Day 18 - Foot in mouth

Nothing crazy today. Oh! I remembered a funny story from earlier.

The other day at the CDI, when my brain was Spanish mush, I was playing go fish with Andres and Axel. Go fish in Spanish is vete a pescar, obviously. So, we try to encourage the kids to play in English some to get some practice in. Initially I'd say everything in Spanish except the numbers, but now they're pretty comfortable with those, so I switched and was saying things like, "do you have any diez?" to get them used to the English "do you have." Double verbs or verb phrases or whatever are tricky, especially when it's split like a question. "Have" makes sense, but people don't usually say, "Have you any ____?" So, things like "can you do ___" or "do you have____" or "will you go ____" are really weird. 

Anyway, one of the kids asked me for a card and I said, "vete a pecar" instead of "vete a pescar," so that was pretty funny. Hopefully it doesn't actually influence them, lol. 

So, today we got up and had a brief worship time as a team. I worry a bit that I take the team for granted a little too much and am not doing enough to make sure we're all cared for. I don't really know how to handle that, especially since I'm trying to grow in my boundary-setting abilities and not trying to be the one to take care of people. But, there's a big difference between trying to solve everyone's problems for them and creating spaces for people to be cared for and direct their hearts towards God.

We went to get breakfast with Matthew's uncle's fiancée, which was fun. Then, we walked towards Esther's apartment, but I bailed and headed home. The original plan was to run in the park, but I didn't have enough time before my 2 PM zoom call with the other gringo team that's coming. 

I got home at 1:48 and talked with Joshua Ortega from Wright State for a while. He and his family are in Jacó right now, getting ready for their team to arrive. They're doing some kind of beach-ministry-outreach-gospel-surfing thing (it sounds very powerful) for two weeks, then 5 of their team (and two kids) are coming to San José to work with Lagos y la iglesia aqui. They'll be here our last week (June 20) and help out some on campus and some at the CDI. Their vibe and philosophy of partnership are different than ours, but they also have some of the same passions in ways that are very exciting. I'm very curious to see how it all shakes out and how God uses them.

After talking to them, I was free for the next few hours, so it was the perfect opportunity to go for that run I didn't get this morning! 

.......or the perfect opportunity to accidentally nap for 2.5 hours on the couch. 

By the time I woke up, it was almost time to get ready for church. I got to talk to Alexis a little on the phone, then we headed to the CDI for church. I think church was good, but I was too nervous the whole time to really pay attention. Lagos asked me to teach next week at church and it makes me really nervous in so many ways. Yikes. 

After church, we got Chinese food and I ate chicken feet. So, that was an adventure. Turns out chicken feet have bones in them, so don't put a whole foot in your mouth. That'd be a silly mistake. 

PRAYERS PLEASE!

-for scheduling stuff to work out

-for our time hanging out with students tomorrow morning

-for good rest and rhythms for our team

-for God to guide and be near to us

-for the Wright State team's ministry to be blessed

-for me to prep well for next Friday

-for God to be glorified

Gomez walked around while preaching today

Can you guess which thing is the fried chicken foot?
(hint: it's the thing that looks exactly like a fried chicken's foot)

So, you get it? I "put my foot in my mouth" when I told children to go sin, but then I ate a chicken foot. That's why it's funny. See, clever title. Ha. Ok. I'm sorry. I'll try not to do it again. Have a nice day.