Family and Friends,
We are currently sitting in our kitchen praying for the safety and protection of our dear Keith, who is currently driving stick shift for the first time in his life to go pick up a few people from the airport. He is supposed to take this car because that is what the people will recognize him as coming from YWAM. The family that runs our YWAM base is in Hong Kong right now for a conference, and they left the master keys with Keith and gave him all the papers to check people in and out. So for this week are are in charge of the base, haha! Don't worry... it's not too much responsibility. ;-) We have our schedule down and have been driving ourselves everywhere. We are basically on our own and just living life here! As of last Saturday, I (Stacie) got to drive for the first time as well, but it was an automatic thankfully! It was amazing!
On Saturday for our free day we had planned on going to a beach with some locals but that fell through. Instead, we drove 3 hours to the east coast of the island to a place called Cathedral Cove, which is the beach that the scene from The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian was filmed at! If you have seen the movie before, it is the scene when the kids are transported from the train station and they end up on a beautiful beach... walking through what looks like a giant hollow walkway through a rock... here is a picture of it:
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Sunday was a day of rest for us as some of us have been feeling sick and under the weather... not to mention Keith's hackle of a cough that sounds like he is in so much pain... poor guy! We went to a church service later in the evening with some of the refugees that we meet with on Thursday night for a Bible study.
Monday we had some time to meet with the locals that we have met and built relationships with. We spent time in the city near Auckland University with a girl named Minhi and then later we met with a guy David and some of his friends. It has been awesome getting to know these two!
Today we finished serving at the Women's Rehab Center down the road with some elbow grease and dirty hands that pulled weeds for about 2 hours. It was a lot of hard work but an awesome opportunity for our team to serve in a different avenue than we have been a majority of the trip.
While Keith picked up some people from the airport, the girls went and did the last Explorer's Club after school program with the kids at a local elementary school. It was an hour total and we had so much fun. It's awesome that they remember our names every time we come back. They were sad that this was our last day and they wished us all a safe trip home and even asked us to stay longer. Our hearts broke when we had to say goodbye to them for good =( The children here are so beautiful and precious!
That leaves us to where we are right now! Keith just came in the door so it looks like he managed to drive stick shift safely. Here is the story of how it went: He said that he entered the car praying that he will enjoy and embrace this challenge. He made it there pretty well! Stalled out a few times... who doesn't? It took him a while to find the group, but over all it was "adventurous and eventful" according to him. Well, there you have it!
We love and miss all of you! Thank you for your prayers! This is our last week and we are going to make the best of it!
In Christ,
Stacie
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