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Servicio this morning with Brother Jorge and jadiel (as a threesome), it was good fun. I think I understood a lot more spanish this morning, at least it is certainly easier to to ask questions and reply, also to ask how to say something in spanish… Como se dice en espanol? How do you say in spanish?.

… a teaching of the church and not of the bible …

I met a man in the field today who is american and has lived in Puerto Escondido for the last twelve years, he now works here as a missionary from the Four Squares Christian Faith?. Anyhow we intially talked on general terms eg… Australia and surfing since this was the was one of the reasons he moved to Puerto Escondido in the first place. He however is a staunch Trinitarian, so I tried my best to reason with him… and at the same time I was trying to recall all the points in the latest awake magazine article “Is Jesus Christ God?”. I didn’t get anywhere with him but I did say I would bring back the article so we could discuss some points from it. I raced home and reread that article word for word and scripture for scripture… how could you possibly believe in the trinity? a man made doctrine? a teaching of the church and not of the bible!! Anyway at least my mind is made over.

… also inviting two young sisters …

As a gesture of our appreciation for all the kindness that Brother Jorge and his wife have shown us over the past four weeks we invited them out for dinner at our expense. Brother Jorge however took the liberty of also inviting two young sisters from the local congregation (Margali and Gabriella) to the dinner as well… hmmm he is rather forward about it all and I wasn’t particularly impressed.

Donde esta la Olas?

The surf has been no good the couple of days, not even in the mornings. I don’t know whats up with it, the surf is just like a washing machine with rips and strong currants going in every which direction. There isn’t even a surfable peak to be seen on any stretch of the beach. But that’s ok… I’ve had some time on my hands to do more on the spanish language front.

… stayed up late laughing and joking …

Forrest and his brother Sam and also another brother from hawaii called Casidy arrived late in the afternoon. It was such a joy to just have a few more english voices to listen to… it’s amazing the relief you feel when you can understand entire conversations. We had fun and stayed up late laughing and joking, the guys showed us a new game called “greed” using 6 dices. It’s a great game and moves quickly, the game is totally chance and so you can’t cheat the score.