Today (pretend that today is Saturday) was our first party to connect our contacts to the church... it was mainly focused on Omar's grupo and the people we wanted to connect to it. We also invited the people from the other groups though, because it's just more fun that way. I'm a little bit discouraged on two levels, but i think it's ok. First, none (that means 0 out of our 10) of our contacts came. There were new people though and i got to make a couple of good friends. The second half is that although the group members did a fantastic job of inviting new people (all the new people came through the group members, which is excellent), they weren't very deliberate in their befriending of those they didn't know. This is bad because the goal is to form as many strong connections as possible to form good relationships in the church. Overall though, i think this will work out for the best and i still have super high hopes for our new friends to get connected to the church...
I went running this morning (still pretending it is Saturday), which felt great. That made my back hurt all day, which felt...painful. There's two really cool parques near my house, each one with a kilometer loop. The people in the parks are very friendly and the parks are beautiful, but of course if i run, i need to do it in the morning so i don't get abducted by the less-friendly people. Anyway, back to my back; it hurts. I'd like it to go away, but i think it's good because it keeps me focused on what's important (not running) and makes me face some insecurities.
I love the graffiti here. There's a whole genre of very sarcastic, very dry graffiti in Monterrey. It's written in black, plain letters on a white background and says a lot of sardonic things and a lot of emo things. I was colecting photos, but my camera met an untimely demise recently. We'll see how it plays out heh.
Ok, i'm officially done complaining now. Aside from Omar's party, tonight(Saturday, we get it) was also the final game in the Gold Cup series... Mexico vs. USA, ha. So, the party turned into a futbol party; first we watched, then we talked, then we played (both on Play Station and the front porch). Mexico won 2-4, which i am glad of. I was rooting for USA, but it would have killed the pary if 95% of the party was sad because their team lost. It's been really cool to see the love people have for futbol here. I think we should train our teams that come to Mexico in 1) evangelism 2) futbol because if you can do those two things, you'll do just fine here. We're going to play tomorrow night and i'm really excited. I think i love soccer so much because i'm so bad at it and other people are so good. The futbolistas can use their feet to defy the laws of physics and it is amazing.
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