Day 5: Work and Play

or: sounds like a plan

The original plan for our Friday activities looked something like this: sometime in the morning do something to serve somebody. In the afternoon rest or do something and in the evening have the party to connect our contacts to the church. Well, I guess that is exactly what we did. In the morning we helped one of the families in the church pack stuff into boxes in preparation for moving. I love packing stuff into boxes, by the way; it's like tetris (which I've never really played much, but think is brilliant). The choice of service project was very strategic as well: the grandparents in this family (who don't know Jesus) were visiting. So, while the kiddos (i.e. our team and Javier and another friend) were packing and playing (ninja), the adults (i.e. Rodger and the grandparents) talked about everything from healthy living to, yes, Jesus.

After lunch we headed back to the hotel for a little while, then half of the team went to the Tec to reconnect with contacts and half the team stayed to rest. I chose the resting half; which was mostly mental rest, reading and running.

Then, we partied. The point of the party was for our contacts to get to know the church and for the church to get their follow-up information to invite them to stuff later. We invited ev.er.y.one (like 130 people everyone). Of course, not that many came, but we still had around 40 people at the party (10 or so of our contacts (which is really good)). The most encouraging thing about the party was the way the church interacted with the new contacts: sometimes it's hard to get everyone to interact with people they don't know, but last night everyone was talking and having fun and playing games and no one looked lonely ha... Heck, even I had fun and I don't like parties. Although..there was one pretty sad part...I lost, for the first time, in Jenga.. Anyway, the party went to 12:45, which is the latest we've had a party in Monterrey..