La Esperanza

Today was a great Sabbath! We went to a church today named ¨La Esperanza¨ or ¨The Hope¨. This weekend was a weekend to bring your friends to church, so we brought our neighbor Marta with us. Then, after church she joined us for lunch and Cecilia made Lomo Saltado veggie style! It was so good! This afternoon, Steph and I went to JA at 4pm, the spanish version of AY, and played bible games and enjoyed a good message about the earth not being our permanent home and we have something much better waiting for us. I wish we had been able to go to this church the whole time we have been here. It would have been such a great church family to be a part of and I think we would have gotten to know the community much better. All of them are such great people, and we´ve never left without an invitation for lunch or and invitation to come back for JA. I hope this summer I can start a JA type thing in my church. Some of the games they play include dividing into men verse women and seeing which team knows the most verses by memory, another is where you put a bible on one person´s head and they have to turn the pages to a specified verse with the help of someone standing behind them who can only tell them where to go, but not actually touch the pages. They play a variety of games that involve every age group in the church and it´s an awesome time to fellowship. They close the afternoon service with a short message and then the end of Sabbath is here. Tonight we also played social games. Two of the churches in our area got together tonight to play volleyball and some dancing games and an On the River/On the Bank type of game. For the dancing game the ladies ran around in the center of the circle and then at a certain point during the game you tried to find a partner and then did a little jig and then it was the boys turn to run. It was really funny because half the time Rachel, Steph, and I were without partners because we didn´t understand what we were suppose to be doing. lol. It was a lot of fun hanging out with everyone. I wish I had more time to get to know this church better.
I´m so excited to come home and try it in my church! Hopefully, people decide it´s worth a loss of a nap. lol