Goodbye, Maybe

Well this may be the last update, because we are about to take off for Barcalona. If our Hostel has internet, then We'll be posting again tonight :)

We spent a wonderful 2 days in Majorca, the Bible college here is really wonderful, and all the people are super friendly. It reminds me a lot of Catalina, only a lot bigger. There was lots of prayer, worship and fellowship. We got to sit in on the last class of the book of Luke, which was great. We stayed with a couple of really cool guys, who we stayed up late talking to both nights.

So perhaps goodbye for now, and we'll see most of you when we get back!!

-=Jonathan and Kai=-

Day 16

We got into Majorca via a really big boat, Pastor Raphael picked us up and we had a great day which started with meeting students at the Bible College. Next we went into the local town called Palma to do some Evangelism. Jonathan had a 45 minute conversation with a local Catholic, it's hard ground, but we know God with be faithful to till it. At night we had Koinonia, which means fellowship in the Greek. It was a great time of prayer and worship. One of the guys we are staying with cooked us a great meal, which was followed by even better conversation about God.

Day 15

Today Luis was back at work so we went out with Peti again. We started the day with some Soccer, in hopes that we could find some people to play with and Evangelize to, but it turned out to be more about our fellowship and exercise. We did make it out to the town later, and went to the skate park where Jonathan shared with three skaters. We cleaned up the house before we left, Mr. Clean would be proud.

We left Valencia today, we had a great long goodbye conversation on the way to the port, with some every encouraging words said to us. Jonathan and I are thankful to God because we see all the great work he has done, and it's not of us.

Day 14

Sunday! Lets go to Church!
Oh wait, we are the church...All right, study at home!
Jonathan and went over Psalm 23 with them, he talked about the first half and I got to talk about the second half (since I won 3-0 in rock, paper, scissors against him). God really used it to speak to us all about how much he's tracking us down, and persecuting us with his goodness and mercy. We ran all the way to England, and then Spain, and the Psalm holds true, we can't get away from it. After the study and a great time of prayer and worship, we went out to the mall to go Evangelize, and OK I'll be honest, to treat them to all you can eat Chinese food as well. It turned out to be very hard soil for the gospel, even with the help of the cute kid we had with us, the people that were drawn to us were repelled by the gospel. God still used it to plant seeds in people's hearts though, now it's up to him to let them die or to grow them. We ended the night with some lessons from Nehemiah, and then on to our nightly prayer, which was as sweet as ever.

Day 13

Today was great, we woke up and headed into town!

We walked around looking for parks and prayed while Jonathan talked to people. It worked out really well since we were not afraid to encourage him to go talk to people since he couldn't say "why don't you go talk to him". He had good long conversations with at least 7 people today, and not one of them turned him down when he gave them the tract we have. It was a day of rest and relaxation for Luis and Kirsi, so we stayed out all day to let them have some familiy time. All the local markets closed down early so we went to the Wal-Mart sized super market and bought some food, while there we ran into a couple of the people that had been saying they would come to the Bible study. Still there is no one coming, we think there is some heavy spiritual warfare going on since there has been nothing but dead Catholic churches here for so long. To end the day we had yet another great night of prayer, I could really make a habit out of this!

Day 12

Woke up, had breakfast -- Fresh bread with ham and cheese. We went to the local University to try and see if there were any ministry opportunities. It was Friday on a Holiday, so school was pretty much shut down, there was hardly anyone there.We spent a long time walking around the town, talking to people and giving them tracts with contact info on them. We were kicking the ball around near the beach, which gave us the opportunity to witness to a couple that was sitting there watching us. They were very thankful and receptive of the Gospel, we are praying they will keep in contact. When back at home, exhausted, we had a wonderful time of fellowship and prayer.

Day 11

Long day of the Lord

We spent the night in the airport to save money, while there a girl from Washington came up to me and started talking to me because she could tell I was American. I got to tell her about HSE and what Jonathan and I were doing. She was a Lutheran, I told her that I grew up in the Lutheran church and encouraged her with all the awesome things God was doing in my life as I lived it by faith. Once we got to Spain we were greeted promptly by Luiz and Peti, again I guess we looked like we were from the states. We had an awesome day of checking out the city, talking about God, and the challenges and aspects of ministry in Spain. We embraced the culture by taking a nap in the afternoon, and then checked out the town and did some evangelism while there. We ended the night with some very desperate prayer. God is good.

Every once and a while it's good to stop and admire God's good work