It has only been a week in Gateway so far, but already my classmates feel like family. Nothing brings together a group of people like having classes and meals together, living together and sharing bathrooms, herding cattle and hunting scorpions.To the right is the first unfortunate victim of our scorpion wrangling. Little no-name showed up while many of us were hanging out in the family room, emailing or playing games. After much excitement, he made it safely into a mens-room toilet and down the drain.
About 30 minutes later we were ALL invited to one of the ladies bedrooms for a group scorpion hunt, which was successful as well.
During our tour of the property, we stopped briefly at a farm on the property, and the cowboy invited us all to help him herd cattle. Several of my "family" got quite excited at the opportunity, and we all enjoyed a tramp through the pasture guiding the cows while carefully avoiding fresh manure. On a side note, please continue to pray for rain, as we are still in a significant drought.
We've done quite a lot of discussion this week on spiritual warfare and looking at attributes of the God that we serve - a great encouragement to delve deep into topics that will significantly affect how and why we serve the people of West Africa.
In between classes we've had a few Texas style adventures, and I look forward to many more as we move into the next week of personal and interpersonal development :-)
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