Fun Times

Hey everyone. It is now four weeks and it only feels like I’ve been here for a few days. It is crazy how fast the time has gone by. It also feels like I’ve been here for months because of how close I have gotten with everyone, Especially this past week. There are some amazing people here and I’m so glad that God has brought us all together. Everything has been amazing and has far exceeded my previous expectations of New Zealand and DTS before I had gotten here. I have also been a lot busier than I had though that I was going to be. I had thought that there was going to be more free time but we do a lot of hard work and it seems that the work never ends. My duties that I have to do just about every day is cleaning bathrooms. It is really easy so I don’t mind that I have to do it. I usually have to clean dishes about once a week and that isn’t too bad.

And as a forewarning: in case you don’t see many blog posts it might be because they just put in a new internet system and now we have to pay for the internet that we use ourselves and it costs a lot, but I will try my best to update it as much as I can. Also time really flies here, its all going by so fast that I don’t really get many chances to take some time and write a blog for you. God has been teaching me so much here and I’ve learned so much already. I can’t wait for the rest of this trip and I am so excited that we are going to India. Me and the rest of my DTS are going to India for our outreach and since I’ve heard so much about India and the need for people to go there I am excited that we get to go there.

This past week we went on one of the adventures that are part of the DTS and so we climbed Mount Manaia which is near Whangerei [pronounced fun-ga-ray]. It was a really fantastic view from the top. There are some pictures that I took on the way up and at the top at the end of this post and there are also some pictures of the beach that we went to which was called Ocean Beach. How original, I know. But it was a beautiful beach and I am glad that we were able to go to the beach, even if it was only for a little while. I wish we could’ve spent more time there then we were able to. This week the topic was the Father Heart of God and it has been really interesting. I love our lecture time when we can learn more about God from the amazing speakers that we have like this weeks speaker, Frank Naea. Anyways thats pretty much what has been going on so far. Here are the pictures:

Mount Manaia:

Ocean Beach:

PIctures!

Here are some pictures of some of the stuff that I've been doing, where I am, and where I've been.

             

Hey everyone!

First off I would like to say sorry that I haven’t been able to post this sooner. The internet here is different than at home, here you pay for megabytes instead of the speed and apparently having fifteen people using the internet and uploading pictures really eats through the megabytes, who knew? Anyways, I arrived in New Zealand on Saturday, which was actually Friday back in the states. The plane ride here was about twelve hours long and I didn’t really sleep, I was pretty nervous actually, but I don’t know if it was because of that or not that I wasn’t able to sleep. When I arrived at around four in the morning I sat down and waited, my ride wasn’t coming until two in the afternoon. Thankfully I didn’t have to wait the entire time by myself, I ended up meeting about half of the people that were going to Oak Ridge with me by the time I was half way done with the waiting for our ride. There are so many Canadians on my DTS that it’s kinda crazy, eh? Eh is just about every other word that I hear, not kidding at all. But it’s not too bad eh?

So the past few days here on the base have been amazing. Each one has been very different but different in a good way. I will try to explain as much as I can about them but I don’t know how well that is actually going to work out. The second day here everyone went to a beautiful waterfall and we were able to jump off of it into some freezing water, it was so much fun and that was only the second day, I have so many more to go. I will be putting up pictures as soon as I can but because of the internet I'm not sure on how soon that will be. There's so much that God is doing here, it is amazing, but I will talk more about that in a later blog post. I basically just wanted to let everyone know that I have had an amazing time here so far and it has only been a few days. I am so excited for this trip and everything that I will be getting to do. I will try to keep you updated about everything that has been going on down here in New Zealand but for now this will have to do so until my next post: goodbye and God bless.