Hello everyone!

This week has been a real test of our resolve to work, with alot of our work disappearing in a matter of days. After a few prayers we went back out and did more finding work. It's been an interesting lesson about grace, and it's role. It made us realise just how much we rely upon the Lord and how only He can make things work. Often we start to let things go unappreciated, especially when we get alot of them. I've really learnt a lesson that we have to appreciate anything and everything that we get from the Lord, and that there is nothing that we have that isn't given to us of the Lord. I realisd just how much I cared for the people I worked with when I found out that I wouldn't be working with them anymore. There are so many lessons that we learn when we lose something. People very often ask me why, if there is a God, we lose things. I can't help but think everytime that it's because there are just so many lessons that we refuse to learn until we suffer a loss. I didn't realise how much I cared for those people until I realised I might not be working with them anymore. I would never have given even a fraction of the gratitude to God that I owed, if I hadn't suffered the loss. Maybe, just maybe, if we were willing to learn through gentler means, we wouldn't have to suffer loss quite so often. I'm grateful for the experience, and I'm also grateful for the help the Lord gave after in helping us to recover. The area is still doing well, thanks to a few turnarounds and miracles, but I, at least, have learned a valuable lesson.

I love you all!

Anziano Nelson