Weekends in Puerto Rico

Give a bunch of college students some free time and interesting things happen. Give a bunch of Campus Outreach students free time in Puerto Rico, then you go coning. Coning is a difficult art. It requires the ability not to laugh in a hilarious situation, to step completely outside of your comfort zone and to look like a complete idiot, and yet everyone gets a kick out of it. Coning is when you go through the drive thru, normally a McDonalds and order a single ice cream cone. When you drive up to the window to get your ice cream, you grab the ice cream instead of the cone, and drive off. Well after having dinner with one of the local families from the church, our van got the bright idea to do that. So Saturday night, we went coning. Our fearless van driver Joel was the one that performed the hilarious act. We ordered the ice cream cone, everyone was trying not to laugh as we approached the window. The sweet Puerto Rican lady at the window held out the cone and Joel takes his finger, scoops out some and tries it right there. The lady was shocked. Joel tries another little scoop then offers some to the lady as we're dying in the back. Finally Joel attempts to grab the ice cream but the cone falls off unto the ground and we drive up. It was probably one of the funniest moments so far on Project and boy did we have a great time doing it.
Now on a different note, while on Project during the weekend, we get a descent amount of free time, especially Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. One of the big things that we like to do on Project during the free time, is to have one-on-ones with different folks to get to know each other better, hear their testimonies, encourage them at Project and to pray. Over the course of the past week and a half, I've become really close to DK. Well, Sunday lunch before church, him and I went to Subway to have another one-on-one. It was great getting to catch up with him and just talk. It was definitely the most interesting one-on-one I've had yet because in the middle of us eating, all of a sudden in the middle of Condado, there was a gay pride/gay rights parade. It was definitely unusual. But it was great talking with DK again and then getting to head over to La Travesia for church.
Saturday night before our lovely Coning extravaganza, several of the D-groups went and had dinner with a local family from La Travesia.  It was great getting to see Puerto Rican life. Even though it was a missionary family that grew up in PA, they've lived in Puerto Rico for around 7 years now. It was great having Puerto Rican Lasagna which has platanes instead of noodles. Of course, then we went coning haha.
One of the biggest things God has been showing me and that has been awesome is the community that we have here on Project. Growing close to folks, especially our D-groups, hanging out with people that come from different backgrounds, going to lunch and talking about life, struggles, relationship with God. It's pretty awesome how strong community in the body of Christ is especially with such a diverse group of folks we have here.