Our last full day in Houston!

For updates, we did find that microphone we needed yesterday for our camera. It was a bit more pricey than we thought it would be, but guess what? We had a couple of donations (one being of a mystery source) from back home that pretty much covered the cost! Pretty rad! :D God is good!

We've been pretty surprised by how diverse Houston is. When I think Texas, I don't really think diversity (which has proven to be a misconception on my part), but we've seen people of pretty much every ethnic group imaginable here, which is awesome. Lots of cultures here.

As for what happened today, we started off fairly early and headed over to the church where our friend William works as a worship leader. His pastor was gracious enough to give us an interview, and it was good to meet him. Their church is also very multicultural. It was fascinating; many of the things this pastor was saying about how the church reached out to the community around them synced up exactly with what the pastor from Georgia said who we met a few days back. It just goes to show, however far apart believers are geographically, we have the same Holy Spirit living in us and guiding us.

The middle of the day was filled with mundane duties like washing clothes, but even then God gave us a great opportunity. As we were waiting for our wash, Randy noticed two young dudes who turned out to be Mormon missionaries going door to door in William's community. We used that chance to tell them what our project was about and ask them for an interview. They were super nice about it and more than willing to talk with us, so Randy ran back upstairs to grab our equipment and we got to work.
It was a nice talk! The interview went well and we joked around a bit. At one point we told them we got rejected a lot when asking people for interviews on the street and they said, "Oh yeah, we know how that feels." haha. :P

After all the clothes were done, Randy and I drove over to a Buddhist temple we had spotted on the road yesterday. We had hoped to get some footage their for the documentary, but it was kind of a bust. There was one female monk and a fluffy little dog to greet us (along with a Siamese cat lurking around in the back), but the monk didn't speak much English. She gave us a phone and said "Talk to Mr Tom," even though we had no idea of who he was. The man on the other end of the line told me that the people who lived there were Buddhists, lived at the temple, and followed a vegetarian diet, but he said he didn't know what they believed. haha. We were out of luck there, so we just left.

It's certainly been the most multicultural day thus far, and that is rad. We love seeing all these different points of view. We're ending our day with another meal our friends William and Angela cooked for us, and then setting out tomorrow to get back on the road!

New Mexico bound soon enough!

Love you guys and thanks for all the support!

Love in Christ,
Tim and Randy :)