Hello! So it has been a busy past couple of days. My team leaves for the desert tomorrow. We have an 11 hour van ride. We are staying in the desert for 3 nights and then will go to the another city to do some church ministry. I will have to write about more details when i get back next weekend.
So, Garbage city housecleaning this week was an interesting experience. Me and one of the guys from my team cleaned a bedroom. We pulled the blankets and boards off the bed and under the bed was every kind of trash you could ever imagine and tons of rat poop. There was a huge pile of trash between the wall and the bed.....so i decided to take on the challenge of sweeping it all out. As i swept...something in the pile started to move..and it ended up being a HUGE rat. The rat ran out but there were still a whole lot of little rats. The guy told us we had to kill them. I was thinking in my head, "does he want us to kill it will our hands or something?" i had no idea what he meant and had no idea what to do. I ended up sweeping out the rats and then the guy i was working with would catch them in his hands (we had gloves on) and he would throw them really hard out the window against the wall. A total of 6 rats were killed. Definitely will be a story that i will not forget.
Another night we had a ministry at a church and in the beginning of the service all of the lights went out. We ended up lighting a whole bunch of candels and it was so cool to have a service in candel light. We have been doing a lot of church ministry and just challenging and encouraging the Christian churches in Egypt. It really has taught me a lot. Im still working with the whole language barrier thing...but i know that it is good for me to experience.
Anyway, i need to get going but i just wanted to update you a little bit before i left for the desert. Here is a verse that encouraged me this morning: "My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God." prov. 2:1-5