Funeral in the valley

The man in the back wearing the grey coat is the one who tried to invite our entire group to some saints birthday party a couple of years ago and asked us to pay his 300 dollar electric bill. The little girl in the pink hat and red coat is the sister that was in the room when Christina fell to her death back in 2004. There was around thirty people in these two little rooms tonight. It was great to get to buy them some food as the preist usally makes them pay for everything.

Pastor this is the group that you were teaching your first, church starts lesson to three years ago. When I walked up you said, "Troy take this over for me now!" Of all the lessons that we have done in the valley which probably add up to six hundred by now this was the second family that we did a lesson with. Donny was my translator then and I told him....(after it started getting out of control) " get this over with as soon as possible!" Bogdon says that a few of the men want to follow Christ and have prayed with him in the past. We will see....

The lady was 59 but had been sick for quite some time....we took her medicine several times and she did sit in and listen to nearly 12 lessons. I am not sure if she ever really understood though. May God have mercy on her soul.



Bogdon and I went back down in the valley today. This is the first time in about three months actually that we have ministered together in Zone 6. We found out that the eldest lady that lived at 89 Dogarie died. Some of you might know this group as the "nine families". We have two or three repenters now from this very large family. They asked if we would come down and do the service for them. They specifically said that they were NOT going to invite the priest there. He takes money from them and runs. So this was a great opportunity to at least begin to change the way they do things in the valley. I went and bought some food for them and they waited patiently as we read through Psalm 23 before eating. It seems that we have a big foothold on this family and will begin to really push into the valley through families like this. We are hoping for a church plant by the end of the year, Lord willing. Bogdon did great and has even amazed Pastor Ovi with his new attititude towards life. Bogdon even told me that after Paula heard him talking with Pastor Ovi on the phone when he hung up she was so happy that she gave him two kisses on his face :) So things are going much better. It was great to be ministering with him again in the valley after a few months of rebellion on his part. YOUR prayers must be lighting up heaven and pleasing our Heavenly Father! He is really starting to shower some blessings on us over here.