How the West is Won...Somewhere Else West 2006

So I decided that I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and go out of chronological order if I'm ever going to fill you all in on my life! I was trying to wait until I could scan some England and San Francisco Pictures...but that is just taking forever and I don't want to be 3 events behind!! So, I have lots of pics from this Navigator's conference from the first week in May, so I figured, I'd get going...at least on that! :)

So the Conference is called the Title of this blog entry (it's too long to type out again), and it was held in southern Alberta in Cypres Hills. It includes all the campus Navigators groups in the West, there were over 100 people there, and it was really great! The theme was "Western/Country" as I'm sure you are realizing as you look at the Picture of the facility...looks like something out of an old western movie huh? Anyway, we had a speaker from England and his wife-Rod and Helen Green-who were just wonderful. Helen on more than one occasion was such a blessing to me in converstaion, speaking truth into my life and just being used of by the Lord. Rod spoke on Daniel that whole week and it was really good--made for some really wonderful discussion in our small groups!

There were lots of things going on...workshops, the speaker and worships times, sports, horseback riding, hiking, mountain biking, free time in the afternoons to just hang out with people, small group times (there were 8 girls in my group, plus Kathy Blacklock that was our Staff person), a hot tub, 9 baptisims, a barn dance,--oh, and a freak snow storm for 2 days!--... it was a really jam packed week! Fabulous people to get to know (and you know me...I'm not too social!!). I can also tell you without a doubt in my mind that it was the most exhausted I've ever been in my WHOLE life...emotionally, mentally, physically, and spiritually. It was rediculous! God was at MAJOR work in me...pointing out things that needed fixing, issues that I was unaware of (some that I was aware of) that I needed freedom from, learning things about who He is and what that means for me in our relationship, being challenged and encouraged by the people arround me...You know that phrase in Psalm that seems to be repeated quite often..."The hand of the Lord is heavy upon me..."--Well, that is how I felt the WHOLE time! It is both exhaustingly horrible and wonderful all at the same time. Hard to explain. I'd like to tell you some of these things that He's been showing me (IF I can...it is hard to put into words, and I'm still trying to figure it out too!!)...