Day 2 of our AAP is complete!
For me, it seemed to go much faster than yesterday, perhaps because I've had a few good converations now, and I feel a little more confident.
Something encouraging happened this morning while we were setting up. I was on setup, and there were several people outside the barrier, talking to the passers-by.
Now, yesterday I talked to two girls about the display who told me they were pro-choice. They brought up the issue of rape. So I agreed with them that rape is a terrible thing. "But," I said, "if we wouldn't give the death penalty to the guilty man, why give it to the innocent chid?" The logic made sense to them, and after some more discussion they left for class, not convinced, but promising to think about what I'd said.
This morning, it poured for about ten minutes, drenching us all, and as I stood there, holding onto a sign that was being secured to keep it from blowing down, I saw my friend Nicole approaching the same girls.
"What do you think about abortion?" she asked, holding out a pamphlet. They turned around and smiled. "Don't worry, we're totally pro-life!"
The day practically flew by, and I must've talked to at least twenty people and handed out dozens more brochures.
Toward the afternoon, a few students set up a protest group across from us, holding hand-drawn signs.
I engaged a young man called Evan as he walked past, who said he was pro-choice. By the end of a forty-five minute discussion, he agreed that they're human, but abortion's ok before about one and a half months.
He was very pleased at the conversation, telling me it gave him a lot to think of, and appreciated what we are doing. Then, he went over to talk to the protestors.
A while later, a girl from our group called Emilia talked to him, and she told me all he could talk about was how illogical and mean the protestors were. He went back to them, skipping his lab class, and tried to talk some sense into them, and one of the guys from our group called Justin went as well, to help him out.
He had a one-on-one with Evan, and managed to move his 'abortion time-frame' down to about a week.
Cause for great rejoicing. Praise God!
We packed up half an hour early and drove all the way to Tampa tonight, a trip that was nearly five hours. Tomorrow, we're going to the University of Southern Florida.
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