Mock-Tees On March 7

I’m alive.
The sun is shining and the air smells like spring. Roadwork is in full swing, and people are complaining about it. We’re definitely back in England! This is our 2nd last week here in the UK. We just finished our time in Chepstow and now we’re in a town just north of Birmingham called, Walsall. It sounds very close to Warsaw because of the accent. It’s interesting to say! Give it a go if you want… Wool-sool. Interesting. Anyways, we did some open ministry yesterday. We were out in the town square and we did some music to have people stop for a moment and listen and then there were a good number of people out there giving out tracts. It was good, but wow, it can be hard. For those who regularly do that kind of thing. I salute you. It’s hard work. It’s been interesting to think about our time in Russia and the UK so far… I’ve been trying to think of what it will be that I remember most importantly. I think that will be prayer. Prayer has been so important. And we never ever spend enough time with God. I don’t anyways, and that’s something I need to work on disciplining all the more. Keeping my eyes on Christ is one of those extremely simple and extremely difficult things to do. But I’ll keep trying, and I’ll just have to trust that Jesus will give me the patience and discipline that I need… and the passion to spend the time with Him that I should.
We will be doing a few different things here in Walsall, such as ‘improv drama’…making stuff up on the spot. But we’ve never really done that kind of thing. I think it’s because they think we’re like a group that has been here called, Life Force. So we’re either going to have to get better at our improv drama, or, we need to let them know we might be doing things a little different. We’ll see how that goes.
It’s been an interesting time here today. We visited with a good deal of elderly folk. It was really a good time. One lady told how she had very bad memory. Therefore I let her name me something more memorable. Fred. Yup and get this! She remembered James because she was calling me Fred! Weird. That is how my mind works sometimes. I was able to play one of my songs for them, but I played it in two parts. Halfway through the song I got a real bad nosebleed. lol, that was interesting. I was able to fix up my nose before I got blood on anything so that was good. Unfortunately it was rather nasty at slowing down and therefore it made doing any songs we had left and one drama a little more interesting for me. That and I suddenly couldn’t pronounce certain words. Words like time, came out as timeb. Or habby instead of happy. Rhys made sure to remind me of this fact or factb every couple minutes. It was all in good fun ^_^.
But yeah. For anyone who is wondering what we would love prayer for, we need prayer for energy. We’re very tired. But until we completely burn out we’re going to go hard out for Christ! And so long as we are relying on Him for our strength we shouldn’t burn out. For his yoke is easy and his burden is light. He will carry us through the hard times and stay with us through the long stretches. It’s all good. :)
Anyways, take care everyone. May God grant to you His Grace and Peace to you today.
Brother J.

***THE NEXT DAY***MARCH 8***
Today was long and trying. But God was good. We did some drama things with the kids in the school, and they all enjoyed it very much. Coralie was able to catch up on her rest and so we're going to be going at this again tommorrow... with I might add, an extra hour of sleep. :D That will be nice.
We are still as a whole very tired. Fatigued... But we're hoping to be renewed. We'll see how that goes. Keep praying! God is working.
Grace and Peace
P.S. We had a good bible study tonight... I now have many things to ponder as I await the JWs who we are hoping will stop by tommorrow night. (Rhys met them when he was sick here at the house and they wanted to come back with an Elder to talk about some of the things that Rhys asked them about... it should prove interesting. I really hope they come!) O.o