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Yo, awesome amazingness! And yet kinda really sad too. Sharing the gospel and then never seeing someone again is the worst. When you love your brother, but don't know what will happen to him on his own. Sure he will be praying, but what will he pray about? At least he has life now.
So, I have a new brother.
It is always super exciting. I know I didn't do everything perfectly, but I'm really glad that God was using my mouth. I'm really glad that I could pray with them. This long weekend holiday thing is kinda annoying though. It's all in God's plan though, so I just need to trust. Even if he falls away a bit, I know God is always with him. Even if he doesn't know much, God will give him wisdom. Even if he doesn't have a Bible (yet), he definitely knows of God's love, our problem, God's solution and our decision.
I need to keep him in my prayers and God I really hope that email works. I really need to pray for his friend too. There's so little time and so many people to tell the good news to. Lol. How much I thank Pastor DB for his explanation of the trinity. How much harder could it get than trying to explain the trinity?
Ya. Praise the Lord and keep praying.
D.Fa
[Ya, so. If you can't tell, I saw someone pray to receive Jesus into their life this day. And it was so great, but then, so scary. So, me and TL were going through the 'four spiritual laws' booklet with him and his friend (these were the guys me and JW met up with about a week ago..?). We were going through and TL had to leave just after he made his decision. We were going to meet a guy who spoke a lot of Japanese. I was excited to meet him, but that meeting turned out to be them playing pool for an hour and a bit, so I'm happy I stayed in the coffee shop with the two guys.
So, I helped go through the last part of the book talking about 'what now that you have Jesus in your life?' using my Bible and the booklet. They were listening and asking questions and reading along in my Bible. We finished the booklet and I was starting to think about our next meeting so that we could start follow-up materials, learning more deeply about what the decision means and more about what your relationship to God looks like, etc. which is important, right? Don't just 'convert' people, but inform them and build them up.
Well, it seemed that there was a long weekend coming up and he was leaving on Wednesday and was too busy tomorrow with packing and school and wouldn't be back until next week. So I started freaking out a bit trying to clarify if there was any chance of there being time tomorrow. In the end they had time tonight, but I didn't have follow-up materials and tomorrow they'd text me (this does not work because of the multiple phones we use and none of them are 'mine') if they were free. So we just talked for a while about random things, exchanged some contact info and started walking back.
They saw one of their friends who was with DP and SVdM. The first thing he said was that we had been talking about God and that he was so excited to be Christian now! lol. Their friend had an English name?!? So, the two of them (who I started referring to as 'the brothers') asked me if I could give them English names. I said I'd think of some good ones.
Seeing his enthusiasm was so great. When he received Jesus, it was a little odd. I don't think he fully understood 'praying' to receive. I definitely stressed 'the words don't matter' part of prayer and it seemed like he took that as 'you don't talk out loud when you pray' so I didn't get to hear him pray. lol. He said he'd pray everyday. He also asked if we had to pray in English. No, God knows every language and He knows your heart.
Anyways, interesting night.
[Also, talking to him yesterday, he said he still doesn't have a Bible, but he has been praying everyday. Mainly for health of body for him and his friends, including me. This is interesting... I need to talk to him some more and pray for him some more.]]
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