Day 52– Aug 20, 2005, Saturday: Camping

This morning we prayed about what God wanted us to do today. When have 10 people on the team that are a regular part of the prayer (3 of the kids are too young and impatient most times). Of the 10 of us, 5 felt that we should clean house a bit more and 5 felt that we should go walk through town and pray, prayer walking it’s called. So we split up. I actually wanted to stay and clean because there are a few cool projects that I wanted to do on the house, but when I prayed I felt that God wanted me to go pray for the town, so off I went. Ruth and the kids stayed and fixed up the house more. Megan, Amy and I went to town and started praying. It was pretty cool just walking through town and praying for whatever you saw. We ended up going to the Hospital. I was thinking of the name Margaret while we were outside the hospital. I figured maybe I would pray for someone by that name. We were all a bit skittish about going in, but we decided that if God wanted us in, he would open the doors. We went and asked if there was anyone there we could pray for. They showed us right in and told us where to go. There were about 20 old people doing exercises in a room. It was a sort of rest home. The exercises were mostly lifting hands and feet while sitting, mellow stuff. So we went in and started talking with a few people. I first sat down with Maggie. I sort of wondered if it was short for Margaret, but couldn’t get a straight answer. I talked with her a bit. She was so sweet. She has lived here in Kohala her whole life, and has one son. I asked if I could pray for her and she smiled so big and was so happy. It was really cool. We each had a good time there and then had to boogie home to make it in time for lunch.

At about 2:00 Jim and Debbie (our hosts) came and picked us up to go camping with them. We aren’t spending the night because we don’t have tents and it rains every night here. We stopped on the way at the Pololu valley lookout. It was really cool. Then we drove up the hill to a little 12 acre parcel that they lease. There is a little river next to the camp site that fills into Kamehameha Pond. We all jumped and swam and climbed the waterfall. It was great. We also cooked burgers over the fire and hung out until about 9:00 at night. We all really enjoyed it. Jessie found a stick bug there and played with it for hours. Jonny had a small stick bug too, but it quickly got it’s back leg smooshed, so we had him set it free. The Youth group was there as well, so Jonny hung out with all the big boys, gathering wood, playing in the tent. He loved it.

Here are some shots of us playing in Kamehameha Pond. lots of jumping, climbing waterfalls etc.

Below is the sunset. nice huh?