After spending saturday night and last night with Jenny, there is a complete difference in my breathing. My lungs are still weak, though; I get out of breath easier than usual.
Jenny and I got caught in traffic on our way to church (they closed off the main highway for a race) so we were a little late, so when Florencio prayed I jumped on stage to play bass. Also, Florencio forgot to tell me that the kids from Amilpa were coming to sing at church. Jenny had heard that they might be coming, but I figured that Florencio would have told me if I would be directing a children's choir on sunday morning. Nevertheless, they were there, and I hadn't brought my guitar or the copies of music that the kids were supposed to look off of. The band ended up playing another song while Florencio went back to the house (across the street) to get some more copies, then I borrowed someone else's guitar to lead the kids. I was so confused with everything that was going on. The band was up and down off the stage constantly.
Once that was all over, Jenny and I brought Esther (the daughter of Sarima, from Zapata) to eat lunch at Wendy's then we went to another church service where Jenny leads worship. I don't know the name of the village, but the roads and paths up to the church were so steep up the mountain side that the car wouldn't make it. We parked and had to walk about 1/2 mile uphill to the church. Jenny and Esther sang (my voice it pretty much gone from the sickness) and I ran the computer and sound, which was a lot of fun! I never get to do that. However, the church service was a bit different. I didn't really understand the sermon, but Jenny told me that he basically preached the gospel of prosperity, and that she had been hearing similar sermons for a while at that church. Not only is the prosperity gospel unbiblical, but it is so damaging and discouraging to these poor people. They are being taught that God blesses you with wealth when you are in His will; therefore they must be doing something wrong and living outside of his will since they are still poor. There were also some people "slain in the spirit", which didn't scare me, but I just didn't see the point of it and didn't agree with it.
Afterwards we went to a Christmas Concert put on by the youth of a church near Jenny's house, then she dropped me off at her house to fix some soup while she took Esther back to Zapata.
The next celebration is tonight, in Zapata I think, so we'll go to that and I'll have to talk to Florencio about staying with Jenny for the rest of my time here. Hopefully I'll still be able to go to most of the celebrations, but it depends on if they can pick me up at Jenny's house. It will be really out of the way since she lives on the other side of town; hopefully it will all work out.
Jenny and I got caught in traffic on our way to church (they closed off the main highway for a race) so we were a little late, so when Florencio prayed I jumped on stage to play bass. Also, Florencio forgot to tell me that the kids from Amilpa were coming to sing at church. Jenny had heard that they might be coming, but I figured that Florencio would have told me if I would be directing a children's choir on sunday morning. Nevertheless, they were there, and I hadn't brought my guitar or the copies of music that the kids were supposed to look off of. The band ended up playing another song while Florencio went back to the house (across the street) to get some more copies, then I borrowed someone else's guitar to lead the kids. I was so confused with everything that was going on. The band was up and down off the stage constantly.
Once that was all over, Jenny and I brought Esther (the daughter of Sarima, from Zapata) to eat lunch at Wendy's then we went to another church service where Jenny leads worship. I don't know the name of the village, but the roads and paths up to the church were so steep up the mountain side that the car wouldn't make it. We parked and had to walk about 1/2 mile uphill to the church. Jenny and Esther sang (my voice it pretty much gone from the sickness) and I ran the computer and sound, which was a lot of fun! I never get to do that. However, the church service was a bit different. I didn't really understand the sermon, but Jenny told me that he basically preached the gospel of prosperity, and that she had been hearing similar sermons for a while at that church. Not only is the prosperity gospel unbiblical, but it is so damaging and discouraging to these poor people. They are being taught that God blesses you with wealth when you are in His will; therefore they must be doing something wrong and living outside of his will since they are still poor. There were also some people "slain in the spirit", which didn't scare me, but I just didn't see the point of it and didn't agree with it.
Afterwards we went to a Christmas Concert put on by the youth of a church near Jenny's house, then she dropped me off at her house to fix some soup while she took Esther back to Zapata.The next celebration is tonight, in Zapata I think, so we'll go to that and I'll have to talk to Florencio about staying with Jenny for the rest of my time here. Hopefully I'll still be able to go to most of the celebrations, but it depends on if they can pick me up at Jenny's house. It will be really out of the way since she lives on the other side of town; hopefully it will all work out.
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