Week 39 - Discipleship

This week I started meeting Marcos* to have the discipleship, and though I don't call it like that, this is the first time I have the chance to do something like this; one-on-one. I came out really excited after our first meeting with Mario. I decided I to go over how the Bible is divided and gave him a quick overview of each book of the Bible. We also read some proverbs together, as Marcos seems to have some problems reading on his own. He was amazed to see how the Bible those topics of proverbs which are very practical. We prayed together and agreed to keep meeting once a week for this.

This week I attended a training about entrepreneurship at the Guatemalan Association of Engineers which I am part of. It was good to refresh some of the things I learned in Honduras and to see them from a more professional perspective. I also signed myself in for a once a week course in Finances. I will be doing this once a week during the evening until December. I want to learn more about this concepts which I have found I like and that are essential in any business. This will help me translate some of this concepts too.

It's always great to share with the kids at el Amor de Patricia. Diego and Elsa are two of my good friends there. They always ask me to push them at the swing. This time they were asking me to push them "hard" (duro, in Spanish).

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I also visited another orphanage this week. This one is called Casa Shalom. My sister-in-law has been going to there for a couple of weeks to help out with the little kids. This other orphanage is huge compared to Amor de Patricia. Casa Shalom has about 100 kids! They say they want to have more men to be mentors and a good influence to the kids. I didn't commit to anything yet but since they are building a vocational training program we talked about the possibility to do a business training along this.

*Name has been changed to honor the confidence they have had to meet with me personally and to comply with Guatemalan law of not publishing protected children's name