It's Sunday night and I'm here anticipating waking up super early tomorrow morning to go to practice and do a Team Activity on unity. Yost and I were able to play with the Tec team in a scrimmage game yesterday. We lost. It was the same team that we played against in our first game when we came down 2 years ago... we lost then too. I'm still bitter. ;) It was so much fun to play in an actual game with the team instead of just practice. There's some major division going on however. There are 2 main cliques that just can't seem to get along. This week has been rough for them. They lost Tuesday by 4 to UDLAP, Thursday by 1 to UDLAP, and by 16 yesterday (my incredible number of turnovers probably didn't help the situation.) On Tuesday the coach asked me to sit with them on the bench as his assistant. Before the game he basically gave me the green light to tell him when he's being too negative or out of control and basically tell him what's up if he's going nuts. There have been quite a few of the girls who have told me that they can't perform with the way that he talks to them because he goes crazy, or gives up, or is just super negative. They're also afraid to approach him to tell him any of this. I'm going to talk to him tomorrow (hopefully) to see what he thinks about it. Please be praying.
Yost and I met with one of the basketball girls and she told us about how she had gone to talk to a witch doctor because her dad's secretary had recommended him. He told her things about her past and present that were apparently true and so it freaked her out (naturally). She was worried about her family because he had said that her step mom was going to do something dangerous to her dad and her and her mom were going to get sick (there was much more detail than that but that's the gist). We were able to pray together and look at lots of Scripture that speaks against the work of the Devil and how we already have victory through Jesus' death. We gave her a Bible the next day and she said, "You're going to show me how to use this right?" So now we're meeting with her too!! She considers herself a Christian and a Buddhist (I'm still trying to figure out how the 2 go together). Keep praying for her!
Alice (volleyball), Yost and I have been meeting twice a week and last Friday we had our first Bible study on God's character. We had a really good talk and even started talking about baptism :) She's excited to learn more about God.
Sheri Johnson (one of Abbey's great friends and mentors) came to visit and did a talk for all the teams... well, all the teams were invited. We probably had about 30 which is a good turn out for our first talk. I had to translate (not my greatest skill but still a good experience). She spoke on what she would have liked to have known as an athlete in college (she did track at U of Wyoming). She spoke on how many things that we can control (training, eating right, listening to our coaches, treating people right, etc. will never guarantee a positive outcome. The only guaranteed outcome we have is where we'll spend eternity if we know Christ. John came up and shared the Gospel at the end. It went well I thought. There are a couple girls from the basketball team that are starting to come to Casa Verde (the other college ministry in Puebla) and one is Becky and her roommate that I shared about in my newsletter and another one is Pili, one of the captains that we've been meeting with. Be praying they continue to come and want to know Jesus!!!
This is a long one... hopefully you made it to the end! I hope you're all doing GREAT! Love you all!!
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