The saying "Clear your mind like an open wheat field" has suddenly become clear to me ... Although I have been to Saskatchewan before, I have to admit I have never seen anything flatter in my entire life! I swear we kept driving in circles on the way here because the sight out my window every hour looked exactly the same as the hour before! I think we've past about 20 combines on the highway so far since we got here yesterday ... talk about farm land! It's a beautiful place, but being a ski lover, I would never survive living here!
So the bus trip here took about 32 hours straight driving from Hamilton through the states. Surprisingly, we all got along really well, even 30 hours into the trip! There was a lot of sleeping sprawled out on the floor of the bus that's for sure! It was funny to walk into a gas station and ask "Excuse me, what city are we in? And what state is that in??" hahah .
I'm finding that people in Saskatchewan are all very nice. I've learned that Southern Sask is very much an openly religious society. Today during our show at a public school, God was mentioned twice by the teachers who introduced us. Also, one of the teachers came up to our leader Johnny and said "Thank you for sharing your testimony!" even though Johnny never even mentions God in it, they were able to tell that it was his testimony. Lots of the kids explained to us that they have been on missions trips with their youth groups, and in fact the school invited two of the local youth pastors to come watch the show!
Tonight we're spending the night in one of the other School of Leadership girl's house which is really cool because she's on the team that's in Mexico right now, so we got to skype her with her family!
Our show tomorrow starts at 1:00, which means we get to sleep in a while! :)
Thanks for reading everyone!
God is being so gracious :)
I can't believe you got to SK so quickly! :) We have great memories there. I had to smile when you said "I could never survive living here"...Cynthia, don't you know that you never say "never" with God? You may have just signed yourself up to live in SK one day...hahaha
ReplyDeleteI've literally never heard that saying until now, when you said it.
ReplyDeleteOh, and it should read "I think we've PASSED about 20 combines", not PAST
ReplyDelete"past" is the state of being beyond something, so I can understand where you'd get confused. But you want the word "passed" (a homonym, so don't feel too badly), which is the past-tense of the verb "to pass".