Leaving Dinajpur

Happy New Year everyone!!
We are leaving Dinajpur and taking a 1 hour bus ride and then a 5 to 6 hour train ride heading to Rajshahi. We all can't believe we are already a month into our outreach and have only one month left here! We have had a good last week of ministry. We visited villages-some were Christian and others Hindu or Muslim. Just a side note-the day after Christmas I got sick and it was not fun!! We were told it would happen and it did. I took a day off from doing house visits and just slept and read and watched some movies on an ipod. But I am feeling much better now!!
A few days ago we separated as a group. Some of our team went to a wedding and some stayed on base. I stayed and got to preach and it was awwwesome!! I spoke on Jonah and trusting God even when we have to jump into the waves (problems) of our lives. It's about God redeeming us even when we deliberately go against His first call on our life. He turns it around and still does a great work while speaking to us in places we don't think would make sense (a belly of a fish OR Bangladesh! haha). I really enjoyed talking about that. After the 4 of us who stayed on base preached, we had a time of prayer and asking the Holy Spirit to really come and show up for these people. We called that day "encounter", by the way. It was amazing and all of the people were thanking us so much because they had never seen or known God like that. I know they needed that, too! What a time it was!!
We all appreciate prayers for sickness and just reaching the people God puts around us. They are all so hungry!!
We are sad to leave this place because everyone here has become like family to us. We have 2 weeks in the next place and then 2 weeks in Dhaka. We will go from there to Thailand and then back to HAWAII! That part of the world seems sooo far away from here.
Until next time
Love,
Ames

(posted by Mom)