Feasts, No-talent, PT, and Really Good News.

THE FEAST
Yesterday (Thursday), we celebrated Thanksgiving as a group.  It was fantastic!  Everyone contributed food to the table.  My team leader baked a delicious turkey; the other teams brought ham, more turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, pies (but sadly no pumpkin pie), cookies, and so much more.  I could barely fit it all on my paper plate.

NO-TALENT
After our stomachs had been filled, we laughed to our heart's content during the No-Talent Show.  Let me explain... the No-Talent Show is like a regular talent show, except the talents displayed are definitely not skills... just dumb fun.  So one at a time, each team got up on stage to perform.  My team performed a No-Magic Show, in which all the tricks were clearly not magical.  The other no-talents included: lip syncing to a song from the trailer of the movie, Despicable Me;  a skit that nobody really understood;  a skit about football (with tackling involved);  a line-dancing lesson;  a song from the movie, Nacho Libre;  a skit about the daily life of that team, in which each team member played the part of a different team member (it was hilarious);  and the winning skit was done by a team of girls that dressed up like one of the guy teams and did perfect impersonations that had us laughing tears.  But... I guess you had to be there.

PHYSICAL TRAINING
After our stomachs were still full and our hearts filled with joyous laughter, our PT instructors came to the front and told us, "Ok everyone, we're going to take a vote.  Would you rather have PT tomorrow morning as usual, or tonight at 10:30pm?"  My first thought was, "I just ate a full thanksgiving meal.  How is exercising after eating a bunch of food a good idea?"  But EVERYONE voted for night PT.  So, I had no choice in the matter.  But it ended up being the best PT yet.  We did push ups, crunches, and we almost did a three mile run.  But, we were surprised with a game of glow in the dark Ultimate Frisbee instead.  Woohoo!

REALLY GOOD NEWS
Lastly, I have REALLY GOOD NEWS.  Remember the family that we have been visiting this semester?  It's been interesting sharing the Gospel with them.  I've been able to share Bible stories with their six year old daughter, and Jeremiah has been able to have some really good conversations with Jack.  It's been kind of a long process, but every week, whether we got to talk to them or not, we could see that God was working in the heart of this family.  Jeremiah visited them on Wednesday and has been able to drive Jack to get groceries, since Jack's car isn't working.  Anyway, the good news is that Jack says that he really feels like he can believe the Gospel now.  His daughter has been asking him questions about Bible stories and he's become more interested in reading the Bible (Romans to be exact).  He wants to come to church on Sunday.  So, Jeremiah is going to pick up Jack and Amanda (his wife) on Sunday to bring them to church.   Their kids will be staying with someone else this weekend, anyway.  I'm so overjoyed to see God working in this family and drawing them to Himself!

PRAY
I know it's none of my doing.  I'm glad I have been able to talk to Amira (their six year old daughter), but I know that I can't take credit for the heart change that's going on in her family.  Praise be to God alone.  Please keep them in your prayers.  God is still working.  

Matthew 10:39

"Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."