Our Weekend

This was a great week of teaching. In my NT class I taught on prayer and fasting using Jesus as an example. It was wonderful to have a concert of prayer and a day of fasting broken with sharing communion. Nate and I enjoyed leading the students in worship for chapel, and everything else just went great.

I was really excited about the weekend, though, because we had lots of fun things plannned. First we had game night with the high school students. We really got to have some laughs with them, which is great relationship building outside the classroom. Our favorite game is "telephone charades" where a person acts out a scene for another person, and they have to pass that message on until the fourth person interprets it. We had a blast with them!

Then, Saturday Nate and I celebrated with our friends, Micah and Rachel, who are flying to the U.S. this week to get married! Nate and the guys went out with Micah and ate by the ocean doing guy things (and not one picture was taken), while the girls and I went out with Rachel and took over 150 pictures! That is the difference between males and females!

That is not the only difference, of course, like we all got dressed up and wore boas on the town. We had some fun with Filipinos, and did some crazy things together as females. The funniest thing we experienced was when we went to the mall and were taking Rachel's picture with her fake tierra on. We told her she had to get a picture with her and 20 Filipinos together, so we saw a huge line of them standing outside the European bread store. After we took that picture we started to leave, but the people in the front of the line were calling her over to them. They thought she was actually a famous person and they wanted to meet her! That is the fun of being white--they thought she was a princess! The owner of the store even said we could take a picture of the place showing it was a European store in the Philippines. We had so many laughs as Rachel got a pose with all her fans!

All of this made me thankful for the memories of what a great wedding week Nate and I had 14 months ago today. We were surrounded by such great friends and family and made so many great memories! We're glad we were able to pass on the love to our friends as they prepare for their marriage! Praise the Lord for friends and fun!