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
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5 comments:
I know what Humu Humu Nuku Nuku Apua'a is! It's the state fish of Hawaii! Am I right?! :)
U win!
So how much of a difference is it being there than it is here?
we actually haven't left yet. We will be leaving on June 2 and be there till July 28. I can let you know when we get there though :)
Yes! Victory! :D Good luck surfing! I want a blog entry about that experience!