Greetings from ZA!

Hey all. I'm sitting in a internet cafe in South Africa! It's been awesome so far. It took 47 hours of travel to get out to here, but it has been awesome. The trip was long, but when you are traveling with those whose company you enjoy, it is fun. We spent new years in the middle of a 11.5 hour bus ride, and I got to pray a little for the new year. In two days of ministry 10 people have been saved and tons and tons have been prayed for. The first day we went evangelizing in the streets and in shops. I got to meet Mirium and Mario who worked at a butchers and pray with them it was awesome. I personally got to go to the community-the place where many people live in shacks the size of my room back home. We went with a cute little old lady named aunt matilda to work with and pray for the sick. One of the lady's whole life was just running on prayers. She was blind for two years before a person prayed for her and she saw again. She has AIDS though, and sometimes she gets really intense pain. However, everytime she gets into really bad pain, she says God sends her a group from overseas to pray for her. And she had not been sleeping the past few nights due to her pain, so she prayed one night for God to send a group, and the next morning, we got there and prayed for her. There are other things I've seen that are written on my heart, that I cant effectively write on here and convey how it affected me. I will say my beard has been handy-people here like it, and one man came up to me after we were done for the day and walking back to the base. He said he recognized my beard, and saw me praying yesterday for Mirium and Mario. He asked me to please come and bless his new home, and so Matthias(This guy from the J-Bay YWAM base here) and I went and prayed for him and his girlfriend and for their new home and his job-pretty much a ton of stuff. Specifically they also asked for me to pray for healing for Cindera's-his girlfriend-back and kidney, so I did, and she seems to be doing much better today(I visited her again). He also kept saying stuff like:how he saw that my team was full of God, how I shone of him and how I was a good man with a good spirit. It just shows how much we are watched in this town and how hungry people are for prayer. They thirst desperately for it. I've never seen such desire for prayer in my life.

It's funny how some people can lose their religion over a bad day, but here-A husband and an eldest son died, leaving a weak, older mother with AIDS with two small kids with no money, no food, and no way to get a job. The funeral for the son was today-he drowned on Christmas day. The father died in November from AIDS. All she had was those who come to give her prayer and God. She was so strong, and in spite of such a life-she knew God is good and that he will guard and keep her, and how that makes all the difference. It makes me hate the way we Americans are raised.

Please keep us in your prayers. Prayers make SUCH a difference. I've seen how they change this world and how God releases power when you pray. If you want to pray for specific things:
We are running a multiple hour church service tomorrow (the church services here can run all day long). Pray that God works in the hearts of those that come, and that he would guide all of our words and actions.

I gotta run here in a sec to keep preparing for the service, but I Love you all!

Until ALL have heard!
-Nate