Day 37-38: Tacos and Trust

I made tacos! 

for H@ngout...you'd think after the pancake incident, we'd learn, but i did it. They came out pretty decent, because it's very hard to do taco meat wrong. We told all of the students at H@ngout that we were making Texan Tacos...but I think they just qualified as Texan because I made them, you know? They were well received though, so that was very encouraging. 

Matthew shared some good encouragement and good gospel truth with everyone. We had two students come up to him afterwards to ask what it meant to be friends with God or friends with the world. Good. Stuff.

Afterwards, it started pouring rain, because that's what Costa Rica does in the afternoons in June. We went inside the Filosofia y Letras building and ended up hanging out and playing games with students until 5. I think it was one of the best H@ngouts we've had, at least for me. 

That night, we got dinner with the newly-arrived Wright State team. I enjoyed meeting them and hearing about their time in Costa Rica so far. We talked some logistics, I ate some tacos, it was lovely. I got to chat for a while with Alexis last night, and that was quite fun. I really like her, you know. 

Today was CDI and CDI. Both sessions were pretty good, but I was so tired. I just took a 30-minute nap and I'm still tired. I honestly can't tell if the devotionals are landing. I think they are, but with kids this age so much is investing for long-term change and growth. So, it feels like the sowing is done in faith. I was sharing with one of the Wirght State guys, whose name I immediately forgot, that we'll likely never see the fruit of our work here, but I think there's something very "God's Kingdom" about that. We sow and love and bless and pray and preach because God asked us to. He's got the plan and he knows which things matter and which ones don't. I feel like, too often, I choose which things I think matter, but I don't actually know. A prayer could be so much more important than a conversation. A conversation could be so much more important than a sermon. A messy, disorganized sermon might change more lives than a snappy, funny, wise-sounding one. We don't know. All we can do is be faithful and trust God for the results.

Anyway, I'ma probly nap again. 

Prayers Please

-for our team to be faithful to God's call

-for Wright State to integrate well into what's happening here
-for God to lead and guide this church
-for this weekend to be productive and fruitful
-for us to navigate next week well

I have no idea where this balloon came from

Some very spicy UNO

Texan Tacos

Sam taking a swing at cooking taco meat