Week 9: Relationships

      I am currently on hold with Air New Zealand so forgive me if I am short. This week was taught by Catherine who is our base director's wife and she is lovely. Personally, I was excited for this week because I think the topic of guy/girl relationships and how they should look and all that is fun to talk about so going into it I was excited. That topic was only discussed for one of the days. The beginning of it was focused relationships in general and the building blocks for healthy ones. It was a really good time for me to reflect on my relationships and for God to show me how He plays into them. Some of the building blocks for relationships are love, honor, trust, transparency, honesty, and patience. My relationship with Air New Zealand right now is not very strong because my patience is running thin. Anyway, this week was really solid teaching. On the last day we had just a huge ministry time for God to just show us and heal us of any scars from past relationships. The timing of this week was interesting because of what was going on at home with my family. Let's just say it was good timing. Most of the week my intimacy with God was pretty bad, but the massive ministry time on Friday was really needed and was the start of a really good weekend. It is really comforting to know that we have a God who is at work in me even when I don't know it.

      I don't know if any of you have heard about was happening with Cyclone Pam but she was a category 5 cyclone that went through Vanuatu and caused severe damage to the island (which is where 3 of our outreach teams are going to). Pam was supposed to be heading our way here in Tauranga and never being in a cyclone before I was expecting something fairly bad considering I wasn't allowed to sleep in my room for fear of a tree falling and harming me. Prior to it coming, we prayed that Pam would go away and not come to us and amazingly, she listened. Pam went off the coast of NZ and barely touched us. Yet another example of God's goodness. It's been 25 minutes and I am still on hold. Thanks for reading everyone. Bless you all.