Hello from Montana!

Hey Everyone!

I'm sitting in the library of the Lakeside, Montana YWAM base. This is quite the place. Basically I love it here. There are hundreds of missionaries being trained up and sent all over the world. The culture here is somewhat different then what most people are accustomed to. Everyone is international and everyone is well travelled. Put a few hundred of those people together and you got quite the mix!

Last night we went to one of the local pubs to watch the final game of the Stanley Cup playoffs. It was a sad result, but the game was good and the Oilers worked hard. But they lost. We were sitting right beside the owner of this little bar who was absolutely roaring drunk and at the end of the game he bought us all a round as consolation. We were thankful and we had a fun time with him. I had an even funner time watching some of the leaders of this base look uncomfortable because how do you refuse something like that? It would be incredibly insulting to the owner. So we all had a consolation pint. So funny. Quite a nice bar though... very steriotyipcal as to what you would expect.

Anyway, so far so good for the trip. I'm finding that I'm sleeping most of the time. I guess I was more tired then I thought. Andy and Bryan are out playing soccer with who knows who else on the base. I stayed in my room to play guitar a bit and then woke up a while later with the guitar in my lap. I hate it when I fall asleep and don't realize it.

And crazy randomness story of all time (these last two weeks have been WILD random meeting people that I know in random places). Yesterday we went into the dining hall for dinner and up runs this girl I know from Quebec and we stood there in shock because how do you expect that to happen? For those of you who know this girl is one of the sisters who have been to Harvest a bunch of times and who stayed with the Careys. Ellen is here! So we had lunch today because she has been missing the feeling of Canada and being "home".

Okay... I'm going to find Andy and Bryan now and try not to fall asleep in the process.