Hi friends,

well yesterday was the last day of regular outreach, taking surveys. Next week we are going out each day passing out the flyers for the seminar. We had some interesting experiences yesterday, I will let you read from the excerpt below from my outreach diary. Please definitely keep us in prayer.

Thank you for all your prayers,  God Bless

Sincerely,  Daniel

Oct 8
Today was our last day of regular outreach taking surveys, and we had a number of Bible studies scheduled, but some fell through, and we ended up only studying with one person. We had scheduled a study at 2pm with  JW, but they weren’t home.  Our next study was with a gentleman I will call Jeff, he has been having seizures for some time, but recently he has switched medications and he has still been having seizures and he’s been feeling drugged. Anyway, we went through the study, hitting the main points; but it came out that he wanted to say things but he wasn’t able to express them because he has had brain surgery, and often has trouble thinking. He even made the comment that he wasn’t giving us the right answers, and saying that he felt bad for wasting our time. Of course we don’t think of it as a waste of time. I feel that God gave me words to speak as I told him about the thorn in the flesh that Paul had, and how God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. But he made a comment that concerned me, that is he used the phrase “my God”. He has told us that he believes that God is in everything. Please pray that God will bless Jeff with understanding, and us with wisdom and the right words to speak.
We also had another interesting incident. We had been taking surveys, and we had finished this certain section of the appartment complex that we have been working in, so we looked at the time, and we had another 20 min or so until our last Bible study. So we were kind of divided in ourselves whether we should go do the next and last section, or whether we should not. So we decided that we could at least work on the last section since we had twenty minutes. So we went toward this part of the complex, and I asked Jared if he wanted to do the surveys but he said he didn’t care. So I decided I would keep doing them. As soon as I entered the section, I turned right to my right toward the first house, I can’t explain why I went that way. . .  When I knocked on the door, a man answered the door, and as we went through our canvass he was looking us up and down. Then he suggested we come in and do it with his mom. Come to find out, his mom is handicapped, and is restricted to a wheel chair. So we did the canvass with her. We found out that she wished there was some way she could get physical therapy–the closest place is in Auburn, and they don’t have the money to get tabs on her van, and for the gas to take her there. Part way through the survey this other woman came in, she looked like maybe about the same age as the man, and she said that she would listen in on the survey. When we got down to the question, “have you ever wondered about the Mark of the Beast or 666”, this other woman, her name is Tina, bumped in and started saying all kinds of strange things, like she just got back from a trip in which she met all the apostles, and all kinds of other things that I have never heard of before. She was very interested in the Bible studies though, and also in the prophecy seminar coming up next Friday. So I told her that we could come back next Thursday, we agreed on 6pm. But right before we were going to leave she said “we’ll see you on Sunday at 6pm”!! So I followed up and said, “Oh Sunday? Ok well we can come on Sunday”. So we are going back to study with her on Sunday at 6pm. But here is the clincher; before we left, she asked me if I knew anything about Quakers, what they believe, and what denomination they are. I don’t know much about the Quakers, so I just said that I didn’t really know. Then she said that that was her spirit guide talking through her, and sometimes her guide talks through her and she doesn’t realize what she is saying. . . Then she looked at Jared, and said that she thought that he was a Quaker in his past life. . .  Please pray for Tina, and pray for us as we study with her. Pray that she will come to the meetings, and that she comes to know the Bible truth.