This was super cool!

Our last night in the village the people wanted us to sleep in their huts. So the guys slept in with the guys and we all slept with the ladies. The day before we had done a kids club where we explained the plan of salvation using a wordless ball. Let me tell you what this is.  A lady from my home church, Marian Sorensen, (Thank you Marian) had made us a bunch of inflatable balls that have stripes of different color on them. The green stripe is for Creation- God created the world, and He created us. The black stripe is for sin. Everyone on the face of the Earth has done something wrong. No one is perfect. Except for Jesus Christ. The red stripe is for Jesus dying on the cross for us to pay the penalty for our sin. The white stripe is to represent that if we believe in Him and put our trust in Him, He will wipe those sins clean and make us white as snow. The yellow stripe is for Heaven. He has prepared a place for those who believe. A place that we can live in forever, Heaven.

So, we explained that to the whole village at the Kids Club. After that the chief of the village asked if we would explain it again when we are in the honais. When the girls and I were with the ladies in the honais we started going through the colors of the ball again. We were almost through when some other ladies came in the hut. So we were asked to explain it again. We were almost through it for the second time when some young girls came in. We were asked to start over again from the beginning. So we explained it for the third time. Right when we finished two more girls came in. I asked if they wanted us to explain again for them, and the chief's wife said "No, now I know it. Now I finally understand. I can explain it to them!!!!!"  So we left the ball with them. She said that once a week the older ladies of the village meet with the younger girls and now they have something to talk about. She was so excited! I was so excited. God is so very good. We were hoping for one good chance to explain salvation to this village, and God gave us more than we imagined.

This is how the babies sleep in the honai