You make oceans from the rain
Breathing life into this place
And I will drown inside your love
Until I see your perfect face

And nothing I’ve acquired means anything at all
Cause you’re everything I needed
You’re so much more than I deserve

And I thank you Lord
The blood of Jesus can wash your pain away

-Seventh Day Slumber

well we leave in about a day and a half for furlo!!!! life has been crazy and we’ve been packing tons and freaking out cuz we have too much stuf and yah…basically, its been chaotic. my bestest friend came back from furlo and we have been saying goodbye each day to more and more friendz who are leaving on furlo. half my class is leaving this year which is sorta annoying for everyone staying here. life here is less than boring when it comes to hellos and goodbyes.

i am very much looking forward to being in america this next year. i will be going to parkwood high school in waxhaw, north carolina. one of my girlfriendz is also gonna be on furlo in waxhaw and we will both be going to parkwood next year which is VERY nice. i am sooo psyched to see my brothers, neice, cousins, grandparents, friendz, wal-mart, the ocean. i am also totally psyched to drink real milk, eat real icecream and yah….just do american stuf! (whatever that is). it’s gonna be a slightly spastic year, but i have a hunch that it’s also gonna be really really amazing. so you probly won’t get another posting for a while until we settle in a bit after the LONG flight. which btw, i am sooo dreading…heres the deal…we fly to port moresby on monday the 18th, spend the day and night, fly out at like 6:30 to brisbane, australia, spend the day there and fly to sydney at nite, spend the nite, and fly to los angeles the next day, then to chicago, spend the nite and then to ma brother’s house on thursday the 21st. dont ask how all the time stuf works cuz i don’t get it either.

so u can be praying for a safe trip and that our bags will arrive with us and that we will settle in and just have fun! i will miss my friendz and the simplicity of life at ukarumpa, seeing the southern cross every nite, and just the beauty of my home, but i am really looking forward to a fresh start this year.

love you all lots. catcha on the other side of the world

~the angel with buzzing wings

 on thursday of last week, i had minor surgery on my leg for a birthmark that could potentially be cancerous so they decided to cut it off. it took about 5 shots of numbing stuf and about 8 stitches. so yah im trying to be calm and not rip the stitches out but it’s getting annoying. only 8 more days though and i get the stitches out. my mom says i am patriotic because the stitches are blue, and my blood is red (duh) and my skin is white! lol.

trying to pack for furlough, but it’s not working so well. today i went through and got rid of tons of my clothes and i still have too many. sigh. only 4 more weeks of school left and 5 more weeks until we leave.

life is good, mostly i am just having fun hangin with ma friendz before we all hafta say goodbye…so not looking forward to that. some alumni came back to visit so that’s been cool seeing them.

one of my best friendz, carter, is on a missions trip to different places in asia. (he’s already graduated). anywayz, it’s been really cool hearing about everything he’s been experiencing and everything God is teaching him. he was saying how while he was in mongolia, their team got to play with a bunch of little kids who were so bright and happy and running around yelling things in mongolian. they couldn’t understand each other but carter said it was really cool to be able to show them God’s love even though they couldn’t speak the same language. he said “love doesn’t speak a language, love is a language” and i thought that was really cool and something that we deal with a lot as missionaries. it’s cool to be able to hang out with people that don’t speak the same language as you, yet you can still show them Jesus’ love. (you can check out carter’s blog at www.carterbandy.blogspot.com) 

well, cheers my friendz. hang in there and never be afraid to do something completely crazy.

~the buzzing angel

 

I’m falling on my knees
Offering all of me
Jesus, You’re all this heart is living for

Broken, I run to You for Your arms are open wide
I am weary, but I know Your touch restores my life
And so I wait for You so I wait for You

by Kathryn Scott

life has been really rough the past few weeks and it’s definitely taking its toll on me. but God is faithful and i am learning to rest in Him.

 today is 57 days until furlough. it doesn’t seem like much time at all, yet it seems to be taking forever. i am more than ready to fly away and see my brothers and friends. i am missing them more than i thought possible right now.

