past couple of weeks!

hey everyone!!
first of all i am sorry that it has been so long since i have updated this blogger!!the past couple of weeks have really just flown by and i lost track of time. two weeks ago we had a youth night where all the families and friends families of the youth of New Life came to church to watch a movie together as a family. we watched Kung fu panda, it was lots of fun. the kids were laughing, the parents were happy to just be able to relax for a little while in the evening. it was nice to be able to sit and enjoy something along side of the teens who i have been getting to be involved with.
two weeks ago was reading break for us, and oh my goodness does it feel like it was a lot longer ago!! that whole week was really good, some of the kaleos went away from camp and got to hang out together while some of us stayed here at Qwanoes. one night we all (those of s who were left) went out for dinner to Boston Pizza, we all had so much fun and then some of us swung by DQ for icecream as desert afterwards...mmmm so good!!
another day during that week i got to take the ferry from Crofton over to Saltsrping island with Deborah, Phil, and Joel. we got up and took the morning ferry over and spent the day walkng around and just having a good time together, we watched some sea planes take off and then we found a realy sweet spot along the water to sit and hang out, we got to chat with some local teenagers who were just hanging out (during school...hmmm) haha, and then we went for some ice cream before heading back home to camp. the ferry ride was a lot of fun and phil took quite a few videos on his camera which have gone up onto facebook already.
one other night during that week deborah gave phil and i each a facial with some face cream that she had left over. when that sutff dries your face gets all hard and stiff and you cant move it, its a pretty cool sensation. after we sat with dry white stuff all over our faces for a while we washed it off (skin was so smooth!!) and then we made some nanaimo bars!! that was fun as well, plus they tasted really good. and we shared those with whoever wanted some.

those are some of the highlights of reading break week for me. and now for the udates from last week!!

last week was our 24/7 week of prayer and about as much as i can say to sum it up would be to say that it was simply incredible!! each of us signed up for at least one hour each day where we would go up into one of the empty rooms to spend an hour in prayer either on our own or with one other person. we set up a wooden cross in the room where people could write down prayers on bits of paper and then pin them up as a show of surrender to God, as well as papers which each of our names on them where we could leave each other notes of encouragement and advice. we each had a pitcture up around the room and it was so cool while you are in there to look around and see all the people who we have been living with over the last few months and simply pray for them, openly and without worry of who else might hear. the room was so filled with the presence of God i knowin my heart without doubt that each of us came out of this last week new in one way or another. just last night at our worship service we went through things that we had prayed about over the week which have already been answered!! it is so exciting to see how much you can do when you simpy give it up to God in prayer.
as well as feeling God in that room, it was an incredible blessing to have so many stars out almost every night of the week, it was so cool to be able to just go down on my own to the dock here and lay under the countless stars and hear the wind and the waves (and even on one night a few trees crash under the force of the wind!! sooo cool!!) and just realize how small i am, and how insignificant i would be if not for the grace and power of God in my life. if you have never done this, or maybe even if it ha just been a while since you did last, i would encourage you to go out and just lay under the stars and let God speak to you through the wonder of all he has created!.

that is the update for my last couple of weeks, this week we are into another class, church ministry and so far it has been very interesting and i am excited to see at the end of the week all that we will have learned.
prayer that we would all gain exactly what God intends for us to learn this week as well as a continued commitment to prayer even though we are not made to stay in a room for an hour would be an awesome thing, as well as prayer that God will continue to change us and to be working in our lives more and more each day.

God bless you guys!! hopefully hear from you/ see you all soon as Christmas time is coming fast!! LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW!!!