Reunion Girls

This week was a difficult one. I knew and remembered everyone of the girls that came and they all remembered me, which was awesome, and the girls did awesome while they were here.There were 16 girls that came, we were over capacity but it worked anyway, we had three girls and two staff sleeping in a tent outside the bunkhouse. My three girls were Brittney, Alissa, and Kaylie, I loved all three of them so much and wanted to help them learn about Christ and about how much He loves them and I wanted to show them how much I love them but it was hard. Brittney liked starting everything and her main goal was to get attention, I tried giving her positive attention but when all she would do is act out it was difficult. Alissa didn't know the meaning of the word "forgiveness", she would hold a grudge all day and it was never her fault. Kaylie was a sweetheart who never let anything or anyone get her down, and although she didn't especially like the other two girls she would tolerate them. It was difficult to see if what I was doing was the right thing, that they would respond to the best and would teach them the best but sometimes you can't see what will and will not work till after the fact. In the end I had to simply do something and trust that God would use what I felt He wanted me to do in a manner that would help them. 

The only thing that seemed to make my week seem useful was the Indonesian Hut. I taught the kids about mission work in Southeast Asia and about the Muslim faith and culture in Indonesia and about how much they all need Christ. We had bought different foods and candies from Indonesia at a world food market in Albuquerque and I wore my traditional shirt and taught them some of the funny customs there that they would find interesting. We also taught them what few words and phrases I wrote down. Then on the last day we presented the Gospel using the E-cubes and taught them how to use one to tell their friends about God. We also told them that if they had never accepted Christ into their lives that we were all her to talk to at any time. That evening one of the girls, Cheyeanna, came up to me and told me that she wanted to talk to me and Josh about accepting Christ. So the next morning (it just so happened that when she asked me it was 10 at night and about time for lights out) we went out to meet Josh and sitting on the front porch she accepted Christ.It was amazing and made my week feel like it was worth something. In all honesty if I had to do that every week for a whole summer and she was the only one to know Him from that it would be well worth it!