Pants and Pinatas

Last night I met with Marcela. Her english is very broken, but with her english and my spanish we are making our way through the beginner book together. At our first meeting she found out I was a Christian and that the lessons would be from the Bible and she got very excited. She said she wants to learn more about the Bible and about being a Christian for her and for her son. Last night we were working on phrases like "how many sisters do you have?" and "I have two sisters." When I asked her how many cats she had, she said none, so I told her to ask me. She said "how many pants do you have? Pants?! I said? Not pants...Cats! I'm not telling you how many pants I have, but I do have one cat. We both laughed for a long time about that. Before she left she said she had been reading the Bible with her Dentist and that he was a Christian too. I'm going to see if she and her son would like to join Sean's small group. Lacy has already invited several of her readers to come to small group. The members of the church here are fantastic and I know whoever comes will feel welcomed by them.

When we were hanging up posters ftoday or the VBS, I ducked to avoid some balloons on the sidewalk and accidentally knocked over a huge pinata. It was a gigantic sloth like the one from "Ice Age" and it ended up on my back with me carrying it around trying not to drop it. I told the store owner I was sorry and she just laughed at me and showed me where I could rehang it. While we were hanging up posters a lady and her son walked up and thanked us for helping with the VBS. We have no idea how many people to expect, but the reaction has been great so far.

The picture above is of another reader. He is also very excited about learning english and reading the Bible. So much so that he studied before he came and memorized the entire lesson! He recited Luke 2:1-7 with the book closed. He is a very happy man and wants to learn as much as possible. He skipped instead of walked to class the other day. :)

Tomorrow we go back to Cuernavaca to meet with some other missionaries and work on our spanish some more with a personal instructor for the day. Pray for receptive brains...and energy!

Until next week,

Jeff