One of the many, many amazing things about God is he likes to catch you off guard and give you awesome surprises and gifts. Today, we just got done with practice and were walking up this staircase that I swear is a mile long, when we saw John, our team leader. We stopped to talk with him when 2 other guys came up. John knew one of them because he works in the Athletic Dept. at Tec. The other guy was a reporter from "Sol de Puebla," one of the most well known newspapers in the city. He was talking to us for a while asking about what we do when he ripped out his recorder (no, not the instrument, although that would've been awesome) to interview John. He talked about the teams that we're working with, how we're trying to help them physically, mentally, emotionally, and above all, spiritually. The reporter was really interested and was asking how to get more information. He was asking if he could take pictures of us when his photographer got there in a while. No later than he could finish that sentence did his photographer roll up on his motorcycle. Here comes the best part... but first to give you a little visual. Yost and I had just finished practice so you can imagine how good we looked. I had a Wa-Hi sweatshirt on sporting Devil while we just told them how we're telling the people we're working with about Jesus, and we're thinking by his "taking pictures" he meant 1 maybe 2 pictures of the 3 of us.
We go back down the mile long staircase to the courts when he asks us to grab a basketball. Yost gets one and starts posing like a mad woman! She's doing every kind of high school basketball pose combined with senior picture style and they're just LOVING it! He must have taken 10 pictures of her and she just looked fantastic. Next it was my turn (after I changed my sweatshirt) and to us the word "awkward" to describe me in front of a camera would be the understatement of the century! But alas, he still took about 10 pictures of me too. Then John's turn, after they went to grab the baseball gear since he's a baseball player. We can't take pictures to represent Athletes in Action without props from each of our sports. Then came the group photoshoot. Think of any senior picture pose you can, and we did it.
This article, with pictures, will be posted in the newspaper either Wednesday or Thursday so the whole world/those who read "Sol de Puebla" in the city, will get the pleasure of seeing the pictures. I'll get a hold of 1 or 20 so that I can try and scan and email them out.
How amazing is that though?? God just spread the word about Athletes in Action, and ultimately about Him, to a giant newspaper company!! I didn't wake up this morning looking for a sweet photoshoot looking like a scrub but we went with it anyway :)
Switching subjects... we had 3 basketball girls and 1 soccer girl over for dinner last night and it went really well. We're going to make Sunday our dinner with our girls night every week! I'm really excited! I don't think I could ask for a better job :)
I hope you're all doing amazingly! Love you and am praying for you!
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