good conversations

I was able to have a great conversation with my teacher the other day. We were talking about the kids and some way we started talking about Ayden and I was able to share with her Ayden's testimony. It was such a foreign thing to her that my children or I were not born "believers." I talked about how Ayden had to decide to follow and believe that the Son is the only way. And then I told her a little of my testimony and she asked some questions. Then she asked the hardest question, "so if you don't believe in the Son and follow him, you'll go to hell." I wanted to be honest and answer the question, but also be loving and not offensive. I finally just said that I believed the "Word" and in the "Word" it says that we must follow the Son and believe in Him. She didn't seem to be offended, she thought for a minute and then said, "I use to think that your religion and mine were very similar but really they are very different." Please be remembering her, as we have a couple hours a day together, that I may be able to speak truth into her life.
My other story is a girl that I was friends with before we left, she has read through some of the NT and has asked lots of questions in the past. I was not able to talk to her about religious things as we were never alone and I'm not sure how much her family knows about her reading and seeking. However, I was also friends with her sister who was never interested in the past. As I saw her this week I barely recognized her, she has gained a lot of weight and has been very sick. She has traveled outside the country a couple of times already and is getting treatments for a kidney problem. You can tell she doesn't feel very good and has had a very rough year. My request is that you would just remember these two ladies, that the younger is able to share the truth she knows with the older one and that I'm able to have some serious conversations with both of them. Also that the Father would just reveal Himself to the older one through this time of sickness.