Sometimes when you party all night in Mexico, it's hard to muster the conviction to update a blog. But, y'all are worth it. As is the decompression time - there's something lovely about sitting by yourself in the stillness of the world when the rational people have all gone to sleep.
Today was our last day for official, scheduled evangelism (i.e. it should be happening everywhere). We headed back to the Tec campus (i, with some doubt as to whether it might be better to stay at la uni since the...fishing...had been so successful). Sheryl and I teamed up (#classic - just like back in '09 y'all (in case you were wondering, the "#" was pronounced "poundsign" in my mind)), but were feeling a bit off, so we prayed for a while before we got started (always do that, btw, when evangelizing). We ended up talking to the first girl we met, Daniela, for over an hour and a half. We talked about everything ever, mostly languages though (which i just loved). Sheryl made a slick transition into the gospel and we poked at spiritual things for a bit before she had to leave for class. Then we met a friend of Javier's, tried to meet some cats, and went to lunch.
After lunch, we had plans to meet up with a guy Cammy and Kelsie had met before lunch. On the way to meet him, we met a girl who stopped to tie her shoe near us and she came with us to platicar. We all sat and talked through culture and religion and language and life in general. Then, Javier joined us and we played "ninja" and chilled before we went to meet back with the group. We saw Julio, the friendly atheist, today. Sheryl and I met him in 2011 and he was all kinds of open to talking with us. Today, he said "I think your God wanted me to see you," and though he said it jokingly, I agree. It's crazy that he'd still be in Monterrey, much less in school, much less that we would see him. I hope some fruit comes of it.
Have you ever made deep, prolonged eye-contact with a deer as it slowly steals a granola bar from your mouth? Kaylen has.
We had about an hour and a half to rest after the outreach: I got to have really good conversations with Cammy and Sheryl about missions, then with Craig and Javier about life and stuff, and I even got a short nap to recharge before tonight. That was good because tonight was Party Night (part one).
Hang on, there's a bag of Doritos that is upside-down on the shelf across from where I'm typing in the hotel lobby and it is really hurting my soul.
Ok, crisis averted. Right, parties: we had two parties tonight, one for North Monterrey (UANL) and one for South Monterrey (ITESM). Half our team (myself included) went with Mario to the North Party at Julio's house and half (myself not included) went to the South Party at the Handal's house. Our party was hopping, yo - we had a good turnout from the church and from our new contacts. Julio preached the gospel to everyone and then we prayed and ate. Carne asada. It was so, so good. Somehow, both of our vegetarians ended up at the party were all the food was meat, but they did a great job!
About 3 minutes after we started eating, it started raining (did i mention we were outside? no? sorry, we were). It was warm, delicious rain, but not conducive to an outdoor party, so our hosts moved us under the patio and then they set up some tarps and we partied on - slightly soggy, but very undeterred. We talked and ate and laughed and played "pterodactyl" (well, a few of us did. everyone else stared in confusion as we tried to sing to jason mraz as pterodactyls. have you ever seen a pterodactyl singing to jason mraz? it's pterrifying, i assure you).
Tomorrow is playing with kids and painting and Party Night (part two), pray for healthy team conflict management and for our contacts to continue to make good connections with the church!
God's really good friends (all the time), take some time and enjoy the blessings he's given you.
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