craziness gospel and trams

God is good. I don’t even really know what happened today, but that God moved in amazing ways that I’m not sure anyone can describe. So we had our full day of 3 outreaches today. After the second one we had supper and then debriefed after supper. It was a great debrief; there was a female student., Mary that really made some emotional leaps and bounds. She was able to bring to the group personal issues that were holding her back this afternoon. After many tears and like 25 minutes, we got through it as a team. I have never seen such a tight nit group so willing to carry each other’s burdens and help each other through whatever they are dealing with. The last outreach was just normal 2x 2’s where you just go out with a partner and go show them Jesus. I went with Meg and Val. Val really wanted to give some socks to a friend that she had made earlier in the week, chris who was homeless. We got there and after seeing he wasn’t there, we prayed right in the spot that we met him in earlier that week. While I was praying that God would show us who we were supposed to minister to…Val slugged me on the shoulder and there was Chris. We were able to give him socks and pray for him, he’s a super cool guy. He is a Christian who has been down on his luck the last few years after he lost his job and wife at the same time. Then we rode up and down the tram between casinos for a while, met some nice people, at one point got stuck on a tram and just got to know everybody, it was a cool experience. What put a capstone on the night for me was meeting our hitchhiking friends Tim and Cory from Reno. They had traveled all the way to Texas and were on their way back to Reno. We had similar taste in music so we talked about that for a while, then I prayed for them. I didn’t feel like I should go yet even though we were running out of time. I asked them what they thought of religion and they said the didn’t really know what they believed. So I layed out the gospel, who was Jesus and why He had to die. He was so receptive. I felt really blessed that I got to share that with them. I have had kinda a rough week of evangelism just because leading weeks its kinda hard for me to talk to people on my own because I am busy ministering to the kids. But this week I had less responsibility being less students, but I feel like I haven’t really taken advantage of that all week. Anyhow, we got back to debrief, by this time it is like midnight. We talk about our experiences, all of a sudden, one of the leaders, Holly, starts laughing hysterically, then laughing right after. She expressed that she didn’t talk to anybody the whole time because she was having a rough time emotionally. She wanted to feel God in a deeper way. She felt like she had been sharing that God was a certain way all week, but hadn’t actually felt Him in that way. We all really admired her courage and vulnerability as a leader to express this doubt that she experienced…not many leaders would do that. Woww….what a great night!!