Today has been a long day. We started out with our second basketball class of the weekend in the morning in Las Aguilas and finished our day teaching a class for the jóvenes in Huehuetoca.
Today I woke up in Steve and Kay’s house to Steve asking me to test the water in our upstairs shower (they’ve been having trouble getting hot water up there as I experienced the last time I was there). When I got in the shower it was hot and Steve told me they were going to keep a little hot water running downstairs to make sure it kept flowing upstairs. This turned out to be bad since this stole away from the water pressure in the shower. Eventually they turned off the water downstairs and so I was able to shower for a few minutes with hot water. I took caution during this time to only get soap on a few parts of my body and then wash them off real fast under the water. This turned out to be a good idea because pretty soon all the water in the shower cut off and I was left standing there waiting for it to come back on.
Needless to say, that was the end of my shower in their house and so I got ready and we left for our trip back down to Las Aguilas. This basketball class today had less jóvenes there, but we had more niños that filled in their spots. Just like yesterday, we began the class with casual shooting around and then got into more drills. Following the drills we played another game of basketball (which the kids really enjoyed) and we went over our time limit just like yesterday. After we were all done we went upstairs to find Manny waiting for us in his taxi (which was odd because no one had called him to come get us). We got in with him though and soon we were off to Izcalli.
From Izcalli everything was great on our way back home (except the bus was slow as usual – I’m learning to be more patient and flexible here). When we got back to the micro stop in Huehuetoca to take us back to our homes, we took the micro that didn’t go through our neighborhood but just passed it. So when we passed the neighborhood we had to do a little walking to make our way back to our houses (which isn’t a bad thing, we just got a little more exercise).
We got back home around 2:20pm and had about an hour and half before we were going to get ready for our time with the jóvenes here. Andrew joined me for lunch (his family wasn’t home yet) and I enjoyed some of the peanut butter I had bought last night on my first PB&J sandwich in Mexico. After we ate lunch I took my first real shower of the day and left Lina’s place for the mission house.
For today’s lesson, Andrew and I decided on playing Wii with the jóvenes for a while and then going into why it’s important to read the Bible. We chose this topic because Casey had told us before he left that the kids here just don’t know the Bible that well. I think that this is definitely one of the biggest problems here in Mexico is that they don’t know what the Bible says about anything. So we began our class and the two kids that came were having fun. Eventually one of them asked if we were going to read the Bible today and so we started our study.
Our original plan, like I mentioned before, was to go through some verses in the Bible and explain to the guys why it’s important to read your Bible and study the Word of God. Before this we asked a few questions of them and somehow one of the kids said that we were saved through our good works and deeds for God. At this point we saw that we needed to deal with this response and change our original plan. So we read through scriptures in Romans, Matthew, Ephesians, and 2 Corinthians about what it meant to be saved. Through our readings we showed the kids that we’re not saved through our good works but solely by God’s grace and believing that Jesus is the Son of God and deciding to follow Him.
This was really exciting being able to share the Gospel with the kids here and at the same time sad to find out that they thought we’re saved through good works. This to me shows that there is still a lot of work to be done here in this community and I look forward to continuing to follow God here. Once we were done with the class we said our goodbyes and we each went home. I’m excited for church tomorrow (I can’t really remember the last time I was excited for church in the States), and can’t wait to help lead the service. Tomorrow also marks the one-month countdown until we return to the States (which I’m happy and sad about).
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