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Heyhey, so like this is my 4th installment of Faith week. Ya I did 2 today, so you probly didn't read the last one. ... so go back and read the ones you miss...becuz they are jam packed of super exciting things!

So ya the family...the Christian family we were staying with took us to Bluff...And like I said that was super dooper exciting. We stood at a place where we were closer to the south pole that we were to New York...I thought that was karazy cool. So like that family ddropped us off outside of Invercargil and ya it was raining. We all had our little ponchos on. I totally looked like a fool. Like seriously. We would take 10 minute intervals standing in the rain hitching. Finally a guy took pity on our poor looking dejected group. Actually it was a lot of fun standing in the rain cuz i just kept singing and making up dumb songs and so our group would get happy becuz of it ya know.

But ya he drove us about 50km down the road...oh so funny though, you know how they drive on the opposite side of the road as us, and the drivers side is on a different side, well Hans has a momentary loss of memory and goes to get in the car...but its the wrong side. THe driver was like waht on earth...It was sooo incredibly funny. But ya he dropped us off, and we hitched for a while in this one spot. We were so cold. My clothes had been wet for days and had never really had a chance to dry and i was even wearing 2 pairs of pants, but I just never warmed up. And Hans had just brought flipflops. Oh man we were sooo cold :) haha but ya so I actually froze my hitching hand, the skin started to peal off. It was kinda amusing.

We finally got a ride, and it was a really interesting man. He grew up in a Catholic home and he had actually gone to school for 4 years to become a catholic priest, but I guess something happened and he basically renounced his faith. So he pretty much just kept trying to stump us with questions...cuz he knew all the answers also. Well he asked one question, and he was like probly expecting that we would give him this religious hypocritical answer...but we are not about the religion, we are about the relationship. Anyways hes like so what do you say to Muslims, do you think that they are all going to hell. Well Hans was like, "I don't know, I have no right to answer becuz I don't and can't look at the heart' and I was so proud of him for answering like that.

On that drive, we saw these amazing rainbows...they were double rainbows and you could see the endings of both of them. THey just totally reminded me of how faithful God has been to us. And he really has, and it really got me thinking that if God has done this much stuff in faith week, why can't i live with that much faith the rest of the time. Anyways so this man was bringing us to Dunedin. Well when he dropped us off, he gave us 100$! To go stay in a hostel. We ended up staying in a pretty nice hostel that night. Julianna was showering and me and Hans went to look for something to eat at the supermarket. Well during this trip we had gotten an obcession with opening closed doors. Well we saw this church, and i tried the doors and they were open, and there were another set of doors and I poked my head in them and i was like there is noone here, and then i turned to my left and there were a whole bunch of people in a meeting just staring at me. And I made the weirdest most high pitched squeal/laugh/inhaling of breath ever. I don't think that I could even imitate it if I tried. And then for some reason me and Hans ran. It was soo funny.

But it was a good night. Well ok let me paint a picture for you. we are staying in a hostel. In the room we have 6 beds. so 3 people in the room are not with us. 3 guys, one was a kiwi, one was a Swiss guy, and one was from India. So I wake up and I look over and you know what the first hting I saw was : a naked swiss man.! It was so bad, I didn't know what to do. I looked away of course being the good christian girl that i am :) but then i realized that Julianna who was sleeping above him was about to get off her bunk and i wanted to spare her from seeing this guy. so i am trying to be as discrete as possible while telling her that she shouldnt get off the bunk cuz there is a naked man. Ya it was so funny. But thats not all! I think that Hans and Julianna are the only ones in the room and i throw open the door and here is a naked indian man.

I was like oh man you know its gonna be a good day when you see 2 naked men in a course of an hour. But ya so we leave the house of nudity ( the hostel and we go chill for a while at good ol starbucks ) and ya The 2 coffee addicts in my group has spent so much money on coffee so far this week so i decided that i could spend money on the most expensive drink there...so i pretty much did. And we sat and read in starbucks, and ya just chilled. And i was looking at my day planner and i was like holy crap. We only have 4 more weeks of school left! Then we go on outreach. I was pretty much in shock. LIke its so scary, I realized that I will never be here again, in these moments again. Like there will never be another day like today ever. I totally realized that i need to live each day to the fullest man.

Anyways ya we started to walk to the outskirts of town, it started hailing, that was pretty joyous. Ya but it stopped and then we hitched a ride. Just ya all through this I could just see God's faithfulness. Like although we were like why on earth is it raining sooo much, but God was soo bringing rain to areas that just really needed rain. So ya I just had to praise God for just knowing who needs what ya know? Actually this american woman named Joyce picked us up. She was on holidays. It was pretty cool just talking to her and such, she had such unique beliefs and we were just real with her. IT was good for both of us becuz she was real with us too. We stopped for lunch in a place called Oamaru...and she bought us Subway! It was sooo good, i didn't realize how much I missed it until then, I had a chicken bacon ranch wrap. She was soo nice to us. It was so good, and then she drove us to Timaru, the town where we had planned to stay the night.

Well we wandered around the town, really not knowing what to do. And after a few hours of wandering, we just all say down on a bench...near the beautiful ocean and we were gonna have a time of prayer. Well a couple who must have thought we were kiwis, came up and asked us what kind of sites there were to see here. and we were like we just got into town ourselves. and just when we were talking to this couple, who were from hawaii, this guy walks up and he was like hey (to the couple) you are american, i am too. His name was Chris and he was like a renewable energy engineer. Well the couple left and he started talking to us and he ended up offering us a place to stay. It was awesome, we ended up making him dinner...which was like bread stuff and pizza and we had also bought a cheesecake and we went down to the beach and ate it ... it was so good and fun. Like it was just a fun night.

The next morning was the day that we had to go back to the base. We woke up around 8 am and went for coffee with Chris and then we started on our way. Well after walking for about 15 minutes thru the city, this really loud van with shouting people pulls up to us. Its a van with 2 other teams in it! It was so cool, so we got to show up back at base with 3 teams in one vehicle. It was so awesome.

But ya that is basically the end of faith week. I kinda went more quickly at the end cuz i just wanted to finish. But oh man, God is soo faithful, like what else can I say. Who does what i am doing? I am going to school in New Zealand? i just hitchhiked around New Zealand? I am going to 9 countries in April? Who else does this? LIke seriously this is so unbelievable to me! God is so good.

Its really hard to live a life of faith, but like the rewards are so good. Like ya there is life now! Life that you can live now!!!! Like so many people just talk about life after death...but Jesus came so that we could have life now !!!

K I really am gonna go now!

Angee