Week of Thanksgiving
So during our first week here we celebrated Thanksgiving. It was fun to make Thanksgiving as best we could here in Mozambique. That day our contact- Jaco challenged us to be thankful in a new way: for one week don’t ask God for anything, just thank him for everything, present and past. I never realized how much I ask God for things until I could no longer do it. Its funny the challenges God placed in our path that week. Friday that week Maria got malaria and then on Sunday Jaco also got malaria. Also during this week Luke decided to go home to be with his family and help support them. God also told me to preach that Sunday night. Needless to say it was hard not to ask for things but God knows what we need even before we ask.
Celeste and Ippolito
One day we-Ashley, our translator Nunes and I went to visit some people who lived close to the church. We started talking to a woman named Celeste and I shared the gospel with her and she received Christ as Savior and Lord! Then we talked to her nephew- Ippolito about 18 years old and he was already a Christian. It was so fun talking to him and each of us shared what we were learning and how God is moving in our lives. He has a tremendous passion to reach his community and share the good news with others. We encouraged him to be bold and do exactly what God has put on his heart.
More than anywhere else on the race the people here are just hungry for God and ready to receive him. I’ve personally seen at least 20 people come to Christ. Talking to people they are so open and available to what God wants for them. Literally the harvest is ripe and the workers are few. One of the most exciting places I went to was the local prison. I was not there the day 120 of them gave their lives to Christ but came the following week…let me tell you that room was alive and full of the presence and hope of God.
