Mexico- Church Day!

Hola!  Today was a great day full of fun, worship, playtime, testimony sharing and much more!  We woke up, spent some time in the Word then dug right into breakfast.  Shortly after we ate our breakfast we were filled in on the chore list and who was in charge of what job...yes the students are doing chores and yes they've been doing them with smiles!  Hopefully this excitement will translate into home chores ;)

  After we did our chores we headed to church where we worshiped God in a whole new way!  Half of our group had a translator and the other half did not so the experiences were wide in their difference.  Also, one group was able to help with the Children's ministry whilst the other was in a service with kids involved.  Below are two wonderful stories of these varied worship experience.



-Luke
Well, today was wonderful. At church, I was shocked that people were actually dancing, yelling out loud and blowing the horn (shofar) at worship. I didn't think the Holy Spirit actually moved people like that. Even though I couldn't understand all of the songs, it didn't matter because everyone was so into worshipping God. Moreover, today some of us taught a few Mexican children how to play ultimate frisbee and they loved it. Right now I'm the happiest I've been for a long time. I can't wait to go pray with people and hang out with kids at a boys home tomorrow!


-Sema
As soon as we got to the church this morning, one of the interns asked us if anyone wanted to help out with Sunday school for all the kids after worship. A few of us volunteered and I was one of the first. When the kids ran downstairs for Sunday School they held our hands, toting us behind them. I sat next to a little guy who told me his name was Bebien. I later found out, he either had a bad case of ADHD or a few too many candies for breakfast. This kid was bouncing off the walls. While I was struggling to keep him interested in the lesson, learn his verse and color his coloring page, I was amazed at how the pastor was so patient with him. He didn't reprimand him when he danced on the table or ran out of the room. He laughed. The people here are so filled with God's Spirit. The love they have for each other spills out and I'm so incredibly thankful to be able to witness it. 


 Once we were finished with church, we headed to lunch at the missionaries home. We ate, relaxed and discussed a bit of our worship experiences together.  We headed back to our "Center" to change and get ready for some soccer!

  We played soccer for two hours with many Mexican people where we mixed up the teams so Americans were on the same team as some Mexicans.  Here we interacted also with little kids who were not playing soccer.  Andrew Reay was able to experience a Mexican outhouse while Aaron Bliss, Noah Walburn and others ran around the track!  Here we were able to speak the same language of sports and entertain many great conversations!

  Afterwards we headed to dinner, VBS practice, chores and Tacos Pablano's to cap the evening off.  I (P. Marv) was the designated orderer for everyone but I managed to eat a couple tacos myself as well!


  Here and now we are all going to bed to start another day.  Continue to pray for God ordained conversations and a desire to expect God to do amazing things in our midst!