God's Been There. Now It'll Get INTENSE! Week6

Prom night props!

So last Thursday or so Kaylee and I had been discussing how we haven’t done anything nice for the guy’s, especially since they had made us Valentine’s dinner and everything. During random conversation that night we learned none of them had ever been to prom. So bada boom bada bing that was our theme. So Saturday we planned to go out and get some groceries after youth. During youth Kaylee told the youth pastor, Lincon, about the plan. Fortunately the boys were going to be going to play some sport Sunday after church, and Lincon would be bringing them home. This was perfect. He said he’d drop them off 6 o’clock sharp.

Sunday Kaylee, Alyssa, Kevin, Jamie and I went to a different church from TOP (the usual church we attend Sunday’s) and spoke of missions to the youth there. It went so well. We decided to make it kind of cheesy, first telling of our experiences, then at the end saying “That’s my story, what’s yours?” Of course that is cheesy, but cheesy always sticks. I think it went quite well.

        After church we headed home pretty much right away to get started on our meal for the boys. Samma stopped off somewhere to buy ribbon. From it she made 5 bowties and for the girls she bought smaller purple ribbon and made little bows for hair. So much fun! We made fruit salad as a starter (so good because all the fruit is so fresh here!), chicken burritos for the main and we bought some chocolate cake for desert, plus made some fried bananas as a side. It was all pretty much incredible.

        Samma made different props for some pictures we could take that were awesome, so we got some pictures done with that. It was so funny. The attachments for this week are from that night.

        

Tuesday Lennart, Kaylee, Kevin and I went to a mall to get some groceries for this weekend. While there I struck up a conversation with a couple older guys (like 60 or so older) and learned their names (which I suck at, but...). They’re from England originally, then they moved to Malaysia about 7 years ago. They don’t live in Penang but a few hours away. It’s cheaper there apparently and much nicer than Penang. They’re retired and live here because it is much cheaper. They must really like it to have stayed for this long. I love having random conversations like that.

        This next paragraph is not necessarily necessary to read. But now that you’ve started it it may have peaked your curiosity. I’ve been working on my Due South skills. Being out a little later Tuesday night and not wanting to miss the bus back from a mall there are 2 different bus stops (this is a free bus that comes around every hour or so). We went to the first place of where it is most likely to arrive. There was no one sitting there so I said to the people I was with that “we probably just missed it because there was no one there, so it would have had to have come just recently.” They agreed so we went to the bus stop it was to show up to next. Sure enough, we waited about 10minutes and it arrived. That’s right. I’m practically a pro detective now.

Wednesday’s Kawan was the usual. I helped in the kitchen... Nothing new to report. I’m awful at checkers. But I’d say that’s no surprise.

        Again, this week I was so excited for Night Ministry. This particular night we had 6 people going. Afgah said we’d have to split into two groups because 6 to 1 would be quit intimidating. Daniel and Kristi and I decided to go as one group because we had been there before, the other two hadn’t so they went with Afgah. Now we find that the language barrier is something quite difficult to deal with. There was a man sitting that we saw, so we went to try and talk with him. He claimed to not have known English and we tried introducing ourselves. It didn’t work too well so we just sat with him. After some time he got up and walked away.

        There we quite a few people out tonight and it was very busy. Lots of customers around. It felt quite uncomfortable to me too. There was a weight and the men that passed were definitely watching. I hadn’t felt that before. We talked with a few other people, but these ladies hardly know any English.

        After we were going back to the car Afgah told me that the guy Kristi, Daniel and I sat with was the person who collects all the rent for the buildings the prostitutes use. He doesn’t mind us being there and Afgah sees him around, but the pay no attention to one another. She said it was interesting, because we didn’t know that, that the first person we tried to talk with was him. I don’t know completely what to do with that...but it’s okay.

Thursday morning we had worship and intersession. Intersession today was awesome. We just prayed for strongholds over Malaysia. After we were done I felt so much lighter. I’ve been excited after intersessions, but nothing like this. I just felt so much better. It was so good to pray into. Walking in the opposite spirit seems to give you this strength that is exactly what we need to push through.

        It’s Michael’s birthday, so we went out to lunch for his birthday. So funny. There’s a place that’s the Charlie Brown Cafe and that’s where we ate. For his 21st. That amuses me some.

        Kaylee and I got into a conversation about how a lot of the time I know when God speaks to me or when I just know something. I get this a lot and just see things past people’s appearance, but I almost never say something. Kaylee told me I should step out more in faith with somethings. Then I got this feeling that if I finished the update for this week before we left for dinner tonight I was to wait until right before I go to bed to send it out.

        Tonight we had we had that dinner where 2 or 3 of us go to someone’s house that’s with YWAM for dinner and just spends time with them. I was with Keeley and Kayla and we went to this couple Jody and Joanne’s house. They have a pet tortoise. Cool, right? I thought so. Got to touch him and everything. He’s practically 7. Just a small thing. Right at the beginning I got a word from God for the couple and I was praying about whether or not I should bring it up. Closer to the end of the night some conversation related to this topic was brought up and I knew that was when I was supposed to tell them. They took it well (nothing bad) and said they’d let me know. I look forward to it.

        Anyways, I am to sleep now, because dinner is completed.