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Filling some bigger shoes…Spiritually

June 18, 2005 on 11:47 am | In Blog |

I added some pictures in the GT section. I added commentary to all the pics in the past that didn’t have commentary to check them out too. Also, saw Batman Inicio today and it was fantastic!

Hi Everybody! Hi Dr. Nick! Another week or so goes by and my life is so great once again. Here in GT I have made great new friends young and old. I have been serving the Lord everyday morning, noon, and night. I have gotten closer to friends I miss and my Spanish is vastly improving. To check on visuals for all the information I’m giving you and more be sure to check the GT gallery for new pictures every now and then. I’m learning not only about how God works in His world and church but also how people work. The culture shift has been fascinating to a psych major like myself.

On Friday the 10th, Mark and Andrea arrived in GT City with their son Reuben. Sam went to go get them during school and left me to teach two and a half of his classes in computer. Well, the internet didn’t work so I couldn’t teach the scheduled email material. They already knew as much as I did in Word and Excel so I told them to open Word up and type something different. I taught them how to write a limerick. Hopefully you all know what that is but if you don’t then here’s the quick run down. It’s a five line poem with the first, second, and fifth lines having many syllables and rhyming at the end. The third and fourth lines have only a few syllables and have a different rhyme at the end. Por exemplo: The once was a man named Sam. He liked green eggs and ham. Once he started. He really farted. And was force to say “S’cuse me maam.”

So there’s like this TERRIBLE smell coming from the bathroom here at the Mission House for the guys’ area and it won’t go away. We are investigating the exact problem even still but until then we keep the door shut and the bathroom window open. Well last night we found out that one of the main reasons why there have been a LOT more bugs in the house and we have been covered with mosquito bites lately was that the window we opened didn’t have a screen and they were all coming in that way. So what’s worse, the mosquito bites or the awful smell? Right now the smell seems to be winning.

I preached for the first time ever on Wednesday for the Devo for roughly 150 7-9th graders. Ivan translated for me and it went over well I think. Ivan said they were paying really good attention even though I was talking about pretty deep stuff. I used the phrase “That than which no greater can be conceived.” – a philosophical term used by Anselm to prove the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God. Anyone out there want to translate that phrase accurately? be my guest. Seven kids came up afterwards to make public professions or commitments! I felt humbled and honored to be God’s messenger. I have never actually led anyone to Christ before and to see people respond to something that came out of my mouth was…well odd. I taught on Psalm 111 and the topic was making life decisions. I basically said that the most important choice to make is to follow Jesus and all the other ones should trickle down off of that. I really enjoyed preaching and can’t wait to do it again, however doing it in Spanish might be a different story. Jennie and I are giving our testimonies tomorrow for the young adult class.

One last quick thing. Ivan has lots of pants that he loves of unusual fabrics and custom cuts. Sam and I call them hot pants and pretend we really like them. They’re cool and all but not quite our style. However, we have decided to find our own style. No, don’t worry, not in pants, but in suits. Yesterday Ivan took us to fabric stores and we picked out jet black English cashmere for like 23 bucks. This morning we are going to a tailor to get measured and stuff and have the suits made. The whole price for a custom tailored suit will be like 65 dollars!

Keep praying for me and any other missionaries you know of. We all need it for safety, language, open hearts, discerning minds, situations both good and bad, for encouragement and stamina, and direction and purpose to be driven by JesuCristo. Amen.