Hi everyone! Yesterday I visited the family of Mr. Konki with my dad. Mr. Konki is from Congo, and he is not a Christian. He lives in an apartment complex called Clarkston Station. It is not very nice. It has a lot of boards on the windows from thieves and fires, and it has a lot of broken glass on the sidewalks.

At first, we didn’t know where Mr. Konki’s apartment was exactly so my dad and Mr. Thomas had to knock on a lot of doors to find the right one. When we went in his apartment little kids were watching TV and there were curtains on all the walls and the ceiling. Mr. Konki’s wife had to go to work so we didn’t see her very much. She said she works very hard, but Mr. Konki doesn’t work.

Mr. Konki said he has a big problem with drinking too much alcohol. He doesn’t have many teeth left because of it. He said his drinking friends have to call him “Konki Master” when they see him.

Mr. Konki’s first name is Herode. He was named after King Herod in the Bible. My dad asked him if he knew about King Herod in the Bible. He only knew a little bit so my dad talked for a long time about Jesus. Herode had a lot of questions especially about Adam and Eve and sins and sacrificing sheep.

At the end he said he understood the story of Jesus but he wasn’t ready in his heart to be a Christian. He said he would think about it some more. So we gave him a Swahili Bible and also a movie about Jesus in Swahili. He was really surprised and happy about it! My dad prayed with him and then we took some pictures together.

This morning our friend Mr. Thomas called my dad and said that Herode showed all his friends the pictures and now they want us to bring Bibles and visit them too!