It's Definitely Tuff But God is Faithful!

I wont get to finish this blog today because the internet is acting up again.

"And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness. Most gladly therefore, i would much rather glory in my weakness so that the power of Christ may dwell within me. Therefore I am well content with weakness, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, and with difficulties, for when I am weak then I am Strong." 2 Cor 12:9-10

If you are reading this then i know you are praying for us, this means that i can be pretty personal. This has definitely been the weakest i've ever been in my life. This is comming from the guy that gets homesick after being a couple days in San Fran! There is no way to explain just those times in the week where you just feel homesick. Think about it we're half way around the world from home (sometimes i feel like i'm not even on the same planet), we're away from our islands, our homes, our families, our friends, our culture, our language,  pretty much everything that we know and love also with minimal communication. It can be hard, very hard. I'm not trying to throw a pitty party at but i just want you to know what it's like. I feel like i've never been so weak in my life ever. Yet, at the same time i have never been more strong and in utter dependense opon the presence of God, upon the authority and activeness of His Word, upon the annointing and empowering of Holy Spirit. God has been extremely Faithful in my brokeness. God's faithfullness through speaking through His Word and just our day to day activities has been sustaining for me. I don't know why i shared this but I just wanted to share the testimony of my nothingness and brokeness and the magnifisance of His grace and His power to lift me up. Thank you for you're prayer because ministry has been great and personaly i just wanted to share what my prayer life looks like day to day morning by morning. Beggin God to get me through the day. Some of you guys (scrubs! haha) may read this and be like ha what a weakling suck it up, well good i am weak so that He makes me strong, but either way thanks for praying and now you have an indepth look at what is probably the most important thing to pray for me about. 

Quickly though, D is doing good, we had many talks that just turns into theological discusisons. He definitely sees the truth of Jesus. Now it just comes time for Him to answer to the question Jesus asked His disciples which was "who do YOU say that I am?". So now we are just waiting, praying and loving on Him and when the moment occurs for a seed to be sown hopefully being ready. He is a very good friend of ours so we'll keep you updated as we continue to spend time with him. thank you very much for continuing to pray for him.

We’ve made very good friends with our neighbor who we play basketball with down our street. He’s heard my testimony and I’ve shared bits and pieces with him. He’s 25 and He just has a fond place in my heart. His name is beaufiles (handsome in French). He owns a little shop on our street that is right in front of his compound. The other day I was able to pray for his wrist that was sprained and the next day it was healed. The other night he took me into his compound and introduced me to his mother and aunt. That was a privilege. This kid is open and is broken with no hope in life, just eat sleep and ball, over and over again. The reoccuring theme of his life is no hope, no joy, no hope. It's so sad, my heart is connected with his somehow the Lord has done it. He came over for dinner Thursday night with his little brother. We had a great time playing eating chicken/corn/rice. Matt and I played worship with our ukulele and guitar. Then we had a good discussion with Beau. He said many interestesting comments but the one that stuck out the most was that He didn't like Islam. So i asked him and he said essentially their fake and that there's rules that don't make sense. He also said that he loves christians more and Jesus because they are loving (This would be the third muslim that told us they prefer Christians over Muslims). So then I asked him why he was a muslim and he said that if not he will be rejected and called crazy(persecution and social ostrisizing is very common here). But the most interesting thing he said was that he watched the Jesus film long ago and that he saw the truth about Jesus. We talked and responded to alot of these with many words from the Lord (i believe). Just pray for Beaufils, he is going to start comming over once a week to practice english reading comprehension using the Bible. We'll read stories and then ask questions and make him resite the story. Please pray for this guy, the harvest is ready. Sorry i can't share the whole convo it'd take forever just know that the Gospel was glorified. So please please pray for beaufils.

Also there are a bunch of guys that hang out over there. Probably about 30 or so but we’re getting to know about 10 of them pretty well. The basket ball rim is in front of beaus store so guys hang out there all the time. Just the other night one of the guys that my heart is just breaking for caught malaria and I asked to pray for him before I went home. The next day The sickness was gone! but the messed up thing was that i got really sick two days later probably from holding his hand when praying now i know is not good.  Keep praying for this minsitry oppertunity.

We go to Kan Kan (country/villages) in two weeks. Upon returning we'll start working at the two universities untill May. I love you guys thank you so much for everything.

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