Somemore pictures!!

This is Akoko, she eats SO MUCH! I've started cooking sessions with a lady in Lahane and these kids are always hungry so they come and sit with us too (: This girl is only 5 but she eats like a 12 year old! She finished the whole bowl of rice!!


Saula the famous All Blacks rugby player in action!!


Dinner at EarliSun with Pastor Tony and his team and Pastor Sam and his team (:


A little protest I witnessed outside the hotel lobby at Hotel Timor on Referendum Day! We had many delegates from countries all over the world come to celebrate it that stayed at that hotel so I guess that is why they decided to hold the protest then haha it was very exciting!!


Went to a museum that talked about the history of Timor-Leste, it was very interesting! A little bit small and couldnt understand most of it that was in Portuguese but I read the entire English timeline and it was very interesting!!



This is Martha on the left and Zelia on the right. I met Zelia first at the university one day while waiting for another contact. She was tending her pushcart stall and I decided to talk to her and so every since then, I would meet her at her pushcart whenever I can to teach her English and we've started on discipling too!! Oh, please pray for her because I want to believe to send her to Leader's Training end month! But I'm afraid her uncle might not allow because we're Protestants. So do pray!!


These are my fav kids in Lahane (: They would pull white hair out for me, carry my belongings EVERYWHERE and walk me to take the taxi, sweet kids (:
[From Left] Amelie, Maria Corenti, Annisa and Akoko


Inside Kafe Aroma (:


Kafe Aroma - Our new favorite place for the drinks, cake and ambience! (: It's really beautiful!

Knock Knock Knock!

Many have left for the mission field in VFC, MANY.. I cannot even begin to count! But the place at which they were at when they entered the mission field is all very different. For example, some may have entered when they just got a job promotion but let it go to come for missions, or some maybe been through a horrible tragedy and then came for missions. Everyone's point in life when they entered the mission field is different. And it really determines the way how God moulds the person in the mission field. Of course, that is not the only determinant, but also what God wants to prepare for the future!

In many ways, have I seen how God is moulding me and it's been a really bumpy journey I must say but God is still so good. I still have to praise the Lord for His goodness! (: But I have to admit that at many times I would rather have Him give up on me because the process is too difficult for me to bear. It is not just a very painful process, but it is a very lonely one too. Sometimes it's long, sometimes it's so quick! But that's the only way to go if you want God to make you into such a beautiful masterpiece (: And sometimes we tell God, "God, hang on! Don't knock that out! Are you sure that that is an area that you want to remove?" and try to take control over His refining process. It takes alot of knocking here and there to remove rough edges but it's all just part of the preparation process for the greater things He has in store for the future! So if you are in that process right now, hang in there!! There is "rich fufillment" [From NKJV version - Psalm 66: 12] that will come your way at the end of it! (:

"He trained us first,
passed us like silver through refining fires,
Brought us into hardscrabble country,
pushed us to our very limit,
Road-tested us inside and out,
took us to hell and back;
Finally he brought us
to this well-watered place."
Psalm 66: 10 - 12 [Message Bible]

Got to check this out people, you'll love it (: Take some time to look at it:
God's Chisel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXut0HxncvY

[No pictures on this one YET, takes too long to upload!!]
And pray for me because I have to declare my major at school by 30th Oct!!

In His great love,
Gladys (: