Sunday, September 17, 2006

Knowing Merida

I just moved to Mérida two weeks ago to begin Vida Estudiantil ministry here.
I´m just knowing the city, it is pretty and quiet. The weather is the thing that I like the most because I´m coming from the hottest city in Venezuela (Maracaibo) and Merida has cool weather, well I really thought I was going to freeze here but it didn´t happen.
At the beginnig I was bored because I didn´t know the city at all and I have no friends to hang out but our team leaders sent us to some mark places in a map, we had to ask everybody to get the places, this crazy adventure helped us to know how to get to some important places and to figure out how Merida´s people is.
Also our team is crazy, imagine Venezuelans speaking english and the and Americans trying spanish, I have been in troubles with bad words a few times, now I can laught about it but before I was really embarrased!!!
Those last weeks we were praying at campus because classes have not started yet, so we made some praying walk to God prepares the way for the semester. And last week we went to share and to ask people their opinion about God and their expeciences too, so I meet Eduvina and we start to ask her about God and she started to talk about all religion she knew about and suddenly said " every people comes to talk to me with a booklet or a bible at that point I thought it was not a good idea to show her the four spiritual laws, so we started to make questions. " If you die now and God ask you why do I have to let you enter in my heaven?" Emily asked ,and she answer that she could come in because everybody is son of GOD, then I asked what about criminals are they children of GOD too? She answered that yes they were but she did not know how it worked for them, so Emily asked again " What is the diference between a son of God and the creation of GOD? Eduvina looked really confused but she finally said " creation can not choose where is it and the children of God can choose" so we add," can we decide be a child of God?"t she did not what to answer and she said that she was confused with that question, with a real desire to take out the bible and clarify the theme we decided to go, and meet her again in our weekly meeting,but suddenly she said "you are very differen because you do not push people to make decisions" With a big smile and thiking we won´t push you but God can do amazing things throught you!!! I said bye.

Please pray for people like Eduvina that God give to them hungry and thirst for him everyday.