I’m not entirely sure what to write…we have been encouraged to post, and I struggle to know what to say. Which, for those who know me, means a lot. The last time I was here, I wasn’t broken. I also was struggling with my own faith and how it really didn’t exist. Now, after fully surrendering my life to Christ, I wonder how I was never broken last time. My heart is shattered by what I see. God used me today while sharing the gospel with a young woman today; Maria was her name. I went in not having a clue what I was gonna say and struggling with even remembering the simple verses. And following someone from the local church-who obviously was on fire for God-was a tad intimidating as well. I introduced myself, the interpreter, and then my mind blanked. I breathed in…and don’t remember what happened after that. I vaguely remember what I said, I remember quoting from scripture by verse WITHOUT my bible out. Which says a TON if you know me. At the end, I prayed with her and thanked her for her hospitality and we left. I felt as if I could fly. I do not boast in myself, though. Like I said, I blanked! It was my that witnessed, but it was God and God alone!!!
Author: ibarnett
The Spoiled
During share time last night, my cousin put it quite well. We in the States are always wanting more of what we have while others don’t even have what is required to survive. One of the others here saw a little two year old, on Saturday night, rooting through the trash on the ground looking for something to eat. It just hurts to realize that we complain at times about not having the newest phone and say how great that would be when the cost of that phone would feed an entire family down here for over half of the year. We never think of that, but it’s the truth! We are selfish little brats. I always enjoy coming here because I never go home the same…I am always broken by God in ways I couldn’t even imagine.
The “Joys” of painting
Today started off a little bad…I didn’t realize till it was too late that I would need some clothes with me that I would be painting in!!! After deciding to just wear a shirt that someone else had brought (thank you Mark for bringing extras!!!), I realized that I had never actually painted before!!! 😛 so upon arrival I was given the job of painting the trim!!! So I was now painting one of the hardest parts of the wall!!! I don’t know what I was thinking when I volunteered for that job, but I ended up learning that if you go slow you don’t make as big of a mess. Though it is something I usually would have hated to do, it is one of my favorite things I have ever done because of those little girls. The place we were painting was the home of a pastor that has taken on girls that were either malnourished or just abandoned. As of now they have around eight little girls, and they are the cutest things ever!!! When we took a break, we got to play with them and I had a WONDERFUL time!!! They have more joy with the little they have than we back home have with the huge amount of things we have. It was Him reminding me of just how much He has blessed me…and I am always glad when He does that.
And Jesus said “Let the children come to me”
Today was spent focused on mainly the children and it just reminded me that the children are just as much if not more important than the adults. Kids have this way of just taking things at face value and not asking questions, and that we need to realize as humans that we can not understand everything and that which we can not understand isn’t always fake. 95 percent of the known universe is something called dark matter which is only called that because we can not understand it. You ask a little kid what it is and they’ll tell you it’s just a place where nothing is there and that God didn’t create anything there. Sometimes I just wish that we could be like little children with our faith, where we just accept that we need God.
The children
We began today with sharing Christ around the area of where we were going to have the men’s and women’s conferences tonight. After we ate lunch we went and canvassed the area once more. After that we had the men’s and women’s conferences. During that a few of us watched over the kids, including me, Collin, and C-anna. Collin held a little baby boy for the entire 2 hours. Then a little boy tried to escape and I had to chase him down and after that C-anna held onto him until he fell asleep in her arms. Here are some pics of them both!!!
Hi to everyone back home!!!
My first blog this trip is after everyone else. So most of you will have already heard that we have been to a hospital and and a orphanage of sorts, but now I will share my side of the story. We have met people that have nothing. We saw a baby no more than a month old fighting a deadly battle with pneumonia. The sad thing was that the baby didn’t even have a name. At the place where we feed the children we did a skit where we acted like sheep with Matt V. being the shepherd. Today me, C-anna, Collin, Cathy, and Miss Vittitoe went to a school and witnessed to them. We had 1 or 2 possible salvations, but either way shared are faith with them. I’m done, so………….bye!
I was so nervous!!!:{
Today I Shared my testimony. This whole week I’ve known it was coming, but I never thought to prepare for it intill it was an hour and a half away and I didn’t have anything ready. I made a check list on what I was going to say.
When I got there God told me: “Nope, you ain’t saying this.”
So I’m like: “What do you want me to say.” He never answered me so I told God: “I ‘ll just trust you.” And when it came time for me to say my testimony God put the words right in my mouth. And through me God saved twelve lost people!!!:}
Isaiah
How can all of this be by chance?
Atheist believe that all trees, mountains and every living thing in this world happened and came up and came to be by chance.Without looking at these next photos we already know that this is not true. However, for any of you that have some doubts of this , please, look at these next few photos for at least 3 minutes each and then go and tell me then that this all happened by chance. 
Really Sleepy
Really tired. Need bed. Just wanted to say that we’ve got 98 salvations so far this week.
Tuesday’s Adventures
This morning we went out evangelizingng. I went out with Wes and Eric and our interpretor, Jasmine. I got to share the message of Jesus with 5 kids at one time and all of them accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Eric and Wes were talking to their father who was a Jehovah’s Witness.
We had a VBS session this afternoon and we were only expecting 30-40 kids and 130-140 kids showed up.
One of the things that we did was we taught the children to play duck, duck, goose (pato, pato, gonzo) and they had never heard of that game before. They liked the game, but I have never seen a game of duck, duck, goose turn to violence. Two young boys got into a scuffle when one tripped the other while he was trying to catch the goose. The other, even though he was smaller, decided to hit the other kid. We had to seperate them, but this is what happens when you have someone who is not a Christian playing a game and wanting to win.
We still have to go to church tonight sI have to get ready.