"Life should be enjoyed, and for that, sometimes you need chocolate!"

(This blog was written while listening to Dave Matthews Band and while wishing I still had Irish teabags)

Hello all you lovely people!

So, this week was again pretty good! On Monday night we were invited over to Katja and Matthias's house for dinner. They're a lovely young couple from the church in Chemnitz, and it was very nice. We had Spaghetti Bolognese, twas very tasty.

We had breakfast with Barry again on Tuesday and we ended up talking about all different work things for 3 hours! It was long, but good! Meant we got all our concerns, ideas, suggestions, everything talked through.

Then that afternoon we as a Team sat down and organised things for the week, and any other things that needed sorting. That was also good, it all went pretty quickly and smoothly. It was also roasting on tuesday, so we had our TeamTime on the roof.

After that we had Home Group outside as well, and it was nice and we had a good discussion about friendship and community.

On Wednesday we again spent most of the morning organising things. And it again was grand. You may be noticing a pattern here: whenever I talk about team things, I seem to usually say that they went well. Well, that's cause they are. Even when an event doesn't maybe go so great or to plan, there's no bad feeling and finger-pointing like there was last year. It's a lot more like, "Look, don't worry, it happens, let's just do it better next time!" And we encourage each other. I'm very thankful to God and my Teammates that things are going so well.

On wednesday night Matthias (mentioned above) came by to fix our bikes. We have three bikes and all 3 were unridable. Is unridable a word? Ah well, I'm saying it anyway. So Matthias was fixing them and I was trying to help. I was useless.

On Thursday we had Kids Club and Youth Group as per usual. Kids club was great. I did the story of Noah's Ark, and got all the kids on a group of chairs that was the Ark, then I kept flicking water at them, twas a great laugh! Then Youth Group was a bit strange, all the young people were either not feeling great or really stressed with school or other things, so the atmosphere wasn't great, and poor Judit felt terrible after, because she was leading it, but it really wasn't her fault.

Afterwards I decided to buy us all chocolate! I just really felt like chocolate, and I wanted to treat the other two to something nice too, especially since they weren't in great form. So I bought us all Milka, yummy. When they asked why I just said, "Because life should be enjoyed, and for that, sometimes you need chocolate!"

On Friday Katja (mentioned above) took the three of us to get new T-shirts to be made into team T-shirts. We chose a navy colour, looks pretty nice. Now they just need to be printed. I'm looking forward to see what they look like. We then later had Youth Group and, in what is becoming a bit of a tradition, lots of us went and had a Kebab afterwards again.

On Saturday we had our first Family Afternoon and Saturday Night Live in Augustusburg. Unfortunately both of them were practically washouts. One couple with their two kids and one mother with her daughter came to Family Afternoon, and only two people came to SNL. We've decided to advertise the rest better.

Today we had a special kids service, Promiseland, a monthly kids service started by the Willow Creek Church in Chicago, and it was good fun!

Now I'm going to watch the latest episode of The Office, and eat some Ice Cream!

God bless all ya'all!