25.4.13

                    Today, we had two classes in the morning about how to remain in Christ and in His call for your life- the main theme being decide to follow Him no matter the cost, decide to pursue His calling for your life no matter what, be always willing to respond immediately and positively. If you think it’s from God, act on it- better than taking a thousand detours along the way. Just make sure that in the end, it is He who attains the glory.

                        After lunch, we had a “surprise” from 3-6 (this is what literally it said on the schedule) and we were all somewhat nervous. Fabian took us on the mini downtown, telling us we were going to Puebla. When we were close to parking, he told us we’d be giving mini-sermons/talks/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, in the centro. He said “okay Angie you’re first, then Keti, then Manuel. I hope you guys have something planned.” As always, I felt a wave of sheer panic roll over me, but it eventually ebbed away as I thought of the verses “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” and that “it was not my elocuence or fancy words that moved your hearts, but rather the working of the Spirit, to show you it is not human intelligence that changes lives but the glory of God.” I was trusting that even if I screwed up, God would work in the hearts of those who needed to hear it. So I put a couple notes on my ipod to use, planning to speak about an older topic I’d written about, Repentance and Forgiveness. We parked and started to head downtown. I was feeling better about my speaking, running over in my head what I wanted to say. Well when we hit downtown, we started scoping places to stand up in to talk, when Fabian said
Fabian: “so you all know that this is a time of surprise, and the surprise is that- surprise!, you’re not going to talk. You’re actually here to kill time and adventure until 5:20.”
Me: “DANGIT FABIAN!”
Angie: *immediately runs toward Fabian to hit him* “Mugroso! Why’d you trick us like that!”
Me: “DANGIT FABIAN!” *moves towards him to smack him but Lalo stops me*
Fabian: *laughing hard at all our reactions* “see you in a couple hours!”

So me, Angie, + Manuel searched out internet and basically blew time on that until time was up, eating French fries in between, and accepting free pens from people in the park.

The bus ride there and back was fun as well. The boys are constantly ragging on us and making fun of us, which usually is funny as long as it doesn’t go too far.

Oh! And we practiced our drama for our missions trip to Oaxaca in a couple weeks, which deals with domestic violence, drugs, prostitution, and losing hope. It’s pretty neat. It was fun practicing that, even though it’s actually kind of distressing to watch. I’m looking forward to what God is going to do in that week.