First ride of the year!

I got to ride Hutt this last monday and it was really awesome! The snow was pretty decent and for missing 2 seasons I wasn't too bad at all! It's been sunny all week this week and it will be next week as well! I think the worst of the rain is now past.

I've been really moving along with the gardens- I've had some help too- a Dutch staff from the backpackers school is staffing the boarding school and there parents are staying for a few weeks. Its a lot of fun with them and it was his father who gave me a hand. :)

I spent the night with the blakely family and another earthcare student, we watched fiddler on the Roof! Such an amazing film, I was blown away. It's so vital to get there sometimes.  I've also booked the rest of my tickets, It should be pretty sorted, I've made plans for Nov and Dec which I'm fairly stoked on too! I'll be home for Christmas unless God directs otherwise. A good thing about plans is they can always be changed!

I'll be home in July!
loves
Laura

Oh life

I've booked a ticket home in July, and am really looking forward to seeing everyone! It's been a productive week of sunshine, but the monday didn't start off so wonderful. The rain can really get to you and the lack of sunshine, but as the week progressed the sun shone and the mountains are covered in snow. All the boarders are here now, it's going to be a great team! Another couple is coming on base and will be doing outreach co-ordination. It's going to be great. As far as plans and decisions, things aren't clear, but I must trust.

Dick Rasanen:
    
"Dear God, I find it so easy to try to be the one in charge, I find it so painful to realize that I am not the one in control. Help me to know when saying  "I just work here." It's a confession, and not just a way of evading responsibility."

(matt. 6 25-26)

"For this reason I say to you, [fn] do not be worriedabout your [fn] life, as to what you will eat or whatyou will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body morethan clothing,
		"Look at the birds of the [fn] air, that they do not sow,nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenlyFather feeds them. Are you not worth much morethan they? Loves Laura

Lead climbing and Poi dancing!

It's been another rainy week in Oxford, with 2 days of sun to break it up. I finished a bed in 2 days, I was really happy about that. I also got to help teach 2 sessions of BLS. Other then that, time flies here, but I don't know where it's going :). It's hard to get up earlier than 7:30 am because the days are short.

 We've got one more week until the whole of the snow boarder staff come along. Things are running into routine now, it's neither here nor there. The word that I'm getting from God is WAIT. For what I'm not sure, but I've got some social patterns to change- rather wrong beliefs that effect my actions, It's gotta go. God's so into character development. I also found I place almost ALL my worth in what I can do, so when we've had 2 weeks of rain and I've done nothing, I'm feeling so low because I'm not able to get my self worth from work. Scary. My faith is actions right now, not heart. It's taking a long time to adjust, 2 months actually. I was thinking though, I really did want to have some time to fly, because on outreach it feels like I live 2 days in one. I'm up at 5:30 am and to bed at 10pm, and the days are so full on and stress filled that it's really nice to just have a bit of stress free- if only counterfeit, and only once in my adult life.
Loves
laura