Hey All-
If you have not heard, it is true. I've had a pretty bad accident on the mountain Tuesday. (We rearranged classes and other priorities and went up to the mountain Tuesday because it was the best day of the season). To make a long story short and spare myself extra energy trying to write details you won't understand, I fell and sprained my ankle and hit my head. I was back boarded into the med center at the mountain and they casted my foot. After we dropped everyone else off at base Jenn picked me up and took me to the ER where they had to transfer me to trauma because I was blacking out and losing consciousness constantly. They ended up making me wear a neck collar and lay flat for hours while they pumped me with morphin and took x-rays. Nothing is broken praise God and I got discharged about 6 hours later. Jenn and I stayed in Christchurch for the night and came back to base the next morning. Thursday we had our first Love Feast (which is YWAM speak for a really nice dinner where we all dress up) and reveal our "Angels" which is more YWAM speak for a game called "Angels and Mortals" which is basically secret santa all week. During the dinner and party I was getting progressively worse and ended up vomiting multiple times. So I had to be taken to the ER again. They wanted to keep me over night to to a CT scan this morning but I said no. (As a side note yes, I see today it was a stupid move but in the moment of pain and exhaustion and wanting to crawl out of my skin from pain meds I just wanted to get home.) And today I am fine. But there is your long story and update so the pictures of me in crutches make more sense.
Tommorow we leave for Church Servicing week which is where we are split into our outreach teams and go serve a New Zealand church for the week. We stay with different families from the church and do a whole bunch of different things. The Turkey team leaves early because we are going to Methven so we go a day earlier to do the normal SAturday night dinner on the house but we just happen to be staying all week to serve that church. I'm excited, I was talking to my school leader Ben tonight (Ben and Jenn thought it would be better for me to stay home from Friday Night evangelism to rest my ankle and just have some time to rest after a crazy couple days) anyways Ben was just saying how awesome church serving week is going to be and what a time of rest and rejuvenation it will be. I'm excited for the time to really be able to rally with my team and just stand together in constant prayer and ministry and really blend as a family.
It's been a little lonely to have the house all to myself when I haven't had more then 2 seconds alone in the last 6 weeks but it has been good. I took an extremely long hot shower, Jenn did my laundry before she left so I've now packed clean clothes for church serving week, I journaled and read my Bible and spent some time in prayer, I ate supper in bed and watched an episode of Lost. I'm with my team in prayer and I know they'll soon be meeting at Starbucks and then getting ready to head out to the church. Soon the Square Ministry and Skatepark guys will be back so I better enjoy my last couple hours and head to bed early. But I wanted to send off an update before I headed out of town.
Prayer Points are pretty similar still:
financies for my Turkey team. Some of us have it all, some of us have a portion, some of us have none. I pray and ask that you would pray that God would continue to provide for our whole family and not allow fear or doubt to play any part here.
For the quick and super natural healing of my ankle.
For the protection of my family at home and peace and joy to reign in our house.
For the wonderful time and divine appointments on church serving week, that we would use this time to blend as a family and prepare ourselves and our hearts for our time in Turkey.
