This past week we had a holiday here that is called San Juan or Saint John. Traditionally this is a Catholic holiday where the people take all of there old things like cloths, toys and even furniture and burn them. This is supposed to give them good luck and for the old things that they burn they are supposed to get new things. It has now been outlawed to have fires because of the pollution that it caused but there are still lots of get togethers and cookouts. On Saturday the youth group had an activity where two teams had to see who could make the largest and best sandwich. The good thing is I got to be judge over which was better tasting. 🙂 They had close to 30 there with three or four first time visitors. I was able to preach to them about spiritual maturity and often the lack there of.
Also on Sunday night we had a special activity at church for the holiday. Normally for this holiday everyone eats hotdogs or sausages called chorizo so we had a mini cookout with the chorizo made into a sandwich. After the service part we had games and fellowship that lasted until after 9:00. There were probably 80 that came for the activity and several commented about how it was a great time and that they really enjoyed it.
