Update from the Storyteller

More positive news from John after the theft of D's van and their "things":

Last night was truly amazing. Imagine sitting with about 15-20 Afghans who lived in and fled Iran. Young men some 16 years old to 20 something. I told Bible stories and D spoke answering questions. Unbelievable! All I could think of is now I know why I've learned all these stories. If it was just for this it would be worth it. What an opportunity!

We stayed up to about 130 am and woke up about 6. Now I'm at RG missionary, Zach's house again. I'll be taking a shower here. I bought a t-shirt, soap, razors etc for the 3 of us. D and J slept one on both sides of me. We slept on cardboard and the Afghans gave blankets to us. The Catholic church provided blankets and many have tents.

One young boy about 18 yrs old became good friends. Asked if I wanted to sleep in his tent and him outside. He was so gracious. These are just nice boys really. No need for fear them at all. Like my sons.

I can't wait to be with them again tonight and then tomorrow we'll have some sort of open air event somewhere. Also helped with the English class today 9-3 and yesterday too. Last night I introduced myself by talking about my nice life at home and how I've never experienced anything close to what they have experienced. One 16 year old said he took 3 years to get here.

I told them I really respected them and wanted to get to know them. I told them my name (John) means God is gracious and then I told about the 400 years of silence followed by birth of John the B. Told story of Jesus casting out 2000 demons and they had many questions about Satan. They have some weird version of Satan. I said, "Do you want to know what Moses said about it?" Then told story of the fall. They listened attentively as you can imagine.

Finally, D told his testimony to the ESL team visiting from Ohio. It is more amazing than I knew.