Friday night, and you all chose to be here at Lamar's Bible Church for the Missions Conference. Thank you so much. You could have been a lot of other places, a lot of different options. Praise the Lord that you've chosen here, and it's good to fellowship. Isn't that an amazing story about what God did among the damned people? We could just pray and go home now, couldn't we? We're going to continue on our series while here on earth, because There's a short period of time for each of us to be here and we have the opportunity to be involved in different areas of ministry Some locally and hopefully more of us and more of us and more of us abroad to be able to reach people like the dam While here on earth last night. What did we talk about last night while here on earth? We are his Fragrance from 2nd Corinthians chapter 2. Tonight, while here on earth, we are his letters. So that's what we're going to be talking about. But before we jump into that, I wanted to go a little bit deeper into the mind of the unreached people groups of the world. Many, many of the unreached people groups will fall into a category that is considered tribal animism. And what is that? I think some of us have an idea, but I'd like us to take just a couple minutes to dig into that a little bit deeper. It's the belief that the physical world is impenetrated with the spiritual world. So you've got the physical and the spiritual coming together. And consequently, that human beings must discover what beings and forces are influencing them so that, or in order, that they can manipulate their power. So there's this spiritual and physical thing going on and we have to figure out what forces, what spirits are causing that so we can try to manipulate them for our own good. The unreached world, that is key this week. One of the key words, the unreached world as a whole is animistic at its base. That by Timothy Warner, leading missiologist. If we think about that, we can think of it kind of in three spheres. Many of the animists of the world believe in a high god. There's some concept of a high god, this comic being, this impersonal force, some sort of creator figure. But he's distant, far removed, not interested in us. He doesn't care about me. He is this remote, untouchable something. And they also have their material world. The material world, we're familiar with, but they're even more familiar with. Like Jared was sharing, man, their world, they have so much to look forward to in heaven. Unfortunately, many of us made heaven on earth here. Nature in order of natural world, humans and relationships, man, nature, animals, planets, used as tools to influence. Now look at that, the middle sphere. What is the middle sphere? Because that is something that is different than most of our world view. Now the middle sphere is this area where local gods, ancestor spirits, witches, shamans, forces, that man must appease, offer, bribe, do rituals in order that his life here on earth is better. So if the garden doesn't produce well, man, I didn't do the right offering to the Spirit. If my child gets sick, it's because I didn't do that ritual properly to my ancestors. And the animist life has very little to do with the high God, but everything to do with that middle sphere. So when you go in and you say, God so loved the world. Okay, what God are we talking about? Love the world. What do you mean the world? They gave his only son. Oh, was he one of the middle sphere things to help us? And there's a whole bunch of cultural Misunderstanding if you don't start foundationally about who God is. Additionally, when Jared and Melanie were sharing up here, they said, man, seven years there, learning the language, learning the culture, building relationships, saying it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, finally there. What took them so long? Well, besides all the normal delays in life, and the difficulty of learning an unwritten language, there's the worldview. And I want to simplify this, but I just want to give us a taste of what it would look like for an average Jared, an average Melanie, an average Aaron, an average Lori, an average you to go to work in a place like this. Because we're not superhuman, but through God's help and breaking it down, we can start to see, okay, there are steps to it. And through the power of Christ, the prayers of others, and through some tools, we can begin to understand these culture. So there's assumptions and beliefs that form a lens through which people see the world. That's worldview. We all have a worldview, how we view the world. It's the unspoken subconscious and emotional embrace network of core beliefs about reality that forms the lens through which one interprets and relates all aspects of life. Now, I'm trusting that most of us here would have a Christian worldview. Our outlook on life and everything around us is through a Christian perspective. Your worldview is not what you think about, it's what you think with. But you can't just go in to a group and say, what's your worldview? Tell me about that. So how do you do it? If we look at it kind of like an onion, we can think about it this way. The outside is the observable behavior. It's the stuff you see. It's the way they dress. It's the food they eat. It's how they plant their garden. It's how they build their house. It's what they hunt with. It's the observable culture. If you go a little bit deeper, it's the sociocultural institutes, the family, marriage, parenting, children, childbirth. All those relationships, walking on the same trail, is more than just a physical walking on the trail. It's about a relationship. If you go even deeper, you get to have