WONDERFUL

Todaym my friend from church, Rita, took me to a restoration house. It is a house where women who have lived on the sreets doing drugs, prostitution, alcohol and theft come to be restored. It is a Christ centered program and each woman lives there for 6 months. I met a woman who had lost her eye from fighting and drugs. She has been clean for 3 years now. I met another woman who has lived in the house for 8days and she is trying to get clean and walk with the Lord daily. She has a 2 year old child and was living on the streets before she entered the house.

The entire time I was there today I could feel the Lord's presence. I did not want to leave. I was reminded today WHY we are learning this language - it is all about sharing Christ with people like these who feel desperate and hopeless.

I am hoping to go back next week to continue to get to know them and encourage them in their new walk. They either said they can't wait for me to come back or are hoping I will come back. It's the same verb so I'm not sure.

This was my first experience being TOTALLY alone with nationals with no English speaker. The study was great (hard to understand because they were talking so fast). Today was wonderful! Thank you, Lord!