Hello from Nelson! We are on the south island now and are at the second to last stop on the ship tour. We have about 2 more weeks until we have graduated from DTS, and I’m excited. I’m not excited to not see these people anymore or anything of that sort, I’m having such a good time with all of students and the crew and the staff, it’s an amazing group of people. And I’m not excited to leave the ship necessarily, well yea, I’m excited for that, I’m excited to get our own room. But I am so excited to get to go home, to see family and friends and have it be Christmastime. But let me tell you what we’ve been up to.
So we left you in Bali, well we arrived first in Timaru to connect up with the ship tour. Our job on the tour is to give tours to school kids during the week and then to give tours to the public on the weekends, these tours are really just that. We take a group around the ship and tell them about it, we walk through our life on the ship basically, it’s pretty good. We get to talk to the people quite a bit but I’ve found it hard to direct the conversation towards my outreach, simply because they are all interested in what the ship does which is go to Fiji and other islands and give medical care. So yea, that’s kind of different from what I was expecting, but it’s still good to talk to the people and they have some interesting questions sometimes. But yea, most of our days are free actually, so we’ve been able to do some hiking while we’ve been here, mostly in the last 2 days, but It’s been good. So after Timaru we sailed for 2 days to New Plymouth. And let me tell you that seasickness is very real and isn’t that much fun. I had a seasickness patch and that didn’t really work too well, Andy decided to go without taking any pills or drops or anything and he actually did ok. He still got sick, but not as quick as everyone else or as bad. But I did get sick very quick and the only thing that helps is to lay down or to go upstairs and get some fresh air and watch the horizon. Sailing was good though, I’m glad that we finally got to do it.
After New Plymouth we sailed to here and so that is where we are. All the ports seem very similar, we basically stay on the ship because nothing has really been in walking distance from the ship. So the days all seem the same, we just hang out on the ship all day and then at every port we have a bbq with the group and so yea, nothing is really jumping out to me about any of the ports. Although one day we did ministry time and I went to a school to just help out in a class which was good, but Andy went with Jon (one of the students) to a park and they ended up talking to this man for like 2 hours and it was a really good conversation and everything and then at the end like something crazy happened. The man apparently has some demons in him and they overtook him and yea. Andy and Jon had never seen anything like that happen before, they weren’t able to really pray for the guy but they tried to reconnect with him and he just told them to ignore that last thing he did (talking about the demon possession thing) and then he hung up, so he didn’t really want to have anything to do with them. So that was pretty crazy to have something like that happen.
So along with the ship tours that we give we also have this jump rally for kids to come to, it’s once a week that we do it and it’s just for the youth to come and we try to get them to go into missions. We have different things happen at these, we either have some bands, dancers, or yea, just entertainment for the kids. But we have this guy who is part of Team Extreme and he is huge. He is like 6’5” and he is like 320 pounds and yea, he’s pretty strong. So he like rips apart soda cans with his teeth and on his head and then he’ll bend steel bars in his mouth and yea, so it’s pretty cool. But yea, that’s pretty much what our ministry has been for the past couple of weeks. We’re having a really great time doing all this stuff and just being able to see the countryside of New Zealand but we can’t wait to get back home.
We appreciate your prayers and still ask that you continue praying for us.
Happy Thanksgiving, hope everyone had a delicious meal and remembered to be extra thankful today!
Andy and Heidi
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