I can't keep up!

So much is happening around here that I can't seem to keep up with it all!

Sunday night on the way home from church, Mark, our neighbor, told us a neat thing about thse high school boys I mentioned in the previous post. When they were over for game night, they stole one of the guy's cologne. Immediately we were all so excited about this opportunity. The guys get to tell the boys that they know that they stole the cologne and they still love them. What an opportunity to show the love of Christ through forgiveness! We are praying that the boys will be blown away and even confused by this type of love.

After that, Emily and I were waiting for Kyle to come over to pray, but he was being really late. We texted him and he said that he was in a roomate meeting and to wait for him. Quite a bit later, he came through our door with an expression on his face that said, "I just jumped into a freezing cold river!" He had not in fact jumped in a river, but the power of God seemed to have had the same effect on him.

We had been praying for unity in his apartment, and Kyle himself had been broken over the fact that his apartment was disunified. The short of the story is this: all of the roomates of "the salt shaker" (the name of the boys' apartment) came home from church at different times, but all eventually got there and started talking and got crazy honest and are now getting so unified in heart.

Pretty much, God broke them down individually so that He could build them up together.

Kyle told us most of what went on, and we started to realize just how little we know about being the Body of Christ (more on this later).

Then Lor came in and told us about what is going on with her, and how she is so excited to start doing whatever it takes to live out the Gospel. She has been having such good interactions with her co-workers and the youth that she works with, and is now taking huge steps towards going overseas next semester. This was a definate evidence of God's work on her heart.

Oh, and God broke the boys' X-Box. Something that Kyle had been praying for because it was hindering their unity. And they are now all in agreement that it is a good thing.

We prayed together, and then we parted ways and went to sleep, rejoicing in what He is doing.

Yesterday Emily and I had just gotten home from the doctor (I have crazy nasty poison oak on my leg and it is spreading to the rest of my body, so I needed prescription strength stuff), when Lor met us outside. She was on her way over to the salt shaker to talk to the guys about having a guy named Robert stay with them.

Robert is the boyfriend of her co-worker, Raquel. The story is a bit confusing, but Raquel and Robert were, in essence, excommunicated from their church because of some sin issues. Anyways, he is staying with the guys for a while in order to get back on his feet....that was yesterday...

Tonight Lor, Emily, and I were talking in the living room when Tom and Kyle (both from the salt shaker) came up the stairs to our apartment. They said that they randomly met Robert's family in front of the church building tonight and got to talk to them for about thirty minutes. It's really cool how God is forming so many connections in this spider web of relationships.

Ok, I am exhausted. I will finish up about how we are learning about Church soon. Goodnight!