Hola Caramelos!

ok 10 years later I will give you an update about the outreach we did last week, that I asked you to pray about. It went well! It actually went infinitely better than I personally anticipated (oh ye of little faith, yes, that's me...). We set up the table early on Tuesday morning on the Hechicera (sciences) campus. We had a table full of fliers (that explained the 4 spiritual laws, and what it means to have a "date" with Jesus...) as well as fliers for our Vida Estudiantil meeting, English Club, and for the Retreat "Marcando La Diferencia". Basically, our sign said "Quieres una cita?" (Do you want a date?) so when students saw the table and sign, they came up and asked what was going on, we had the opportunity to tell them what it looks like to have a "date" with Jesus, and what it looks like to have a relationship with Jesus. For students who were already Christians, and even those that weren't we also got the chance to invite them to our weekly meeting and/or to English club. I spent a majority of my day working at the table, and it was really encouraging. Not only did we get to meet a ton of new students and make new friends, we also got to share the gospel and invite students to become a part of our ministry! Consistenly throughout the day we were surrounded by interested people and we kept having to make more fliers because we ran out - how cool!

It also included one funny incident of Claudia attempting to offer candies to some passerbys, but instead calling them candies. It happened to be a group full of male students....awkward!!



Other updates from this week: Wednesday was the weekly meeting, we had quite a few new people, yay! The talks at the weekly meeting have been going through the fruits of the spirit (in Galatians) and last week was joy. It was a great topic and a great reminder for students about what true joy is.

Friday, English club was great. We talked about weekend activities and had the students play charades (which apparently they have those in this culture as well, sweet....) I love how excited they get playing games, it makes it much more fun. They are all very brave as well playing games in a language not their own....

Last night, we had a girls' night! We invited the ladies of Vida Estudiantil, new and old, to come hang out at our apartment for an evening of fun. We had fondue (as appropriate for almost every girls' night I've ever been to.....), and fun punch, and other goodies. We made necklaces (they have some of the coolest beads here!) and we played some games. It was a lot of fun getting to know some of the girls better, since we don't get to spend a ton of time with them during the week. At the same time the boys were having a "guys night" and two of the boys took a short break to come serenade us through our second story window....I'm sure it was quite a spectacle for the neighbors, but we got a kick out of it. :)

Things to pray for this week: My bible study is on Mondays, so far we don't have anyone in it. However, we've invited a few girls, so hopefully they come, please pray for that! Also, we have a fiesta next Saturday, which I have to plan....but we're excited about (it's sort of for Eben's birthday) so pray for the details of that. Finally, I'm trying to get back to Santa Barbara again soon for one of their weekly meetings, but it's a lot of work to be able to go and to figure out a time when I can have students accompaniments, so please pray for that. Mostly this week will consist of sharing and of meetings....as usual. One of these days I'm going to write a blog about what exactly I do in a day, for those of you who are confused. Right now there are shots and/or fireworks going off outside my window so I'm going to go see what's happening.....Love and miss you all!