Familiar faces

Saturday morning I woke up feeling nicely refreshed after sleeping from 11 till 9:30. On getting out of bed I did find I was not just a little stiff. It looks like although getting drunk on God means you don’t get a hangover you still get the aches from the amount of activity you did at the time. My calf muscles were so sore from so much jumping.
Like last week we had brunch at 10:30 where people were all still really upbeat and in such good moods. After brunch I hung around in my room for a bit then went out to meet my friend Kevin. Kevin is a friend of mine from university who is doing a term in a university over here as part of his degree. He was picking up his girlfriend from the airport later in the afternoon so we arranged to grab some lunch first. Poor Kevin had a bit of trouble with the car rental place, which meant he was a bit late picking me up, but I didn’t really mind as I got to take some pretty pictures of the snow in the lovely sunshine. It’s strange at the moment as there is always the sound of running water from all the melting snow, and things are so warm (well chilly for England but glorious for what we have had here so far) but there is so much untouched snow around. I can understand why the Canadians get bored of snow, I’m quite ready to see the world without it. However Kevin did make it and so we headed off for lunch at… well where else… Montana’s! It was so nice to have a good face to face chat with someone who I know and who knows me. I trust everyone here and could tell them anything, but there are some things that you just can’t talk about because they just don’t know about it. For instance I have told pretty much everyone here all about Charl, but they have never met him and so chatting about what we have done and little things he has said doesn’t mean much to them. Kevin knows Charl though and so such things mean more to him, and make more sense. So we could chat about friends, churches, the odd Canadian paper sizes and the difficulties of being away from boyfriend/girlfriend for a couple of months. It was so lovely, though did make me feel a bit home sick when he left. The rest of Saturday I just chilled with Sophie (who isn’t feeling very well at the moment) and blogged my little heart out. Unfortunately the internet is not letting me onto msn or blogger, not sure why, so I’m hoping that I can post this up tomorrow.

Prayer points:

• Huge thanks to God for all he has been doing in me, and in the other guys here
  
• Thank you for the lovely group of friends I have got here. They are great and we have all be sharing experiences and working through everything together.
  
• Pray for good sleep. The beginning of this week I wasn’t sleeping very well. Friday I got my small group to pray and I slept right through, so pray that God would continue that and I wouldn’t have problems with getting to sleep.
  
• Energy. Next week is going to be exhausting, especially with fresh wind, so energy for everyone would be great
  
• Healing for Sophie, my room mate, who has got a horrible cold and is feeling rotten. Pray that she gets better really quickly and is back to full health.