A Few Things I've Learned...

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18

While in Africa, I've learned:

• How to play basketball in a long skirt.
• That pretty much anywhere can be used as a personal bathroom.
• How to sleep and rise with the sun.
• To bike in sand (and I can't wait to get back to riding on the pavement at Stanford!).
• A little bit of the O. language.
• To take quick, cold showers.
• About spiritual warfare.
• How to ride a piki (AKA motorcycle).
• More about the connection between physical and spiritual healing.
• To love people more.
• How to turn the other cheek.
• I really can survive without my BlackBerry (It's been off so much that I've only had to charge it once this whole time!).
• The basics of well-drilling.
• And witnessed the physical healing that comes through Jesus Christ alone.
• How to give shots... and lots of them!
• Donkeys are very dangerous animals.
• More about the power of prayer.
• That our "light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all."

These are just some of the things that I've been learning. I still have a couple days left in D. Please pray that I would continue to have fruitful conversations with the people here. I hope people come to have a full understanding of who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for us. Please pray that I would have safe travel at the end of the week. I'm excited to see what new things I will learn in the next few days!