the bible is like a cell phone!!!

I am SSSOOOO encouraged this past week!

Last week was technically our last week to be meeting with students on campus, and one girl I have been meeting with during this semester, Yunyun, I met randomly at the cafeteria in the international center on campus. Well God knew it wasn't random. I got to share about my faith with her, and tell her about how it has changed my life, and she was so interested!!!! she was excited to meet more to learn more about God and Jesus and ask questions. so every week since before spring break we have been meeting, but the past few weeks she's been busy. so I wanted to make sure I meet with her one last time before the semester ended since she's been so interested I wondered if she was ready to entrust her life to Christ.

Well when I e-mailed her, she was SO excited, because she had just thought about e-mailing me too! we set up a time to meet, so I was excited that maybe she had made a decision to ask God to come into her life. Well, at the time we were supposed to meet, I waited for an hour and didn't hear anything from her. later she told me she messed up her life the day before, and everything was crazy and she was so sorry she couldn't meet

I was so disappointed because I thought this meant we couldn't meet at all, but then she wanted to meet over the weekend. usually I try not to work on the weekends, because I need to rest sometime, but since this is the last time before the end of the semester I decided it would be fine.

well as we met at the coffeeshop I was a little disappointed when I saw she was with a guy also. I thought this might be her boyfriend and I figured she would be more shy to talk about God with him around. As the small talk was getting to an awkward end, I finally asked her if she had some new questions about God for me. well that spurred on a hour long conversation and explanation of the gospel all over again. She then told me she had mentioned to her friend that she was going to meet someone to talk about God and he had wanted to come to!

It was so encouraging because I was disappointed about so much in meeting her, and here she is just excited to know more about this God that loves her and wants her to experience real life. one of my favorite parts of the conversation was when Xiao was asking about why we need to pray. I explained how even as people to have a good friendship, they must talk to one another, so when we pray we are talking to God and how the bible is one way God can speak to us. Well then Xiao replied back, with a big grin of understand on his face and said "oh! so the bible is like a cell phone!"

I loved this and it really made me so excited that he was really getting it. At the end they were asking me about how they can go to church, and what it's like, and yunyun said " I want to come to all of your activities next year!" and xiao said he was going to join a bible study next semester.

Meetings like this where there is just such innocent faith and desire and hunger to know God, make me so thankful and overwhelmed that this is my job I get to do this for a living! I can't believe that I get to do this. God is just so good, and I am excited for yunyun and xiao to finally decide to open the door to let God completely into their lives.