decelerating

We have one day left on campus. I can't believe we are so close to being done. On Saturday, the 25th our team will leave for debriefing in Uruguay.
Today we walked home from campus in the thunder and pouring rain knowing we'd only have one more day to do our work here. It's sobering to ask myself if I've used my time well here. There is just so much work to be done in this 14 million person city.
A cool story: Last week Aaron and I decided we'd have one more conversation on campus. Aaron took off before I could even gather my things and approached a guy named Pablo. Pablo was really friendly. We talked too him for a really long time and started to share the gospel with him. He told us he used to always turn away people who wanted to talk with him about religion, but that he's been more interested and seeking more recently. We explained to him that it is not works that saves him and that our sin is payed for on the Cross through Jesus' perfect sacrifice. He still didn't get it. So we explained it again... and he got it! He said he wanted Jesus to come into his life but he had to think about it more. We arranged  to meet with him again last Friday. So we met with him at Subway and he told us that later that night when we talked to him he had prayed and asked Jesus to be his Lord and Savior. It was awesome! I've never had the chance to be a part of leading someone to Christ before then, and it was such a joyful thing.

Fun: On Monday it was Flag Day, a national holiday. So, the whole team took a bus and visited La Plata. It's a much much smaller town where a lot of people I know who had been on Summer Project in Argentina in the past were based. We went to the plaza at the heart of town, walled in on one side by a massive cathedral. We went inside. It was so massive and quiet and holy feeling. I love cathedrals. This morning I went with three others to the Buenos Aires Zoo. It was a lot of fun and the animals were all really lively (pictures  and a video of the lion cubs wrestling, coming soon).

Today I was writing down the things I have learned in the past six weeks. It was a long list and until I started writing them down I hadn't realized the change.

Please pray for our last day on campus and our last few days in Argentina. Thanks!