Free Time-What?

Aha! Finally a moment to spare to update you friendly folk back home as to what i have been up too. I think it will be a fab idea to start off with a fun little story from two weekends ago...It was a dark, windy night(total lie, it was clear and still)(Saturday, by the way), and my school mates and I are on a tretchorous journey to the Great Teacher of the New Age (the cinema), to view the teaching (film) entitled 'Expelled'. On route to the cinema i developed some extreme pain in my abdomin and the nether region (male region). Oops i may have failed to mention that parental guidance is advised for younger viewers...but not really...but maybe...but not so much. Anyway! So on arrival i decide to visit the public loo to check out what the heck is going on! Too my rank disbelief i discover that i am in pain in a place i have never wanted to be in pain in, in all my life! (Please note the excessive use of the word 'in' in the last sentence). On leaving the public loo, i hastely informed my leader of the afformentioned pain, and he, being a he, expressed his immediate concern and advised we make a trip to the emergency room. (Yes the emergency room, the same emergency room i had been in no more the 7 days prior to this particular night). I should mention at this stage that i am having trouble walking due to the pain. i should also mention that my girlfriend Natalia is on my arm helping me make it to the car (it was at this stage that i realised the closeness of our relationship). So we make it to the emergency room where i have to, much to the delight of Nat and my leader, explain my condition to the receptionist and then the nurse. Yes giggling did occur, but sympathy was also expressed by the male nurse. I get admitted and wait for my official 'inspection' from the doctor. Yes that was fun, but had received a similar inspection the previous week. The horrific blow to my self-asteem, however, was still to follow. The doctor informed me that it would be neccessary to do an ultra sound. This space is to illustrate the thoughts that went through my mind right then. So i'm going to spare you the details, well except to say one thing...awkward. So it turns out that there was no serious problem (could have fooled me), but i was given a pill and told to go home. the next morning i was fine and have been fine ever since. I am also happy to report that i just made it through this final weekend without going to the hospital, that would be my first hospital free weekend since starting the school. I hope that story was not to shocking, and i hope you saw the humor in it as did i.

So other than that exciting little gander not much has happened. Pretty much i read, eat, write essays, sleep. In fact lets do a typical day in the life of Sean: 6am-Wake up and start reading set bible reading; 8am Quiet time; 9am lectures start; 12:30pm lectures end and lunch starts; 1:30pm read 1 of 3 set books; 5pm-6pm dinner and clean up; 6pm read 1 of 3 set books; 10pm sleep. Somewhere in there i have to write 1-2 essays a week. We also have worship once a week and group prayer once a week. We are encouraged to attend a church every week and somehow i managed to throw in some talking to class mates and my girlfriend. We are encouraged to take a Sabbath, which i do in full gusto. It is usually spent having extended time with God, and time with my girlfriend. In all this however i am learning SO much. I am really learning to love God with my mind, and learning really and truely what it means to love God with my whole life. We are so programmed by the world through education, the media etc, that we wind up reading the Bible through the grid of the world, instead of viewing the world through the grid of the Bible. One could say i am learning too truely view the world with Jesus goggles.

This last week i was MOST fortunate to fit in my first sessions, which was great just to get my mind off things and chill out with my class mates and God. Nat and i have spent our one Sabbath in a mall running around like children and having our photo taken with a kidney. The other Sabbath we had a picnic and went to Jack in The Box (fast food place) as they haven't invented the greatest thing since space travel and peanut butter...CURLY FRIES!!! Yup fries that are not straight but are curly and full of flavour!!!!

If you wish to pray for me please pray for: 1) My health (need i say any more); 2)Spiritual protection. I have been battling to sleep with bad dreams and fear, as have others in the guys house. Also one of the guys, Taylor, was being pulled off his bed by no-one. We have been praying but please jump in on this one. The town we stay in is full of hippies and bhuddists and stacks of weird things so we are in constant battle. 3) That God would soften my heart to what He is teaching me and that my learning would begin with my own heart and life first. 4) John, one of my team mates, still needs some funds so please lift him up in your prayers.

Thanks! I really miss you lads and lasses, and think of you often. You will be in my prayers. Love you! Apparently the Stormers could make the semi's....I LEAVE FOR 1 MONTH AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!!! Much love and peace! Yours in Christ. Sean.

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