No worries…

The bad thing about blogging is that as soon as I walk away from the computer I think of things I should have said, but when the whole team is giving input over your shoulder it’s hard to know what to say.  Plus, I want to tell you about the work we’re doing and about Australia in general, all in 2 paragraphs.  Let me tell you a few things I’ve learned since I’ve been here:

1. The water does not go the opposite direction when you flush the toilet-at least as far as we can tell, because there’s not enough water in the bowl.  The little bit that is in there just goes straight down-trust us, we’ve researched it.

2. Spring water and mineral water are 2 TOTALLY different things.  Stephanie and I only made that mistake once.  Mineral water is carbonated and nasty!  Now we get bottled spring water.

3.Vegomite is not all it’s cracked up to be.  It looks like tar and tastes gross!  We all had to chug a glass of juice after we tasted it.

4. We are here from a Bappo Unie…that’s Auzzie for Baptist University.  They shorten everything, but we’re catching on.

I guess those are the main things you need to know for now.  One more thing Dr. T wanted me to clear up, he has perfected the art of signaling and no longer turns on the wipers…he now uses his bright lights instead…oh well, maybe he’ll figure it out before we leave.

Now for the reason we’re here, the mission work.  God is showing us that you don’t have to share the gospel and lead people to the Lord to be a missionary. Yesterday we went to a home for the elderly and sang hymns with the people and Dr. T gave a short message.  Then, we came back to the church where we’re staying and did some much needed cleaning.  We came in contact with no people, but were still demonstrating the love of God.  We went to bus stops that afternoon to find youth to invite to a service that night and had everything prepared and no kids showed up.  We were slightly disappointed, but we know that God is in control and has a purpose for everything that happens.  Instead we were able to go prayer walking in the community around the church.  This morning we served at a prayer breakfast for all of the area churches.  We had the afternoon off, so we just finished hiking a few miles up onto a cliff overlooking the beach.  It was beautiful and an awesome reminder of the majesty of the Lord.  His creation is amazing and it was wonderful to take the time to enjoy it.  Our team enjoyed walking together and getting to know each other.  It’s amazing how God works in the small things like the unity of our team.  Some of us just met at the airport 6 days ago, but you’d have thought we’d know each other forever.  We all get along and have a great time goofing off together.  Tomorrow will be a full day.  We’re attending and helping with 4 different services.  We’re praying that God will use us no matter what language the service is in. 

Continue to pray.  Thank you so much for all of the encouraging messages, it means a lot!