Monday, Day 6 in Fiji!:)So we had a very exciting evening after arriving home from church! Apparently the prankster side of me has stayed quiet a little too long, and it decided to appear last night! So we spent last evening busily filling Oreo cookies with toothpaste to feed to Dalton and searching for geckos to put in Filo's suitcase as she was leaving for Bible School this morning! Unfortunately in our quest for a gecko, I came across the first cockroach we have seen since arriving here! Now I love geckos but I despise cockroaches...so long story short the screams that erupted from me left the girls in stitches of laughter and allowed them to hear me scream louder then anyone has ever heard me scream in my life!
This morning Pastor Grey picked us up
at 8am and we drove to the church where we loaded up over 2000 bibles! Then we headed out to the first school! There was great liberty at that school and both Bro. Brooks and Pastor Grey were able to spend a good amount of time explaining the gospel! We girls had learned the chorus of "Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful" in Fijian, so when we sang this morning We sang in Fijian and the kids totally loved it! They seemed to open up more to us because of it and it definitely pleased them that we took the time to learn their language! This school is also the one where much of the video that Bro. Brooks made for the project was filmed.
The second school we went to this morning was the largest we have been to yet! Well over 1000 students! As you can tell from the pictures we were all packed into a large auditorium and talk about sweltering! It was soooo hot in there! But the kids all sat attentively in the heat and once again listened as the gospel was presented! Please, please pray that these students would read the Bibles and take to head what they have heard! At many of the schools we often have teachers coming up and asking for extra Bibles for their family members! Praise The Lord!
On our way to the third school we got to see the Presidential Palace and the changing of the guard! We also saw Thurston gardens and Rebekah was able to get her picture taken in front of it, which was a desire of her heart!:)
The 3rd school was the largest yet! We actually did it in 2 time periods. The first period we did around 400 students and it was probably the worst one yet as far as a good reception! Everyone was talking so speaking to them was a little difficult! The second period there though was to over 1000 students and it was very well received!
Today we had Pastor Sutton, his wife, his niece, and 2 ladies from Florida with us. They were only here for today as well as preaching at the church last night. The Culleys are also with us right now for the rest of the week. Then a number of people from the Greys church and another national Pastor and some of his men from a church near here came and helped as well. We will be doing the schools in his area on the 16th. So we had lots of help today which was a huge blessing as we were doing some of the largest schools!
I think our biggest prayer need this week is that God would open the hearts of the children and teachers of each school we go to and that no school would back out of allowing us to come! Please also pray for both Pastor Brooks and Pastor Grey as they speak at every school! Many schools do not have PA systems or if they do they aren't always the greatest, so it is very wearing on their voices! Please also pray for both Pastor Brook's wife and mother-in-law as both are in the States dealing with health issues at this time.
Thanks once again for all your prayers and for allowing us to be here!
