almost done....not really

Heyhey, (once again if you are just tuning in, please go to the last 2 blog entrys to ya understand whats going on)
So we woke up at that camp on Wednesday and we still didn't know what we were gonna do. And it was kinda weighing us down it seemed, and Sandra and Kenneth wanted to know our answer (they are the people who owned the holiday park) It was kinda raining out so we were kinda taking that into consideration, and someone actually said that maybe since its raining God does not want us to go. And then I was like well he also said that being a Christian is no walk in the park :) So we did some work for the park like making beds and scrubbing down the rooms. Then we breaked for lunch and we still hadn't told them. And finally I thought I was gonna burst at the seems from staying quiet, cuz i knew so clearly what we were supposed to do, but God was really trying to teach me to be mature and not just blurt what I think, and to just really seek what he wants me to do. Finally they asked me what I thought we should do. And I said, our time here is done, its time to move on and see other things. Like it was so clear to me what we should do.

So ya we decided to go. I don't think that we were all united at that point, like one person in our group really wanted comfort, and ya they wanted to stay where we were becuz we had something good. And I was kinda like well staying here definately doesn't increase my faith ya know? So ya we told them, and we finished up working, and then one of their employees (FIonna) drove us into Queenstown. Right before we left Sandra had given us an envelope and told us to split it equally. Well we waited til after Fionna had dropped us off to check how much money there was....Well they had given us 150$!!!!! Thats how much we should have paid them if we had paid to stay there! It was so amazing, we were in shock, we all started crying, especially since we were pretty much out of money. We still didn't know if we were gonna go to Dunedin or Invercargil, but it didn't matter, cuz we now had money! So ya we started hitching, and there was one team that we had been praying hardcore lots for, and I had asked God to just show me that they were all right. Well we got picked up right away by 2 Israelis guys. And so ya sometimes you don't really feel open to share with them what you are doing, so I decided to just throw out the fact that we are graduating in Israel to them and see what they said. Well they just started laughing, and it turns out that they had spent 2 days with the group i had been praying for and they had them on video tape and they wouldn't let us leave until we watched them. It was sooo cool to see God answer a prayer like that.

So we were pretty much on cloud 9. The 2 guys dropped us off at a junction between Dunedin and Invercargil. Hans and Julianna started to debate again. Well I finally spoke up when it seemed like their debates were going no where. And i was like 'hey why don't we go wait by the turn for Invercargil for a half hour and if we don't get pick up we will switch to the Dunedin one' Well a half an hour in hitching isn't that long of a time, so that seemed to appease both sides...cuz the one who wanted to stay at the camp also wanted to go to Dunedin and not Invercargil. Well k we started waiting at 4 pm. No kidding at 4:25 a bus came and picked us up and drove us like a km away from the turn and dropped us off cuz it had to turn. It was the funniest thing ever. Like it was such huge confirmation that this is where we were supposed to be going. And a little while longer a German girl named Kate stopped to pick us up. She was quite sweet although Hans and Julianna were kinda scared of her. She really didn't like americans so the fact that I was Canadian kinda saved us. But at one point we were talking about how much safer hitching in New Zealand is and she was like actually its not that safe, 'I could take you to my farm, chop you into little pieces and burn you alive and noone would know.' So that was a little creepy, and you should have seen Hans and Julianna's faces, and I just starting laughing. Laughing seems to be like my first reaction (like the time in the seedy hotel on whyte ave...Emily coughcough :) ) But ya it was good. And she dropped us off in a little hole town called Garston.

Hmm there is like a bar in Garston and thats all. THe thought of being left there kinda scared me. But of course God is faithful and eventually someone came and picked us up...after quite a while of singing and dancing on the side of the road. We pretty much sang the same song the whole time, a song by Jonny Cash called Folsom Prison Blues. But we changed the words to stuff about hitch hiking :) Anyways we got picked up by this guy named Cam. Turns out he had picked up another Group...one of the married couples Doug and Allison. IT was so amazing that 3 of us fit into that vehicle. It was a truck, it had like a big kayak in the back along with a big dog, and it had a whole bunch of stuff in the truck also. and it had a little puppy in the front also. Doug and Allison could not believe that we could fit into that small of a place. And I guess also, the dog puked and pooped on Doug. I found that really funny. Cam the driver was ya he was a proffessional hunter, haha he got dropped off...usually by helicopter into the mountains for a month at a time to hunt possums. Possums. Oh my goodness is that not the funniest thing you ever heard? he hunts possums for a living? That is the funniest thing ever!

But ya so we get dropped off in Invercargil at like 9:00pm. And its funny cuz I am totally learning to live in the moment, cuz while i was in the truck i did not give a single thought to what would happen once we got to INvercargil, and I didn't even notice how dark it was getting. So earlier that day I had been like, I feel like we are gonna spend the night with Christian family. And so we prayed into that, but we had a skeptic on the team. So logic prevailing we had to go look for a hostel. The hostel was full so we were gonna walk to another one, although I told my group that we weren't gonna stay in a hostel...and that just becuz we had a bunch of money doesn't mean we have to spend it. Well on our way to the other hostel we passed this builiding called the 'advice bureau' and i was like guys lets go in there...we definately need advice. It totally said it was closed so just jokingly we were gonna try to get in. Well Julianna opened the door and there were a whole bunch of women chatting and they were kinda alarmed that someone had walked in. But then a woman walked out and asked what we wanted, and i was like well it said advice bureau and we have no place to stay! so she told us where this campground was. So we walk to it, and its right behind a prison, yes thats right a prison. ONe with barbed wire all around the top. And Hans was like...I don't that that its ornamental decoration. And it was so creepy, we were walking along the train tracks and ya it was really dark and it was raining, it seemed like such a horror movie. But ya there was noone at this campground and it was sooo creepy.

So we heard about this other hostel, and meanwhile this van was like circling the street, and I jokingly said that it was probly a woman from the meeting and she was coming to pick us up. BUt then it drove past us. So we made our way to another hostel only to realize that it was full, and ya the atmosphere of our group was pretty down. And I was like you guys, God keeps his word. Just then that same van pulls up and ya this woman is like do you need a place to stay? And we were like heck yes! And ya it turns out this woman is a Christian woman, who used to live in the town that the YWAM base here is. And ya it was so wonderful. She took us home to her family. IT was really a blessing, cuz God had totally prepared her heart for this in advance, through a whole bunch of circumstances. So God was working in advance. And ya she fed us mini pancakes..they called them pikelets, and when she offered me pikeletts i was thinking like the fish things :) But ya it was the best meal ever. She had like 6 kids, 4 of whom we met. But it was such a blessing, but I guess she was blessed by us too. They were such a beautiful wonderful family. But the Mom wasn;t working this year, so they were kinda down on money, but like they were sooo generous to us. So seperately all 3 of us had decided that we were supposed to give this family the 150$. And we did. THe next day, Michelle (the mom) and 2 of her kids, Josh and Kallum took us down to Bluff! The last spot of land before antarctica...it was sooo cool! It was raining so hard though. And we had real fish and chips...so good. Anyways ya we left the money on the table in an envelope so they didn't discover it until they got home and we were gone.

Anyways I am not done, but ya I will update probly tomorrow, sorry this is getting so long. And its really late right now, well hahaha oh man i am getting old, its only 11:45pm...haha buit ya thats not really late, but ya we have lights out and its at 10:30...isnt that funny. back in the day i stayed up like all night. but ya anyways ciao for now
Angee