It is bright and early on this fine Friday morning of the 25 of January 2013. This morning I pleasantly awoke in my non-bug-infested foam mattress with the morning sun streaming down on my face. For some reason I woke up at 7:30, even though we don't have to be up until 11. Dang. Oh well, this made time for me to hit up the free internet!
On Sunday, at church, this old man went up to the front to announce a miracle that he experienced. He had been in the hospital recently for heart surgery. He was close to death, but somehow pulled through (First miracle!). Then his doctor told him not to drive for 6 weeks after the surgery, but he's already driving 3 weeks after (Next miracle)! Then after church he proceeded to back his car into the side of our van. Hmm. Hahaha! He made a pretty substantial dent in the front door, probably the size of a basketball, and the door was very hard to open after that!
Other than that, it has been a pretty relaxed week up here in the far north. On Monday we drove the massive dented van 2.5 hours to Whangerei to visit Leish in the hospital. That was fun! I decided that I would try sitting in the back seat. Why did I try that? The first hour was windy windy hilly hilly. It was miserable. I felt so car sick! But we finally got there and got to visit Leish!
When we got back to the complex after our journey, Van's foot wound was ready to be tended to. Way back when, in Fiji, Van stepped on a rusty nail. The crazy Indian contractor guy squeezed all of the bad rustiness out, and I gave him some anti-biotics. The hole in the bottom of his foot healed up nicely, but there was a big nasty lump on the top of his foot, where the end of the nail made it through to. So on Sunday night, Van and I decided to attempt to pop it. It was hard and dark, like there was crusted blood crusted in the lump. But we tried anyways. We used a trusty safety pin to poke a few holes in the lump. But sadly we acheived nothing by doing this accept for causing much pain to poor Van. So I put some polysporin on it and a bandaid and left it for the doctors. BUT when we got back from our hospital visit, somehow all of the puss had moved it's way to the surface of his lump and it looked like a big nasty zit the size of a penny. I was so excited! I got out my safety pin and we got out the video camera. It was awesome. I poked a hole and then SO MUCH puss came gooping out of the new hole and the other holes from the other night. It looked like a monster giving birth. The puss was the color of ketchup mixed with mayo. Yummmm. It took a really long time to get all of the puss out and we used quite a bit of toilet paper to soak it up. It was kind of like a volcanoe, just slowly oozing lava. That was probably the highlight of my outreach, if not the highlight of my life.
Somehow Leish forced the doctors into letting her come back to Kaitaia on Wednesday. I don't know how she convinced them as she is still really sick. But she came back! We are trying to force her to rest and elevate but she is pretty stubborn. Her parents are here. Her mom flew all the way up from the bottom of the south island and her dad flew in from an oil rig in the ocean. Pretty serious. But I think she is getting better, as long as she rests!
On Tuesday we went to the church and planned out the events for the next week or so.
On Wednesday we were tourists. Shelley and the girls took us to Coopers beach for a beach day. It was awesome. The waves were really big. I was to chicken to swim, but I worked on getting back my Fiji tan. Then we went to Mangonui to a world-famous Fish Shop. I wasn't very excited to go to the fish shop. I was envisioning a bait store with fishing rods and such things. Not too exciting in my mind. But to my surprise, when we arrived, we found that it was actually a fish and chips joint. It was excellent.
In Mangonui I found a really awesome T-shirt that I love love love. But I didn't bring any money. But Shelley lent me the money. It was so nice. She came in the store with me, and took my shirt to the counter and paid with her card. It reminded me of my mommy. It was a nice moment because I have been really missing my family lately! It made me so happy.
Yesterday, we went to a movie with some youth and tweens from the church. We saw the Rise of the Guardians. It was so cute! I loved it. I want to marry Jack Frost. And Santa would be a big scary Russian. And then in the evening we ran a couples night at the church. We had childcare provided, and we put on a fancy dinner and movie night for the couples. It went so good! There were about 12 people there. We served Canadian style roast (cooked in maple syrup) and Beeth's momma's taters and some corn. Jacob and Beeth slaved away in the kitchen and Van, Hannah and I entertained and served. We had some games and such too. And after dinner we watched Second Hand Lions. Which is probably the cutest movie ever. I can't believe that I have never seen it before. It reminded me of the princess bride in a way, and it was so heartwarming. I think it might be my new favourite movie!
This afternoon we are visiting the old fogies and playing some songs for them, and then a youth from the church is taking us Jet skiiing!!!!! Wooohooo! I'm excited!
Tomorrow we are having a fundraiser car wash at the church to rais money for some trips for the youth and tweens, Sunday we have Church (obviously) and I get to lead worship so I'm pretty stoked!
And Monday we might get to go horseback riding on the beach at sunset! How awesome is that. I am so excited!
And we will finnish off our programming on Tuesday with a tweens game and fun afternoon.
Wednesday we are taking a trip up to the cape, which is the farthest north you can go, and you can actually see where the currents from the two ocen bodies meet. It is the place where the Maori people say that their dead go after they die. Interesting. And apparently we get to tobbogan on sand dunes too. Yay! Since I am missing out on my snow, sand dunes will suffice I suppose!
And then Thursday morning we will depart on our 8 or so hour drive back to base! I am so excited to get back and finally see my computer again. I miss him so much. This is the longest we have been apart since I have owned him. That's more than 4 years. Maybe I have a problem...
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