Well I are quickly coming up on month three and time is flying. I can't even believe looking back now all that has been done and all the fun I have had. I will pick up where I last finished. Since I last wrote I have met the first American since I have been here. His name is David. He is from Spring Lake Wesleyan in Michigan and he has been to ignite camp. Small world right. We have been hanging out quite a bit. One Monday we decided we would go for an adventure into the city. So we hoped onto the train for our 45 minute train ride and it ended up taking us and hour and 45 minutes, because we caught the train when it was on its way out of the city. So once we made our way into the city we decided it would be the appropriate American thing to do to grab some McDonalds. Once we obliterated our double quarter pounders(half pounders?) we left the train station and went over to the Queensland Art Museum. There were several cool exhibits there. The building also was very cool in structure, with it's water pools and large open areas. Then the next week we had a birthday party for David at the beach. That was fun several people showed up for the extravaganza. We played Frisbee on the beach, then we had a skim boarding competition in a dirty pool of salt water. Then Mitch and I swam out to a sand bar that we thought would be an easy swim to get to. Turns out it wasn't. After we got half way we realized how far it actually was, so naturally we kept swimming. It made touching our feet on the sand bar, that we were speculating existed, that much sweeter. Then one Sunday night I went with several of my friends into the city to a restaurant called the pancake manner. It was this super sweet restaurant in the city that, as the name suggests, specializes in pancakes. It was extremely good. Then Clint arrived just this past Wednesday. It has been good to catch up with him. We went out on the boat on Saturday. I finally was able to get some small jumps that were shortly dwarfed by Jeff and Clint's jumps. Never the less I was landing. Needless to say I woke up a very sore man the next day. So naturally Clint, Jeff and I decided to go and climb Mt Tibrogargan. So we take off to climb it, in the rain. It was about half rock climbing and half hiking. It was a really good climb. It ended up sprinkling lightly for parts of the climb, but the trail brought us to an amazing view of the Glass house mountains, and the Queensland coastline, with Brisbane off in the distance. We then down climbed the rock parts and ran down the foot of the mountain. That pretty much brings me to the end of my more major recreational events. For work I have been up to several things. I am doing admin stuff for children's ministry. I am also still working on our children's VBS camp. I have been in charge of planning that. It is coming up quickly. It's only a month away now. I also have still been leading worship at youth. This past Friday I spoke on healthy friendships. It went well. There is a lot coming up to be excited for, so stay tuned for my next blog with the updates from all of these things.
WHAT GOD IS DOING
God has been so amazing. Several of my prayers have been answered. It has been awesome to see Gods comforting hand on my life. As I was getting more home sick God remained faithful and sent me several comforting people and events. It is simply amazing to see God's faithfulness. God is teaching me stacks on being content with where He has me and that His will is higher than any home sickness, or frustrations that I could have. Though I am missing Bram and Eli a whole heap, I am at peace with what God is doing.
WHAT TO PRAY FOR
- Next week we have the Gathering event, which is meant to be a renewal event amongst our district of Wesleyan churches. We are expecting God to show up
- We have the Kids games at the end of the month that I am in charge of. We still ideally would want more volunteers, and we are still trusting God for a good turn out of kids
- Also keep praying that God would clearly show me my next steps. I have several big decisions coming up that I will need to make.
Pray:Love:Worship
Garrett Langebartels
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