It's been a pretty relaxed couple of days here in Kaitaia. We ran youth yesterday night. We had pizza, played some games and just hung out with the youth. They are super awesome! I am excited to get to know them more and to have them help out with the children's program. I think that the pizza was probably pretty awesome. Sarah put off her upcoming diet in order to eat seconds and maybe thirds and fourths. I lost track. I however, had gluten/dairy/egg free buns with tomatoe sause and pineapples on them. Mmmmm.
Yesterday we walked around town. I found some sweet stuff in an Op Shop, but I only bought one sweater. That was quite the acheivement for me. And then we came across the most awesome of antique shops. Hannah and I walked through it at least 3 times and each time we found something we didn't see the time before. There was lots of furniture filled/covered with trinkets. There was lots of wall phones on the walls and old fashioned photographs hanging. There were old light fixtures hanging from the roof and some pitchforks and shovels. There were lots of old fashioned tools.
We found some beautiful old make-up compacts. Some fancy old hand mirrors with matching hair brushes. There were millions of spoons, some old binoculars, old lab goggles, so much beautiful jewelery and hair pins. I can't even remember everything that was in there, but it was amazing. Everyone else got bored and left me and Hannah there by our selves. I ended up getting this little tiny old pocket prayer book from 1915. It's pretty sweet, and an old leather bag. I'm pretty excited about it.
But I was happy to get out of there because the dust was atrocious in there. I don't normally use words like 'atrocious', but that is the only way to describe it. Jacob had to leave right away because his allergies acted up. And even me, who is not allergic to dust or pollen or any of that stuff started to get stuffed up pretty bad. I don't know how the owner can sit in there amongst all of that old dust every day. It's really gross to think about it actually, because dust is made up of old skin cells that have flaked off. So he inhales hundred-year-old skin all day every day. Fun times.
This morning the YWAM team got to lead the service at church. Jacob, Van, Hannah and I did worship, Beth did Communion, and then Jacob, Van and I shared some testimonies from our outreach so far. Highlights from Fiji and Paihia. The pastor was so kind and gave me the award for the best ability to speak clearly into a microphone. Score!
The people at the church are pretty awesome. We stayed and chatted for quite a while after the service. Everyone is really excited for us to be here. It seems like the YWAM team's presence is one of the highlights of the year at the church. They still have the pictures of laster years team on the wall. But we get to take those down and put our own up. Mwahaha.
Last night, one of the members of the church, Dr. Jake, brought is chiropractic table in after youth and gave some free adjustments to our team. OMGOSH I needed one so bad. My shoulders have been a mess since one of the first weeks in Fiji, and my left hip is always a problem. At home I go regularly to get my back cracked. Before he started, my hip would only bend at a 90 degree angle to my body, and when he was done it would bend so that my leg could touch my stomach. Wow. And my neck and shoulders feel free. Lets just say that I slept like a very happy log last night.
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