more ABS

so i have to make this quick because i don't have alot of internet time BUT ive been keeping a journal every night of what i do so heres some things : last week we went on a trip and stayed in a farmers wool shed at night and during the day we did TONS of caving and then some other hiking and other scenery aka God's beauty. i am completely surrounded and completely in awe :) and the caving was really good and all different types and my favorite was the muddy cave. SO MUDDY, we had mud fights and went down slidey stuff and well yeah i was covered from head to toe...right up my alley! after those couple of days we came back to church and then the past week has been at the lodge still doing morning excerces (6:30 am today we did sprints) and then durning the day we have lectures at monavale and work on kayaking (white rapids tecniques at the lodge) the other day we learned eskimo rolls and i actually did it!! ok got to run...more later, keep me in your prayers ps:ive been doing my quiet times in Romans...SO GOOD a chapter a day..you should start reading there..im also memorizing all of chapter 12, wish me luck.

ABS!

ABS (Adventure Bible School ) has officially begun and it is AWESOME! On Monday the bus picked us up from Monavale around 4 and then we headed to the Lodge(which is our homebase on abs). Right after we got there we put on our swimming suits and running gear then went for a 3 k run and then a swim in the lake=woah cold! The next day I woke up at 6 am and then we ran 2 miles as fast as we could at 6:30 J thennnn we went on a 5 hour hike up and down a mountain. Yes folks a mountain. And it was steep and muddy and wonderful. A really good work out and good bonding time. Then, are you ready for this? We got woken up by the fire alarm at 4 AM.yipes.(haha funny tho when I heard it I jumped down from my bunk and ran out side...pretty quick reflexes for someone half asleep) then we were told to get on our thermals and wet gear and we kayaked from 5 til 9, then ate a little breakfast and got on our bikes and biked 10 k BUT one girl was missing so me and caleb, a friend on abs, biked into town which is another 14 k oh oh i forgot . i was in a kayak with a girl named Becca and for some reason our kayak rudder was broken so we really learned alot because we had to be patient and positive and work together because our kayak was broken. That basically resulted in us doing a zig-zag pattern the whole time. Lets just say we laughed alot. Thats all for now... I dont know how often i am going to have this opportunity of internet so keep me in your prayers. ps i really like psalm 19 lately :) especially vs 14...read it :)

back in christchurch

ello ello ello,
i am back in christchurch until wed. night, then i go back to my north island home. a family from the elim church here is housing us and they are SO NICE. it is wonderful to be with such God-loving people. our prayers were surely answered! the weather is ok here altho some sun would be better...um on a random note: my sister was homecoming queen!!woo hoo she is so beautiful inside and out (i sure miss her alot) but good job annie! i love you :)

more pics?

jill and gloria on the random mountian we climbed
beauty on the coast
coast again

Pictures...finally

pancake rocks (punakaiki)

some of the southern alps (franz josef)

sunset :) (lake paringa?)

southern alp :)

us at the hostel in christ church(gloria, corina, me, debbie, rachel, jill)