We had a nice dinner friday night with the Brombaugh's who were in from NICS to visit us this week!  They are amazing and it was so nice to have encouraging and loving people out to help out and just give everyone some fresh energy!  This is my first Ghanaian skirt that I have had made - I think it turned out really well!

Saturday, several of us went to a bizarre at the British High Commission.  It is getting really hot here - and we were all in need of some rest Saturday afternoon!

We saw Barbara Kalb.  She is the music teacher at school - and we share an office and hangout all day.  She and her husband have been missionaries in Ghana for 29 years this past week.  He teaches at Ghana Christian Bible College.  She is wonderful and full of great advice on anything and everything here and in life!

We got some Christmas presents and some beautiful batik fabric to make some Christmas presents with!  So fun! We also saw these amazing kids performing some tribal dancing.  It was really cool.  I video taped a few seconds - but I have been trying to upload it to my blog now for over 24 hours - so I will try again later!

Today, I taught Sunday school a the international church - our lesson was on playtime in the Bible - focusing on God using David's ability to play the harp as a young boy to help King Saul.  The dad I live with preached this morning on arguing for Christ.  He spoke about how Christians are ultimately called to be people who bring peace, but there is a time and a place to stand up for what is right - prayerfully and thoughtfully.

"Remind them of these things, and charge them before God, not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers."  2 Timothy 2:14

It brought scripture to mind that I was reading earlier this week from James, that had really convicted me.

"What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder.  You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel.  You do not have, because you do not ask.  You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions." James 4:1-3

Whenever we seem to be upset at someone or a situation - this is a good reminder to take a step back and look at what is really going on in our own hearts and minds.  Only when we give to Christ the things we are really dealing with, can we be at peace with ourselves and with each other.  All we have to do is ask.

I'll try to put the video up later! Glad Auburn won! War Eagle!