01.12.14.

It's a very exciting week.

Actually, that's an understatement.

More like, it's been the best week I've had in a long long time.
It was very fulfilling, and God-filled too.

1) I asked for rest and that's what I got. I slept well the entire school week, and went to class feeling energized pretty much every day. I went to all my classes, didn't fall asleep in any of them, and learnt something out of each one.

2) A missionary from Peru came to visit P2C this week. Having Thursday and Friday afternoons off, I got to go on a prayer walk and to go evangelizing with this missionary. We developed a really good friendship, learnt a lot from each other, and were able to see the needs of the campus. God laid on both of us a heart for the different faculties and their struggles in relation to making God known, and we prayed a lot. It was such an amazing experience to share with a missionary, despite having language barriers (she speaks Spanish). It's stunning how much non-verbal communication  means. I also got to improve my Spanish at the same time!

3) On the missionary's final night, we had dinner at my P2C counsellor's house, so that we could share a Peruvian dinner together and pray for the needs of that country. The missionary told us of the brokenness of the university students in Peru, and how they were looking for satisfaction and fulfillment in all the wrong places (academics, graduating, boyfriends, etc.) She told us about a missions trip that was happening in Peru this coming May (like 4 months from now) and how as a P2C group, all of us were invited and eligible to go. The needs of Peru really touched me, and it was then, at dinner, that I decided I wanted to go on this missions trip in May. Of course, there was still an application process to go through, as well as getting permission from my parents and such.

4) Friday night was P2C's social night since our actual fellowship time got moved to Sunday nights now, so in light of that and the fact that it was the missionary's last night in Kingston, we took everyone skating! It was such a cool experience to see many of the international students in our group step foot on the ice for the first time. Seeing their faces light up as they began to understand how the sport worked was joyful, and everyone just had an all-around wonderful time!

5) On Saturday night, I called up my parents, telling them about my desire to go on the missions trip to Peru. THEY ACTUALLY LET ME GO! I was so shocked. I was pretty sure they were going to say no, but in reality, they were actually quite supportive and encouraging. They warned me of the many things I would encounter that would be foreign to me, and how the experience may be harder than what I'm expecting. They told me to start on the application process, and I'm so ready to get on that as soon as I can!

6) God blessed me with a pet fish. I've been wanting to get a fish since I moved into residence last September (2013), but my parents were saying how it would be very time-consuming to take care of, and having to go through the hassle of going into town to get a tank, supplies, and then go back after a few weeks of the tank being cycled to get a fish was just too much. But I didn't give up and I didn't lose hope. I kept praying, wanting a pet, a companion. Eventually, after God taught me a full semester's lesson of patience, he blessed me with a fish! There was a girl selling her pet beta fish on "Free and For Sale", a FB group within Queen's university, because she wouldn't be able to care for her fish this coming summer. I took up the offer, and now have a very happy and healthy beta fish sitting on my desk beside me as I write this post! He definitely keeps me very occupied, but he's a happy little guy and I'm just filled with so much joy when I wake up to see him swimming around every morning!

And that's my amazing week! It's really been amazing seeing how much God can do in a person's life in just one week, and I can't wait to see what the upcoming weeks this semester will bring!