Kua Bay Kind of Day

TGIF!  Wow.  Are you stoked it's the weekend!?  I am.  I have had a very long, exciting! but long week and I am stoked to kick it back.  I actually get to hang out with some of my greatest friends from all around the world this weekend.  We have just spent the past 6 months with each other.  Paraguay, New Zealand, England, Germany, Korea, America... and the list goes on.  It's so incredible having friends from different countries & cultures.  It makes lives so much more fun & interesting & you look SO much!

So this is a 1/2 selfish, 1/2 selfless blog to kick off the weekend ;).  I want to share with you what we are doing this weekend, but in my heart of hearts, I know it's impossible to be jealous. haha.  BUT! You always have a place to stay if you want to visit Hawaii, right?  So that is a perk.
We are getting to spend all day on Saturday at Kua Bay, or more commonly known as, Mile 88.  Clear blue water, usually clear blue skies, the weather is perfect and the sand oh-so-fun... especially when you have great friends to share it all with!

I am definitely excited and feeling overwhelmingly blessed to have the life that I have.  The Lord is faithful every step of the way!

Live it up this weekend, do everything in love, and remember:
the Creator of heaven & earth and all living thing desires your heart.
Love...

The Simple Things

CA --> Seattle --> Kona :) One. Happy. Girl.

 It's the simple things in life that create the biggest joys in your heart, atleast that's the way it is for me.  I made it back to Kona, Hawaii!!  praise his name.  The traveling wasn't quite that bad, but I don't think it would have even mattered.  As soon as we landed and I saw my beautiful friends faces, everything was perfect.  We ended the night with a pizza & cake party and just enjoyed the presence of one another.  My heart was satisfied.  I have made it, successfully & joyfully!  I have learned so many lessons within these last 6 months.  Some of them were fun learning, and some were not.  But regardless of what happened in the midst of it, I have come out victorious... because I have been created to walk victoriously & overcome, because the over-comer of all lives inside of me!  It is a good day isn't it!?  I couldn't be more happy :).
I missed some things being away from Kona... I thought I'd share them with you!

The Prayer Room here on the Kona Campus

 My amazing friends & basically family here!

Mile 88 (Kua-Bay) --> Best beach in Kona!

So there's my day & I am so excited for the packed week ahead of all of us.  Happy Monday to you!
Love...

Blessed: divinely or supremely favored; fortunate

bless·ed

   [bles-id; especially for 3, 7 blest]

adjective

3.  divinely or supremely favored; fortunate: to be blessed with a strong, healthy body; blessed with an ability to find friends. 

Wow... I have no idea how to write you, all I know to say is I am blessed!  To the core of my being I feel spoiled by Jesus!!  For the past 6 months I have been staffing a school named Call2All with YWAM.  And for the past 2 months I've been leading a team here in Orange County, California.  And we have made it!  This week was our debrief week, where we relax, thank the Lord for all He's done, bless each other, relax some more, & have fun!  So for our relaxing part we went to Skinsations Spa in Tustin, CA.  And let me tell you, it was everything I could ever dream up.  Personal robes & sandals, hot or cold sweet tea, personal bath, everything candle lit, an hour facial, an hour massage, AND a nap room!  I felt so spoiled with my girls.  We had such a blast being there, and giggling like 5 year old's.  It was just what we all needed (and of course wanted, hehe).

Then as I told you yesterday, we headed off to Universal Studios Hollywood.  AGAIN! I felt like a kid.  We went on rides from the Simpsons, to Jurassic Park, to 4D King Kong.  We took a tour of where many of the Stages for filming are, and found out many fun secrets.  We watched a live show with actors from CSI & Pirates of the Caribbean in it.  We filled our tummies with Dippin Dots & Frosty Lemonades.  Like I said... so fun.  All of these things were completely amazing, but what was the best was sharing it with my amazing friends.  Erin, Rami, & Rosey are some of the most incredible women I have ever met.  It's been such a privilege leading them, growing with them, learning from them, walking hand in hand, side by side, through the good & the bad, the happy & the sad, and claiming victory at the end of a season.  There is nothing like sisters in Christ & I am so proud of them!!

Needless to say, it has been a fantastic week with fantastic people.  Now! Off to packing my bags and getting ready for the trip home to Kona!  I will talk to you lovely readers soon.  Say a safety prayer for us if you think about it.  God bless!
Love...