Found... and Lost...

Last night we showed the jesus film to the kids that we did the vbs
for yesterday morning. we arrived a little early to pass out flyers to
people before the movie started while other setup the screen and
projector and dvd player in the open air square they call the
esplanada. almost everyone that we talked to sounded excited and like
that wanted to come watch the movie. once we headed back to the
esplanada to start the movie, there was a large thunderstorm
threatening to come rain out the movie showing. several of us prayed
that god would hold of the storm until the movie was over, trusting
that is was his will to show the movie to these people. we started the
movie and some of us kept praying. during the movie there was
lightening flashing all around us in 3 directions, but we could not
hear thunder or feel any rain. when the movie was almost over, a few
drops started to fall, so the leaders stopped the movie before all of
the mexicans could run off (they don´t like rain). Santiago, the guy
in charge of the jesus film project here, summarized the end of the
movie over the microphone and then talked more intimately with a group
of older mexicans. later i heard that about 15 of them prayed with him
to accept jesus as their lord. during this same time barry and i were
talking to a few teenage girls and went through the 4 spritual laws
with them, but they seemed already know all that stuff. it was truly a
miracle that the film didnt get totally rained out and so many people
came to believe.

this morning we went to two different local churches. brian preached
at one of them. i went to the one brian wasn´t at and listened to a
sermon in spanish. we also sang songs in spanish. i met lots of
wonderful people there including Israel, who did a lot of translating
for me. during the sermon, alex, the youth minister, asked me to come
upstairs with him and teach the kids how to ask questions in english
and help them with their pronunciation. there were a lot of kids, but
it was a lot of fun. after that he went and got trent and brett to
come up and have his kids practice asking them questions in english.
(they dont speak any spanish). it was a great church with only 60
people. it was called Familia Fuerte.

the current drama right now is that i cant find my atm card and all of
the teams finances are in my bank account! i pray that god will bring
me through this...

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Jason
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