 with term 4, comes many hard goodbyes. i can already feel the atmosphere building around school and amongst my friends. it’s the hardest thing about life around here. its so bad it makes me wish i had never come to PNG in the first place. i am dreading the day when i will be forced to say goodbye to so many friends who have meant so much to me.

at soul purpose today, one of the hostel dads was talking about how we are gonna have tough times in our life, when we will find obstacles in our life and we cannot see a way to avoid them. he used the analogy of bridges, as in PNG we come across those a lot. and sometimes, the bridges we find are not always secure and sometimes they are falling apart and we wonder how we will ever make it across. and he was saying how we each need to build bridges in our life to make it across hard times. we come across a big obstacle in our life and there seems no way to get around it…so we have to build a bridge. and that bridge has to be well grounded in faith. he also reminded us that each bridge we make has a beginning and an end. we may not see the end and we may not understand why we have to begin. but the truth remains….God is there, He is faithful, and He does bring an end to every trial we go there. it was a good reminder, as we look to the end of the school year, to many hard goodbyes and other things we may face in our lives.

keep it real ya’ll….

‘kissing the pain away’ -the buzzing angel

“You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.”

 heard from my long lost brothers the other day…which was kool and rare, they have such busy lives!

God’s been teaching me a lot lately…about patience, about my life and where he wants me right now although it may not be where i necessarily want to be. about him. about how totally amazing and wonderful he is that i don’t even get it..how i am so stubborn and so used to this world that he seems so surreal.

enjoying break, relaxing and just chilling. it’s nice to take a breather before finishing off the school year. its hard to find strength and motivation sometimes so its good to have a little boost in the middle. im still planning on doing track next term as long as my knee holds up!!!

read an amazing book recently - When Dreams Come True by Eric and Leslie Ludy…..really really really good!!! highly recommend it.

really tired so thats all for now. i miss you all terribly. much love from the buzzing angel!

vale la pena - it’s all worth the pain

but, on a side note, i found out about a week ago, that another of my best friendz is leaving png, forever at the end of this school year. nate. yup so that makes 4 of my classmates leaving. forever. major bummer. thats the hard part about living here. but life goes on.

2 more days of skul then im free for like, 3 weeks. woopdeedoo. last break until the end of the skul year.

thats all i feel like writing right now. im extremely tired so i think i might go sleep.

peace ya’ll.

 

on the 15th of February, my neice, Esther Kaylee Martin was born! she is such a cutie!

then, last weekend, we had a sports tournament with numonohi, the mission school about 2 hours from us. it was a blast watching the guyz play basketball and the gurlz play soccer together. lots of fun and i got a massive sunburn. but that’s almost all healed now so that’s good. last saturday, we watched a copy of the superbowl that someone sent here, so yes, all of us on the other side of the world finally got to find out that the colts won the superbowl! yeah!

then, on sunday i got to watch one of my gurlfriendz get baptised in the dirty and muddy Ba’e River. it was pretty kool.

i was sick on tuesday and stayed home from school and slept mostly the whole day. it was nice to get a little extra sleep for once.

last nite, friday, we went to see the school play You Can’t Take it With You. it was pretty funny. after the play, i hung with my friendz and watched a bit of Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail. that is, like the most retarded movie ever created, but hey sometimes you gotta watch something really stupid, right?

the past few days i have had horrible allergies (thanks to blooming red grass) plus i have a really bad sore throat, so i’m just chilling at home.

tomorrow, 11 kids are getting baptised in the river, so the youth will have a service out there, then youth group at nite, and then, monday its off to school. again. but hey, school is almost out!!! and then only one more term of middle school. rock on.

im really looking to furlough, so much so that i often can’t concentrate in school. therapy is going well, and hopefully i should be able to start jogging/running in a few weeks, which of course makes my world 10 million times brighter.

i posted some new pictures on flickr, including one of esther, in case any of you are interested.

much love to you all, hang in there and remember to live life to it’s fullest.

~the buzzin angel

(my birthday is in 26 days in case you want to know… and if u don’t wanna know, too bad cuz now you know)

valentines day was yesterday….hope you didnt forget, cuz it’s too late now…..anywayz, dont forget to spread the love around….no matter what the date is…..

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.