please appreciate the rain pun. thank you.
Today (Friday) was yet another day of rain for Mexico. Henry and Sheryl came to the house in which i am staying (please note the good sentence structure. thank you). We planned a bunch of cool activities for next week to make connections between our contacts and the church and worked out our strategy for July. Our stretegy to date has been: 1) meet people on campus 2) share the gospel if you can, but focus on the relationships (while talking often about our church) 3) connect people to the church. The campuses are now closed for the summer, so our strategy is 1) hang out with our contacts and very deliberately share the gospel 2) connect them to the church...
Sheryl and i also got to hang out and relax a bit today; we hung out in front of Omar's house (the house in which i am staying, yes), drank Mexican Dr. Peppers (no los recomiendo), ate gourmet hot dogs (7-11, homie) and listened to Sofia wailing because of her many woes.
At first it seems strange how upset Sofia/*insert the name of your favorite toddler here* gets about small things, but then we realized that at that age, your world revolves completely around what you want and not getting it is losing the most important thing in life. Part of growing up is realizing that there are other people who matter and a God who matters most. The interesting thing was listening to Sofia's Lamentations. Sofia laments like Job. Her mom was the cause of her distress ("No, mi amor, you have to do this first"), yet also the only place she could turn to for comfort. So she cried to her mom, not out of anger, but desperation and a lack of anywhere else to turn. I'll let you draw your own theological conclusions/applications from that, but i feel the same way sometimes. There's nowhere worth turning to look for help apart from God, and even when he's doing something i don't like; i wail and cry about it, then turn back to him for comfort because he is still the best Comforter there is and he always is right in the end. (please note the carefully constructed run-on sentence. thank you.)
It figures that when i go do missionary work among some of the most passionate people i know, in one of the fastest-growing churches, the most profound things i'm learning are from a 3-year-old because i see similarities in my own life.
Summary for today (Friday):
-We have a plan. it involves Jesus.
-I am childish in my faith (note, this is not the same as child-like faith)
-"Homeboy" is different than "Homebody"
-The only way to find true love is in God. The only way to find God is through his son, Jesus.
-Sofia's Lamentations would be a good band name. As would Melancholy Platypus.
(please appreciate the conciseness. thank you.)
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