Just another Day in Paraguay

This was the week that Jesus Responde had been preparing for about 2 months for their Festival de Esperanza. This festival ran on Thursday and Friday night and Saturday in the morning and in the evening. The amount of people that came to this festival was amazing, the total number of people that came this weekend was over 55,000 people. The week was full of intense work that was both tedious and long. We spent a good amount of time setting up all these chairs in this mid-sized soccer stadium. Believe me, trying to get this rows straight was a job in itself, it's harder then it looks.
There was good entertainment on the nights. They had a rapper that pumped up the crowd, and also had these two guys rocking on their guitars. I think the main event for these people was the Argentinian singer that made everyone flap their arms like angels, like in "Angels in the Outfield." I got a kick out of that, the crowd loved him for some reason. We were also on crowd control for the last night which was an experience, I definitely heard a couple of those taser guns go off in the crowd when the securtiy was trying to get the crowd to move back to their seats. We were given passes that said "Organizador" which I am sure you know what that translates to. Well, these passes meant that we were supposed to know what we were doing. More importantly to us, it meant that we could go anywhere in the stadium that we wanted. But as Spiderman was once told, "With great power comes great responsibility." So we were supposed to know how to answer people's questions about anything they wondered. We would be lucky to understand and even luckier if we gave an answer in understandable Spanish. I have no doubt that people wondered why there were organizers that didn't speak the language. Just another thing that we found ourselves laughing about. Anyways, our time there was really cool because we got to see a lot of people respond to the gospel at the alter call and pray with pastors.

With two more weeks here our time here in Paraguay is coming to a close. This coming week we'll be taking a little trip to Brazil and Argentina, to see some amazing waterfalls ("Iguazu Falls" which if you saw the new Indiana Jones movie, it is the one that they miraculously survive from 3 plunges over the edge of these falls). On top of this, we may even do some hunting.