What an Adventure...

I am currently in Palmer, Alaska and will be here for the next few days before going back to Anchorage for our first VBS. The past few days have been crazy, stressful, and amazing all at the same time. The week in Kodiak was incredible. I will begin on Sunday afternoon. We went to church at Frontier Baptist which was really awesome. After church David told us that some ladies from another booth had moved into our spot at the festival and were refusing to leave. This was quite odd considering we had helped these ladies save their merchandice just the previous evening during the bad weather. This was quite frustrating to everyone. So we graciously tried to find another spot, and did so in the midst of the carnival going on at the festival. It turned out to be a much better spot, and we ended up bringing two people to Christ. Praise the Lord!!! It just shows you that God works in all things. There were hardly any people at the festival on Monday, so we decided to close down and go sight seeing. We ended up driving for hours on the island out to a missle launch facility built during the cold war it was awesome. It was by far the most beautiful scenery I have ever seen and I took tons of pictures. The day began to go downhill quickly. I first accidently went wading in the ocean (which was freezing) soaking my feet, socks, shoes, and the bottom of my jeans. Not fun. Then at another stop, I somehow steped in feces. We believe that it was human. Gross attack. We then headed back to the house, packed everything up and headed for the ferry. While the ferry at least left on time, I ended up getting an air mattress, but no sleeping bag. I then noticed that my camera was missing. I (and everyone else) searched everywere (including the trash can) to no avail. It was probably stolen. Awesome. At least I had had an opportunity to take off all of my amazing pictures. On top of this there was this family with like 6 little little girls who were out of control. They were screaming all night. I finally got to sleep only to wake up a little while later to find my self on the floor with a completely deflated air mattress and freezing. I reinflated the airmattress manually and coverd myself with another air mattress. We finally got to Homer and I was tired, cranky and had not showered in 48 hours. I then found out that we had misplaced the keys to our van and would not be making it back to Anchorage for quite a while. Awesome. End bad part of the day. It was pretty low and frustrating but was totally worth it. Brenda decided to pay for us all to go fishing for halibut. It was one of the most fun I have every had. We took a boat out into the middle of the inlet and fished for hours. It was an amazing day, clear as can be, and you could see Mount Redoubt on the horizon puffing a way. I caught 5 halibut and some other smaller fish. (I also caught two at once) We were only allowed to keep two of them. I can't wait to eat them!! We finally started to head back to Anchorage around 6 and in Cooper Landing we saw this Suburban on the side of the road with a blown out tire. It was a little lady with 4 kids so we stopped and helped her. She would never have been able to change that tire by herself. So once again God took what seemed bad to everyone and worked it for good. How cool. Today Jessica and I had David's truck to do stuff around Anchorage we spent most of the day looking for a camera for me... I ended up getting an nice Canon, the same as Granddad, from Fred Meyer (yes Dad!!). We then drove out the Bearce's home in Palmer where we have planning meeting for the next few days until VBS in Anchorage. I hope you are all doing well.
Still Freezing,
Kevin