Oh my goodness, thinking today at how horrible it is that I haven't updated you guys! I'm sorry!!!! Things are going pretty good, the first week of the school is over! Thank the Lord! 100 people are in my back pocket for feeding, it's pretty easy just another pot or that's my thinking. Other people stress about it and I just go with the flow of what needs to be done instead of thinking about it just do it! One of the backpacker girls stayed on, for this past week as well so we bunked up in my room which really made me miss a roommate. It was so great having her. We dropped her off at the airport this morning at 4:30 we left and she had trouble with her flight issues so we didn't get back until 7am. I slept for 2 hours then got up and started working. Thankfully everyone was in Christchurch today helping with clean up so it was like a ghost town around here, which not gonna lie was so nice! Isaac leaves tomorrow which is sad because I feel like I'm loosing my little bro but I wish him the best and I know we will stay in contact. That's the key eh, just to stay in contact with everyone sure people come and go but you have to keep that line of communication open no matter how busy you are!
Starting next week I will be alone in the kitchen which will be interesting but it will be good. A good chance to grow and be stretched. It was like Christmas day today because I received my glass cups for the dining room and my coffee cups and my shiny new spatulas! Then the best present of them all.... wait for it.... my new GAS oven!!!! I now have 3 huge ovens!! I'm so stoked! A few days ago I had to bake birthday cakes in the staff apartments because I ran out of room in my kitchen! I told them that if this is how it's gonna be, we might as well fast the rest of the time I'm here. That got them on the ball of getting a new oven!!! It's amazing and all coming together. When I walk in my kitchen now I feel like it's a control panel because of how it's lined up ready to go!
The students on these three schools are amazing so far. Usually before a school I like to pray for those students that I should get to know the best or the ones that I can pour into and encourage the best. So far God has put 5 students on my heart and boy oh boy let me tell you he sure delivers. The 5 that I got are the ones that have come up to me this past week which I thought was real interesting. I love them all though. Especially with so many girls it is a great opportunity to pour into them and to be the example of how God uses women in certain situations. I'm super psyched for what this season holds.
I live in the South Pacific and it really does feel like home. There is just something about New Zealand and how it feels so right. It's beautiful in every aspect. It's weird when you get in that mindset of where you are, like when I'm home I can just pop to Chicago, but when I'm here I can just pop to Australia. It's funny but so awesome! When you spread your wings and fly, there are no limits on how far you can go! God has no limits which is amazing. I was thinking and questioning why New Zealand you know? Why not the states or Canada? I know I shouldn't question God but he answers so why not... What I got was that you know, I just need to stand on my own two feet and not be dependent on my parents, or my old job, my friends, my surroundings but to be taken out and for God to make me rely on him. God didn't choose me because I'm strong but because I'm weak. I have been dwelling on this the past week, really digging in and seeking it out. It blows my mind, then I thought of the people in the bible and I'll use David as an example that he was the smallest and didn't have a great appearance but God chose him. David was a man after God's own heart because he was weak and humble. I wrote the word weak on my hand everyday just to remind myself that God chose me because I'm weak and therefore wants me to rely on his strength. I am strong through him but I'm nothing without him. He is the one that stands beside me in the kitchen giving me the strength to get through each day and each meal. Sometimes we need that reality check to keep us in line and to keep us humble. So just have a think about that and let me know what you think.
In April I am taking a long weekend and going to the North Island with my friend Scott. We are visiting some good friends of ours that we haven't seen in months! I am super excited to see them and cannot wait for a break. The norwester has been in, that means high warm winds from the north. When we get southerlys they are cold and rainy. Weird but I'm used to it!
The title of this blog comes from a song by Brooke Fraser called Something in the Water. Thinking this week as well as being weak, what demeanor do I give off. I would hope it's one of love and joy which it is in most areas of my life. Have you ever thought of that? Courage is another strong one too, I love seeing courageous people, they inspire me to be bold and step out more! Like watching snowboarding movies, they just charge me and energize me because they have such a passion for what they do and they love it, they love everyone and accept everyone for who they are. I have acquired the snowboarder steeze (mentality) along with some backpackerness left in me it is more snowboarder that I give off. Which that is who I really am so that's good that I show my true colors!
Thank you for your continued prayers about the earthquake, if you are looking for a way to help I would suggest donating to the earthquake funds. There are a lot of victims this time and it's not over yet, they predicted another one soon to come. Who knows what God is going to do. Hopefully something amazing, actually it will be amazing you can count on that! Anyway friends, I am going to bed and sleeping in! Praise the Lord!!!!
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