Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Day 4: recurring themes

You want to know what is better than running some mornings? Sleeping in.

After breakfast, we had a mini-meeting with the team. I talked about encouragement (remember that for later) in our labor and Bethany shared a verse: Efesos 3:16-18...

 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ

We left for the Tec, this time all 7 of us, ready to go share some Jesus. Given the odd number of people; I flew solo, with plans to trade with Greg for the afternoon (who would use his solo time to prepare a teaching to share with us Thursday morning). So... fun fact: I have never gone cold-call evangelizing (i.e. "Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my Jesus... be reconciled to him for the sake of his glory and your salvation maybe?") by myself before. So, I went today to try and share with the Tec students in Spanish. The first few guys I talked with were awesome; one guys, David, even came to the grupo tonight.

After lunch, Adrian joined us, so he went with Sheryl (who had been paired with Greg), Greg set out to prepare a teaching, and I continued talking with people. Now, per my previous post, I have been patterning my style on my partners. Today, I mostly started chill and amped it up as the conversation progressed. I generally see myself as a fairly optimistic person; I got hit really hard with discouragement (hm) today after a conversation I had though. I went and sat in a courtyard and read my Bible and prayed a bit to try to shake it off. I ended up in Ephesians and reading the same verse that got shared this morning. Greg and I teamed back up and sat and talked with another girl before we all grouped back up to roll out.

I also talked with a girl I saw on campus...who turned out to be 14 and waiting for her mom to get off of work. I turned my non-creeper vibes on at full strength and we sat and talked a while about her youth group, which sounded awesome, then left without getting any contact information from her (very deliberately)

So, everybody met back up in the plaza to meet up with Adrian....or was it Javier? Or...wait...were we supposed to meet at Javier's apartment? We decided to walk there (2 blocks from the Tec) and see. No one was there, but we decided to wait. Eventually a semi-worried looking Adrian and then Javier showed up. They were worried they had lost their gringitos, but all was well. We had a brief jam session with Stephen and Javier (Stephen played "Safe Place," which references that same verse in Ephesians), then got ready for the group.

David (the guy I met) was the first to arrive. I was super glad he came (I hope he sticks; I really enjoyed talking to him). Javier shared with the group; focusing on the question A donde voy? Where am I going? He started by asking the group where they saw themselves in 3, 10, & 50 years. He then transitioned into the gospel and what happens after death. There were a few questions, but they got handled very well and the gospel was shared very effectively, very beautifully.

(parenthetically, i didn't have any good answers for the 3,10, 50 questions. 3 made me nervous and a bit sad, 10 just didn't compute, and 50 made me feel exhausted).

Quote for today:
"I don't read the Bible in English!" - The Javier Morones

Pray for lasting relationships, team unity, and salvations for our next day on campus.

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