Today we went to two villages. The first village had a lot of children so Niranjan (our fearless translator) and I (Crystal) went with them into a little room and taught them bible stories while Aaron preached to the adults about becoming like a child with Ricky translating. We taught them 4 stories about Elijah since they never heard of him, 2 stories about Elisha, one about King Josiah, one about Jesus healing the ten lepers and how only one came back to thank him, one about Peter and John healing a lame beggar in Jesus' name, and one about Paul and Silas in jail during an earthquake. It was fun, we just kept on going with the stories because Aaron wasn't done with his sermon outside yet. Since there was only two of us we elected not to use the puppets, but the children saw them and wanted to see them when we were done with the stories. It is funny because there is always a little child in each village who is scared of the puppets, while the other children want to touch them all the time. Then some of the ladies who were in there to watch their children asked me questions and made me sing a song for them. They were a really loving congregation. They asked us to come back and visit them.
The second village we went to didn't have that many children, so I just watched Aaron preach and hung out with the older ladies and the children of the congregation. One lady in particular was really sweet. She asked me to sit by her and held my hand. Lately I've been trying to sing along with the Telegu songs by watching the songleader(since we can't sing in English)...it is kind of funny because the children always look at me and smile. I think they think I actually know the songs, while I only know a few, and not very well. Aaron spoke about how God's gift to man is salvation through the death of His son and how God requires us to search for our gift, and how if we stay faithful we will get the prize at the end of our race of faith. One man decided to be baptized, so we were blessed by being able to see him make that decision.
Please pray for us as we fly out on Thursday.
God bless
Love,
Crystal
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