Life in the Tina...

So the last I updated was Wednesday night so I will update from Thursday until Today! On Thursday Britt and I headed to campus around 11:45 to meet up with a girl we met last week, Yanina. She is the sweetest girl we have met so far and we have met up with her a couple of times already. By Thursday we had not had a spiritual conversation with her and for some reason we were having a hard time transitioning the conversation. Thursday afternoon I was supposed to meet with another girl, Ailin, but she ended up having to study because she had some exams in the coming week. Friday, we were on campus by 12 and campus time was very slow. Many students had exams and we didn't run into many english speakers. We either have days where everyone we meets speaks english or we have days when we meet hardly any english speakers. Friday night we had our english club which is a club we put on and invite everybody that we meet on campus to come. This english club was the biggest one the stinters have seen. There were Argentines EVERYWHERE, beginners and non-beginners. In my group there was a guy named Fercundo and after english club we started talking and he started asking me questions about the church. Argentines do not have a good opinion about the church because in the 80's the Dirty War happened, which is when a lot of students and people disappeared and supposedly the church didn't help when this was going on. So I basically just told him that we were not affiliated with the church, but we were more about having a personal relationship with Christ. I had the chance to share my testimony with him and answered a few more of his questions but he just said that he was having fun partying or what-not but he knew that only Christ could satisfy him. So that was an interesting conversation and hopefully we will be able to talk with him some more next week. Friday night we had Vida which is our weekly meeting and we put it on instead of the Argentines. We explained why we were here and one of the Argentine girls, Erica, shared her testimony. Then we taught them how to Shag dance and that was hilarious! Saturday we went back to the children's orphanage and it was a success as was last time we went. Britt and I invited Yanina the girl we met on campus to come and she did and it was awesome to see her interacting with the kids and helping us. We had probably 25-30 kids show up and we played games, told them a Bible story, and fed them a snack. When we got back around 7 we met up with the Buenos Aires team because they were taking a tour of La Plata so it was good to see them! After supper, Britt and I went over to Yanina's apartment because we had asked her if she wanted to get supper and she invited us over. We got there around 9 and she had invited a friend over. We had wanted it to be just Britt, her, and me because we wanted to be able to get into a good conversation but to our surprise we believe God placed her friend there for a reason. After chatting a while, Yanina's friend (who spoke only spanish) asked why we were here. We have been asked that many times and I feel like we beat around the bush because we don't want to scare people off but I told Britt (who speaks spanish) to just flat out be honest and tell her. So she did and our conversation went from there. Yanina and her friend had many questions and Britt and I had the opportunity to share the gospel and I shared my testimony. It was AMAZING! They did not accept Christ last night but they are going to come to church with Britt, the Vida Argentine students, and me tonight so that's exciting. We are going to continue to meet with them and we can't wait to see God continue to work in their lives. So after we left we took a taxi back and we were so excited that we even gave the taxi driver a Knowing God Personally booklet...haha! Today we had our regular church service this morning and then the Argentine's prepared an asado for lunch. An asado is an Argentine BBQ and it was DELICIOUS! It is pretty much an all you can eat meet type of BBQ...it was so good! There was about 50 people who showed up so that was good. Now I am about to take a nap and then get ready to head to church tonight with Yanina and her friend and the Vida students!

If you will, continue to keep our team and our time on campus, our appointments with students, and Yanina and her friend in your prayers!

Alli