Life In The Slow(er) Lane
Last Sunday my last trip ended, and I arrived back into town. The last couple months have been busy, with one trip after another. It's been so busy I haven't had time to do what I really came to do here, which is love the people here and share with them. I'm not saying the last couple months have been bad, they've been great, but I missed my normal routine. Last week, I was finally able to get back into that.
Last week I was completely free, so I spent time with friends in my city. I got to meet with an old friend of mine, and we had a really good conversation talking about God and sin and hell. He actually explained parts of the gospel pretty clearly to me, which was really encouraging. I've been sharing with him for over a year now, maybe it's now sinking in.
I also met a new friend last week who invited me to a "culture house." I was excited, he said it's just a place where he and his friends get together and hang out and stuff. I told him I'd love to come, and we made plans. I asked another local friend about culture houses, and he told me 90% of them were Communist houses. Whoops. I still went, and to make a long story short, me and 12 other young single people sat around and talked about the cinema for an hour or so. Politics never came up. It was weird.
Aside from that, I went to a play with a guy. It was one of those post-modern plays, I didn't like it very much to be honest. I also found a friend that likes running, and we had some good conversations while running up hills. I've started running a lot again, there's a half-marathon in March I'd like to run. My friend wants to run in it as well, so I'm hoping for more good conversations while we train.
Last week was a good week. I finally got back to speaking the local language and hanging out with the local people like I wanted to. Tonight I'm watching the movie "Rudy" and tomorrow I'm heading back out to see where God leads me.
