A Great End to Week 1

Thursday and Friday we went back to the campuses that we visited Monday and Tuesday. On Thursday, my (Michelle) group went to a school for medical students. This campus is very spiritually dead. In the two days that we spent there we didn´t find a single believer. When we visited the first time, I had the opportunity to be a part of leading a girl named Eveline to the Lord. She began a relationship with Him that Monday, so we got to meet up with her again on Thursday, which was neat. We also talked with a soccer player for the school named Omar. He seemed very interested, but didn´t make a commitment to the Lord that day. We later found out that his girlfriend had been talking with other people in our group...we´re praying that the Lord will use those conversations in both of their lives. What a difference the two of them could make on their campus!

Friday was the best day yet! The first few days we had Crusade staff people walk around with us to model conversations and to help us out with our Spanish. They decided we should start having conversations on our own that day since we will pretty much be on our own once we leave Mexico City. Jared and I walked around together. This was a little bit scary since I can´t speak any Spanish and Jared is limited in his Spanish speaking. The second guy that we approached, Marcos, was sitting by himself reading. We started talking with him and found out that he was already a believer. [It turns out he was reading his Bible, but we didn´t even notice that initially:) ] Marcos explained to us that he was involved with a local church and wants to reach out to the students on his campus. He already goes around with some friends each week evangelizing. This was so encouraging! He had a couple of his friends come talk with us as well who are a part of his church group. They were really excited about starting a movement on their campus.

That afternoon we talked to a couple more people who made decisions to accept Christ into their lives, so now we can connect them with Marcos and his friends! This is exactly what we pray for, for each of the campuses.

Saturday morning we went to the pyramids to do some sightseeing. That was a great experience. We climbed a lot of stairs! Once you make it to the top, the view is amazing! You can see a lot of the city and the other pyramids. It was pretty warm, a lot of people got sunburned, and we were all exhausted when we left.

Today we went to church, we split into two groups. Our group traveled two hours to get there. The service was two hours long and then we traveled two hours back. It made for a long day, but it was well worth it. I couldn´t understand most of the sermon, but the worship music was great. The worship leader was a native who jammed out the whole time. He swung his hips around, bopped his head, and really sang from his soul. It was fun to see him sing with so much passion. We talked to him later (he spoke English, which was refreshing!), he said that he is in a band here in Mexico.

This evening the Crusdae staff members had us over for dinner. It was our first homecooked meal for over a week, and it was wonderful! It was a great to bond with our team and the staff outside of ministry. Afterwards, they took us a few blocks away to get ice cream. This area is the nicer part of Mexico City...we called it the Beverly Hills of Mexico City.

Thanks for your prayers! We´re having a wonderful time here, we´ve all grown a lot and are looking forward to the next six weeks!!