"Normal" week

Was another fantastic week here in Natal. Not a normal one because we barely ever have a "normal" week, but was great fun. 

This Monday I went to the house of one of the guys from youth group to start guitar lessons with him. It was really good fun and really speaking to me about how much I love teaching. What was cool was that he taught the chords that he learnt this week to his little brother and his little brother wrote a song with them about how much he loves Jesus. 

We've started doing the project that we do in the church with the teens in our school Maia Neto, so this week we were watching the movie "how to save a life" with the kids as it is the base for the programme for the next few weeks. Some of the classes really enjoyed it while other were just talking during the movie but either way I think there is a lot of kids who are going to be really open to the project and what we're going to be doing. 

We watched the movie with the schools in thirds (two thirds on tuesday and the last classes on Wednesday) and then we spent the rest of Wednesday doing some admin and doing our youth group. I was speaking on the Wednesday night which I'm still getting the hang of but it was good fun. I was speaking about going into the darkness of the world and being the light and how we can trust in Jesus to do that. 

I used this song as an example, it's my favourite song right now and it speaks of this same thing.
white owls- Josh Garrels

Thursday we had a great really chilled day at the pastors house. Every now and again we meet at the Pastors house just t refresh our vision and to talk to him about how we're doing as a team and as a project. We were just able to open ourselves up about how we've been getting on in the host home and in our positions in the project in general. After we were just able to chill in his house with his family who are really fun to hang out with. Was just a really cool refreshing day to just chill out and have some fun. 

What's really cool in Floca at the minute is that we have found that there is a cell group that meets every break time during their break time. The leader of that group has recently left so they have asked us to lead it for them. It's an amazing opportunity for discipleship and even cooler because we can invite the "none Christians  that we know to join and see what it's like. So on friday when they had a day off we went to a park with them and just had a good day of hanging out with them and had a little bit of worship and a word from Ramin 

us with the cell group at the park worshipping 

God is doing some fantastic stuff here in Natal. I have really felt his move in my life this week, to run the race of the next few months as well as I can. I'm so excited about what God has to do in these next few weeks and months not just through me but in me. 

Thanks for your support and prayers. 
God bless 
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