Saturday, March 18, 2017

Day 07: At the End of the Week, You're Another Week Older

Or: "Whoop and PTL"
Or: Rojo Tierrabus is still stuck in my head
Or: "Wow Sam, Two Les Mis Reference Titles in One Trip..."

Our last day of campus evangelism in Monterrey (note the qualifiers) started well. We prayed and prayed and paired up and got after it. I was with The Evan Grant again, which was great. We had a guy show us around the mécatronica labs, which were fascinating. 3D printing, robots, machines making machines... Evan was eating it up. In case you're wondering, no A&M doesn't have mécatronica, i don't think it's even a major in the states. Stephen and i got lunch with Pastor Sergio, we got to talk about our structure and their structure and Sergio's vision for the future...really encouraging stuff.

After lunch, Evan and i spent most of the afternoon talking with a chill, very conversational atheist or agnostic (he wasn't sure which he was yet). It was a good conversation, though we didn't get to share the gospel. We did get to push back on his views on a few things and talk about a lot of things, which was good. I can tell God is after his heart though, His brother has started going to a local Bible study :D

When we all met back up at the servilleteros (a.k.a. the fuga buildings), we got to hear some really amazing stories of God using the team. We saw so many good connections come through and are hoping to see some really good fruit. We loaded up and Mario took us to get some ice cream on the way home (it was amazing, as you can probably guess).

We got back, took a break, loaded up and headed to San Pedro for the party (carne asada). The party was straight crazy y'all. The pastor's living room and then back yard were transformed into dance floors. There were so many people there, it was almost unbelievable. Everywhere i looked there were little groups of gringos, visitors and church people all mixed in together. The church here did an amazing job of connecting to our people and engaging them in conversation, i can't wait to see what fruit comes of it. My new friend that we had all the juicy conversations with at the Uni even came and made good connections.

Our original plan for tomorrow was to start at 11, but we found out around 8-14 of us needed to start earlier, so the Tec team will be getting up at 9. It was hard to tell my peeps that we were taking 2 hours of sleep from them, but they handled it so well. We got them home a little early (12:45) so they could rest some. I can't tell you adequately how impressed and proud i am of my team. I love them a lot, they're amazing :D :D

After Mario took the team back to the hotel, Sheryl and a few of the Uni team and i went with  Josue for the after party. It was exciting and beautiful and i got to drive up a mountain :D Dreams really do come true. I'll spare you details, but it was a lot of fun and i am a lot of sleepy. I'm not really sure how Monday morning is going to go after 2 more days of late nights. A ver.

I may have dozed off for a second while thinking about self-care and how important it is.

That was a fun sentence to write. I hope you enjoyed reading it. Anyway, God's been really good to us. Philippians 1:6. I want to see him complete his work. On this trip, in this team/church/city/country. In my life. In the world. It's so exciting to think he'll be coming back. But it's also convicting. Will he be please with how i lived my life?

I had a low-key Schindler's List moment today (if you haven't seen it, watch it). I came to the end of the week and the time for sowing on campus in Monterrey for this trip is now over. Now we do follow-up and a service project and some fun stuff. But was it enough? Did i leave it all out on the track? Could i have talked to more people? Could i have been more bold and shared the gospel with more of the people i did talk to?

One of my biggest fears is coming to the end of my life and feeling that way (watch the movie, yo). To realize that i lived for the petty things, the silly things, the things that did not matter. One of my greatest fears is that i will waste my life. What about you? Do you ever feel that? What things would you change if you were old and looking back at the Now version of you? 

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