An intence but rewarding week

Greetings to you all,
I would have given anything to have you all be in my classes last week. Our teacher, Ed Kleiman, was really awesome. Abit on the crazy, really energenic side but his teaching was very challenging. One thing on the contentence of Ed... he would out last, while running circles around, the energiser bunny! You would have to meet him.
The weeks topic was on Prayer, yet we covered so much more then that. We reviewed who God is, abslutly sovern, who we are, nothing better then worms (the dirt of the earth), and how amazing God is that he allows us to personally talk to him, request things from him, and that he would redeam us... even though the price of redemption was so high!(sorry for the paulian sentence). The thing I learned most out of the week is that God is sovern, and all that I do, should be to Glorify God! That is the reason I was created, why everyone was created. Not because God needed us to praise and befriend him, but because he created us to glorify him. And he has designed the world to talk with and ask him for things, even though he is sovern. My Arminian/ middle of the road theology was challenged this week. If this is intresting to you, read John Pipers book, The Dangerous Duty of Delight, (it is a bit of a challenge in reading but it is really good.) I will write more of this in my update letter. If you want to recieve updates by snail mail, please email me your snail address.
One other fun thing last week was I was invited to go to the amish community to rake yards with them. It was so much fun. I consider myself a hard worker, thanks to my upbringing, but that day I was given a run for my money. The amish women made me look as if I was standing still. They are amazing. I had so much fun, and it was great to build relationships with them just to get to know them. Their community is very different then the regular amish communities because they are reaching out to the community of Libby, to be evangulilests to the town. They are very open to outsiders, and they love you for who you are. They do not judge, they are a geat example. I hope to learn alot from them. Besides I love hanging with them.
Please keep me and the team of students in your prayers as we travel to Clear Lake, IA next week and then to Slovokia and Romania in the next two weeks. I love you all and keep in touch. I am trying to stay in contact as much as I can. Thanks for your support and Have a blessed Easter. Praise God, that Jesus has risen and we worship a real living God. Our God is not Dead!