This weekend was just a great one all around and with each passing weekend the realization of leaving sets it and the realization that I am becoming more Poblano (someone from Puebla) by the week. I love my weekends, playing soccer hanging out with the youth group from church and using eating with them or doing something fun Sunday afternoon. The title of this entry in English would be I am Poblano, I carry Mexico and Puebla in my heart and comes from the theme song for the Puebla football team (soccer for those of you that are kinda slow). I always wanted to like Mexican football before but just never really had my heart in it. I always say that picking who you root for in sports is like women you can't really help who you fall for, you can't force yourself to like someone and once your heart is invested its hard to ignore a team. For the first time recently I have really been loving Mexican football and following the team in Puebla very closely. This weekend they won a really important game to avoid getting relegated or moving down to the second division here in Mexico, it would be the equivalent of the Orioles needing to win to not go down to the minor leagues, its a huge deal, even bigger than winning a championship in some sense and it was just really cool to be part of the celebration after they won. I listened to this game on the radio as I went with a few people from church to eat "breakfast" as about noon and just really enjoyed a good time with them before going home and going to a Birthday party for four different people that all share the same birthday including Robson (brasilian missionary) and his son. It was fun to be there, get to know some other people and also to see my family that I stayed with when I first moved to Puebla.
After the party I went with some of the youth from my church and from another church here in Puebla just to get coffee or whatever and talk. There I probably had one of the best conversations I have ever had in my entire year here in Puebla about what it looks like to be middle class and Christian and while being in disagreement with the majority who basically said that its good that the rich reach the rich and the poor reach the poor and just to look at the church like a business. We just talked for hours about Jesus and what it looks like to follow him as middle class people, our call to be countercultural and not just submit to the society we live in. It was really an amazing conversation that really woke up my soul as well and just kinda made me remember why I believe again. Much love to all and God bless, here's some pictures from yesterday.
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