Javier & Frederico

While Carol and Heather drove off to Tequisquiapan this morning to meet people who had shown interest last week, I stayed in San Juan Del Rio and worked with Javier, seen in the photo below.

Javier is a medical doctor. He and his wife have an eleven-year-old daughter, Ruby, whom I've already written about. In a commercial area, Javier got into a discussion with a Spanish-speaking man while I simply waited. Two young men behind me were descending a staircase carrying sheets of gyproc salvaged from an abandoned office on the floor above. Soon I heard, "Excuse me, sir!" It was the boss of the two young men needing extra room to get a bigger piece by. Although Mexican, he knew to speak to me in English. Ahhhhh!

The man's name was Frederico and he had worked in the USA for 23 years so I had a golden opportunity to witness in English. I told him I understood he was busy and wasn't going to take a lot of his time. He replied, "To talk about God I have time. I will give you one hour!"

He had been a Catholic, grew to distrust the church and is currently experimenting with the Baptist Church. I thought I'd teach him God's name using the Our Father Prayer as a starting point. He guessed the Father's name as just God, then Jesus. Then he recognized, no, that is the name of God's son. I told him I'd show him God's name in the Bible. He paid close attention to the scripture and got the point. I used the follow-up question I learned from a brother in my congregation, "Isn't it wonderful to *know* this? Now you can use God's name in prayer." I mentioned that if he liked learning this huge truth in just fifteen minutes, imagine what he would learn if we could talk to him for fifteen minutes at other times. He gave us his address and my brother Dan will follow up.