One jar down, one to go

An important event in my trip occurred the other day when I finished the first of the two jars of crunchy peanut butter that I brought with me to India. Now, I realize that this may seem fairly insignificant to you, but it is quite important to me. You see, everyone has a weakness - for some people, it's popping their knuckles, for others biting their nails - you get the point. Mine happens to be the consumption of large quantities of crunchy peanut butter. I'm pretty sure I could go anywhere in the world and still feel somewhat at home as long as I've got a jar of it with me.

Anyway, since I had so many books and stuff for the students on my way over here, I was only able to bring two jars of peanut butter with me. I've been pretty conservative with it so far, thus the first jar has lasted for more than half of the trip. However, the longer I'm away, the more I feel a need to eat the stuff, so I'm not sure that the second jar is going to last as long as the first. However, I was reading the other day about how the Lord used Elijah to give a woman an unlimited supply of oil and flour during a famine, so maybe He'll do the same for my peanut butter! Or maybe the multiplication thing like with the loaves and fish!

All right, I'm done....let me get my tongue out of my cheek and I'll tell you what's really been going on...

Well, all of my American friends are officially gone as of today. Jean headed out on Saturday, and Jacob and Christi just left today. Jean got home fine, but pray for safe travels for Jacob and Christi...they'll be in Bangalore for a day or two and then fly back to the states. It was really great to have them here...there's just something about having Christian people from your own country to fellowship with.

Classes are going pretty well - we finally got all of the copies of the Hebrew text printed, bound, and distributed to the students last night. It took almost 2 weeks (India time!), but it's done. Hopefully each student having their own copy will help them to learn a little better/quicker. Before Christi left, she showed me how to do some stuff in Microsoft Excel, so I've been catching up on my class attendance stuff the last day or so. I think I'll be giving my finals a week from this coming Saturday, so be praying for us - that both the students and I would finish strong and that they'd really come away with a desire to learn more and an appreciation of how much Greek or Hebrew can help them.

Umm....yeah, I think that's about it. Thanks for reading, and thanks for the prayers...keep 'em coming!