Finishing up in Mayong

I can't believe it's already Sunday again! The past week and a half since we arrived in Mayong have flown by! People in this village and been extremely hospitable to us.  We really feel like a part of the village.  It's definitely been my favorite village that we've been to yet.  Just to give you an idea of how hospitable they are- we wanted to camp out on the beach last sunday night, so the village Chiefton personally escorted us there and was worried sick that we were all going to drown because there was a storm coming.  So she wouldn't leave until we promised her that we would stay out of the water.  They really felt responsible for our team.  On another note- the beach was gorgeous! It has black sand and we woke up to a beautiful sunrise.

As far as ministry goes here- we've been able to get three Bible studies started here in Mayong.  Each one usually has anywhere from five to nine or ten people.  The people here are pretty interested in studying the Bible.  They even came out to our Bible study when it was raining- which is unheard of among Filipinos.  Filipinos don't like to get wet, so if it starts raining they usually don't leave their houses.  Our Bible studies have been mostly women, so we're really praying for God to open the hearts of the men here to the gospel. We've connected with one girls especially in this village who is extremely interested in learning about the Bible.  She has a lot of questions and asked for a Bible so that she could tell people that visit her store about the Bible.  So that's really exciting.

We only have three more days in this village. We leave on Wednesday and get a three day vacation before moving to our next village.  I love this village and don't want to leave (except for the fact that I have over 100 bug bites... I'm ready to get away from the bugs definitely).  Please pray for continued open doors for the gospel.  There are so many religions here teaching so many different things that there is a lot of spiritual confusion in this village.  So please pray for clarity and for God's truth to become evident in this village.