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Well...heres my 2nd post of the day. We went to our school and found out that classes were canceled today becasue of the typhoon. Yes you heard me right, the tyhpoon! Fun stuff! its like a hurricane but less severe. it doest really do all the damage that a hurricaone does. It jsut has really strong winds and rain. I thought the building was going to blow over last night becasue the wind was whistling so hard by the guest unit! Then the electricity went out for a long time so there was no AC or fans...can we say miserable! i have to keep reminding myself not to complain about the heat! There are people who have it a lot worse off than I do. All I have to do is walk outside the compound and I will find squaters who have no bed, no food, and defintely no AC. I am starting to feel overwhelmed by the poverty of these people! Its makes me so sad. I feel overwhelmed becasue I want to help becasue I knwo that I am rich compared to most people here, but I cant help everyone even though EVERYONE is in need here. Its really starting to get at me. I feel so spoiled. I spend so much money on pointless things. God is really convicting me on how I use my money...No more ice cream and late night snacks that I always waste money on and dont need! Sharron, one of the evagelists, told us on Sunday that she had 1 peso left in her wallet. She has no savings account, no parents to give her money. All she has is what she has. On Sunday she put that last peso in the offering plate at church and commited it to God. I am amazed at her faith. She had no idea how she was going to have money to eat for the next 3 days until she got paid again. God blessed her faith however and after church someone gave her 100 peso and us summer missionaries not knowing this however, bought all the Filipinos lunch. God provided her with money! What an amazing lesson in faith! I want that kind of faith! To know that God will provide, to know that ALL things are possible with God. In the US we hardly ever give God the chance to do the unbelieavable. Here they live by that! I want to live allowing God to work his wonders in my life. I want him to work through me instead of me trying to do His work. i wonder how many times i have limited His power becasue I have gotten in the way of working...hmmm, that just came to my mind... its an interesting thought! I started reading Through Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot. It is all about her husband Jim and the 4 other missionaires who were killed by the Auca Indians. The book has a lot of excerpts from his journal. Wow, what an amzing man of God. How I desire to have the faith that he posssessed and the willingness that he possessed! My prayer right now is Lord, Send me! I don't knwo what God has for my future, but I know that I want to go! I beg God...Send ME! Make my life all for your glory!