values. What do they value? What are their taboos? What are their beliefs? What are their thoughts that are underneath things that don't come out? And under all of that is the worldview. the lens by which they think. And Corinthians talks about our job to go in and break down the worldview, the barriers of those things that hold back the gospel and build a new foundation on Christ. And so as we were getting started, I thought it'd be good just to share some of those things about why this task is not impossible. But it's difficult and it takes time. It can be done by ordinary folks, but it's a lot of work. And that's why you guys as a church standing with, praying for, giving, encouraging and going is so vital to see these people groups reached. I thought I'd show a little video just to start out in the Popitar. I've been asked a few times what their houses are like in the village where we were. So a couple months ago, we actually did a little video clip for VBS for some kids about a Popitar house. But I thought, man, this is that first layer of the onion. It's the observable culture. So you guys get to watch it and tell me what you think. We can turn up the volume. and this is my sister Sarah and we're going to be talking about houses in Papua New Guinea. One of the ways we can learn about culture and dig in is learning about how they live. This will help us to be able to know more about them and later plant a seed and spread the gospel. One of the things that's different is how they live. Their houses are different to ours. Here's a video about their house. This is a house in Napopatar. Notice the ladder that they climb to get up inside. They have a door, just like us. And as you go in, this would be the living room area. The bench there is made out of wood from a tree. We're going to go inside this room and as you look around you'll notice that the walls are made out of bamboo. That is split bamboo made into walls. And the floor is made out of bamboo as well. The room is pretty empty because it's new. There's a friend who's coming and saying good morning to us. Now we're going to go into the other room and this room has been used a bit more. You'll see mats and really thin mattresses on the floor and very small pillows. And this is what they sleep on. And we're back to the living room. What did you think of the video? How was your house similar? How is your house different than that? Did you guys see a kitchen? I didn't. How do you think they cook? This is another Popitar house they have and in this house they do their cooking. The floor is dirt as you can see and sometimes they'll have pigs there. This is a baby pig they must have just gotten. There's the fire. And you come over here and they have some counters in their kitchen or house cook just like us. See all the pots and pans? And over here we see some stones that they cook with. Baskets that they bring their food back from the garden in. and there's the fire again. Alright, so that was made for some kids but it gives you a picture of some of those physical things and now the next level down is those social things. Okay, who lives in those houses together? How do they sleep? Who builds them? Who does the cooking? Whose pig would that be? Who gets the food? And how do those social things start to build into those observable things? And then you get deeper into the values. What's nutrition to them? What's a good night's rest? And you go deeper and deeper to a worldview about what is health and life, and where does true life come from? And with each element of culture, there's not only the language to learn, but the culture about it that contributes to their worldview. God's given us a tremendous task to do while we're here on earth. Last night we learned about being a fragrance. Tonight we're going to look at 2 Corinthians chapter 3. If you want to turn there. 2 Corinthians chapter 3. We're going to try to get through verses 1 through 5. his letters. When I was preparing for this, I asked my daughters, hey, do you guys know any jokes about letters or stamps? And one of my daughters started singing, A, B, C, D, F. I said, no, no, no, not that kind of letter. Like the kind you write. What? I said, I got my joke. Man, times change, haven't they? Texting, emails, you got that. Letters, remember those? How many of you remember those pieces of paper you'd write on and fold up? Brandon and Aaron and whoever, can you guys actually hand those out now? If you've forgotten what they look like, these guys are going to hand out some envelopes and a piece of stationery. We're going to use them a little bit later in the message, but I'd like everyone to have one of those. So grab a letter. A stationary letter there and an envelope. When I was dating Lori, we met in high school. We were high school sweethearts. And then I graduated ahead of her and went off to college in Florida. And that was back in the days where you still wrote letters. Every week I would write a long letter to my girlfriend back in Iowa and send it to her. I don't do that anymore. I was at a missions conference once and they suggested that maybe I should. But why don't I do that anymore? What's the main reason of why I don't write letters to my wife anymore? Anybody got a guess? I live with her. I'm with her. When you're apart, you need to write letters. Guess what? While here on earth is our chance to write letters. This is something that we are not going to be able to fully implement in heaven. While here on earth, we get to write letters. Now what kind of letters are we talking about? We're not talking about these kind here. The letters that you're holding in your hand, these letters that