HOW COULD IT BE?

Neal Pollard

We are having a wonderful time!  That is not as much of a “slam dunk” as it may sound.  The heat is oppressive, so much that we are constantly uncomfortable and sweating.  Though there are “western restaurants,” the food is often not nearly “up to par.”  We cannot speak the language that all those around us are speaking.  We are all separated from most of our closest friends, family, and loved ones.  In fact, we are thirteen hours ahead of the Mountain Time Zone, so we do not have many hours of the day when we are both awake at the same time.

So, how could we be having a wonderful time?  Upstairs, Sheryl, Kathy, and Teri are teaching the Christian young women who are students about to graduate here or are members of the local church.  Wes and Justin Guess, a preacher from Mathis, Texas, and fellow Southwest graduate of Phanat Ouch, are studying with three non-Christians in the office of the school.  Quinton Decker and I have been studying with several others non-Christians in the kitchen.  In the main room, Bob Turner is teaching the male students about to graduate.  The same gospel that has called us out of darkness and into the light is proving its power as it meets open, tender hearts.  I am in great hope that many of these young men and women, who were contacted through friendship evangelism, will obey the gospel.  The gospel, when taught, works anywhere there is a person open to it and willing to obey what it says do.  That fact alone is so powerful it eclipses any heat, rain, discomfort, culture shock, and the like.

Thank God for His eternal wisdom!