Good Dinner.

This week is going beautifully well. Please, please, please don't stop lifting us up. This is where the strength is coming from. I want to give you a recap of the week at the end of it based upon us getting to share "the Greatest Story Ever Told" this week in class. I mean, we get to share the famous American Holiday... Christmas!... and all that it is about. :)

But I'll get back to it. At first tonight, I want to share with you something that just touched me pretty.... pretty good. I'm about at the end of making it through eating a meal with everyone in all of my classes and tonight was no different...but it was. As I walked into the dining hall, my initial thought process is, ok I'm in a good mood, I'll get to eat something, I'll talk to the students for a bit, then make it back in time and hopefully get my lesson plan done before our meeting and maybe get to bed early/before midnight. But I felt like He was just saying, "Ok. Slow down a minute. I don't want you to just "get through this" meal." So I kinda stopped and took a pause then said a quick Thought for Him to help me focus and come and fill the place.

We got our food and sat down and as always, I bowed my head said some Thanks, asked to be a blessing to my students and a Light in the conversation. When I looked up (like most times) they were staring at me, semi-confused but still waiting to be polite before they ate. They said, "is it ok to eat?" I laughed and said yes. They said, so you believe in J? "Yeah" I replied with a smile. "So said pr-y?" "Yep, I just wanted to Thank Him for the food that He's given us." They said, "her too" and pointed at the student next to me. Apparently, we both bowed at the same time and came up at the same time and didn't know it. So she said, "You believe in J?!" "Yeah," I said. "Me too!" she responded. "Awesome" I celebrated and high-fives were exchanged.

Throughout the conversation I found out that she's been in the family for year, her mom for 10 years, and her dad for 3 years. (Which is just an awesome story I can imagine of her mom being a little knee warrior.) I talked about how it's my favorite thing to talk about, "Me too!" she said... and she wasn't lying. Throughout the conversation she asked me what time I pr in the morning and if I read everyday? Her classmates/roommates (they room with their classmates - 4 in a room) often hear her pr at night before she goes to bed so they just ignore her because they always thought she was talking to them. She pointed out another one and said, "when we got here, she said she believe in J but now she doesn't." "Oh, really?" I responded with. She continued to fill me in on the conversation while the girl sat across the table from me staring at us, "She had a dream J, but now she no believe." "Why not?" I asked. She explained how she wanted to be in the Com. Party when she gets older and you can't believe in J and be in the Party.  Another one of the girls said she started to read the Book too but it was confusing and she gave up. I asked which part and she said the beginning. I explained how it can be confusing, but I tried to navigate them to Matthews part. I think Matthew does a good job telling a Good Story.

I don't have time to tell you all of the details but during the meal she just kept directing it back to Him. They taught me how to say Book, G, and JC in Chinese. It was pretty cool. She explained how the other ones don't believe and one of her friends said, "Everyone believe their own thing."  "I don't like!" she exclaimed. She was also surprised when I told her that not everyone in America believed either. I explained how I wished they did and she said the same thing and told how her Fellowship gives little books to people that explain J-man but they don't believe. "I don't like! That's no good." she exclaimed again.

It's so good to find another sister as passionate and excited about Him and making Him famous to those around us as we are. What's so good is we had most of this conversation in front of her other 3 classmates and it wasn't anything new. From the sounds of it, she'd been telling stories for a while and pretty open about it. It was beautiful. I'm excited to see what He does with them. One of them, I think will be within a year - she just needs more info to understand. One, my heart breaks for because she's looking for success first. The other one was pretty zoned out and just asked for a picture when I looked at her to join the conversation.

Last point, I was singing/humming a song while we were eating and they asked if I liked to sing. I said yes. She said, "about J?!" and I smiled and laughed and said, "yep!" She said, "me too!... but I don't know any in English." So I made a deal with her - if she taught me a song about J in Chinese, I would teach her one in English. I'm pretty excited about that and the other girl seemed excited too even. So... any suggestions on a good/ easier English song?