are in your grandma's trunk in the attic somewhere, the letters that you had to write when you were small in school and learn how to put the address form on. We're not talking about those that you actually put stamps on. Nobody remembers when they were only four cents, right? Do you recognize, anybody recognize these kinds of letters? Okay, these are aerograms. It's the envelope and the paper in one. You fold it up, you seal it. It used to be the most common thing in New Guinea. That's how we first sent our newsletters. That's how we got mail when we first went there. They no longer accept them at the post office now. But those are the aerograms that used to take place. Letters are important. And writing is important. Now, you saw a little bit about the literacy class and the DEM people and how they're learning to read so they can read scripture in their own language. Tom Felspach is here representing, what's the name of it again? Spoken Worldwide, and it relies on recorders. that Jared also shared about, that they use to record lessons and pass them on in an orality thing. Best thing is in person, in their language, giving it, but there's circumstances where that doesn't work. There's closed countries where you can't get in and teach directly or don't know that language and have to use a recorder. We have one place, if you want to remember the Tobo people in Papua New Guinea, Tobo, they are a people group that early on they kick their missionary out. and didn't want anything to have to do with them except for one family. And that one family continued to do communication, work on translations. They eventually got saved, and now they're reaching to their own people. And what the translator does that now lives in Dallas, Texas, is he translates the scripture, reads it onto those recorders, sends it over, and they distribute those lessons and translation scriptures to the people. Pretty exciting. There's other places where it's a little more ideal, where they can get in on the ground, teach, the people themselves can learn how to read and write, take God's word, read through it, study it, teach from it. There's another place in New Guinea called Marayama. And that was the case for them. There were two families that got to go in there and do a similar process to what the Curries did. And they were able to stay a long time and they were able to see literacy teachers come in and do the work and eventually, All the adults, all the kids in the village were able to read, but they were so remote. They were only able to get up to about that third grade level and nothing past that. And some of the families wanted to send their kids into town for further education, where they could maybe learn some things about medical or about how to become a teacher or some of those things to help them in the village. And so what these two missionary families have done, they've both since moved out of the tribe, but they're still working with this people group. And they've now hired some PNG national teachers from the town that have been trained, that are believers, to go into this village in the remote area and form basically a one-room schoolhouse, to take that education level from the second, third grade level up through the sixth grade level, to try to help the people in other ways. In fact, I tried to do a little giveaway each night. So tonight, it's not the fragrant candles. Fragrant candles, someone told me that they thought last night it was a piece of licorice and they almost grabbed it and put it in their mouth. These are not lifesavers, okay? These are rings. They're made out of sago seeds from a sago palm made by the people of Marayama to support their school. So they take the seed and carve it out. The outside is this dark brown and inside is light brown. So they carve away the dark brown and make these rings. And I bought them from the missionary there for a dollar each. And all those proceeds go to this school to pay for those teachers and all the school supplies. And I got enough for everybody here. They're out on our display. So remember the Marayama people, the Togo people, grab one on your way out because writing education is important. We're not going to be talking about those letters, though. We're going to be talking about His letters, Christ's letters. 2 Corinthians chapter 3. I'm going to start in verse 1. Before we go there, let's have a word of prayer. Father, thank You for this opportunity to look at Your Word again. Thank You that we have it. There are so many people groups that wouldn't be able to turn to a second Corinthians. So thank you for that. Thank you for the message. Thank you for the love letter to us. As we look about being your letter, may you teach us something tonight through your spirit. It's in your son's name I pray. Amen. Second Corinthians chapter 3 verse 1. Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? This is the Apostle Paul talking to the Corinthian people. Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? Paul's saying, hey, I'm writing this. I've been there. I've taught you. I'm writing this. Do I have to prove to you that I'm able to stand with authority and teach you things about God? Do I need a letter of recommendation? Do I need some kind of diploma that I've graduated from this and am now able to share with things? Is that what's going on? Paul was asking the question. So I thought I would go ahead and ask the question too. Pastor Mike, I don't know, are you qualified to be here in Lamar's Bible Church? Am I allowed to be asked that? What's your letter of recommendation? Did you go to a school and have any certification with that? I graduated from Faith Baptist Bible College and Master's Seminary. Okay, you did. Now do you have paper proof of that? I do, in my office. In your office. Okay, is it framed? All right, so you have proof. That's good. Now, I probably didn't have to ask that. And Paul, too, he actually had proof, too. In Acts 22, 3, he says that he was schooled in Jerusalem about all the laws under Gamaliel. And then Galatians 1 and 2, It talks about how Jesus himself appeared to him in light, and that he was taught, and that he spent time with the apostles, the disciples that were with Christ. He had a lot of accreditation. He could have proved some letters of recommendation to these guys. He could have said, Corinthians, you guys want proof of my ministry? Proof that I can teach? Proof of my work? Okay, here's the letter. Pastor Mike could stand up and say, here's my certificate. Here's my diploma. Here's my master's in divinity. Got it. But you know what's even more important than that? Let's take a look at verse two. You are our letters, written in our hearts, known and read by all. Paul asks the question, do we need letters of recommendation? Here's the reality. You, Corinthians, are the letters. What does that mean? Let's take a look at that. If you've got your outline notes, they look a little different. It looks something like this tonight. And we're just going to fill in those blanks. It's a little letter writing exercise. It's like an old aerogram that we're going to fill in. So you're welcome to take some notes on that. There was something more important than a letter of recommendation from a school. And it was the Corinthians themselves. They, in fact, were the letters. First thing I want you to notice about that verse, what's the first word? You. You are our letters. So where it says your life there on your notes, I want you to write above that your name. Don't put Aaron's unless that's your name. Put your name in there. Aaron's life. This is the letter. You, Paul says, are letters. Next thing I want us to look at in that verse is this. You are letters written on our hearts. This is where the artists in the room get to enjoy something. So in your notes, draw a heart. I had the advantage because I just clicked on shapes and put in the heart shape. But draw a heart across the middle of this because that's where this letter is written on our hearts. You are the letter written on our hearts. What's the next part of the verse say? You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all. Who is this letter to? Known and read by a small group in Lamar's Bible Church when the doors are closed. Known and read by my family. That's it. Known and read by who? Oh, guess what? This is an open letter. So in that two box, I want you to write, open letter to the world. Your life is an open letter to the world. It's not one you seal up into just them, and if anyone else gets it out of that mailbox, that's a federal crime. You're going to serve time. No, this is one you post on the internet, goes out to everybody. Your life is an open letter. Those letters are a little bit scarier to write. What else do we learn from 2 Corinthians 3 about our lives? You are our letters, written in our hearts, known and read by all, to all men. What's this letter about? What's it regarding? If we look at back at verse 1 and 2, do I need a letter of recommendation Letter of proof? Guess what? You guys are our letters. What's it regarding? The proof of God's work through his faithful servants. What's your life regarding? It's the proof of God's work in you through his faithful servants. So in your blank, what's this letter regarding? The proof of God's work through his faithful servants. If you have your phone with you, go ahead and take it out. Take your phone out. We're going to try a little experiment here. I want you to turn on the camera. And then I want you to hit that little button that makes it flip around. And it's called a selfie. Now, I'll teach you how to say selfie in Popitar. Because in this remote village, phones have just started to come in more, and a couple people even have smartphones. And I did not introduce this, but I was out in the village, and they were saying something like, There you go. That's how you say it in Papato. All right, turn it to selfie mode, look at the screen, and hit the button. All right, now send that to Pastor Mike, Pastor Jake, and Pastor Derek and say, here's your credentials. This is the proof of your ministry. Now, if Pastor Mike, instead of his diplomas on the wall, had pictures of you guys and somebody walked in, and said, well, let me take a look at your ministry and credentials. And they looked at you. Would he still have a job? What kind of letter are we? Do we exhibit that we're growing, that we're maturing, that we're working together, that we're taking what we're being fed and applying it? Paul said, Corinthians, do you want a letter of proof? You guys are the proof. Jared and Melanie, the people we saw up there on that screen a few minutes ago, they're the letter of proof of your ministry. Man. Now I want you to take your phone, flip it around so it's off of selfie mode, and point it to your spouse, or to your child, or someone across the room, and go ahead and push that button. Because here's the reality. They are the evidence of your work. They're the evidence of how you've been ministering to them. Parenting, being a husband, being a wife, being a neighbor. Do they exhibit what you've poured into their lives? That's what this letter is about. Let's look at what it says in verse 3. I'll back up in verse two. You are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men, being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not