My Experience So Far

Hey Guys! It's Nate, so my experience here has been so wonderful! Iliterally love it here. Okay so....On our way here everyone basically fell asleep when we got across the border. But when we got on the water taxi I was looking out at the water and got this sudden urge that I wasn't meant to be here that I needed to find a way home, not because I was already missing home(which I kinda was) but that I just wasn't meant to be here. That night Tim and I talked and he told me it wasn't God speaking but that it was Satan and that I needed to pray and talk with God, so before I went to bed I prayed, woke up had breakfast with the same feeling and then did my devotions, and when I finished my devotions, the voice in my head and heart was gone, I felt and knew my reason for being here and instantly i fell in love with the island and the people. God has been so great to me theses past few days! :) Also on Thursday night we went out to the beach and I looked to my left over to the moutains and I watched the sunset over the backside of the mountains and man was beautiful!

Friday we participated in the Ahousaht sports day games, with the canoe races, man was that fun, we really connected with the kids and everyone! That night we went to the game awards, and played more games like Kick The Feather, which is basically reverse Limbo and The Knuckle Hop, which is where you get into a up position of a push-up and have your knuckles on the ground and you hop to see how far you can go...it's so painful, one of the teenagers here ask me to be apart of it and I ended up going 38ft! That was Friday night and my knuckles still hurt from it and it's Monday morning.

Sunday was alot of fun, we held the sunday school for the kids, played a game of baskteball where I met two guys named Lauren and Gabe. After the game Lauren and I talked and he said I should come back and finish up my high school year here in Ahousaht. Sunday night the guys on our team got invited on a boat trip to go fishing by a man named Harvey. We caught six salmon, 5 regular sized salmon I would say and then a big one. When we got back to the dock Harvey gutted one of the fish, and then Spencer gutted some of them and so did ! :D haha it was awesome!! It's been so much fun, I'm excited for today and tonight. Today we have VBS for the kids and then tonight we have an outreach for the teenagers. Whoever reads this can you email it to my parents? I don't know if they know about the blog. Their email is nunatuna@comcast.net. Thank you so much!! Mom, Dad, L.B, Joe, Daisy, Punum I miss you all and hope your all doing well!! I love you guys and will write soon and be home soon :) again I really do love it here. This blog is in paragraph cause Alan said it looked like my life story and that I should put it in paragraphs, so...yeah.

Choo( Ahousaht for See you later)

Nate!