Love Letters, House Churches, and A Lot More!

“When I look into your beautiful blue eyes my heart melts.” Those words can be found in the love letter I receive from an 18 yr old boy in our village. He wrote me a very interesting love letter. Also, there is this other boy who climbed a coconut tree and brought me 6 coconuts and flowers! I may just stay here because I can get lots of boys here but not so many in America J Everyone said I would meet my husband in the Philippines…who knows lol! Don’t worry I have found a boy for Sam too! He is this tiny 13 yr old who speaks English and is very intelligent. I showed him a picture of her and he thinks she is very qwapa (beautiful) and wants to keep the picture. I know she will love me for it JWe had many other funny things happen to us this week but I will save those for when I get home!

I feel like God has showed us some of the fruits of our labor this week! It has been such an encouraging week! We have seen so much feedback from the people we go to their house daily. They have really wanted to be in the Word and have been asking questions. Also, they have opened up almost to tears about their prayer requests. Of the people we visit daily, we have seen a woman recover almost fully from a stroke and a marriage put back together! We found another part of the burungie that we had not been to. We nicknamed it the suicide hill because when you hike to this part of the burungie it is killing your body! Lets just say if you do not lean forward when walking up the hill you will probably fall backwards! We have been there a few times! God has saved 5 more souls this week! Just like cried out in Matthew 14, they have called out “Lord, save me!” It has been so awesome to not just lead them to Christ but to be able to disciple them as well. Sunday we had our second house church service and we had 20 people in our little burungie hall. One of our believers in the village brought the Word. It was so amazing to see these people gather together and have corporate worship when they may have never experienced it before!

We only have one more week in this burungie. We leave Sat for a few days of vacation and regroup and refocus time. Honestly, I am very sad! I have made so many friends here and God has really revealed amazing things to me while staying there. I know and trust that God has a plan for us to move on!
It ends up that I have some kind of intestinal bacteria and I got some medicine. It is slowly making me feel better! Thank you for the prayers! Keep praying! Pray that God will do BIG things this last week in this burungie. Pray that the people who have entered in to a relationship with Christ these past few weeks will stay in the Word with us gone. Pray for wherever we are to go next. Pray for strength and energy for the team! Pray for God’s will!