the amazing decemberists.

oh what a glorious band they are and as i write this i shall go through the whole cd...well hopefully. well i really have been slacking in this hear blogging for the past few days because we have been so busy. so i will take this time now and tell you all about it!!

friday was the last day of lectures so we pretty much just went over everything we had covered over the whole week and had a time of prayer. i dont know why but that week didnt really do it for me. i mean i did learn some things but it was not like i did not stop me pen on the page. and also a lot of it was internal digesting! but i went to bed early that night because i was going to have a big day the next.

so on saturday i was meeting with me adopted family from BBC. i was kind of scared to see how it was going to go. i must admit was a little weird at the beginning but as the day went by it seemed like i had known them for a long time. so the family is the haywood family. dad peter. mother claire. 17 year old son jack. and 13 year old daughter sally. so they picked me up at the boat at nine and we went to coffee to get to know one another, it was just peter claire and sally at first but then jack met up with us later. we all went to an opening of a medical clinic on a mauri community that BBC had been helping build. i was fun but a bit long. we all were starving when it ended. so we all went to a big gathering after and had all this amazing food. also through out the day i was getting to know peter since he missed out coffee get together. amazingly we got along very well. we have a lot of things in common such as singing and dancing and we both love math and science. he wants to be a doctor and will be going to university next year. he also invited me to his high schools bible study on fridays. i really excited to do that.

after we ate we all went back to the house. okay their house is so amazing. it is on this hill looking out over all of tauranga. the house itself is simply adorable. oh i never mentioned that they are no kiwi but english, they came to live here six years ago because peter got a jod. it felt so good to just be in a home. so we all just kinda chilled ate cookies had juice i got a tour of the home and then me and sally sat and watched flight of the conchords untiil they took me home. so then i took them on the ship and gave them a tour well not jack because he had to study for his exams coming up. okay so the school he goes to is just like harry potter. they have houses and they have points. they dress uniforms and they have head boys and girls. jack is a head boy too! yeah i found that so cool so i thought i would share that with you.

so basically hogwarts is really!!!!

so i got home at dinner time. after dinner me havs and heather watched friends unitl all of the students were going to go out to a bar and watch the all blacks game [nz rugby]. it was amazing and i kind of unterstand it now. also they won!! woot. and so the game ended at like 11:30 and most of us went to another bar and went dancing. this one bar called over ice had an amazing band and anna [my danish] sang with them! i was amazing. well it became like 1 am so we decided to head home.

luckely i have night church so i slept in until 2pm....ha ha i am amazing. everyone here thinks im insane and they say that i have been taking commas. that totally reminds me of dane cooks skit about how women exaderate and he believes them. if you dont know it you should either look it up or ask sarah murphy to listen to it because she has it on her ipod. mosaic church at five was amazing as always. i love home church!!

alright today was a new speaker. he is like 6 and a half feet tall...seriously. and he is speaking about why we believe what we believe. i am so excited we are going to touch all the top questions non believers have and how they are backed up with an answer with evidence. on wednesday we are going to cover creation and evolution. oh one of my favorite subjects to discuss!!! science and religion debates are my fav. ask sarah and alex. ahhh good times. well yeah i am excited. also we had another outreach meeting and what do you know i still owe 1,000 dollars for flights. so keep praying for me please!!!!!!! not just me but my whole team. all together we have to raise 13,600 dollars. so yeah and mom and dad i will call you tomorrow.

i will leave you with a picture i took yesterday.


look it is havs and heather and my finger tip! ah that is our favortie thing to wear in the galley. none of these plain white ones it is all about the land of ah's!!! go kansas...aka go adam.

ps i miss texting!!

love from me in nz