Today is Saturday and is a bit more of a day off! During the week Pastor Grey picks us up at 7:30am so many of us are up by 5am (although I do have to mention that some of that early rising is partly due to the lovely roosters who start singing at approximately 4am! These lovely birds seem to bother certain of our girls more then others! I wouldn't dare mention Taneesa or Katie's name!) Anyway, this morning as soul winning was not till 11am we got to sleep in!:)
Today for soul winning we went to the open air food market and bus station! There are soooooo many people! You could literally spend all day there and not run out of people to talk to! We were out of all our tracts and John and Romans within about 20 minutes. Many of us got to talk to several people about The Lord and were able to share the plan of salvation! Here, nobody turns you down! I was able to speak to the man who the Greys rent their church building/house from. He is very strong Roman Catholic but we had a good discussion/argument anyway! Afterwards Sister Marioni and another lady from the church took us grocery shopping in the markets! A much different experience than grocery shopping back home and many different foods! Sister Marioni refuses to let us help with the cooking, but she promised us tonight she would let us help her cook out over a fire! We got to help Paypay scrape out coconut, and made freshly squeezed kumquat juice for supper! Our name has changed from Team Fiji to Team Canada to what will soon be Team Pudgy! We are being so well fed here! (Except for Katie that is! Who knew she was such a choosy eater!) Seriously though, not only do we get amazing food at home, but every single school we go to feeds us as well! And when you are in 3-4 schools a day, that's a lot of food! It's also a lot of tea! Every place you go they offer you tea, and more tea, and more tea! By the time we get home we will never want to see another cup of tea in our life! It has now become a joke with Filo and us as to how many times we can be offered tea! Thankfully they no longer get offended when we refuse it!
We have gotten to ride several different types of transportation since coming here: Greyhound-like buses, open air buses, a taxi and our favourite is packing into the back of Pastor Grey's vehicle!:)
I don't know about the rest of the girls, but I have fallen head over heals in love with this country! When I was in Thailand I was counting down the hours until I got to go home because I was so homesick! But here I'm more like " Home? What home? I'm staying right here!" LOL!
I'm honestly already crying at the thought of returning home!:( it is such an amazing experience to be here, to walk into schools and not only see the kids respond so well to the gospel message but then to be able to turn around and hand them a Bible! It is amazing to pass out tracts and not have a single person turn you down and instead have people walk up to you and ask you for one! It is amazing to be able to go through the plan of salvation with almost every single person to talk to when you're out tracting! Yes, I am most definitely in love!
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