written around the 21st

actually written around the 21st (no access to internet but borrowed a laptop)

Hi y'al!

How are you? Trinity people - Hope preparations for new wine are going well! cant remember when it starts but am excited for you! its going to be fab.. Hellie, hope you managed to get it all sorted. Will be praying. Thank you so much for all of your comments, its so good to hear from you all. I cant believe how fast this week has gone... God has done so much. Getting to know more of the Mozambicans this week (children, workers, villagers..) has been really fun, and sitting and chatting with them learning portuguese is always very amusing..mostly for them! Its great to hear the amazing stories of what God has done in their individual lives, and their stories of God's grace. I just love chatting to them, the Mozambicans are so friendly and so eager to help! They are very patient with me in learning the language! Which although is going quite well, is still very frustrating, and is upsetting me that i cannot properly communicate the message of the gospel to those who don't know Jesus yet. I was in the village today, and so desperately wanted to talk to the people about Jesus, but was restricted to only a few phrases..which i know God will still use but still. So prayer for the language would be really great!
This week, God has completely blown me away by his love again.. I had an encounter with him yesterday, that has changed my life yet again! He just gave me a whole new revelation of his love for me, and in that, more compassion for the lost and the unlovely, the broken and the dying. He completely wrecked me! I am sooo in love with Jesus. I am love sick for him. I was crying for hours and hours, and finally had to be dragged out of the tent stil in floods of tears (with a really attractive face and mouth full of sand! Anna..you would have found it funny - i was crying so much that i had mahousive bags under my eyes and i could hardly keep them open - i looked like a mole!) Even today, after coming back from the village and seeing the desperation of the poverty that surrounds me, i am completely wrecked, and i just feel their pain, almost physically in my heart. I am just in love, and Father is giving me more of his heart. I had a vision of Jesus, and he appeared to me with a bloodied, bruised and broken face. He was crying. With his tears he washed my feet, and said that he was crying for the nations, and i feel that this is what i am going through right now. I am learning that to be a missionary, it is all about love. - incarnational love. Its all about loving the one - and stopping for the one. It can get overwhelming when there are so many people around you in such desperate need, and in knowing how and what to do. I just need to stop and love for the one each time. But i cant love until i truely know Jesus' love, and i think that through this time of revelation, he is truely giving me more of the Father's heart in order to be more compassionate in loving the one.
Oh yeah, and after all of this, we actually did a feet washing session! A little mozambican girl washed and carefully dried my dirty, disgusting feet. I just cant explain how much that humbled me.
I love living with the chidlren here, and my favourite thing is just holding them and hugging them. Although the village children here come across as quite fierce, (they like to come and sit with us for our class sessions!) all they need is to know love. And i love just loving them and embracing them.
People are being healed here on a daily basis - it really is a normal occurance! Its not even a thing that people are surprised at! Its so funny.. on our outreach, we prayed for a lot of blind people, and i only found out from the pastor the other day that they were actually healed!! He was like.. yeah.. we prayed for them, what did you expect?!! haha. I pray for more faith. A deaf person got healed last night on Heidi's outreach - he hadn't heard or spoken for his entire life. Praise God! Oh, and yesterday, i had a really bad head cold - and this morning it was completely gone!! Yay God thank you so much.
I love how the book, 'theres always enough' is really put into practice here. Its not just a title. At lunch time, anyone who wants to eat can come to the centre and gets fed. A group of us can take in turns feeding the people, mainly children, and literally, we are encouragead to always invite anyone we meet to come and eat! It really is amazing because every day there is ALWAYS just enough food for everyone to eat. There may not always be enough plates.. but a quick rinse in a bowl of dirty water does the trick..lol.
Thank you so much for all your prayers, its really appreciated. This week, it would be fab if you could pray specifically for:
· continued health for me and my fellow students - there is a lot of sickness and malaria now
· protection - as a base, we have been under a lot of attack spiritually, we are right near loads of witchcraft.
· in speaking portuguese
· in becoming friends with those in the villages who dont know Jesus and leading them to Jesus this week
· For more of God. More love, more revelation, more encounters.
· The children, the widows, the lost in Mozambique.

God bless you all so much,

love Heather xx