Catching up
Being my fourth week here I’ve really gotten to know the students of the Snowboarder’s DTS and their staff. One thing I can not get over is the amount of energy I see in these guys. This applies to around the base, messing around, living life, and most importantly in their spiritual walks with God. Never have I seen so many young people on fire for God that are just crazy! It’s a huge encouragement to me to see people who are genuine about their faith and stoked to use their talents to serve God.
All my leaders are excellent and their faith is encouraging, but God has blessed me with two specifically incredible mentors for while I’m here. These guys have, not only made me feel welcome, but I feel are the kind of men I could trust in rebuke and can look up to for an extra push when I need it. I thank God SO much for His provision.
My daily life is busy but simple as a base intern. I get up early, get cleaned up, have breakfast, study a bit then I’m off to my work. I am in charge of maintaining the base’s 13 vehicles, 8 bikes, and the student computers. Whether it’s basic fluid checks on the vehicles, doing minor fix-up jobs, repairing bikes or cleaning computers and running spyware scans, my time seems to easily stay filled. The base has lunch around 1 pm and then I’m back to work till dinner at 6pm. The nights and weekends I have off though there are commonly events that will fill the night up. I have gotten the opportunity to sit in on a couple lectures which the students have between breakfast and lunch, and they have been super rewarding! Three of the four men I have heard speak I met on my last trip here so it has been nice to catch up with them again. As well, Jay and Erin, the guys I interned under on my last trip, will be coming down this next week to teach on the DTS. I’m really excited to see them again! They are a great couple and have been a huge blessing in my life.
This past weekend I got the opportunity to go to the west coast with a bunch of students where we had a great time. We stayed in a hostel in Punakaiki which is a blip of a city halfway down the west coast, absolutely beautiful though. My favorite part of the weekend was going to a cave stream. We weren’t able to climb far into it but I’m hoping to return soon with wet suits and climb through it. I’ve had such a great time taking pictures since I’ve been here, and I’ve tried to post a number of them so I hope you enjoy them.
I wrote a book report for my internship this past week and I got an A+ which I’m pretty stoked about seeing how I don’t think I ever got an A+ on a paper in high school. I’ll probably post it on here first so you can see that, if you’d like. Hope you enjoy it, I learned quite a bit from the book.
My only major prayer request right now is that you would pray for my mom. She is within days of giving birth to another son and I would love you to pray protection over her, and strength through this operation. Thank you
September 7th, 2007 at 1:45 am
Mom just had the baby on Sep. 5, at 9:54pm. His name is Andrew James Carson. Hes 6lb, 5oz, and 20in tall. We’re all doing good. We hope to talk to u soon and Grandma and Grandpa say hi.=)