Day 5: BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE!!!!

Well, I just got back from Florida and had the time of my life! God really used everyone who went on that trip and I don't believe it's possible to not have been impacted in some great way. I was sharing the gospel with people all over the beach, swimming in the ocean and the lagoon pool. I got to hang out with a whole bunch of my friends and grow closer to them as well as meet some new friends. I honestly don't know how the week could have gone better. It is so hard to be back in Houghton where there is snow and having to go back to school, but God will take care of me. I learned I can fully rely on God and submitting my life to Him make it so fulfilling!!! The following is a story I wrote down about someone Megan Beyer and me talked to about the Gospel. I have talked to quite a few others and at least one of them came to Christ. This girl Brittany did not right after I talked to her, but she came so much closer. Here is a copy and paste of the story:

Megan and I decided to go up to this guy who was sitting by himself and drinking a beer. We came up to him and used the game Soularium. We turned the conversation over to spiritual things and he seemed very uninterested. Eventually, a friend of his named Brittany came on over to sit next to him. When she saw the pictures we were showing him, she was very interested and was almost grabbing for the pictures not yet knowing what they were for. So we asked her the first question on the sheet which asked you to pick three different pictures which describe their life. I can’t remember which pictures she picked, but somehow we ended up changing the conversation over to spiritual things. We asked her that if she were to die, what would happen to her. She asked, “Do you mean, where do I go?” We said yes, and she said that she believed in heaven and hell. When asked where she thought she was going, she said Hell. She used to go to church when she was younger as more of a ritual type of thing, but everyone in their family chose their own religion so to speak. Well I asked her that if she could know 100% for sure that she could go to heaven, would she want to hear how and she said yes. We went through the KGP with her and she seemed to be very interested in what it had to say. The way we approached her about it was that we just wanted to share with her what we believe and why and she was very open to it. When we got to the prayer part, I asked her if it was the desire of her heart to pray that prayer and she said sometimes and looked a little confused. We went back over a few things in the KGP and she seemed to really be interested. I could tell she was not ready to commit her life to Christ right at that moment and pushing her to hard to do so would be what Bill O’Conner calls “bruising the fruit.” She needed time to think about it. After we got through it, she started crying and told us that she was so glad that we were out on the beach sharing what she knew was truly important to us. It meant so much to her that we were not out partying and drinking like most people in Panama City Beach do on their spring breaks. After we had explained everything we could, she actually asked us before we got a chance to offer her the booklet if she could have it. Along with the KGP, we gave her a card from the Soularium game with our email addresses on the back of it. She was truly moved by us coming up to talk to her. She was a local who lived 45 minutes away and nobody had ever come up and shared with her the gospel on the beach before. It was great to see Christ working in her life. Although at that moment, she did not come to Christ, she definitely moved on the scale of coming to and growing in Christ from about a negative 5 to a negative .5. I am praying that she will come to Christ, or at least email one of us so that we could keep in contact and share with her more. This is just one of the many stories I had this week.

Isn't God amazing?!