I haven't been updating like I should have been. The basic reason is that recently I haven't been faithful in my own walk with the Lord. And it's hard to get excited about posting prayer request when you haven't been praying yourself. Thank you for your prayers in spite of my unfaithfulness. Please keep me in your prayers as I seek God.

The past two days our team has had a huge number of chances to share the Good News. And today we have come under very heavy spiritual attack. The church in particular seemed to be under attack: at one point in Bible study I had to leave the church grounds, I was simply getting so depressed. There is an old lady at church who is not simply crazy: I'm pretty sure she is demon possessed. Today she was screaming at Christine and Pastor Samuel after service: no human voice could have made the noises she was making. It sounded like an enraged, tortured, wild animal. Today I tried talking to Sandy (our boss from King Car) about a couple issues and felt like there was a physical wall between us as I tried to talk to her. Last night Andrew talked to BJ, Shawn, Ginger and I and...well...it was kinda depressing, esp. after what had just happened the night before.

---Last night BJ and I went out with Lena to talk about Christianity. It went very well. She listened to everything we had to say and seemed to understand and be thinking seriously about it. Please pray for this dear girl's soul.

---A few weeks ago one of the land mines on one of the beaches here blew up, killing two mine sweepers and badly hurting a third. So pray for the mine sweepers and their safety. Last night we saw Jimmy (the mine sweeping boss) at the restaurant with the guy who had come to investigate the accident. I asked Jimmy how the hurt fellow was doing: Jimmy didn't say anything, but the other fellow gave me a look that said "Don't you dare disagree with me" and said very matter-of-factly "Nobody was hurt. Two people died." Which was an out-right lie: Jimmy himself had told us that one of the fellows had been hurt. Please pray for Jimmy and that he'll get to stay on the island: our team has been developing a relationship with him and I've been hoping we could get to know him better.

---Friday night Kuyu and Sarah came over to learn a little karate. The end result was that we had almost all of the dorm kids outside either sparring or kicking the bag. It was a hoot. It was also a big praise: I had tried talking to Sarah before and had felt like I'd run into a brick wall. Friday both she and Susan (one of the dorm kids) really opened up to me. It was very cool.

---Also Friday night I got my nose broke. Ginger was wearing shoes and landed a beautiful roundhouse to the bridge of my nose and we all heard a very loud *CRACK* BJ said that it looked crooked, so I tried straightening it out a bit (ouch!) and now she says it's only a little bit off center. It's swollen and pretty tender right now. Tomorrow Joy is going to take me so San-Why to have an X-ray taken.

---我是金門人 Whoa(3) Si(4) Jee(1) Mun(2) Run(2). I am a Kinmen person! That's not actually a prayer request, but I wanted to show off the fact that I can write a little bit in Chinese! (And yes, I wrote that myself: I did not copy it!) I have come to the conclussion that the only way to learn a laungage is by living in it. I don't remember a word of Spanish that I studied. I don't think I could have gotten as far as I've gotten in three months here in Taiwan if I studied for a year in the States.

---One final, big request. King Car is telling us that we cannot go home over winter vacation. I was really looking forward to going home and seeing everybody during that time. Please pray that they will change their minds.

Thanks you guys! Love you!