Unkown boredom?

Do you ever start a conversation with someone and there’s so much to talk about yet you’ve no idea what to say?

Well, that’s where I am at right now. I even thought that writing out these sentences would help me figure out where I could start but that’s not even helping.

Perhaps I’ll mention cultural acclimatization - I am getting very used to being here in Switzerland, so much so that even the European style computer keyboards have become second nature and now the North American one is difficult to use. I’m comfortable with the shops in town, the buses, the train. I feel like I know this place. For me, that’s a double edged sword. Yes it’s good that I’m comfy here and at ease which means I am not distracted from the school and ministry. On the other hand I’m a stir crazy person and can feel myself growing in “boredom.”

I put the quotes around boredom because I’m not getting bored. I have heaps to do and I’m being challenged , but part of the challenge is perseverance. Being able to continue within a busy schedule, constantly adding new things to it and serving at a level worthy of the king. It’s tiring for me and would be much easier if I was in a new environment with all this new and crazy stuff coming at me.

You might say that the honeymoon stage is over for me and Switzerland. Been here, done that, what’s next? But there’s something to be said for really knowing a place. It would take me AGES to totally know this country and even then I wouldn’t know it as well as someone who was born and raised here.

So perhaps bored is the incorrect work, excited for what lies ahead…yeah, more adventure, steeper peaks to climb greater obstacles to overcome. Yeah, I ain’t bored, I’m ready to up the ante….Anyone else with me?

Snowboarding and Love

Well I'm in the apls, and the swiss alps none the less and God has once again provided for not just my needs, but my wants. This time it's my desire to go snowboarding that He has helped me to accomplish by providing a seasons lift pass. Go God.

Not only that but a friend of mine will not be around much this season due to money mooning and military service so he's letting me use his board. That might not seem like much seeing as I have my own board, but when you start looking at things like type of board, how their built and what style they are good for riding, then it defenitly becomes noteworthy. On my friend's board I can set my bindings to a stance that is wide and comfortable for me which I would not do on my other boards.

I am so blessed to be in the mountains where it barely stops snowing for almost two weeks, and then clears up into a beautiful bluesky powder day. Even if that blue bird day is cold beyond reckoning, the fluffy untraked powder makes it worth while. And when that blue bird day happens on one of the two days that you get a chance to ride in the morning...words can not describe.

Then what happens next on that day is the free screening of a brand new snowboard movie. And not just any snowboard movie, but the one that really reaches my heart, a movie that is all about back counrty riding and splitboarding; taking big mountain riding to the next level. Now one of the sweet parts about this movie is that I read about it in a magazine, and then got some friends excited about it and we started talking about how we could buy it online and before we got a chance we discovered the free screening. And it was just in time for my birthday, and they gave out free popcorn and it was amazing.

Why am I writting about all this fun stuff I'm doing while living as a missionary? Well it because I've been asking God to teach me more about His love. How does He love me, how do others show love for me that I don't notice. How I am to love myself and others and most importantly how I am to love the Lord my God. This fun stuff is stuff that I really appreciate, and draw energy from, it's lovely.