We have learned so much this past week! On Wednesday we had are first day of prayer and fasting, they do it every first Wednesdays of the month. At first I wasn't really sure about it because usually when you pray and fast it's a personal choice but here there is a day set aside that you have to do it. Not so much the fasting if you can't but a day with just you and the Lord. See here at EI it's like your standing in front of a fire hose trying to get as much truth as you can, really there are days I wish I could just meditate on one thing that our teachers give us, but we usually can't, we move on right to the next thing. So on Weds. everything here shuts down, no one is in the kitchen. You can fix yourself something if you want, no work is going on and no classes just you and the Lord, that way you have time to think about everything you have learned over the last month. I went on a nice long walk through the woods, and Kenny went somewhere, I'm really not sure where he went all I know is I saw him at 9 and then not again till 2:30. I think he was somewhere in the woods too! :o) I think I am going to learn to love those days! They really want you to get in a habit of setting time out your crazy schedules here but also when we aren't here and back home. I think it is so vital that we take time out of our busy days and just sit at Jesus' feet and really see what He's saying.
I also learned something very interesting this week. On Friday we did a group assignment. We were suppose to find as many references as we could in the bible about the exodus or the passover. As we were doing that, Zita told me to look up Exodus 7:26. So I got my bible and found out there is no Exodus 7:26 in my bible but there is in the Latvian Bible. Yep you guessed it, the chapters and verses in different languages my be broken up a little differently from each bible. They all work out, for example she had 29 verses in chapter 7 then only had 27 verses in chapter 8. Oh yeah and the first five books in their bible are called, 1st Moses, 2nd Moses, 3rd Moses, 4th Moses and 5th Moses. Instead of Genesis, Exodus, ect... So when you are witnessing to people from other cultures, what makes sensce to us may not make sense to them.
Here is just one of the many beautiful sunsets we get to see from our room! :o)
I also learned something very interesting this week. On Friday we did a group assignment. We were suppose to find as many references as we could in the bible about the exodus or the passover. As we were doing that, Zita told me to look up Exodus 7:26. So I got my bible and found out there is no Exodus 7:26 in my bible but there is in the Latvian Bible. Yep you guessed it, the chapters and verses in different languages my be broken up a little differently from each bible. They all work out, for example she had 29 verses in chapter 7 then only had 27 verses in chapter 8. Oh yeah and the first five books in their bible are called, 1st Moses, 2nd Moses, 3rd Moses, 4th Moses and 5th Moses. Instead of Genesis, Exodus, ect... So when you are witnessing to people from other cultures, what makes sensce to us may not make sense to them.
Here is just one of the many beautiful sunsets we get to see from our room! :o)
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