on tables of stone, but on tablets of human hearts. Who is this letter from? Christ. You're a letter of Christ. Christ is the author. He is the author and finisher of our faith. He is the one ultimately, yes, Pastor Mike teaches, opens the word, but who is the true author of our faith? It's Christ. He's the one authoring this letter. And you know what? So many times what we do, what maybe I should personalize this, so many times what I do, when Christ is wanting to author that letter, I'm pulling that paper away. I'm holding that hand back. I'm saying, I want to write my story. Christ is the author. If we go on, cared for by us, written not with ink and pen, but with what? The Spirit of the Living God. Down at the bottom where it says signed, signed by the Holy Spirit. See, Christ is the author, but the one who is scribing this is the Holy Spirit. He's the one working in our hearts. What does the Holy Spirit do? We know that in Galatians, it says that the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There's no law against these things. I was recently talking to Kylie, my daughter, and she said she was learning some things. She had heard this from a teacher. She said the teacher was describing a fruit tree, and a fruit tree with all this fruit on it. And the teacher asked, does the tree eat its own fruit? And Kylie was like, no. That's right. That would be strange for a tree to eat its own fruit. A tree produces fruit so it can nourish others. As the Spirit of God writes on our lives, these are the fruit He's producing. Is it to feed ourselves? No, it's to feed in those around us, because we are a letter to them. We are a letter of Christ, penned by the Holy Spirit, written to others. But you know what? If you're like me, there's something that conflicts with this list, and it comes right before it in Galatians. When you follow the desire of your sinful nature, the result is very clear. Sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, That's when I'm writing the story. That's when I grab that pen from the Holy Spirit and say, not today, I'm mad. That's the struggle now going on with these young dumb believers. Why am I still angry? Well, there's this battle going on, Roman 7 battle between the flesh and the spirit. But you know what happens when there's two messages written on one letter? starts to get really blurry. Mixed messages to the world. I thought you said you were a Christian. Hey, do you go to that Lamar's Bible Church? But I saw you today when I was headed back to Sioux City. Came up to a four-way stop and Two cars came from other directions, and I was a little bit further behind. They got there about the same time. But one of them, you could tell, got there a little bit before. But before they were able to take off, the other car that stopped just before them took off to turn into the four-way intersection. That did not make the person who got there a half second earlier happy. And as I'm sitting there waiting, the second person takes off, aiming straight at the person, and within a few feet, slams on the brakes, just to show him I was first. I thought to myself, I hope they're not a Christian. Well, that's not a good thing to hope, but... But what are we writing? What about rules, laws? You must not have any other god but me. You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or image of anything in heaven or on earth. What other gods are we serving? Putting our passion, our time, our energy, our money into. Because when you put it all in the same letter, it really starts to get confusing. And that letter of recommendation, letter of commendation, while you're here on earth, a letter of Christ, open letter to the world, it's really not worth reading. When our messages are mixed, it's kind of like a story that I saw happen in Papatara. And some of you, if you've read the book Tales from the Tribe, you'll have read this story. I went into the village and the village was called Burau. I went down to Burau and they were going to have one of those big feasts where everybody comes down and they slaughter up to 20, 30 pigs and they do a big like luau style feast and they call in villages from all over and they come down and do a traditional celebration. So I was still learning language and culture and I wanted to take a look at what was going on to see those different aspects of their worldview. So I went down there, and there was a guy working on this pig that had been killed, and now he was getting it prepared. And he had a machete, and the machetes they carry around are not little knives. They're about a three foot long machete. And he had this pig all laid out, and he had to cut it up in some smaller chunks. So the first time I got a good look at him is when he raised up his machete like this. And I was looking at him across the road and he was wearing a red t-shirt. A big red t-shirt and in big white letters across the front of it, it said, Animals have rights too. Well, he came down on that pig. Time or two, I was like, did I get that message right? Animals have rights too. Back down. Thought, this is kind of crazy. It's not really making sense. About that time, one of the local dogs thought, there's a piece of pig meat there I can grab. It snuck up around the corner, but not before Mr. Animals-Have-Rights-Too saw him turn around, kick the dog, sent it rolling back down the hill. None of that would be out of the ordinary, except that somehow in town he had picked up a T-shirt. They had no idea what it said. The message conflicted. But how many times is that us? Letters of Christ. Really? Because I'm trying to read it, but what's happening, it doesn't make