An update......Finally!

Okay, so my new goal is to update my blog three times a week: two short entries about my day, and my journal entry for that week. Here we go………

Yesterday (Wednesday the 24th)
Today was the hardest day so far, it was a bit of a snowball. We watched Chronicles of Narnia for small group and stayed up way too late last night, so I woke up late (and on the wrong side of the bed) this morning. I was late to morning exercises and had to do extra jumping jacks, which I found super annoying since my leaders made me stay up too late in the first place. As you can tell, my attitude was terrible! While making breakfast I noticed that the lid of my yogurt (one of my most valuable processions) was broken (it probably fell out, a result of 40 people sharing one refrigerator). I was in the process of encouraging people to be careful when taking stuff out and putting it back when…………I knocked my own yogurt out and it spilled on the floor. Slightly embarrassing, but I recovered. Ten minutes later, I was putting my yogurt away, and what happened? I dropped it, and it totally exploded ALL over the place, it even got on Yoon Hee’s leg. (She’s here from Japan learning English so she can be a missionary!) At that point I just had to laugh. My friend Katie helped me clean it up and reminded me that my yogurt catastrophe didn’t have to dictate the rest of my day. She was totally right, but that’s a lot easier to say than do.
I went to the base, and sat through a meeting where we went though our house rules AGAIN: don’t put tape on the paint or brick, don’t leave the door unlocked, and don’t leave your stuff everywhere. Again, bad attitude.
I went into worship from there. If there’s something to get your head in the right place, it’s worship. I was reminded that everything good in my life is from God. Every ability and gift that I have to offer anyone else is from God. And yummy yogurt for breakfast? Also from God. The snowball pretty much melted in that moment. I learned about intercession in lecture, which pretty much blew my mind. I don’t really understand why God uses us to accomplish his will, we all know he could it without us……..but he DOES! He’s given us all authority and stuff happens when we pray!
The best part of today was dinner. All the students were invited to have dinner with the staff in their homes, so I ate dinner at the “Wright Street” house tonight. Kirsten (Holland), Nadine (Canada), Jetta, pronounced Yeta (Holland), Petra (also from Holland), Carine (Australia), and Amber (US), hosted 4 students, and we had a great time chatting, eating, and drinking Milo. It was a good time had by all.
Well, it’s off to bed for me. I don’t want another snowball tomorrow!