So after an extremely long walk last night, we all fell into bed for a fabulous night's sleep! I, in particular, slept like a queen! Since Kelly left, I got to steal her mattress and pillow to add to my bed and I also had the whole room to myself....ahhhhh! Sheer bliss! Doesn't take much to make me a happy girl!:)
This morning our first school was a Hindu school of around 1000 students. Unfortunately, they did not allow us to have an assembly, but rather told the kids that whoever wanted one could come to us and get one. Fiji children are soooo shy though that this generally does not work great to begin with. In total we were able to hand out around 500 bibles so Praise The Lord for that! However it was so sad to see classrooms of 38-40 kids and only 4 or 5 would come to get a bible. Very heartbreaking to see!
We had about 3-4 hours before our next school, so we went shopping for the rest of our "thank you" gifts and had lunch in the mall. While we were at the mall I ran into a girl whose sister received a Bible at her school. I was able to give her a tract and we exchanged contact information...please pray that she would read the tract and that I would have future opportunity to witness to her.
Our second school was so awesome! We arrived there and found out that they had planned for us to do both the primary and secondary schools! ( So far we have only been doing secondary schools which is like our high schools) this is a 7th day Adventist school, so this was a huge blessing as they may not have let us back in to do the primary school after hearing the messages we preached to the secondary school! The primary school was amazing! The children are beyond adorable and completely stole my heart! Obviously their attention span is a lot shorter, but they were all so excited to receive a Bible!
The secondary school there also went very well! The students were very enthusiastic in their response and all wanted to come by and shake hands after! After shaking about 150 boys' hands we unfortunately had to race off to the 3rd school before we could finish shaking the 200 girls' hands! I think my hand was grateful for that but it was awesome to see their enthusiasm over receiving their Bible!
Our third school was another interesting experience...we once again had to go classroom to classroom instead of having a general assembly and we only about 45 minutes to do it! But we did it!:) Pastor Ryan And Bro. Brooks split up and our team split up and we covered it all! The Bibles were very well received, in fact so well received that one of the girls, after just hearing how stealing is breaking one of God's commandments, proceeded to "steal" a second Bible for herself! Oh well, I'd much rather her have the Bible in her possession then some of the other things she could be stealing!
We are now on our way to church for the last service that we will share with these sweet people! It's gonna be hard saying good-bye!
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