Holy Week

Over the last couple weeks I have been getting adjusted to living here and making new friends. I have also been working on a teaching for our Discipleship training week (DTW) which we will be hosting soon. But of all the things to write about I felt like I should write about Good Friday. This week is Holy Week and the Catholics take this really seriously. Last night I experienced hundreds of people walking to the closes cathedral with candles and big floats behind them. These floats were floats of Jesus dying with Mary protecting him. From what I have been told tonight they will do a walk without shoes on to a local place outside the city. Where tomorrow people will whip themselves to show devotion to God. They will even choose to be Crucified. All in devotion to God. I find it so crazy that someone has twisted the gospel so much that men are willing to kill themselves over it. Tonight we are planning on going to hand out bible tracts and Gospel Tracts to hopefully share the gospel with some of the people walking.