9/3/2010

It's Friday! Today was a very long, but good day. On Friday's the kids 4th grade and up split up boys and girls, and then have the opportunity to ask their same gender teachers any questions that they have about life or the Bible. Bri and I offered to lead the girls group today. As we expected, most of the questions were about dating. It was frustrating at times because they wanted us to give them a formula on how to handle a ton of different situations with guys. We told them that the solution to all of the problems they were asking us how to handle really came down to dating the way God intended it. If they really wanted to keep God first in their lives then they wouldn't be in any of the situations that they were asking us about... such as their parents finding out about their hidden boyfriend, having 2+ boyfriends at a time and not knowing who they really "love", and so on. We tried our best to explain to them why both of us decided early on that we were not going to date just to date. We read in Proverbs where God says to guard our hearts and we explained that with each boy they date just to date they are not guarding their hearts. They are asking to have their heart broken. We talked about our purity rings and how God wants us to save ourselves for marraige, and how that means more than just sleeping around. With all of this they just could not understand why Bri and I would choose to not shop around for guys or why we would both keep our purity. I'm not sure how much of our talk they really took to heart, but I pray that God used us to plant a seed in their lives.

For the rest of the day Bri and I helped out in the 1st grade class again. In the afternoon, the teacher asked if we could watch the class because she had to leave. For the rest of the afternoon we looked after the kids. They are fun, but 8 little balls of energy ;) They saw our purity rings and thought we were married. We tried to explain that they are on our right hands and a wedding ring is on the left. They did not believe us at first, and then they tried to take them off and put them on our left hands trying to say that then we would be married. They obviously have never heard Pastor's baptism metaphore with his wedding ring ;) These kids are silly and loving and bring us both lots of smiles.

We don't have any pictures for today, so I thought I would post some more pictures from the other day when we traveled with Hospice.

These are their mud, stone and stick houses... some, as you can see, are falling over.

We met this little girl at the school for disabled children.

This little boy is HIV+ and is recovering from TB.

This little boy was so shy! He didn't want anything to do with us until Bri showed him his picture on her camera. They are just fascinated by the fact that they are in a box!