Well it has been quite a while since my last update..sorry about that. I have 10 days left of this ABS, WOW time flew. We have done some amazing things this time and more than I did when I was in it in October. Things like surfing in Raglan and a 2 day sea kayaking trip around Rotorua. The weather has been gorgeous and hot. Signs of autmn are coming tho! (I missed the bright yellow maple trees at home!) It seems weird to think I've been thru winter, spring, and summer and fall is just around the corner...8 months here! I think its around 124 days til I go home (July 2) I'm still learning a lot from God. The most recent thing that keeps coming up is how important it is to be living in Christ's love. (I've been reading 1 John a lot)So everything I do and say and think should go through the "love filter", just Jesus standard. Another thing is how my relationship with God feeds into or impacts all my other relationships.
Soon we leave on a 4 day tramp...which means hike in NZ terms
Heres some other NZ lingo that I've gotten into the habit of saying:
keen
rubbish
sweet-az
eh
she'll be alright
no worries
Alright heres a good verse to memorize, I'll leave you with that
1John 3:18 "Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with action and in truth"
At Andrew's beach house in Waiuku(near Auckland) Andrew, Jochem, Gloria, Talia, Steph, Russ, and Me and Nicole in the front. 
Stephanie and I when she came to visit(Steph was my roommate at University last year)
(Gloria and I on Pirate themed graduation night. She was Tinker Bell...I miss that girl!)
(My Capernwray family last semester:Bottom row-Rachel, Kestral, Me, Leah, Lynette and the kids. Top row-Jon, Patrick, Kevin, Levi, and Leijf 
(Christmas Eve heres the family in Queenstown at a really cute local restaurant: Dad, Mom, Chase, Christian, Me, and Anne)
(sister Anne and I in Rotorua)
(Mom and Dad on the Routeburn track in the Milfred sound area in the tip of the south island)
(In New Zealand traveling with my family also on the Routeburn track)
(In Australia at the famous Bondi Beach)
(andrews mom, Andrew and me when we went golfing-which was my first time ever!This was right after Australia when I stayed at their beach house for a couple of days)
Me and morgan at her work( with a ninja turtle hehe)
