Hey there people,
Well I guess its time I give a final post for the Albania trip. I not going to give you an account of what happen in the last few days in Albania cause others have done enough of that.
First of all I would like to thank everyone for their support. For those who supported financially, those through prayer, those through encouragement, those who showed an interest, and of course the ever-faithful blog readers. The other thank you that needs to be said it to the Murray and Fey Cotter. Thank you so much for making this opportunity available to us. Thanks for all the hard work you put into the trip both prior to leaving and while we were over there. You did an amazing job of keeping us all together and in one piece. So a big THANKS all round!!
The trip to Albania was an amazing experience and heaps of fun. I guess one of the things I liked about it was the incite it gave me on missions. Going onto the mission field is something I would like to do in the future, in what context I am not sure, but this trip gave me some ideas on what it is like, what it involves and what I could expect.
One of the key things I learnt in my time over there was realising God’s control over things and learning to rely on him. We can do everything we can to make things work but in the end God is the one who makes things happen. We may have some idea of how we think things should work, but God’s ways are much higher than ours. He has everything so perfectly moulded and planned that the best thing we can do is it try get in line with this plan. The analogy that comes to mind is the potter and the clay. God is the amazing artist who knows how the clay should be and how it should be put together. The best thing we can do is to be ‘good clay’ and let us, our plans, and our ways, be moulded by God.
Some of you will know that I had to come home early for my sisters wedding. Well that was an awesome time and well worth coming home early for. It was a very special but relaxed day, with a great dance party after the reception. Now I officially have a brother in-law. Rachel came back from Oz for the wedding and a 10 day holiday which was great. She did really well meeting all of my rather large extended family in one day. We had a really good few days here in the Bay, pity the weather wasn’t what it has been the last week though. Now I am at working here for Opus in Tauranga. I am coming to the end of my second week and I can say it has been really good so far. I wasn’t looking forward to going back to much, but it have enjoyed.
Well, that’s about all for me. For those of you how are coming to my North Island 21st celebration/Albania report back on the 5th February, I look forward to seeing you there. For the rest of you, I’ll either being seeing you in Christchurch in February or whenever we meet again. Until next time….
God Bless,
Tony
