CoDeJo

Do you remember this village?  I never will forget it as long as I live, because you climb up an entire mountain-straight up to get there.  Steeper and straighter than straight up!  Then once you arrive there are just 5 houses!  It used to be 3 houses but now 2 more families have joined them.  Tucker and I went ahead on the last leg of the journey because BletJaw stopped to make a phone call.  We discovered that there is a certain spot on the mountainside where you can make a phone call!Closer to CoDeJo, I get confused as to which small pathway to follow.  I always do this because my sense of direction is not too good at all.  I always follow BletJaw and don't worry about which way.  I choose what I think is correct.  We walk a long way, but end up on a mountainside of rice.  There were pathways going in all directions up there.  Fortunately I see NaCher and another lady working to harvest the rice.  She is the grandma that broke her left wrist so badly 2 years ago and refused to go to the hospital.  I could not set it or do anything with it because it was already 3 weeks old.  It is now crooked, but she can use it.I was sure glad NaCher came over to us and led us through the rice field maze or I never would have gone the right way.  She took us all the way to her house where we found her husband, PahKee smoking away on his long, home made cigarette.It took quite a while for BletJaw to enter.  He knows the right path to take, and never gets lost.  He had come the usual way, but the people did not keep that path up through the rainy season, and he found he could not follow it, so he backtracked and took another path.  I don't know how he found us because he did not have NaCher!It does not take us long to treat all the patients because the village is so small.  The people are strangely quiet and seem shy.  I long to tell them about Jesus.  BletJaw asks them all to stay because I have a story from the Bible that I want to tell them.  Though we have had worships with them before, they do not remember anything.  Today I tell them the creation story.  I tell them what was made each day of the week.  I have a picture from 'My Bible First' of every day of creation.  It was so glorious because when I showed each picture, they eagerly snatched  it out of my hand and studied it.  They turned it over and found another picture.  They gasped and talked among themselves so much that I could not continue the story.  They then asked questions about the pictures. These quiet and seemingly shy people were the most responsive to the Bible stories than anyone else!   The story was told, but kind of through their questions.  I loved the interaction.  It showed their interest and perhaps they will not forget it.  Finally I ended with the 7th day Sabbath, the day that God gave us to rest and worship Him.  The best day of all the week.  Oh how they loved the pictures.  We prayed in closing.  PahKee studied his wife, NaCher, to find out what to do with his hands.  NaCher studied me to find out what I did with my hands.  Finally they both got it right and bowed their heads and closed their eyes.  What a delight and high honor to be here!!   God can and will save these people in heaven at last.