a house,
a world?
This week I have experience all of these. There is three ways one person can affect these three things in a good way. in a bad way, and change these three for Christ.
In my class I saw how when one student is in my class I have a totally different class than when that ONE student is absent I have the most calm class in the world. The past two weeks have been the most stressful, difficult weeks of my teaching career. The past two weeks I have come home and been completely drained. All I could do was go to sleep. On Tuesday I had the biggest headache and did not feel good at all because I believe it was just a highly stressful day and my body was reacting to it. Every single day I had a headache minus Friday when that student happen to be absent. I was sad that the student was not there but I realized that I would have a less stressful day and my Friday was amazing. I felt good I was smiling, no headaches, and I could enjoy teaching. I could enjoy my students.
Please pray for my class. It has been a rough year and we have only been in school for starting our 4Th week. Pray that I will have patience with this particular student and really be able to show Christ with him and just see a change of heart.
In my house wow I love my house and I love my housemates. We got a new housemate last week and it has been an adventure. We got to show her around, and different things. I have gotten a little frustrated though because it is like teaching someone how to do things all over again when they are just like in the states. I guess because I when got here things like telephones and washing machines are just like in the states so I could use them. However our new roommate is not realizing that, and she is not technology savoy which is also frustrating for me because it comes so easy for me. Our house has changed and not just because of that one roommate it just went from being loud and having fun with each other to seclusion in our own space, which I hate and I have done it a lot this week but I miss our whole house just hanging out with each other.
Pray for our house that we don't go against each other and that we can stay focused on why we are here and the relationships that we have.
The world. I have two stories from this week:
Story One
This week I and another teacher have been fighting for volleyball at our school for those who do not want to play soccer, because lets just face it some people hate soccer and have no desire to play it but do because it is the only thing at our school. So we finally got our director to approve volleyball and it starts on Thursday. I am really excited because I get to spend more time with the Jr. High and high school students and get the opportunity to continue to share Christ in their lives. This is an amazing opportunity to share Christ with the future leaders of the world. Touching just one of these students could impact a country or a continent and that is an amazing opportunity. Plus I get to teach something that I am so passionate about and love to play.
Story two
This week in my classroom we have been talking about God's blueprint and how Jesus is the main structure of this blueprint. We also talked about How God prepared Jesus for ministry by Jesus being baptized and being tempted in the wilderness. Even through all the frustration with my class this week I shared about how Jesus was in flesh and blood just like us and had the same human tendencies that we did but even though he was tempted he did not give in and so we have that perfect example of how we are to act. The whole main reason for these temptations was all preparing him for the cross to take our sin and give us that gift of forgiveness and being saw as perfect in God's eyes and how all they had to do was accept that gift and we would be in Heaven with the perfect human Jesus, and with our heavenly father and then we prayed. That was the end of our day two days last week. I don't know if any of my students were touched by the lesson but God has that all worked out and I don't necessarily need to know because I am to plant the seed and God brings the harvest in. Praise the Lord.
Pray for the students both in the volleyball program, and in my class that Christ would just work in the lives of these students and that I can just show Christ's love to them even in the most stressful times. Pray that the students just have an open heart to the Lord.
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