October 6th 2009
Tuesday was a good day. I think after yesterday I started today with the results completely surrendered to God. Things went a lot better out there. At first we had a couple houses we tried to go to and they didn’t want to talk to us. Then we stopped by at a young mother’s house and she invited us right in. This would never happen in the U.S.! This young woman with two young daughters invited three strange men into her home when no one was around. But it was a God appointment.
Her name is Johana. She has a two year old and a six month old. I shared a bit of my testimony and why I was there and then I handed off the evangecube to Gustavo to share the gospel message. He did a great job and she wanted to receive Christ. She told us she had been feeling far from God and wanted to get closer to him.
She is a very honest and open person. This was cool because it was definitely a work of God going on in her heart. As we talked with her, both Andrew my translator and Gustavo my national agreed that she was getting it. We went back this afternoon and did the first discipleship lesson with her and she is really understanding the gospel. Part of me had been wondering why we were spending an hour and a half in the back of a pick-up truck to get here when we pass thousands of perfectly lost people along the way that need Jesus too. But I’m starting to see, God has a plan out here in Calceta.
We shared with a woman named Ana right before lunch. It was one of those cases where we decided to visit just one more house. She got it too and wanted to receive Christ! You just never know what’s going to happen next out here.
Gail had an exciting afternoon. She shared at a house and the whole family got saved. They were excited and told her she had to go over here and tell her neighbors about this. And that kept happening. We had a lot of professions of faith today and some discipleship starting too.
Actually our mission point out in Calceta is pretty cool. It’s a pain to get out there (literally a pain in the butt bouncing in the back of a pick-up truck for an hour and a half) but it’s really beautiful once we’re there. It’s very tropical with some highland hills nearby. And lunch has been very good. They are very good cooks at the restaurant where they feed us. The joke is we don’t want the other teams to find out how good we have it.
Tuesday was a really good day. We got to see God doing some cool things. The work is bearing fruit already. Noreen went back and did a discipleship lesson with Tito our driver. He’s going through a tough time with his wife because he cheated on her. He asked them to pray for them. He wants her to become a Christian too. It’s fun to see God working on him.
Our nationals Gustavo and Shirley are awesome. We sent them home with an evangecube and some discipleship lessons to look over for tomorrow. Their daughters loved the cube and wanted to take it to school to share with their classes. They are really a cool family. It’s a bit sad because tomorrow is our last day on site in Calceta. I will probably never see any of these people again.