Today was the first full day we spent here in San Jose, Costa Rica. We started at 9 am where we walked to the house where the Campus Crusade is located. We met the leaders of CCC Costa Rica and had an orientation to how we were to go about and share with the students at the University of Costa Rica. We than took time to pray and do so some spiritual training. It was about noon when we started walking to the university. We ate lunch at the cafeteria. The food was great! We than broke off into groups and did a prayer walk. We were led by a staff member of Crusades around the campus praying for different people they knew in each college. The campus is beautiful! Lots of trees, steams, and color! After the prayer walk, our group split into pairs to go and share. This was difficult because of the obvious language barrier. We were instructed to introduce ourselves and ask if they spoke english. Costa Ricans or Ticos(as) are very friendly and they are very welcoming to people and conversation. I was paired with Chance Requa. The two of us prayed and made our way to find someone to talk to. The first person we found was a guy named Marco. He was a freshman at the school studying agricultural engineer. He was a catholic who believed God was good. It was about this time that he had to run off to class. Chance and I continued on and found two guys eating lunch. There names were Jose and Christopher. Both of them were English majors and were more than welcome to speak english with us. We talked to these two guys for about 45 minutes discussing differences between christianity and other religions from around the world. Jose was most engaged because he asked the most questions. He asked questions that I would expect someone who has thought about religion on the past. We shared what we believed with them and they were open to listening but I think both of them were skeptical of christianity. We invited them to a dinner we were doing at the Cru house. Unfortunatley, neither came.

The dinner was a lot of fun. The house was full of Ticos that were part of Crusades and ourselves. We helped make dinner and made some new friends. We broke into groups to share abpout ourselves and what God was doing in our lives. It was exciting to here what Ticos had to say. Most of the people there spoke english but not everyone. Using a translater allowed us to understand but just hearing them talk in spanish about how God a part of their lives was incredible. I had no idea of what they were saying but I could still hear God's voice in it all. Afterwards, we hung out some more just chatting and learning spanish. Everyone is pretty tired so sleep is needed for our trip to an orphanage tomrrow.