30 Points - This has little to do with the contents of this post

So I've come to the conclusion that I am not a super amazing blogger in the sense that if you were expecting daily updates I have failed tremendously. I guess life here has just interfered with that a bit...so I really can't apologize.

But I must share with you that I have just had a life altering experience a few hours ago...apparently according the official Rummikub rules you only need 30 points to lay down and not 50. I'm still a bit in shock over this and if you have no idea what I'm talking about then you should go to the Munro household at pretty much anytime and you'll discover the reason...I just cannot believe it!!

Anyways I have been battling a cold for the past few days and can thankfully say that I almost 100% better just still slightly stuffy but hopefully that will pass soon. I blame one of the youth for my sickness...it's all his fault...just kidding.

I'm not quite sure where I left off last time so here's the run down of my activities since Friday.

Friday - Okay, I'm not sure if I mentioned this before and if I did I apologize, but about 2 weeks ago during a Wednesday morning prayer meeting and two women walked in for a meeting with a member of our church. The pastor of the church prayed in our meeting that these women would start to attend church there. Immediately after the meeting the church member lead them and said one of the women was looking for a church for her and her family to attend. There are a lot of things I've been praying about for awhile and God's given me the answer of wait. It was encouraging to see a prayer answered so quickly and know that God's timing is perfect. To be reminded He does hear my prayers and answer them. This woman has brought her children to church and came to the prayer meeting herself this past Wednesday. After prayer on Wednesday we were talking and it came up in conversation how she had to take an English test in order to be able to work in Wales (she's originally from Nigeria) and I mentioned how I was studying ESL. We met on Friday morning during the coffee morning outreach. It was neat to be able to see God use something that I didn't think I would be able to use here in Wales to help someone else. Friday afternoon I went to a school with Dottie to do a Bible Explorers program, which is a really fast paced lesson which covers a lot of Bible stories in an hour. It was fun to see the kids, many of whom don't attend church, get so into the telling of the Bible stories. In the evening we had game night with the youth. Cools kids (okay, they're not kids but I refer my friends at school as kids), fun games, and beautiful cookies (chocolate chip and m&m) as they were referred always means good times.

Saturday - Pentrebach Fun Day!! It's like a little caraval, or image a church harvest festival in the summer time with out pumpkins and hay rides. The weather was beautiful and warm - just way this Florida girl likes it. There were so many people and it was just a great time to fellowship and eat some really good food - which reminds me I still have the world's greatest cupcake in the frig to eat. My job at the fun day was to man the knocking of tin cans booth. I never got prizes to give the kids, but the kids just kept paying me money to knock down cans for no prize. They loved it. I would have preferred glueing the cans together myself. But it was fun to see the kids really enjoying themselves. I was exhausted by the time I got back, partly from being sick as well, and I went to bed before 8.

Sunday - I felt horrible in the morning, so I passed up an invitation to go swimming with some of the youth, which made me sad, to go back to the house and rest. I really needed some quality "Caitlin and Jesus Time," too. Let's just say the afternoon was refreshing. God allowed me some needed restoration both spiritually and physically, so that when I did go back to church the evening service I was feeling much better. We went to Coffee Shop, which has nothing to do with coffee or shopping, for a great Bible study and fellowship time with some people from other churches. Again another much needed blessing from God. I love being exposed to the new songs at the church, it was nice to sing a lot familiar ones there. God filled up yesterday when I was beginning to feel I was going dry.

And finally today I ventured with Dottie to Swansea, a city on the coast of Wales, where she had to go for a meeting. Rachel came down sick last night, so unfortunately she was not able to go with us. Please pray she gets better quickly. Following the meeting Dottie took me down to the coast and we walked along the shore for a bit. It was such a beautiful day. I just enjoyed getting to talk to her some and being at the water. I even got some cookies and cream ice cream...but not like I would normally eat it - it had vanilla cookies. It was good, but I do love oreos in it.

So there are the run down of my activities from the last few days. God is teaching me a lot, especially about trusting Him. I was reading in Luke this morning and my mind started to wander to the future. This had nothing to do with what I was reading, but if you know me you know how random and sporadic my mind is. I started thinking as I often do about where I'll be headed after May. I told my mom last night on the phone I'm afraid at the moment to say for certain that I want to do anything or go anywhere in particular because I feel I get so gung-ho about something and will consider no other possiblity and then something changes and I move onto some other idea and the cycle repeats. Right now I just don't where God wants me to go after graduation or even what He wants me to go. For so long I was convinced God was going to bring me back to Lake Placid, but now I'm not so sure. Maybe it is or maybe it isn't. I feel God is bringing me to a place where I will be willing to say yes to wherever He asks me. Am I convinced that I would yes to anywhere? No. But in my learning to trust God I know He will give me the strength. So who knows but Him where life will lead me in a few months.

As for now I'm in Wales in for another month. I pray I make the most of all He gives me here to do.

Grace and Peace!