Future of Hope

Ok, i did my first sermon last night! it was good. i was so nervous but i tried to hide it. people say they couldnt tell. so my next one will be tomorrow. tonight is mladens turn. there are always troubles before the meetings. well atleast the last two meetings. first meeting we had trouble getting back. inside the bai it was hot, but only where the speakers where. second, the mosquitos seemed to be attacking everywhere. there were dogs barking and fighting outside the meeting. it was still a good sermon tho. i consider these meetings more like lectures, not really sermons. but there good. so i met the chief of Ngaard. we had to have permission from him to do the meetings in his village. he seems to be friends with an older palaun who is adventist. on the way back from the meetings we had a flat in one vehicle, the truck had no more gas so we had to leave it in the village, and we were on the side of the road waiting for help. the tire flattend on our way back, so we were somewhere in the middle of Babeldoab. i felt we should pray. so i told everyone we needed. we prayed. less than a minute later the cops drove by and asked if we needed help. then another vehcile came 5mins later and took half of us home while the other half was getting help from the cops. so in alittle bit i will be driving up there to change the tire on the van with nathan. usually people here destroy anything left on the road, they get bored... but we are lucky becuase we just happend to break down near the police station. otherwise we might not have the van back in usuable condition. yesterday we needed to get to the meetings but we didnt have rides. we used the PMA school bus and it was packed, everyseat in the bus was coming to Ngaard. i think there were about 30-40 people there. about 12 were from Ngaard. i had fun doing the sermons. it was my very first one ever. i was so nervous, my nerves were still shot afterwards for about 10mins. lol. but me and peterson prayed and prayed. God used us. we wouldnt have been able to do any of that. i wanted to stop acouple times and just say that i couldnt go on. the pressure is intense. but somehow when we got started the Spirit just somehow took over. there were times were my sermon was out of order and the slides didnt match. so i improvised and nobody could tell, except the translator. lol. but hes a good guy and i think we make a good team. i look foward to tomorrow night. it reminds me of wrestlin, everytime i would step on the mat i would be nervous, even though i knew what would happen and i would be ok, i was still nervous. so please continue to pray for us and the villages and the people attending. im considering evangelistic work, but i need to pray about it and i think i'll know more after the meetings. pray, ttyl. -jorge