Time has flown by so fast since we got here. Funny how it never ceases to surprise me how fast life goes by. You would think I might've gotten used to it by now.
This past week on campus was just real great. It started off kinda rocky though, and most of us had trouble feeling like initiating conversations when we got to our respective campuses on Monday. I kind of think being off campus for a week threw us off a little, but some people definitely felt spiritually attacked and discouraged. Nothing that a little prayer and encouragement can't change! It was definitely an exciting week though. A few more people made decisions for Christ, and also a lot of great conversations and divine appointments. One really cool example is that 2 people from our team talked to 2 girls on campus who said they had heard there was Bible study opportunities on campus and that they were carrying around their Bibles until they ran into somebody who could tell them more about it. Our 2 students were totally thrilled and blown away by that. Definitely not a coincidence. I really don't believe in coincidences though. On the Matias campus 2, the one I've been at, we were talking to students all week about the first Vida Estudiantil weekly meeting on that campus on Thursday. There are already about 10 students from that campus who have gotten involved in leading the movement and helped prepare for the meeting. We were astonished when there were almost 40 new students at our very first meeting for that campus! Praise the Lord for that. Not that we doubted many students would come, but we didn't expect a ton of students to remember us advertising the meeting. Even after the meeting, many students stuck around to talk to us more about VE and were very interested in getting involved with the movement and meeting up with us to talk more. Since we have been launching a new movement on campus 2, our part of the team there has had to work hard and sometimes persevere through brief moments of discouragement. After the meeting on Thursday and more great conversations on Friday, we felt satisfied and that our work had paid off.
Yesterday our team got to go zip lining through and over a beautiful canopy of trees. It was an exhilarating experience, and a few of the runs were a quarter of a mile long and hundreds of feet above the ground. Sometimes I feel like we get kind of spoiled with fun things on this mission trip, but 5 days in a row on campus, although totally rewarding, really is draining physically and emotionally. I'm very thankful to be blessed with weekends of rest and relaxation.
We're about to start our last week on campus, and in the country. We will only be on campus Monday through Thursday. Thursday afternoon the STINT team will arrive, and we expect to get to hang out with them and pass the ministerial torch that night. Friday we will travel to a different location near the ocean for a few days of debriefing before we fly back to LA on Monday.
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