Yesterday, to be honest was probably one of the hardest/scariest days of my life. But I just had to suck it up and get over it, as Terry said (the local missionsary). Though not because of a fear of a monster or some terrifying task or adventure in the sense you might think. It was my first day doing door-to-door evangelism. Wow, I have never been stretched so hard in one afternoon. I was so scared I would mess up my sharing of the Gospel. But once I got started sharing with this lady, God took away my fears. It wasn’t until after we walked away from the house that I got scared again, scared of the fact that I might have left something out. But God provided as he always does. Though all the people we shared the Gospel with did not come to Christ, we still planted seeds. Please pray for all the people who we shared the Gospel with. Yesterday evening we had a men’s and women’s conference. A few of us watched the kids, Me, Collin, Laura, Susie, Isaiah, Ida, and Jennifer our translator. We somehow managed to keep around 50 kids alive and happy (at least most of them, oh no don’t worry no one died). Collin found a friend (he nick-named him “Buddy”), Collin held him for most of the night. I’m pretty sure Buddy would have gone home with Collin in his backpack if Collin had tried to put him there, Buddy was so mellow. I found myself a friend too. He fell asleep in my arms, it was pretty sweet. But originally, he was the kid running around kicking and hitting people, I had to pull him away from a girl at one time and tell him no. Normally the stranger who disciplines the kid, the kid puts in his bad book forever. I found it interesting he let me hold him. This morning we held a “fiesta”. It was pretty fun, quite a few kids showed up. We got to put on a little skit called the “sin box”, its pretty much a skit that explains the Gospel. We will be having a leadership conference this evening.
Please continue to keep the trip in your prayers.
-Christianna
