Wonderful Weekend

Friday

Friday night we met to pray. We always meet to pray for our neighbors, because we know that whatever we ask that is according to God's will, we will recieve, becuase it is pleasing to him. We had visited the Koolas on Wednesday, and knew that their oldest daughter, Roshni, was having a birthday on Saturday. Emily prayed specifically for them, that somehow we could be a part of Roshni's birthday celebration. Then we built a fort and slept in it.

Saturday

9:25 a.m. Monique and I were getting into my car so that I could take her home before I went to work and Mr. Koola came outside. I said good morning, but was kind-of rushing to get Monique home and not be late for work. As I was pulling out of the parking space, the in-laws were trying to wave me down to get my attention, but I did not see them. Monique said, "Look! They are waving goodbye to you!" I got excited and looked up noticing that they were trying to get my attention. I pulled back into the parking space, and rolled down my manual window.

Through broken English Mr. Koola said to me, "Today is my daughters birthday. You come to the party. Five o'clock. Tell all of them up there." He pointed to my apartment asking me to invite my roomates.

As soon as I dropped Monique off, I pulled my phone out. Emily answered in a sleepy voice.
"Wake up! God is faithful!" I screamed because I knew she would want to wake up for this news. I told her about the invitation and we immediately praised God for his direct answer to our request.

During my lunch break at work, I met up with Emily and we talked about what the night would hold. We were so excited, knowing that not only would we get to spend some time with the Koola family, but that their friends would be there too! (If you know anything about Indian culture, you know that they group together. Our apartment complex is easily 40% Indian.) We were in tears realizing that we are being missionaries right in our own complex!

When I went back to work, Ben asked me "What's up?" and I said "God is so faithful!!" He said how? I told him that my friends and I had been meeting together to pray and we are seeing God answer the prayers....To make a long story short, he said, somewhat jokingly, "Tell God to send some of that good my way." So that is what I am going to do. So, I have been praying confidently that God would show him somthing, and I cant wait till Monday to ask him if he "saw" anything. Ill keep you updated.

I got off of work late (at 7) and was therefore very late for the party. But they all waited for me! I handed a small bundle of balloons to Roshni and when she let them go, the kids went crazy, each child trying to grab the strings and bring the balloons back down from the ceiling. Then I noticed Emily sitting on the rug across the room, and we got so excited. The adults were super nice, the women greeted me with the few English phrases they had picked up.

This is where we met Laurenjah. She invited us to come over any time, so tomorrow we shall go. We also invited the Koolas over for dinner sometime.




The story will continue.....