I know this is super late.....better late than never I guess!
This year is my first year spending Valentine’s day away
from home. I thought is was going to be entirely depressing and crappy with me
being away from the people I love, but boy oh boy was I wrong. This time, I was
glad to be wrong!
Our day started with a lovely breakfast with my small group
of girls. It consist of three amazing staff girls and 6 of us students. We
drank Hot chocolate and of course chocolate was on the main menu for our
gathering. We sat at a pic-nic table under a nice shade tree and shared stories
through a game.
We picked a handful of M&M’s and each color had a
specific question, so we went around and answered the questions. They were of
course good girl talk such as what is your idea of your perfect date. For any
wonderers of my answer, I am such a laid back girl, and enjoy walks down the
beach, or PJ and movie nights with a nice bowl of ice cream with hard shell
poured on top. But, for a really nice date it would be neat to have a new
outfit waiting on my bed with a note for me to get dressed and to be ready for
a night out. We would eat mind blowing delicious food, we would go somewhere
with some type of music involved for the night and ending with some place quiet
to hang out and chat, probably somewhere outside looking at the stars. We also
talked about our favorite chocolates, mine are milk chocolate Lindt and Resees!
We also chatted about what we are
missing from home and some struggles we are facing while here. It’s kind of
obvious, but I miss my family and close friends a ton! I didn’t realize how I
took for granted going to the grocery store with my mom or all of us being
musical in my brothers room. I miss long chats where time goes by so fast with
Katie. I miss getting routine Menchie’s with Stephanie. I also miss lunch dates
or chats on Amber’s bed. The list goes on and on but I’m so thankful for
memories! Some of the struggles I have had so far is seeing other people’s
gifts take off when I seem that God has been silent to me. I know in due time
He will work amazingly in me. There is one particular guy that has caught my
eye, but no need for too many details! I’m thankful that dating is not allowed
and that as the weeks have gone on I see him as more of a brother and see Jesus
as most important. To go back to our pic-nic, We also listed all of the amazing
things that God sees us as! We loved recognizing that embracing our feminine
hearts is so honoring to God and how he created us to be! After our small
group, I then had some free time. Some girls took off to town without me so I
ending up hanging out with three cool guys named Earvin, Greg, and Daniel. These guys are the three that are most like
brothers to me! They were telling me how they were hungry, so I showed them
some love by making them each a bowl of noodles and shared my last three glass
bottled cokes with them. They were so sweet calling me an angel and made me a
bouquet of flowers with the vase being a glass coke bottle! Shortly after that
we had a session then at the end of our session all of us girls were asked to
stand up at the front and each guy walked up and gave each of us girls a flower
and gave us a hug. They then proceeded in reading some verses and encouraging
us and honoring us as their sisters. It doesn’t stop there, at dinner all of
the girls got to go first, which is such a big deal because we often run out of
food towards the end of the line. Then after dinner we were served dessert by
the guys. I was also surprised by my small group leader with a sweet note and
with two huge bars of my favorite chocolate! The first being Lindt milk
chocolate and the second being Whitakers milk chocolate made here in New
Zealand!
My heart was overflowing and overwhelmed with my new family
here!
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