Hellooooooooo!
Every once in a while im sure you, just like I, have a "A Ha!" moment when you read one of those kinds of verses that seems so common. Well I just had one recently. In all this excitement and preparation like reading and researching. At Echo on Thursday Proverbs 3: 5-6.
5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
So I had my "A Ha" moment, to say the least. Tonight I God enlightened me as to why He made it impact my spirit. When it impacted me, I knew that I was to back off on the intensive learning of Hawai'i . As of tonight, I see what He ment. I got to watch some cool stuff about Hawai'i and or related to it. I learned more and enjoyed it more.
All in all, God is good, and God is good all the time! Exault the Lord, Exault the Lors, there is no shame, Exault the Lord!
~Dan
Greetings to all my fellow missionaries from Send Me Now, Family, Friends, and random readers!
So today is the first official day of summer (mainly because this would normally be a school day and I would be half asleep in science :) ) Speaking of school, I am proud to be able to say God has blessed me with 3 A's and 2 B's! I can officially apply to the Cole's College of Business at KSU! Woot! What a blessing indeed! In retrospect, I am now more than halfway through college and boy has it flown by! God has definitely been good in soooo many ways! Hes blessed me with great and supportive family and friends, really good opportunities to study the Word and develop understanding, and really good examples of how He is faithful.
May is upon us and this is my month of super preparation. I have a couple of goals: learn how to skateboard (for easy transition into surfing), get to know Hawai'i better, and return blessings to those how have blessed me this year. So far, I had my first lesson on skating and got some wounds, but atleast im riding it now... in a straight line...
Currently, I have been able to take all this free time provided by summer to do a lot of reading and studying. I have been working on learning a lot about Hawai'i too! I started reading this book called
"Culture Shock!: Hawai'i". I have als been studying the Hawai'ian slang language known as "Pidgn". In my search for a good list of Pidgn vocab, I came across a good website for a underwater recreational company in Hawai'i called
"Shaka Divers". Do you know what the Humu Humu Nuku Nuku Apua'a is?
Many of you have asked about what I am going to do on the trip. My Answer for you is thus far, I still know very little. The stuff I do know is that I will be helping with the music portion of VBS at Pali View. Otherwise I believe I should be investing a lot of time in the youth there, spending time with them and doing the whole "Iron sharpening Iron" dealeo.
To all of you on your summer mission trips currently, I am praying for you and that God protects and dumbfounds you with His glory and faithfulness!
~D-Rice