More Updates!

We had a team from South Dakota come, as I told you in the previous post.

It was pretty much awesome!  I am so thankful that they came!  They brought me some treats from America, and they brought energy to the entire team!  They also brought enthusiasm and vigor to share the Gospel with our students!  It was wonderful!!  I thank God that He allowed for them to visit us!

For unexplained reasons, we ended up accidentally cancelling class on the day that they visited, which worked out PERFECTLY!  We invited our students and friends to join us for a potluck.  So instead of having class, we were able to free talk, and the Gospel was shared!  We had students bring American food (Pizza hut!) and some homemade Chinese food as well, so we had a wonderful mix!

After that, we had our free class, where they shared about the individuality of snowflakes, and how God created each one, just like he created each one of us individually and different!  What a blessing to hear that! We also talked about how we are all sinners, but we are washed clean through Christ! After that night, I had a good friend of mine (who is not Christian) come up to me and tell me that he now knows that he is a sinner. He didn't profess faith, or regret for the sins, but he now knows.  That is a REALLY big step for someone.  In Chinese, the word for sin is also the word for crime.  People often feel that sin isn't a part of their lives, because they follow the law.  When people realize that they do things that are wrong, and that God knows that, it is such a huge step, and I thank God for that realization.  I just pray that He would allow us to be able to have the words to say to witness to this man, and to tell him that yes, he is a sinner, but God forgives those sins of all who ask for forgiveness.

I don't have any pictures from my camera, but once I get some, I will post them here or in another post.

Right now I am working on editing the bilingual bulletin.  Being human, I made some mistakes (typos), and I have to go through and fix them.  I'm making a master, and then hopefully tomorrow or Sunday I will have some help fixing all 20 of them!  There are too many things to add (like page numbers) that it would take me WAY too long to do on my own!  So I now thank God for community! :)

Chinese New Year is starting this weekend.  Most of our students will be gone visiting their families.  I still have another 5 days at home in Macau, and then I will travel to visit an indirect coworker of mine living about 2 hours away by plane.  I am so excited to visit a new place in Asia!  I haven't really traveled, outside of going to Hong Kong and Jiangmen (for work), and Thailand for 3 days (for a friend's wedding).  This will be my first refreshing vacation, and I am stoked! :)  Tonight I will go to pick up my ferry ticket to the HK airport, and on Wednesday I will take off! :)

We also had a new teacher join us.  He's not new to the area, but he's new to Macau as of today!  He taught in mainland for a year, in Hong Kong for 3 months, and now he will (God willing!) be here for almost 2 years!  That is exciting news! :)

I think that's all I have for today.  I pray that you all enjoy your time, and that you are able to recognize the blessings that God is giving you today and every day!