Laurie Ishii

Thank you so much for all of your prayers! Three people got saved!!!

It was amazing last night (this morning) – we met a team of 6 from Fresno who went out with us at 1am. We prayed before we drove out to Compton around 2am and got there about 2:45. There were cops all over as soon as we got off the freeway – we weren’t even able to turn off of our exit because the police cars were blocking the road. So we had to get back on the freeway and exit again further South (East?).

We drove around and there were hardly any people out – we didn’t see any hookers at all. So we stopped at a Burger joint and prayed again and then decided to loop around the track one last time. This time we saw one girl – walking pretty fast – so we turned around so that we could get ahead of her before got out of the car so we wouldn’t scare her. Me and another woman, Gina – walked to the girl who I’ll call Eva – she looked scared so we told her that we just wanted to give her a gift bag.

She was in tears, and we asked her if we could pray for her and she said “Please do, I’ve had a really bad night.” I asked if she wanted to talk about it and she said “no” so we just prayed for her. Then we asked if she needed a ride somewhere, and she said that she would appreciate a ride down the street where she was meeting her friends.

I asked she if she was “working” and that I used to work too – and she said, “You could say that”. She got in the car with us and we dropped her off at a gas station where some (about very intoxicated girls were getting gas – and Gina and I went to talk with them after Eva went to meet her friends. The girls (about 17-18 years old) were kinda of joking and laughing at first but when we asked them if they’d let us pray for them they said yes and after we finished praying they apologized and I think they were convicted and they thanked us.

Before Eva got out of the car I gave her a matchbook with my number on it and she said she’d keep it and that she’d be calling me real soon. We’ll see – hopefully she will.

Then we saw Eva’s pimp and one of his girl in the passenger seat was a girl we always see – “Peaches” – she’s so pretty – (so was Eva – gorgeous – and even though she said she was 21 she couldn’t have been over 17) and Peaches said Hi and got out of the car and we gave her and the other girl in the back seat gift bags. I gave their pimp and pimp tract and then he told them they had to roll.

After that we drove down the track one more time – saw one girl and stopped – this time myself and a woman with us named Rachel went to talk with the girl but her pimp must’ve been nearby cause she kept looking around and she wouldn’t take a bag. But I noticed that she kept staring at my dog chain, which reads, “Not for Sale”…

Then we decided to go to WEHO (West Hollywood) where there are always people out. When we got there there was a BUNCH of people out as usual (at like 4am) and we split up in teams of three and went to talk to people. Gina and her husband Leo were with me – and after talking to a couple of guys, we went into the donut shop and we heard a guy at one of the tables say, “Well he may not need it but I do” and he asked us if we were from a church.

We told him that we’re Christians and he told us his story – it was heartbreaking. I won’t go all into it, but his whole family (father, mother, siblings) died in a car accident and his grandmother just died in February on his birthday. As he was talking, tears started running down his cheeks and we could see that he was in so much pain. He said that he and his friends all wanted to be a part of a family – so they made up their own family, calling one ‘mom’, another ‘dad’, etc. There was so much pain in his eyes.

He said he was Catholic and Leo asked him if he knew how to receive Jesus and if he believed he was going to heaven if he died. His name was C*******. Ch******** said that he thought he would go to heaven if he did good and we told him that it’s not about good works but about having faith in Jesus Christ, and being obedient to His Word. Long story short, Leo led him in the sinners prayer and he was crying and when we went out side he saw his friend S** and told S** to talk with us…

In the meantime, Ty was talking to another guy who is supposed to come to church tomorrow, and another group from Fresno with Julia were talking with a young black guy and they led him to Jesus and God is so awesome!

Anyway, at first S** was embarrassed to talk to us but C******* had his arm around him and kept telling him to talk to us so finally he said okay. Gina started sharing her testimony with him and telling him about how God loves him and will forgive him of all his sins etc. and before long S** was in tears too!!! We asked if he wanted to pray to receive Jesus and he said YES! He prayed the sinners prayer and afterwards they said they wanted to come to church Sunday and (Lord willing, they will) and I asked if they had bibles and they said no but they wanted one so we got some from the car and they said they’d read them to all their friends.

The whole night was such a blessing, the team from Fresno was great and here through the weekend. God is moving in such a powerful way!!! Please pray that God will cause the seeds that were sown this morning to GROW and that C******* and S** and the other guys will come to church tomorrow!!! God is so good!!! Thanks You Jesus!!!