These past few weeks have been filled with productive labor. I have been teaching 7 classes a week, which keeps me very busy, and have recently started to reach out to my students. Everyone here is so kind and generous, and we are blessed to be in a country filled with generous people.. even if some of them are being generous for selfish purposes, that does not exclude the fact that they are kind people. It is sad to learn of their culture and the demands of their obedience within their society.
Some activities that we have recently done: visited Wuhan University, which is very much like the scenery in Arkansas with the hills and trees (minus the palm trees), visited the infamous Walking Street, sang on stage for a talent show, found some excellent salons that wash your hair and give you head massages, and a few people that were in the program a few years ago came to visit us from the States for a few days (which is how we were introduced to the salons that gave head massages). October 1 is a national holiday here, celebrating the 60th year of communism, so we have a week off from teaching and classes. September 30th, we are leaving to meet some other teachers in the program, and we are going on a
I believe that is all the news for now. If you want to see some videos that I have posted, please go to photobucket.com, and look for courtneylaynesidwell11 in the search bar under 'people'.
Please continue to pray for our team and that we effectively reach out to those we meet here.
Thank you!
"We have the greatest reason of all
We'll build a city or we'll fall
We'll build a city without walls" --Braddigan
"Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand." --Isaiah 53:10
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