We teach each day from 8:30-12:30 most of the time in the class room working with math and reading, the children also are learning the Samoan language. Then from 12:30-1:30 our team teaches bible lessons, sing songs, and play games with the kids. Our goal is to teach the kids more than just the staple answers that they learn in church and through the very Christian culture in Samoa, pray for us as we try to teach the reason why they do what they do and tell them about a relationship they think they already have.
I am also tutoring a guy from Fiji that works as a janitor at the school, he is our age and only reads at a 1st grade level... he has become a real good friend and a blessing to have around and helping our team.
We are starting to see many of the down sides and problems within the Samoan culture and the effect that the religion has had on the culture... so many people are out of control religious on Sundays but don't even know what it means to have a personal relationship with Christ. We have been praying hard about what it should look like for us to share about Christ with these kids and even the adults that we meet each day.
Some of the fun random things that we have gotten to do are;
Ridding the bus to and from the village, swimming almost everyday in the tropical weather. Yesterday we got to go take a tour around the island in the back of a pickup truck!!! So fun, we got rained on real hard but then dried by the time we got back to school, the weather changes so fast here! We got to see the side of the island that got hit real hard by the tsunami, there is still a lot of rebuilding going on, it was pretty sobering to see.
Its time for me to get some sleep before another day of teaching, please be praying for us as a team.
Goodnight from Fatu Ma Futi, Samoa
Jesse
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