Lawson wanted to turn the house into a hotel for the Chinese mule drivers. The villagers thought the house was haunted. She quickly put her to work repairing the big, old, rundown house that she lived in. Jeannie Lawson, was surprised to see Gladys when she arrived at the village. If the mission board would not send her to China, she would find her own way there. The director told her she wasn't smart enough to learn Chinese, and they would not accept her. Gladys failed missionary training school. She knew she must go tell them about God's love. As a teenager, she read a story about the Chinese that changed her life. Gladys Aylward grew up in London, England, in the early 1900s. Gladys knew God wanted her to go tell the Chinese about Jesus, but why was it so hard for her to get there? Could it be God was getting her ready for even harder times? Not Good Enough In the many hours to come, she would have almost no food to eat, nearly freeze to death, and barely escape being forced to become a Soviet military machine operator. This was only the beginning of her troubles, though. She now had to walk alone 30 miles back to the nearest city, through the woods in the cold, snowy night. She was the only non-military person left on the train. When the train reached the next stop, the conductor forced Gladys Aylward to get off. It was not a safe place for a woman traveling alone. The train soon would be filled with only loud mouthed, bad-tempered soldiers. She did not know everyone else was getting off the train because there was a fierce war going on up ahead. But she could tell from his angry face that he wanted her to get up. "Get off the train!" the Russian conductor shouted in words 30-year-old Gladys Aylward did not understand.
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