sense. Here's what I'd like you to do. On that piece of paper that was passed out, stationary there, pop it in a piece of paper. I want you to write this sentence, and what we're going to do is take just a minute, and you'll fill in the rest of the sentence in a couple paragraphs, or a couple sentences, and then you're going to put it in the envelope, seal it up, on the front of the envelope, write your name and your address. And when you go out tonight, put it in a basket, there's a basket from Popitar there. Drop it in that basket and in a couple months that letter is going to be mailed back to you. I want you to open up and take a look at what you wrote. This is how I want you to start. Put your own name. Mine's Aaron. So Aaron's life exhibits Christ to the world by I didn't write it up there, but Aaron's life, put your name, exhibits Christ to the world by what? What is it? The author of your life, Christ, through His Holy Spirit, wants to pen a letter to the world through you. What do you want it to say? How are you exhibiting Christ to the world? Everybody take a minute, write down what you think the Holy Spirit wants you to exhibit to the world. Maybe it's something that hasn't made sense, it's been conflicting. The last thing on your notes there, in verse 3 it said it's written with, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of the human heart. Put down your pen, just fill in the blank, and pick up the fruit. Not on stone, it's not the law, all these rules you have to do, but on the heart. What is the Spirit of God doing in your heart to show the world who He is? When it's talking there about the pen and the stone versus the heart and the spirit verse four and five show us a comparison. We don't have time to go through these in detail, but it says this, we are confident in all of this because of our great trust in God through Christ. It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. And there's this difference between the old covenant and the new covenant. The old one under the law was carved into stone, but we're under the new covenant written by the spirit onto our hearts. The old one was temporary. Whereas the new one's permanent. The old condemns. The new brings righteousness. The old is by the flesh. The new is by the Spirit of God. The old, the fruit, was either pride that I'm doing it or despair that I can't. Whereas the new is the fruit of the Spirit. The old is striving in duty for God, whereas the new is rest in relationship with God. And then there's this. The old, under Israel, the world was to come to them. whereas the new, we are to go to the world. Last night I had the opportunity to meet Labua. I don't know if you all have had the chance to meet Labua or not. Labua, where are you from? Ethiopia. And where more specifically? From the southern part of Ethiopia, bordering South Sudan. Okay? And what people group were you in? I'm from a tribe called Nyangatong. Okay, the tribe... Say it again? Nyangatong. Nyangatong. Yes. And as we were talking last night, you told me what happened or how you came to know Christ. How did that happen? I came to know Him through missionaries. Through missionaries. Yes. And they came there, to your tribe? Yes. And because of them, you heard the Gospel? The Bua is the letter of recommendation of those missionaries. What kind of letters are we, and what kind of letters are we producing? To close, I wanted to show you a few more letters. These are from New Guinea. This was from a place called Sinau. Translated into English it says this, what's going on? Where's our help? Have you forgot about us? We have seen and have not forgotten about wanting a missionary. We carry a huge heavy constantly about this. We carry this heavy because we fear for our lives. We know that the Bible says that you should come and tell us. Us dark ones need it. How will we go to God's place if not? Only those who know will go. How will we know if no one teaches us? Sounds like a verse that Mike read a little bit earlier. That is the whole of my worry. We want a missionary now to give us God's talk. That letter was written years ago. And since then, a missionary team has gone to the sea now. They now have a church. They now know the gospel. They are now letters of Christ, because someone went. This next one, the ending is a little different. I'm going to skip this video. Letter from Anu. I'm Epem Inyo. I'm the leader of the Anu village. Now I am carrying a big heavy about getting a missionary. Please, us dark ones of Anu are truly afraid for our lives. I've also got a worry for my friend here who lives in darkness. So then I've got this worry. Are you able to come and wash my eyes so I can see or not? Do you ones have a worry for those of us in the dark or not? I think we stink like rotten meat or what? Is that why you send no one to plant a seed in our Anu place? This is not new. For 18 years, we have carried this heavy for nothing. And they're still waiting. And it's our responsibility to be letters of Christ as an open letter to the world that they may know Him. And it starts here on Mars to everyone around you. But I'm convinced that God wants to use some of us to go beyond these borders to people that are writing letters like this, asking for missionaries to come. While here on Earth, so far we've learned that we are His fragrance and we are His letters. Heavenly Father, thank you that we get a chance while here on earth for a little while to represent you to the world. Soon we're going to be with you. There's going to be no more letter writing, but now we have a chance. Hope our lives to represent you well. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you.