Chapter 37- Sube y baja

God is good! Do you wanna know how good He is? Of course you do! I left my iPhone in the van last night. Jay assured me that we would have the same van this morning so I figured I would just get it when it came to pick us up. Well, the driver decided to take it to a carwash. My phone was not there when it came back. I lost my phone in a third world country where anything like that can mean serious money to the people here. Of course, I was upset. Jay and Josue were awesome in talking to Lucas our driver and getting him in contact with the carwash people to see if they had it. Apparently the guy who actually washed the car had gone home but the people there said they would go to his house to see if he had found it. I was not hopeful. My mentality was shifting to "It's just a phone" and surrendering it to God through prayer. There wasn't much I could do about it. I was thinking "Yes, it's a tough loss, but the sacrifice is ultimately worth it for this trip." Meanwhile, we were going to the campus again to have our bible talk which I was mentally working hard to switch my focus. A few minutes after we got to the campus, Lucas gets a call from the carwash saying they found the phone and Lucas volunteered to go and pick it up. I was dumbfounded. That God would encourage me in that way when He didn't really have to and He cares little about material things was so crazy to me. What I realized is what He does care about is ME. And He cares just as much for you too!



So, the bible talk went great! Erick did an awesome lesson about the Ethiopian Eunuch and relating it to being a great student. I met another guy that speaks English and he came. He's a literature major so we connected on that and he's interested in doing more studies. Then the other girl I told you about, the one I couldn't remember her name (it's Aricela) came out and enjoyed herself. She's coming to church on Sunday.



After the bible talk we went to get some deliocioso chocolate covered frozen bananas. The we went to another beautiful restaurant overlooking the city and Jayelle and I found a teeter-totter that we enjoyed for quite some time.Video is below. It was great connecting with her. She is inspiring. The other day when Jay asked her how the sharing went she replied "That wasn't sharing my faith. That was an adventure!" Girl after my own heart.



After that we got went back down the mountain. We all were quite tired so I blame that for what happened next. Diana, one of the girls who works with Julio our tour guide, was asking me in Spanish how I liked El Salvador. What I meant to say is "I love it". What I said was "Te Amo". Most of you probably know, but for the super-gringos, that means "I love you". I will never live it down.



Then it was to go get ice cream and hang out with the singles at the mall where I did bungee acrobatics and was the source of much entertainment inside a giant plastic ball in a pool. I also went to a great coffee place and they made me a latte with a design in the foam. I want to learn to do that. That laughed at me when I said I worked at Starbucks. When I got home, Mario let me hold the snake. That was cool.



Gotta get to bed for another ridiculously full day tomorrow!!