So my month in Malaysia is almost up. It’s been a fun and interesting time here…completely different from Cambodia. We live in a little 2 bedroom apartment with a total of 15 girls! I am soo soo grateful we have flushing toilets and a warm shower this month! 🙂
Tbe first few days we worked with mentally disabled and physically disabled people. We sat by them and made folders for a folder company for about 3 hours straight and then we recycled DVDs for the next hour or so. Even during this time it was good to know that God works. He doesn’t have to show us miracles to prove that He is in the midst of. The smiles on the faces of the workers was proof enough that God was there. Even though we could not really communicate with them because of language barriers and disablities, we were still able to show God’s love through our actions.
This next week we worked with a homeless shelter called Kawan which means Friends. We cooked breakfast and lunch for the homeless. It was awesome to talk with them and get to know a little bit about their lives. Some of them have sad stories, but it’s awesome to see that they know Jesus and are learning more and more about His love for them. Here’s a link to Kawan’s website http://www.ywampenang.org/jw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=99
On a side note, today something funny happened today at a prayer meeting. Here is an excerpt from the blog of my team leader, Bethany 🙂
“This morning my team and I were at a prayer meeting with the staff of the organization we are working with. We had been praying for a few hours and one of the things we did was called rapid prayer. Rapid prayer is when you go up to the mic and pray a short 10-15 sec prayer for the topic we had been talking about. So I get in line and started praying on the microphone, I was praying a sincere heart felt prayer about the youth of Malaysia. I was praying for their hearts but instead of saying hearts I said “Lord, please set their farts on fire!” then I started laughing and just handed the mic off to the next person cause I couldn’t even try to recover from that! Everyone started laughing and the little British lady behind me couldn’t even pray next cause she was laughing so hard!! Oh the life of Bethany! “
Ok, so getting back to our minstry, the next week consisted of us volunteering at Penang Adventist Hospital. There we sold coin boxes for 10 ringgets in order to raise money to provide children and adults with free heart surgery if they can’t afford it. It was definitely challenging, but I’m glad the money went to a good cause. At the end of the week we made 3,700 ringgets!! We also got have a pizzza party with the CEO of Penang Adventist. He’s a really awesome guy who loves helping people. It’s so cool cause in every country that we’ve been in we’ve met someone of significance. In the Philippines I played a song on my guitar to the governor of Malaybalay, in Cambodia the chief of the village and his assistants came over to have dinner with us, and in Malaysia we hung out with the President/CEO of PAH. It’s awesome to see the love of Christ being displayed through leaders of the countries.
This is torpedo soup…try and guess what it is…
