December 11th

Today was different from most of our days. We got up and ate breakfast and did devos. We then left to do an evangelical outreach where our team went out and just talked to people about God. We prayed right before we left about this particular outreach and prayed for some specific requests for the time. One of those requests was that we would get to talk to some people who spoke English. I asked Breanna to tell me a bit of what happened. When she got there, the first guy she talked to was a Christian. He helped her learn how to read the Spanish in the little green book. As she was walking around, she handed out a flyer to another man, and he happened to be a pastor. He listened and wanted to get hooked up with the Festival of Life and so, Erik, on the Festival of life team, gave him their number. During this whole time she was giving out flyers. One person she gave a flyer to asked her about something on the flyer. The flyer said that Christianity isn’t about a religion but a relationship and he was really curious as to what that meant. So, they started talking and he was really interested in Christianity. So, Breanna hooked him up with Fermin’s church and she is hoping that he will go and get more involved in the church. She also got to talk to an older gentleman and he was a Christian, and he had his only flyers too. He was 84 years old and became a Christian when he was 20. He told Breanna that he knew that Christ was going to come very soon and that we needed to be prepared. She also got to pray for him. The last person she talked to, Hanna and a couple others got to talk to him. He was from L.A and he was very bitter towards Christians and the church. He was born into the Catholic religion and had seen a lot of hypocritical Christians. They talked to him about faith and how it’s an active process. This particular man was in a wheelchair. He was a counselor who taught people to do good things. He wasn’t as open at the beginning as he was near the end. When we all got home, we ate lunch and then got back on the bus for an outreach in a small town outside of San Salvador. I wasn’t feeling very good, so I didn’t get to go around inviting, but I was told that the houses they went and stopped at were very run down and pieced together with whatever they could find from around. It really broke a lot of hearts to see the condition of the homes. When everyone got back, we started our outreach. We had music and then the dance. The music went really well considering it was partly thrown together because Suzette didn’t get to come with us because she got sick from food poisoning and she was the one who knew the Spanish songs the best. But it seriously went so well. We incorporated a clown skit that we had started at the end of last week, and like, everyone loves the clown skit. It’s so cute and shares how you can’t get to heaven by a ladder, a spring, or wings. The only way you can get to heaven is to have a personal relationship with God. We also did the Sin Chair skit, and it was so funny. Everyone loves Sin Chair because the music is upbeat and the actors really get animated in this play and it opens up the door for a good message/explanation. We then had someone give their testimony and do children’s songs. During the whole outreach, there were a few people in the bus making balloons and becoming deaf because the balloons kept popping. But the three of them continued on and worked at not getting discouraged when the balloons popped and it actually helped the clowns to have three people inside creating the swords and hearts and dogs. It was such a good day.