Hey Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope your day was blessed walking with the Lord. I had to run out the door to pick up Ellen’s car this morning from some repairs. We were sideswiped on the highway when another driver fell asleep a couple weeks ago coming home from a wedding. In my rush I forgot that I’d be going straight to campus and forgot to send out “Going Out”. But God had mercy leading some to pray I know because Kaela prayed with me to receive Jesus and Erik committed to Christ saying he would pray later. He promised and offered to pinky swear that he’d pray, so we did. I think he wanted to run it past his mother who was a Christian but who had never taught him the Gospel. She was from El Salvador and was a Christian he believed. He had a round face and a warm smile, was a bit heavy set dressed in gray sweats he wanted to be an Engineer. I’d asked him to talk before but he did not know the Gospel. I apologized for bothering him again but he was cool about it so I gave him a Bible Promise book and then snuck in some questions until I had gone through everything. He was really interested and said he believed Jesus was God had died for his sins and rose from the dead when I was finished so I hope he will pray.

Kaela was sitting in the long row of chairs outside the cafeteria. As I walked out of the eating area I asked another guy who turned me down. She looked up at me, overhearing, and cheerfully said “I’ll do one.” She’s a pretty girl with full features who looked Filipino. Her hair was pulled up over her head with flyaway bangs down to her jaw line. Wearing a grey peasant style blouse under a jacket and light gray jeans she had a pretty flower pendant around her neck the size of a quarter. She dreamed of being a singer and getting a record deal. When I asked her what she would say to God if she died and He asked her why He should let her into Heaven she said, “Well I haven’t ever done anything really bad. I always go to Church; I try my best to do the right thing all the time.” I asked her what the likelihood was she would go to Heaven and she struggled to put a % on it, “I don’t know,” And said she was pretty sure. “Likely?” I asked. “Very likely” she replied. She was really expressive through the hearing of the Gospel and knew Jesus had died to take away our sins. Another strange girl walked up trying to interrupt at least 3 times, between walking off and talking on the phone. I had talked to her before and she was vitriolic, and I dodged around it disarming her a bit. But I could tell other forces were trying to use her distract Kaela. But Kaela was so enthusiastic about what she was hearing she just ignored the sarcasm, and the girl, who she knew, and kept listening. She loved word pictures and I used a few explaining things and she thought they were great. The other girl walked up the first time and said rhetorically (after I explained the death of Jesus and His blood cleansing us) “So you just kill someone and you are forgiven.” “Yep that’s it.” I replied dismissively without looking at her since I had explained the gospel to her a few weeks back I felt no need to take her remark seriously. And I just keep talking as she hovered and Kaela never made eye contact. As I explained Jesus imputed righteousness Kaela said, “This is so great. I love this!” The girl took a phone call, I had silently prayed for God to bind her. I asked Kaela if she would want to be forgiven or thought something else and she said she would definitely want to be forgiven. “Well it doesn’t seem like you had a chance to put all this together before right?” She agreed. So I said if she wanted to be forgiven there was a prayer she could pray and walked her through it. The antagonist returned looking for an opening but seeing none walked off again to talk on her phone. “I would pray this every day!” Kaela exclaimed. I said if she wanted to she could pray it silently now and God would hear her. It turned out the other girl was waiting for a ride and at first I thought she was waiting for them to go to class together. Kaela enthusiastically took the booklet and began to pray. The other girl walked up again and interrupted Kaela and she paused and said, “I’m praying,” to silence her. The girl spoke again and I looked up at her and put my finger over my lips and shushed her. She shut up then and Kaela finished. I gave her a Bible Study on Hope and one on the deity of Christ and got her email. I offered her a book and she said, “Oh I get a book,” thrilled. I wrote “By the Spirit’s Power” her name and the date and “Forgiven” on the inside of 20 Things God Can’t Do and she thought that was great. The other girl interrupted again and asked her to call her leaving for her ride and Kaela agreed to get rid of her. I explained a symbolic view of the mass and said when she took it she could simply say, “thank you”, as it was to remind her Jesus had died and so she was forgiven. “I always say that,” she said. She was happy and thanked me several times and I got up to go saying good bye. I thought I should also give her a Bible Promise book then and walked back offering it to her, “Oh I get more!” she said happily. So I wrote her name in that and headed off. She was the most enthusiastic person I’ve talked to all year. Please pray God protects her from the Spirit in the other girl, she was strange.

So Thanks for your prayers for the Ministry and for Evangelism today if you had a chance, God truly blessed.

In Him,

Bob