I spent the last 4 days in Beauchamp, which is about a 2.5/3 hour trip off campus. It’s out in the country, but it is GORGEOUS!! The team we traveled with only had 5 people, but they had the biggest hearts of any 5 people I know. 3 were on a team together and the other 2 were on a team and they just jumped in. All together they had $2750 to spend on goats and chickens and total we bought 80 goats, 50 chickens, 2 pigs, and 2 turkeys. The first day we went to the market to get them which was a new experience for me, and let me tell you it was…. interesting. The market was packed. We gave them to the pastor of the church out there and he gave them to families in the church who needed them the most. We had a huge rice giveaway we gave away about 16,000 servings in those 4 days. On the last night I just sat and watched the sky it was awesome. The moon was so bright it almost hurt to look at it. I realized in that moment just how tiny we are and how big we think we are. God is a huge, awesome god and I constantly need to be put in my place to realize that and that was one of those moments.

                “Then sings my soul to my Savior God, to Thee we sing how great Thou art…”

That song has been stuck in my head for the last couple weeks. We sang it to the prisoners a few weeks ago and I was walking down the street yesterday and heard someone sing it. It’s been with me everywhere it seems like, but it’s a wonderful song. J

                Yesterday a couple of people wanted to go speak to some of the locals in what we call hut to huts. Basically we go out to people and ask them if they know Jesus and if they don’t we talk to them and share His love with them, and if they do we just encourage them to share Him with other people and just be a light to them. Yesterday challenged me. We started talking to this man and asked him if he knew Jesus, he said yes, but he told us that he doesn’t have a relationship with Him. He later on told us that he was a witch doctor for voodoo. People bring him their sick family members or friends or whatever and pay him to heal them basically. I don’t know if he prays or what he does to the people, but that is his family’s source of income. I didn’t have any words to say. Who am I to tell this man to leave his old ways behind and trust in someone who he knows nothing about and hope that he will find another way to make money. I trust that God will provide for me, and He always does, but how can I tell that to this man?! I have no clue what it is like to go hungry or to not know where my next meal is going to come from or to not know when my next paycheck is coming. I told him about the disciples and how they dropped everything and followed Jesus, not really knowing anything about Him. I explained that some left their families and some left their jobs and security to follow Jesus. I talked to the man for a little while longer and he asked where the church was and we told him and he said I will go Sunday. I told the man I don’t know why God put me there and him there in that very situation, but I know that there was a reason. The man said we could pray for him if we would like, but not there. In every prayer I pray I mention that man and I hope that something will pull him to want to come to church and find out more. I may never see that man again, but I introduced myself and told him that he sees me in town to come talk to me, and I told him that I would be praying for him, and he said thank you. I left. This is what it’s all about. I was so scared to talk to him when he first mentioned it, but this is what we’re up against. God is so so evident here, but so is Satan. It’s. Hard. I ask that you keep this man and the team and myself in your prayers. God is doing huge things here. We are up against a lot here, but we all know that God can and does move mountains.

                Once again feel free to e-mail me at hmahle18@hotmail.com, or you can message me on facebook. I will keep you all updated. Thank you all for reading this!