No power but short update...

greetings friends to you all. 

well i hope and pray that this last month has been one filled with lots of great times for you all. 
i must say that this is now the 3rd attempt to write this blog, because every time i sit to write it i get part way through and then go off to do something, forgetting to save it. so let's see, oh yeh the last month. 
WOW what a whirl wind its been, i feel as though i have blinked and its almost over, as i'm sure many of you feel this way too. maybe it has something to do with every year older you become the quicker they go. or something to that effect. so as i sit here, typing to you i can now barley see the keys as we have no power AGAIN, and its getting dark...  this is now going on 6 days without power, well power coming on and then going off about an hour later or sometimes even minutes later.  so as i write i am hoping that my computer battery is charged enough to make it to the end of this blog... we shall see. so i am writing listening to the sound outside of the generator going, and going... i get excited when i see a light on, it gives me hope that i will be able to get the mundane things done like washing, and then to power up my computer and every other technical item that requires power, i guess its so easy to forget that without power you cant take hot showers, or that then the water might run low because its pumped and needs power to make it go. but you  used to using solar lights after days on end with no power,  and using candles placing them strategically in the house, trying to make sure that they are not going to fall on something and either drip candle wax everywhere, or burn something or better still someone. ( believe me i have done all of these things, including spilling candle wax all over my computer, its a hard job then to make it work). but i am thankful that we have gas, we can still cook using our oven and stove...  hot showers are something i become so thankful for.... but you would think i would learn to plug everything in when the power is on, but... NO often i forget and then it becomes too late,  because the power goes out, and again im left with no electrical things.but its ok because when we do have power it really makes me stop and be still. it often makes me go to bed earlier than usual, and gives me more time to be still rather than doing all of the time. (For those of you who know me well this being still stuff can be rather the challenge for me). but im not alone in any of this, as i have the whole of my base and the rest of Arusha all in the same boat as me... the power aside on other notes on the home front here, i recently applied for UNI and well i got accepted. this has been something that i have wanted to do for a long time now but never did, until one of my friends here encouraged me, along with some others to just apply and do it now. so i prayed about it and the timing seemed right, and after the application process i got in. so March next year i will be doing a bachelor of education. early childhood education. as i stopped and reflected that i got in, all these thoughts went through my mind, oh man. i am doing uni via distance and we have had and still have no power 6 days, and how slow the internet is....  how can i do this. but then i stop and just feel the presence of the lord upon me, with that peace that passes all understanding, that it will be ok.....  this presence that only God can fill me with. knowing that it is his will for my life to be stepping out to this next phase in life, and that i am his vessel, i am being obedient to his calling upon my life.  that gives me peace.
right now i am also completing a 1 year diploma in mentoring course at our base, this has been so encouraging, and really re started the fire that has been waiting to burn so bright. as i am hearing and learning i am so thankful for the people around me who share the same heart as me, who are all so eager to learn and furfill what God is calling them to. at this point in my life i am thankful for what God has and is giving me.
(on  a side note i need to either learn to type faster, leave out spelling mistakes or just hurry up cause the battery is going to die) 

we shall be finishing up school this coming friday and shall be having a thanks giving dinner that night so much we can be thankful for.... 
so as i leave enjoy and God bless.