Good morning everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving! It is a big day here in the States!
Mission Builders, like myself, work all day in the kitchen so that staff and students can have the day off. My shift is from 9:45 - 3:00. Others were in the kitchen at 5:15!
Yesterday in the kitchen they were roasting 64 big turkeys (the birds, not us, although sometimes in there it feels like we are being roasted too. Uffda....shouldn't complain about the heat when back home it is -28, but.....)
Today I am thankful for an abundance of things, first of all, Jesus, who died for me, and loves me! And who loves all of you too and wants the best for all of us.
I am also thankful for.....
my wonderful family and friends
my church back home
KidFEST families and teachers
doves cooing outside my window
new friends that I have made here
friends that I am seeing again
finding friends that know my friends, (connections all over the place!)
underwater wonders that I can see while snorkelling
the ocean view out the window where I work and live
plumerias and hibiscus everywhere I look
the beautiful sunset and lightning storm we experienced a week ago up the biggest
mountain in the world, Mauna Kea
my Hawaiian friend, Jolee who lent me her convertible so I could get to hula worship
last Monday night at a church aways away
Macdonalds just 2 minutes away, where I will probably get my breakfast this morning
since I chose not to go to the base to eat
singing Christmas carols while we cut up veggies etc. in the kitchen
waving my flags at our Mission Builder worship time on Tues. evenings
group trips to WalMart on Wed. nights
sun and surf
quiet moments to read (rare but much needed)
an invitation from 2 young gals to join them for smoothies yesterday at lunch down
by the water
.....the list is endless!! So off I go to help serve well over a thousand people for Thanksgiving dinner today! I AM blessed to have 2 Thanksgivings! God is so good and so very faithful to his children, whether they be in Canada, Norway, Korea, US (Hawaii, etc.) Germany, Switzerland, etc.
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