Well, the youth team pulled up about 15 minutes ago, so I really need to head back to the house to meet all of them, but I wanted to give you a quick update about last night.
We had an English lesson with Armondo at 6pm. Kelsey, Emily, Jeremy S. and I went. Kelsey told the story of the fall of man at the beginning. She told it in Spanish and then Emily and Armondo read through it in English. It went a lot better than the other time we storied with him. We did it at the end of the lesson and he just wanted to see the English. So, we are glad to have figured that out. And it gives me time to copy his lessons in his book. Kelsey left early so she could go with Jeremy L. to our first community storying session.
When the English lesson was over around 7:05 Jeremy S., Emily and I headed back to the plaza. Jeremy went over to the government building to join the community storying session and Emily and I went back to the house to meet Alison to go story with Sophia. While we were at the house waiting for 7:30 to come, there was a knock on the door. It was Jeremy S. saying that no one had showed up for the community storying. We were all disappointed and felt bad after we had gone around town and invited so many people and so many people seemed interested. We knew they might have just acted interested, but we didn´t expect no one to show up. But it was 7:20 by this point and not a soul was there. Jeremy L. and Kelsey were going to stay though and just be sure no one showed up. So, the rest of us lamented the failure and then us three girls went to story with Sophia.
Sophia´s husband, once again, was not there, but one of her friends was. So, we just talked with them for a while and then Alison told the story to the two ladies and Emily translated. The ladies liked to talk some during the story, especially to express shock over how old Noah was when the flood came (600 years old) and they tried to figure out how many month they were in the ark (150 days). The first comments got us discussing the average life span in the US and Peru. I told them my great grandmother lived to be 104. They said that was really old. Anyway, so we got through the story and talked a little about it. When Emily gave them the hook about the story for next time and asked when they wanted to hear the next one, Sophia´s friend said ¨mañana¨ (tomorrow). But we eventually decided on Friday, because they weren´t free sooner than that. The next story is my story, so I´m kind of nervous, but they are good to story with and others are learning that story as well.
Whew, so much still to tell and I should be back at the house already! Real quick:
So, we girls came back to the house and Jeremy and Kelsey still weren´t back, so we figured one or two people much have showed up. We ate snacks in the kitchen for a while and then headed up to the top floor to turn on the heater and get warm. Kelsey came running up a few minutes later and told us they had 18 people show up! They almost ran out of chairs in the room! The man at the internet cabina showed up, so did the two nurses from the clinic, a few kids and other people we didn´t really know. They told the story 4 times and had them repeat it 4 times because new people just kept coming in. At one point a little boy stood up and repeated the whole story for the group. We were all so excited. We never expected that kind of turnout, especially when no one was there 20 minutes after it was supposed to start. So, we were all really encouraged and just spent time praying and thanking God for what he did. I think last night was the push we needed to stay motivated and see that God really is working here. So, pray everyone comes back tonight and more people come and we fill up the room to overflowing every night! And pray that the message actually sinks into their heart and the town of Conima is changed.
Alright, off to meet the youth team! Thank you so much for your prayers!
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