Saturday

Grant and Jack slept over at our house Friday night into Saturday!  Two guys per a bed... four gringos on one bunk bed! We helped coach two games  at the stadium in the morning, watched the u20 premier team play their game, then went to Weimar's house for lunch.  This was the first time the four of us have been able to spend an extended period of time together and it was great!  


Weimar took us to his church's Saturday evening service.  Grant and Jack both played guitar with their worship band.  They had no music/notes to follow and practiced for a total of about 15 minutes... but they did well.  The service was two hours long...of very fast spanish, so we didn't understand much. BUT, it was really encouraging and inspiring to see a group of people, gathered in a big garage, with their Bibles on their laps, diving into the Word!  The verse that came to mind was, Matthew 18:20, ¨For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.¨ Many Colombians would consider themseleves Catholic, many don't practice any form of religion, and Evangelical churches are few and far between. But I could see that this group of people (maybe 20 people) were committed to being uncommon in their convictions and  faithful in their relationship with Jesus.  


After church we walked to a local Colombian arepa stand and had arapes and a stick of mystery meat.  We took taxis back to Weimar's house, where we spent about an hour dancing and learning how to salsa and tango! We are having a fiesta here next week when Jarrett leaves and we need to know how to dance like Colombians!  I think a laughed harder tonight than I have in a long time.  We all laughed and danced (and sweated) a lot! It was a very fun time and we are very thankful for the Guzman's hospitality and joyful hearts!