The Beans of Life - Frijoles De Vida

Hey Friends,
After a morning meeting with our team we took the metro to UNAM to do our routine of looking for those divine appointments on campus with christians in order to encourage them to share their faith, start a bible study, or in other ways build up the christian body on their campus and take those opportunities that they might not have in the future to talk with their friends about Jesus. So, during the train ride i ran into Ivan! Ivan is a picture of the culture here: after a few minutes of chatting he asked for my number and asked if i wanted to go to hang out with his girlfriend and him for lunch and just hang out. He was so kind and we became friends instantly, he and his girl friend valerie both are catholics (she seems to be the spiritual one in the relationship, however, they both agree that what my team is doing here is great). if you are able friends, please pray for opportunities to speak truth to them! it seems that Valerie knows Jesus but i am not sure about Ivan (he is definitely nice though). Pray for grace and love to surround my words as we become closer friends!


Also, i went to the post office today. On the way back we took a taxi which was driven by Abel, a friendly 40-something guy with a wife and 2 kids (19yr old son, and 15 yr old daughter). I felt instantly like asking if he wanted to go to church! Abel was at first pretty stand-offish but after we talked for longer he could see i wasn't interested in converting him to my institution. After a few minutes i asked if i could give him my number so that if he wanted to go to church sometime i would love to take him to my church, to which he said "claro que si!" (of course). It was sad and enlightening after this to see his response after thinking about my offer..." Pero, soy pobre y no tengo dinero" (I am poor and dont have money). My response to him was that Jesus didn't ask for money and neither should anyone else because the gospel is gratis... "free". He was excited at this and seemed very open to calling me for church. Keep Abel in and his family in your prayers!