No Love For the Possum In Kiwi Country!

Well Week two was much more eventful than the previous week. I really got to experience some Northland culture in ways that I would never expect. Last Saturday we went to a museum of the Northland that was the equivalent of Heritage Park in Calgary. Pretty cute, because it was settler's day and volunteers were all dressed up in turn of the century attire. I got to try spinning wool and now have a contact to receive fleece in raw so that I can spin on my own! (That may prove harder than it sounds because no one on this island cares to spin or know anyone who still does, it's a dying art here.) 

We have spent most of our time this week praying over the students and cleaning the whole base, which is a fairly gnarly  job in it's self. On Wednesday however the staff was invited over to Grant and Glenda's home (local farmers that are involved with YWAM) for dinner and a possum hunt! We had the most amazing dinner, than set off in the dark to track over cow paddocks (fields) to find the loathed possum. We shot them with a very lovely 22, I got 4! However Grant thought that it would be funny to take one of the dead possum's babies that survived the fall and stick it on my arm, so I had a wild baby possum clinging to me- dripping in it's mother's blood as I was shooting another possum out of a tree. You can't buy an experience like that. Eventually the baby possum was taken off my head and then ran away. 

The days are getting much warmer- which is good because it was absolutely freezing for the first two weeks. The students arrive today, which is so exciting and nerve racking in it's self. I've just bought an amazing bike that I got 40% off, and am the envy of the base ;) because of it. Sun is shining, there are 5 swings to count all around this base, we are camping at the end of this first week and I am so excited. So many powerful and uplifting things have been spoken over this base and DTS, this school is going to be history making in YWAM! 

All my love,

Laura Yemen