Hello again from the East.
We have had three girls come to know God and that is very exciting! I will let you know when they get baptized. Moments like this make all the other difficulties worthwhile, with the major difficulty being myself. It’s a leaning on God’s patience and compassion for these people even when I have none.
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Well, peace has indeed come and things are well within our group. We had a major lecture from Ema about not being ‘super heroes’ of the faith, that we’re a tam. It was funny that Brad, David, and I had already had a conversation about all of this beforehand, but hey what can you do? The entire time she lectured…

Wow, I’ve wanted to write for about 2 days and fill in all the random things that have been goin gon. Excuse that Reese cliche. So its been more of the same roller-coaster, but I hope it is leveling out. I’m finding it difficult to love our whole team. How did Jesus love so deeply? My love is so weak,…

Nimen hao! (Hi all or Howdy ya’ll depend which country you’re from)
We just finished up Chinese class today and we got our textbooks. Very exciting to learn that in Chinese the pronouns are very simple and they only have one verb tense. I also learned the word ma has 4 meanings depending on how you say it. Mother, hemp,…

Whew, the past 36 hours have been quite a roller-coaster. Well, the whole trip has, but these last two days have been particularly challenging. Saturday we played football with the teachers and their students. It was quite fun, especially as the Chinese students began understanding how to play. The girls threw frisbees. It’s hard to believe that most people have…