God is cool.

Thank you for praying for my bug bites. They ate me when I spent four hours with Jennie at the Pointe last Thursday night. Totally worth it but next time we'll have to go indoors or at least be more covered. But Jennie is precious and we hadn't had time to catch up since before spring break. So again, totally worth it.

Friday morning I met with the Nakamuras and showed them around CIU and then took them to breakfast. It was great to spend time hearing about their ministry and sharing with them about what God has been doing in my life. Mitsu is doing translation work which was super amazing to hear about.

By midday on Friday I was about read to pass out and practically did on the lounge sofa outside of my office where Angela, Donna, and I were scheduled to have a meeting. Hanging out with them is always fun though.

Friday evening there was a huge Grad/Sem cookout at the Pointe with different international student ministries coming as well. I helped out for awhile and stayed and fellowshipped for about 2 hours. I love so many of these people - overwhelmingly blessed. But I was exhausted and headed home early.

Saturday morning I spent some amazing time with the Lord. It was rich and healing.

Saturday midday I met with Andrea and Jen, fellow TEFLers, and we went to the Columbia Museum of Art. It's free on Saturdays and there is an exhibit on Egyptian Mummies that they both had wanted to see. It was small but interesting, albeit kinda creepy. It was fun to do something out of the ordinary.

Saturday evening Sam and I went to an A Capella concert here at the school. We sat with the LeTexier's and Hannah sat on my lap for a good portion of it. My dear friend Rachel arrived and we talked well afterwards. So fun.

Sunday morning I took Melody to Temple Zion with me. She loved it. I loved it. I love her. And Jesus was praised. Christian was handsome with his books-of-the-Bible tie.

Sunday evening I picked up Mika and we headed over to grad. house #10 where Joshua was fixing Nigerian food! Jonathan was host, Marc and Holly came (Marc is a fellow TEFLer who reminds me of Dagwood Bumstead and I think he is absolutely adorable and Holly is his wife), Benito arrived (Filipino undergrad who makes me laugh soooooooo hard), and then Cannis (a grad who has preached before in grad. chapel and loves Jesus sooooooooooooooo much), and also Tim (an undergrad who wants to teach overseas so I was trying to persuade him to go to Chuuk). And we sat on the floor and ate with our hands!!!! It was sooooooo fun! I had a great time. I love them. Too bad Jonathan is the only one that will still be around next year. You don't understand how much I adore hanging out with these people. It was rich, rich fellowship.

So how could this be followed? Then Christian, Rachel, Noah, Ryan, and a few others showed up around 9 to have their normal Sunday evening prayer time. So Mika and I stayed for that. Um, yeah, obviously narlical.

Suffice it to say, I am exhausted. I seriously feel like I am overbooking my life now and need to slow down. On Monday I did stay at home all day but mostly worked out this huge presentation I had to do in class last night. Tuesday was prayer day which is always packed and then I had class in the evening. And today besides chapel and work, I was upposed to have coffee with a friend from last semester (although it ended up not working out but I went to Starbucks anyway and read), I had lunch with an undergrad from my small group Bible study, and after work I'm hanging out with Melody again (yes, I really do enjoy hanging out with her.)

God is wonderful... always.