing the entertainment for dinner" in response to the store owner asking what was going on. It was a great time of laughs and delicious Turkish food!! I'm sure there will be many more to follow!!! God Bless!!!
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