La Gente in the Streets

Yesterday was so cool. It was ¨voting day¨. This has a completely different meaning here, as voting is manadory and a lot of times more violent (or exciting) than in the states. There is only one day the people here can vote, and if they don't vote, they have to pay a fine. Completely foreign concept for someone who grew up in the states. Anyways, as you can probably imagine, the streets and public transportation were jam packed with people. Most shops were closed and everyone was out and about. Lauren and I left for house church as usual, and because the dentist had to go vote as well and couldn't open her consultoria to have church, we just had it outside on the sidewalk. This, in fact turned out to be better because more people who were just passing by came and joined in. It was almost a completely new group of people there because the normal people had left to vote.

Anyways, after we finished church, Lauren had the idea to go hang out with the people in the lines and hand out the salvation bracelets that Amy brought (thanks so much, guys!) an give out the little Howdy from Texas cards. That was really cool. I have no idea how many we ended up giving out, but I think maybe like 1,000 sounds about right. I don't really know. But anyways, it was really funny cause we already get enough stares for being gringos, but on top of that, when we are talking in spanish AND handing out brightly colored bracelets AND talking about Jesus...well, you can just imagine...=) So, anyways, we would ask people if they wanted these bracelets, and then they just wouldn't respond, but then most of the time if I just went ahead and explained the bracelet and then told them they could bathe in it and nothing would happen (like water would not affect it), well most of them wanted not only one, but one for their son, daughter...etc. One of the army guys that we talked to I think wanted one for everyone in his family (momma and papa included) ha. It was great.

I will say the one great thing about being white with eye color other than brown is that you don't really have to try to get people's attention to talk to them...they're already looking at you most likely. I am sorry, I really feel like I should be talking more about the actual evangelistic work that we were doing, but I always seem to gravitate toward the funny or awkward things that happen while we are doing the evangelistic things...for instance....Lauren got called over to a truck FULL of army men because one of the army ladies said they wanted to hear about Jesus...as Lauren walked away, she admitted that the real reason was because they wanted to see her eyes because they were blue HAHAHAH =)  What made it funnier is that Lauren heard her say it (guess she didn't realize that?) and we both thought it was pretty funny. Anyways, gotta run. Hope you have a blessed day and I will write more soon. Thank you so much for your thoughts and prayers. 10 days till I come back to the states!