Wednesday of this week was the halfway point for the summer. It seems impossible to imagine that my classes are halfway finished already and that I'll be leaving 4 weeks from tomorrow. But as I look back and compare what I knew at the start of the summer with what I know now, the fact that it's been only 5 weeks is rather impressive. I've been having some discussions about joining Wycliffe and I believe that God is leading me in this direction. As I've written before, I've been impressed by everyone here that works for SIL/Wycliffe and for what the organizations stand for.
But I'm learning more than just linguistics here. Today I had the privilege of leading worship for chapel. It was my first time ever doing that and somehow I got signed up for a praise chapel, which means we spent the whole time singing songs instead of just singing two. I was a little worried about our musical quality, but more concerned that I would be too caught up in a performance mentality to worship. But I prayed that God would meet me while playing and usher me into his presence, and I really do feel like I was able to worship this morning, and since that was the entire point, I don't really mind if there were a couple of mistakes that snuck in.
And then there's the cooking. We still have the communal meals going on and I cooked for 16 people on Thursday. It's pretty fun to get to saute onions in two large skillets at once and to cook 4 pounds of pasta at a time. The community here is just amazing, with so many different people who have been all over the world. There's never a lack of interesting stories to go around.
But all that being said, work is definitely beginning to pile up with several classes having term projects that are now coming into play. One of them is a practice, but still realistic, survey proposal I'm writing for the island of West New Britain in Papua New Guinea, and for the other one I don't even know what I'm doing yet, which is of course part of the problem. But I think I'll get it ironed out during this next week.
Well I guess that's a glimpse of what's going on. The picture here is from a hiking trip we took last weekend while camping. The hike was pretty challenging for me, being very steep, but definitely worth it in the end as the view was amazing. British Columbia is a beautiful place. The combination of mountains and oceans is just spectacular. Keep praying for me as I go about my school work and continue to seek God's will for my life!
Aaron
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