Powing Planting and Harvesting!

What a week! Monday we didn't get out to the village until the evening because we had so many things to get done in town with the post office and internet but we got to go to the dance party to celbrate Tabski! It's the holiday when they celebrate Abraham almost sacrificing his son and God giving him a goat... well we went out to the field late at night again and had a blast dancing to the drums with all the other young ladies in our village and watched the guys dance too! Tuesday we went to visit a new lady. She had heard about us and was hurt that we hadn't yet come to see her! She asked for stories and kept asking for stories. She was difficult to read though, we aren't sure if she was just trying to provoke us and see how far we would go with it or if she was really interested. The next day we got to go visit one of my favorite ladies!! She asked us last week how she could follow Jesus after the story of the woman at the well. This week we did the story of Jesus raising Lazerous from the dead. It was a little crazy at her hut with kids being loud but she was attentive and there was a need in me to stay there and try to talk about the story even though everything was loud and distracting. The Lord gave me straightforward questions to asked. I asked if she understood that Jesus gave his friend life and she said she understood. I asked if she wanted life from Jesus and she said she did. I asked if she wanted to follow the road of Jesus and she said YES! Our fill in supervisor was in the hut next to us talking with this ladie's husband and I went and got him and told him we needed help with language and he explained very clear to her that the road of Islam and Jesus was 2 different roads. She understood that you cannot follow 2 roads and she wanted Jesus. She prayed right there and told God she was sorry and she wanted Him!!! It's so neat because the Lord told us so many times to be content without seeing the harvest that what we count to be slowness is his pacience that he'll send other workers out to harvest what we've plowed and planted but we got to see the first harevest in our village!!! How stinkin cool is that?!? Well after she prayed Lauren and I were crying the sweetest tears of joy and I jumped up and plopped down on her bed next to her and hugged her so tight!! We told her she was in our family now!! We're going back this week to give her some taes with bible stories so she can start learning and sharing with her friends and to say good bye to her. The day just kept getting better, we got to go to a neighboring village tha some friends work in and talk to new believers about batism! There is a new little church body in Africa! Thank you for your prayers!! The Lord spoke to me out of Coloassians this week and said that prayer is labor... thank you for laboring along side me! You have worked and this is the fruit of your labor!

Thursday we got to go give a little boy medecine for an ear infection, and pack up most of our hut. We have Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning in our village. Then we say good bye. Good byes are hard, but in arabic they have a phrase "in sha allah" if the Lord wills it. So when we leave here I get to say mi warti in sha allah. I'll return if the Lord wills it. I've gotten to see every aspect of the Lord's work here in these 4 months. I've gotten to labor in prayer in tilling up the hard soil in planting and now in harvesting!!! We get to continue laboring along side missionaries all over the world in prayer when we get home and even plow plant and harvest in America!! I'm so excited to be home, but the bitterness in leaving a second home here will be in my heart as well. Thank you again for laboring with me.