The joke of the trip was that if our teacher could have hand picked his team from all the missions applicants (teachers don't pick their teams) he would have picked the team he got. Three out of five guys on our team played basketball - of those three one also played volleyball. Another guy was the sports rep. We had a cheerleader, a girls volleyball team member, and all told three student council members. And those of us who didn't fit into any of those categories (like three of us) knew how to do well in his class and were smart. His favourite types of students were jocks, student council people, and smart people.
I'll be honest I don't really remember much of the trip. I know I didn't always have the world's greatest (or even a semi-decent) attitude.
We started off in Phom Phen where an old teacher of ours was now the vice-principal of a missions school. We went to Seim Reep for our 'fun days' and spent the most of our two weeks in Poi Pet. The children were so much fun to be around - although they could be a little violent and didn't quite get the concept of 'ow'
The one cool thing about the trip though - and really the reason I wanted to mention the trip at all - was Sunday. Throughout the entire trip there was a bit of a debate going on.
TOPIC
Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues.
POSITIVE
Even today you can be baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues
NEGATIVE
You can't.
The year that went before us got one epic downpour of rain. We thought that sounded amazing (it was so hot over there) so we prayed all week for rain. Every night there were electrical storms - lightening but never ever any thunder. On Sunday we do church and then have the afternoon off. During this afternoon it starts to rain. And it doesn't just rain it POURS. Huge fat raindrops that soak you to the bone - but you didn't get chilled because it was still hot out. It was so much fun. We, a bunch of mennonite kids, (if your menno you'll understand) we dancing in the rain eating mango's. It was great we could eat the mango's and not get sticky.
Now Hollie, you're thinking, you were talking about baptism and speaking in tongues. You're right I was. This was part of the day. The rain was a bit of for shadow for the evening.
So like I said we had a debating on the Holy Spirit the entire time. I was leading the Negative side of the debate. Anyway our teacher wisely saw how this could tear us apart and decided to have a discussion (not mandatory) on it. Nine out of ten of us were up there.
The long and short of it was that going into the night only two people (three including the teacher) could speak it tongues. After teaching on it one of the guys wanted to be prayed over for it. The teacher wasn't expecting anything to happen but prayed anyway. He was baptized and was speaking it tongues. And then slowly but surly all nine of us were filled with the Holy Spirit and speaking it tongues. We had a Holy Spirit party right there.
Funny thing was - was that we were in the highest room of the building we were staying it (it was a roof/room/patio type of room) - kind of an upper room experience.
Acts 2 if you don't know what I'm talking about.
CONCLUSION
Positive
Even today you can be baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
If you don't agree - well to bad. Sorry but I know it's true, not just because it happened to me but because it's in the Bible. You don't have to agree with me - I'll still love you.
Sorry about the long post - I just wanted to cover the whole trip.
Until next time
Hollie.
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