Świadectwo

Hi Everyone!

As of yesterday, We've been married for a whole month. :) We had a nice day yesterday after church just spending some time together.
We've decided to buy some new furniture within the next few weeks so today I went to look and ended up getting rained on. Ahh life in Poland. Actually it felt good since I was getting kind of warm anyway.
I've been getting ready for English Camp. I'm planning on saying my testimony at the camp. We'll see if it works out. Anyway, I thought I'd go ahead and post it on my blog. It's been translated and modified a bit from its original version, but this is almost the same

"About 5 years ago I started going to the English Camps. I never expected them to change my life. I loved Poland immediately and was fascinated with the language and the people, but at the same time I was afraid of everyone. I remember hiding in the bathroom because I was to shy to talk to anyone. Eventually, I overcame my fear and met lots of nice people. I knew that God wanted me to return to camp the next year and I continued to come every year to the English Camp. After a lot of prayer, God told me to move to Poland and learn PolishI already knew in my heart how special Poland was to me. I think I knew from my first visit to Poland that God would ask me to go and live here. Even to me though, it seemed like a crazy request, but I saw that it was the way that God planned for me.

I spent a year in Minnesota with my family, finished my first year of college and got ready to come to Poland. In June 2006 I left my country, with my mom, and we flew into Kraków. My mom stayed in Kraków one week only and soon I was alone in this big, strange country. I started language school a few days later.

I was disappointed because I couldn't go to English camp last summer. I really wanted to go, even if only for one day. I felt like I had to go to Szklarska Poręba. This feeling multiplied every day until I had no choice. I couldn't sleep I couldn't concentrate and all I thought about was camp. At last, I realized that I could either stay in Kraków and suffer, or go to English Camp and be at peace. I prayed and decided to go to camp on the last day. I bought myself a ticket and my train left at 10pm.

I didn't understand anything about trains or how to read the train schedules. I didn't know what the numbers 1 and 2 on the outside of the train meant. I learned (first class and second class). It was a terrible trip and very unsafe. Don't try it I don't reccomend it. I was in fear of my life so I was praying constantly, "Please Lord protect me! Save me! What am I doing on this train? What a dumb thing to do!" The trip was 10 hours overnight, but God was faithful and he protected me.

Eventually, I arrived safely in Szklarska Poręba. I was so tired and I don't remember a lot now, but I do remember this moment when I arrived at the camp and saw Pastor Zbyszek. I was so happy to see him again. I think I managed to surprise everyone since no one was expecting me to be at the camp.

Also at camp was Greg Zytka ( now my husband ). I had met him four years earlier but was not interested in him romantically, but something happended between us on this day. We were walking together in the woods. I don't remember why we were alone or if I even wanted to talk to him, but conversation came easily. He asked me, " So why did you come to Poland?" And I said, "Because God wants me here." In that moment I knew that I was going to someday marry him. We fell inlove and in October Greg asked me to marry him. This was a big surprise for my parents, especially my dad, but that's a different story. We got married on June 1 and now we live in Głogów. We believe that we are where God wants us.