whew!

Boy was this week busy! David and I learned the hard way not to cram 4 events + job training into one week. Since most of the students were on Fall Break, someone recommended we take advantage of the "free" week and plan a lot of activities for students. Hmmm...not going to happen again. So we agreed and began planning an overnighter for guys, tourist day, a mini-mana akua retreat, and beach day. On top of all that, I began job training for my paraprofessional work at an organization call TIFFE (the institute for family enrichment). Needless to say, we were exhausted come Friday!

But we had a great time hanging out with the students.

I am so excited to start work. I'll be helping special education teachers work 1 on 1 with students with autism and other such mental disabilities.

Both David and I are looking forward to my mom coming out to visit on Wednesday too.

Well I know on the mainland you all have been suffering from cold weather, well here we have had just the opposite. These past 3-4 days we have been in the high 80 degrees with hardly any cross breezes. Just hot and muggy! Things are finally starting to cool down. After church David and I went to the Onekahakaha beach where we laid out for about 2 and a half hours. It was so beautiful and sunny and breezy...what a relief!

Yesterday David and I went to a local's schools HARVEST FAIR, which was a lot of fun and gave us a little taste of fall. We then went over to another youth pastor's home, Dale and Sarah, and watched the Michigan and Iowa game. David was craving some football time! It was our first time to have wings in a long time! Yum!

Well a big congrats to our friends Kory and Ali Lantz who got hitched this weekend! Also Matt and Jamie Metzger! Wow, some solid couples!

Prayers and Praises

Praise God for another week of driving our amazing car. We still can't get over that~

Praise God for more time to build relationships with students, we are LOVING getting to know them better

Praise God for a great HMC family

Praise God for a job opportunity that allows me to get into the local high schools

Prayer for our health, David and I haven't been feeling great

Prayer for moving at the end of the month, hopefully! We still need some details worked out

Prayer for safety with my time with my madre!

Prayer for wisdom as we think about the youth group for next year

I am getting a bit homesick at times

Specifics:

More youth leaders

With the changes we are looking at, we are hoping not to lose any kids, however, we understand that with change...there are growing pains

Our hope is to be a light to all of the youth in Hilo...we want to focus more on evangelism and discipleship

Wisdom in recreating a new look for youth room, name, tshirts

We need 4 host homes as well as youth leaders for small groups

Wisdom and favor with both man and God

Growth in our current students

We want to grow, however, we can't have too much growth without the adaquate support from youth leaders!

Thanks you all for your prayers and support! We love and miss you all so much!