joy in children

We started encouraging our church to come to our corporate prayer time on Wednesday nights and last night, we had six or so of the moms from our body come to pray for some specific needs. We prayed for healing, mostly, and also some freedom over the people who came for ministry. It was such a blessing to have them join us in prayer and be so honest about their needs so that we could pray for them. I really think that some kingdom ground was reclaimed last night. I sat next to one of the boys whose mom brought him for prayer. We started off with worship and I started crying as I listened to him sing the songs with his sweet little voice. When he first came, he was always grumpy and constantly bugging his mom about when they could go back home, but more and more he is filled with joy and enjoys coming to church. What a work God's doing in him!

Today, my friend Olivia came over to my apartment, then we went to visit her dog together. We were walking around and met two eight year old girls. At first, they were shy, but then we started talking in my limited Korean. Olivia told them they should give me some Korean lessons, so they did. They started with the alphabet and then wrote a word for each character. They even taught me some Hanja, Chinese characters. They were really excited to be doing this. They even gave me grades on my writing and pronunciation! Pronunciation, I got a hundred, but in writing what they told me to write, I scored a 90. It was really fun for me to get to talk with them in my simple Korean and be understood! They wanted to know when we could meet again, but I couldn't tell them anything for sure.

I came back after my impromptu Korean lesson and made some pretty tasty spaghetti for lunch, then came out to the courtyard to get online. The security guard saw me and came over. He asked what I was eating (Skittles). I told him it was candy, and he dipped his hand in to get some for himself. So funny. Now, I'm off to the post office to mail some letters before it's too late, and then to my Korean lesson with Okja.