Class: “Mon…day” Teacher: “Monday” Class: “Monday” Teacher: “Tues…day” Class: “Tues….day” Sitting in the back of the room, I thought about how much I didn’t want to be there. We were up late doing ministry the night before and then up early for a prayer meeting. Something about the suffocating humidity normally makes me sleepy in the afternoons but that day it was unbearable. Normally I love helping the ladies learn English but that day I just couldn’t muster up any excitement. “God, please help me. I don’t want these ladies to sense that I don’t want to be here. Help me want to be here.” I sat down in front of two ladies and began working on the day’s lesson with them. We were doing days of the week and months of the year. They already know some English so they picked it up quickly. I had worked with one of the women before and she even remembered my name! My attitude was already much better and the lesson went well. At the end of every class one of the Tamar staff prays and then we offer to pray for people individually. One of the women I worked with that day came to ask me to pray for her. She explained that she smoked for 10 years and had recently quit but she’s was getting bad headaches from withdrawal. She also said that it’s hard because her friends smoke around her and then she craves it. She said, “My mouth and head want it but my heart says, ‘NO!'” It really lifted me up to be able to pray over her. I love that she came to ask for God to heal her. We hugged and I felt a new friendship had formed. Already feeling much better after a good English lesson and prayer time, a woman came up who I had never seen before that day and never talked to. She hugged me (Thai people don’t normally hug each other) and told me (in Thai) that I was beautiful. It was really random but really sweet too. By the time I walked out of class, my attitude had flipped completely around. It’s easy for me to have a bad attitude when I don’t really want to be somewhere but it was awesome to see what God did when I just gave that over to him.
Teacher: “Mon…day”
