it's late, i know.

So this post is most definitely late, but oh well. I don't even know where to begin on this one...

So the day after I posted my last blog, I went home for a week! This was honestly such a wonderful time. It was great to reconnect with people and see where they were at. I got to have some great conversations with good friends about how they were doing in the Lord and the things that they were learning about God through their present experiences in life. And I also got to share what I am learning as well as learn from them. As always, I got to see my best friend, Alanna, and this was a much needed time. I just love hanging out with her and bouncing ideas and thoughts and such off of her. We always have wonderful conversations that end with me being challenged and her being challenged. It was great to see her because originally, I thought I wouldn't see her this break. However, she was having a hang out with another of my best friends and I ended up surprising the other friend, Elya, who had no idea that I was home by showing up at the hang out. She almost cried. It was brilliant! As well, I got to hang out with my friend Leslie at her place and one of her roommates, Lonnie, is a friend of mine as well so I got to see them and laugh hysterically with them (more like watch them laugh hysterically, repeatedly), and just catch up on life.

Another cool thing that happened this break was that the friend I mentioned above, Elya, got engaged! It was really sweet to be at home when this happened cause whenever anything in her relationship has happened, I've been at camp. This time though, the big one, I was home!! YAY! So now we're in wedding planning mode and it's really cool to see how a wedding comes together!

I feel like this week wasn't super spiritually charged. I think that's a problem cause I feel like that happens when I go home on break. And so I think I'm a bit concerned that this will happen when I go home for good. I really hope not.

Something I did do, though, is make a decision about next year. I have been waffling for so long, but I think that as long as I get accepted, I'm going to go to UBC next year. I had so hoped that I could go to Briercrest, but I think I realized that I was mainly going for the community (which is not a bad thing), and something that Jim talks about here is each of us finding or creating another Kaleo when we leave. I think that it is important that I create or become a part of a good, Christian community at home and pour myself into that and not just go where I think it'll be easier to create that because I already know people and such. As well, being at a secular university will give me a missions field to work on right from the get go. And I get to stay home and be with friends and see what home holds for next year! I'm really excited about it but also kind of scared that I'm making the wrong choice. I think that I just have to have faith that the Lord will make it clear if it is wrong, but that I need to proceed faithfully. God will work wherever I am!

Huh, I guess there was a bit of spiritualness to my break...

Prayer request time!!

Please pray for the Kaleo leader, Jim, and his family. His father has just passed away so they are dealing with the loss right now and adjustments that need to be made.

Please be in prayer for my trip to Argentina (and the other missions trips too). We leave in about a week and a half for Argentina and India, and two weeks for Vancouver/Ucluelet. I definitely just realized that I leave a week from Monday and now I'm a little anxious that I am not prepared so please pray for that. Pray for unity for the teams and for hearts to be prepared both in the Kaleos and in those that we will encounter

Please pray for us as this year is coming to an end. Pray that we would be able to finish well and be the community that God wants us to be. Pray that we wouldn't squander this time but that we would cherish it and be thankful for it and use it to the fullest.

Thank you so much!

Blessings,
Holly =)