The feeling of progression

Well, I survived the week up at Mt, Washington without getting hurt. Though there are 4 others who cannot say the same. Haha Jayme and Malayne both broke an arm each, Deb got a concussion, and Aaron got 11 stitches in a cut finger! Not bad for 5 days huh! Anyways, keep them in prayer for a fast recovery and a good one too. Anyways, this week was amazing. our 5 day ski trip came just in time due to the mountain running out of snow. I was mostly skiing on ice and dirt which really sucked, but it was not horrable. But it was a really good trip. Monday we left bright and early and headed up island to the mountain. That was the day that Malayne broke her arm. Umm...oh yeah, I decided that it was finally time to learn how to ski properly, so I took a lesson for intermediate skiers. No one else showed up so I got a private lesson with a girl named kathryne. I was kind of scared to see how hard it would be to correct everything about my style of skiing, but she was really good with me. It helped so much. She was really interested in Kaleo and was glad to see that I was willing to do something that scared me. (AKA Go down a hill properly) But the lesson turned out to help emensly.

We had a chapel each night which was really good. On tues night we discussed our names that were given to us on the SALTS ship. Some people got theirs changed, others just needed some encouragement about their name. I decided to mention how my name "eager" suit me a lot, and how I've been growing into the name "nurturer" through taking care of Kaelin and some of my youth girls. But then I decided to take a huge step by asking to see who put a name on my prayer sheet. There was a name someone wanted to give me. I don't remember exactly what it was, but it was something like broken wreck or something. It really hurt the day I saw that on my sheet and needed do know why that person thought that was good for me. Shannon told me that it was her, and she described why. Unfortunately it was true. There were some others that said stuff to about how I tend to hide, and dont talk much or express my opinion. And yeah that's true. After growing up with friends that did not treat me well I decided that hiding from others would give me less of a chance of being judged. And I used to speak up when I was younger, but my friends would always shoot me down and tell me that my ideas were stupid. Therefore, I stopped giving my opinion and eventually have just stopped talking almost alltogether. I have found that wherever I go whether here at kaleo, with my friends back home, or even my parents, I'm not heard. I speak but I get ignored most of the time. Over the years I have just stopped talking loudly and now find it hard to talk at all. I think that's part of the problem with talking to Jordan. I can't seem to talk because I'm scared of him judging me. Anyways, so it was good to hear that there is some things that I should change now, and that people here want to help. Sorry for the venting there.

But all in all the names took to chapels to go through, and it was good to say things and hear what others have to say. Wednesday we changed up our routene a bit and most of us hit up some snowshoeing, while 4 went X-country skiing, and the injured stayed back in the house. This was my most favourite day of the whole week. I really was expecting it to suck, but I absolutely loved it! We built like mini snow caves and then jumped on them and colapsed them, we ran around throwing snow at eachother, or if we were Jim we were throwing hearts, we slid and fell down hills as we ran down the mountain (I ran into a tree at one point hahaha) and we just hung out and had a blast!!! I really enjoyed it, here are a few picts from that.

Then thurs and friday it was back to skiing. It was extremely tiring, but so much fun. I am thanking God for letting the snow stay, and for keeping the majority of us safe.

This upcomming week consists of one day of class, and a lot of homework time with a few random things stuck inside the week. I have a few people that I need to talk to so it would be good to get prayer for those conversations that they go well and are positive. And as well for this summer. My application has been handed in and I'm really scared to see what God does with me this summer. But other than that nothing is really new. I am missing home a bit, but that is to be expected when I am tired and have a lot to do here. Thank you all for your support so far through the forst semester. Keep me posted on what you are doing, and leave me a note if you wanna. I love reading comments. Love you all lots! Take care