An Eventful Week

Another week has gone by here in Zambia. As I'm typing this, the lunch preparers are making us fried egg sandwiches! I'm really excited for this lunch! We usually just get PBJ's. We've been back in Livingston for almost two days now. It's been a good time to sit back and just reflect on the week. It has been a good one.

Tuesday, Mike asked me to go with him and Ken to pick up one of the trucks. Little did I know that when we got there he was going to have me drive the truck back. It was really cool though. The truck was a manual and the steering wheel was on the right side of the vehicle and the turn signal and windshield wipers were on opposite sides as well. And they drive on the other side of the street as the States. I was a bit nervous at first but got the hang of it pretty quickly. It was really cool getting to do that.

Wednesday we were praying for where God wanted us to go. We decided to head to Lioka but the lady we had in mind wasn't home so we pressed on to Komanyana village. When we got there we met with some men and just shared our testimonies with them and they talked to us a bit about their lives. We prayed for them and as they were leaving, one of them thanked us and said “today is different than normal days. Today, Jesus has been here.” It was so interesting because we hadn't done a Bible study or anything. Very encouraging. And I will say that, one of the guys from that group we have met with a few more times.

We also went to visit a lady who was sick who had asked us to come and pray for her. When we got there we prayed for her and then her mom showed up and asked for us to pray for her other daughter who has been confused for two years and suffering from seizures. She had a bracelet and necklace on from the witch doctor though. Mike told her that she had to cut them off if we were to pray for her. Her sister, whom we had prayed for already, cut them off. We all prayed for deliverance for her (it felt spiritual). After prayer, we set up a time again to meet the next day.

Long story short, we've met with them three times now and they are both healed! And we've started doing Bible studies with them! One day it had rained hard and in order to get to them we had to cross a fast moving creek that was up to my waist but we went anyway =) It was a good day.

On Friday, Mike and I started clearing out space for a prayer room. We got quite a bit of it done. I'm looking forward to actually starting to build it this week. The time in the village is so great. We get a lot of work done, we spend a lot of time in the village, we have plenty of time to spend with Jesus each day, and we still seem to have time to just relax. It's just been a real blessing.

I do have a new prayer request. I've been a bit ill lately. The last four days it's been progressively getting worse. Just pray for God to heal me and keep me healthy. Other than that just remember us in your prayers. Things are happening and we are all very excited to see what God has next for us.