A Really Good, All-around Awesome Day :-)

Today was really encouraging and refreshing!!!

To start with, breakfast (the free one from the hotel) was really good. :-) I'll be taking advantage of that the rest of the week! :-D

Next was team devotions at 8:30 am. That was really cool, and three members of our team shared testimonies and we all enjoyed both learning about them and worshipping God together.

At 9:30 we left for a daycare, and this was truly an awesome opportunity for us to witness!!! The people there had posters that featured different religious holidays from various religions, and they allowed us to share the Gospel explicitly. It was a golden opportunity for us. Supposedly, these kids are underpriviledged and come from average to low income families - not as poor as the orphanage we saw in Penang last week, but kids are kids no matter where they come from, and we enjoyed sharing Jesus with them :-)

We sang songs like "this little light of mine" and told the story of Zacchaeus, complete with me being the "tree" that he climbs!!! :-D it was so fun! and I had to "transform" into a table for Jesus, Zacchaeus, and all his sinner friends to eat at. :-) good times! then we had a couple minutes to visit and take pictures with the children. I have never known what it is like to have so many kids in my lap at ONE TIME!!! I had 3-4 children in my lap and two on my shoulders! Totally smotheringly AWESOME!!! :-D :-D

From there we went to Singapore's "Chinatown," and shopped for a while. I bought some really cool stuff when I lost my group... but don't worry, I found people again :-) I really enjoyed the Chinatown because it was SO CRAMPED AND BUSY AND LOUD!!! :-D :-D I truly loved it... the cacophony of music, the smells of strange fruits and packaged leather :-) totally amazing and relaxing... :-) What a day!!! :-D

From there, we came back to The Hangout and got prepared for the CI tonight, and I took a nap. We went to the CI and ate a tremendous dinner, and it was soooo good!!! :-D :-D :-D
The dishes included were as follows: fish paste in banana leaves, fish meat balls (and something i couldn't quite figure out, even with taste. possibly pork balls?), salad, corn salad, chicken wings and legs, some gelatin-like layered dessert treat, another gelatin thing covered in coconut shreds, pizza, coconut rice, curry vegatables, and FRUIT!!!! A whole plate covered with slices of mango, starfruit, guava, papaya, and watermelon, along with a couple other fruits I couldn't recognize, but they SURE TASTED GOOD!!! :-D

The CI tonight was sooo good. I mean, SO good. It amazes me how God encourages us when we need it... I needed God's reassurance that I had His help in teaching. Tonight, I taught for an entire 40 minutes about authority and how God uses it in our lives for good. The entire time that I taught, the children were totally attentive!
Then I drew out the word "Authority" in graffiti letters on the whiteboard, and the kids LOVED it!!!! One boy liked it sooo much that he took a picture of it and put it on his cell phone :-) So cool.

When we came back from CI, Tiffany brought out cheesecakes that SHE bought with HER personal money, and treated us to a delectable dessert!!! It was sooo sweet of her (in more than one way, haha!), and we really enjoyed that :-) perfect ending to a perfectly awesome day!

Please pray for a few people on my team. Yesterday, we found out that one kid's mom is gonna be having a surgery soon and its kinda stressful. Today, a couple of the kids found out that their grandfather was given 24 hrs to live, but they decided to stay here with the team.
Continue to keep us in your prayers.

On a lighter note, the highlight of my day was when Victor was introducing himself and went ahead and introduced his sisters too. Then he pointed to me and introduced me as his brother!!! That completely made my day... :-) :-)

Quoteable Quotes from the last two days:

"Moses wanted a son that he could call......... Son."

"Moses was his name, and coolness was his game."
Thanks for the laughs Victor! :-D

Alrighty! Its going on... lemme see here... 1:31 am. :-) Full day.. so its time to sleep!

Keep praying for our team! Like I said before, Satanic powers are majorly attacking our team, and we need the prayer warriors to buckle down and seek God on our behalf! God can move a mountain, and the greatest stronghold of darkness is nothing under God's mighty hand.
Loving the frontline,
Lewis