Just some thankfulness.

Fall has slowly gone away here in Hungary...

with the cold days of winter creeping in behind it...

I’m sad to see the fall go, I love it! But I’m excited for winter and all the things it brings with it.

I got to kick off the Holiday season the weekend before last by going with a small group to Vienna Austria to do some shopping and visit the Christmas market! This is my second time going to Vienna, and I still think it’s so beautiful! The Christmas market was jam packed with people, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

It was a really fun weekend, with lots of laughs, lots of food, and lots of starbucks.. ;)

{I love that you get your drinks there in actual mugs, and they have all the different sizes! it doesn't take much to make me happy people.}

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I'm hoping yall all have a blessed one! I’m going to be spending mine driving to Split Croatia! I'm going with 5 other people on an outreach there for the weekend.

I am missing home a lot tonight, and I'm actually wishing I was driving there to be with my family for the weekend, like most other college students. But just because I'm not there doesn’t mean I can’t be thankful! So today {even though it’s not thanksgiving yet} I'm going to list a few things I'm thankful for.

Here goes.

• I’m very much thankful for my parents.They are pretty awesome, really. I'm thankful they've been so supportive of me coming here-even though I know its hard on them. I'm really just thankful for my family in general. I have a pretty great one :) We have our moments, but what family doesn't.
  
• I’m also pretty thankful for skype {even though its temperamental!} Its allowed me to be able to communicate with my family a lot. Reading missionary biographies makes me even more thankful for these kinds of things. We have pretty amazing technology these days and it makes me 1000 of miles away from home a little easier.
  
• I’m thankful for my family that the Lord has given me here…that is one of the most awesome and unique things about this school, we’re all just one big family.
  
• I’m most of all thankful for Jesus; He is so good to me. I’m thankful His provision, and that He has a plan.
• I'm thankful for being here, this all in itself is such a unique opportunity. We get to spend our days saturated in the Word, and have this time set apart to just get a firmer foundation in Christ.
  
• Lastly {this is kind of along the same lines as technology} I'm thankful I'm getting to go home in two in a half weeks and that I'll be on a plane and it'll only be a matter of hours to get there...instead of a matter of months.
  

These definitely aren't the only things I'm thankful for, but they are some of the biggest things at the moment.

I wish yall all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Eat some pumpkin pie for me to, would ya?

much love
-s.