My Weekend 10/19-10/21

This weekend started off with church Friday night. The theme was salad, so being super creative I came up with an m&m salad made up of all the different flavors of m&ms, a skittle salad comprised of all the flavors, potato salad, and fruit salad. Naturally, the m&m and skittle salads were a hit. Who eats salad to be healthy anyways? At CORE group we discussed the devil and his evil schemes. How he's a liar by nature and a murderer. It's so cool to go through struggles and then hear God's word aimed directly at where you're struggling. Since I've been in Hawaii and have been on my own, many of the devil's flaming arrows have seemed to be aimed directly at me. Yet God always comes into the picture and reassures me and guides my path.
Friday night I spent the night at Allison's house and then we woke up bright and early the next morning to participate in the Walk-Run to End Hunger. A two mile walk or 5k run to benefit the River of Life Mission House and the work they do with the homeless. It was such a great experience seeing all the people come out to praise God and support putting an end to homelessness.
After the Walk-Run, Allison went back to my place to crash. After a nap we decided to explore Downtown Honolulu. We found all sorts of awesome spots to take pictures and swing from Banyan trees. There's so many random things be found in Honolulu. My RA suggested I take a picture with every statue on the island and create a blog about it. So I started one. You can see all my statue pictures here: http://themanystatuesofoahu.blogspot.com

After spending lots of time in Honolulu, we went to the University of Hawaii volleyball game. We were terribly misinformed that UH was going to be playing Hawaii Pacific, so we showed up in our HPU gear. UH was playing a school with Pacific in the name: Stockton Pacific. So basically we looked like fools but had a great time anyways!
Sunday brought church and Gaby's birthday. After church I went to the mall in desperate search for a birthday cake. Found a macadamia one and it turned out to be freakin delicious! Gaby's 20 now and the old fart out of my room.
Sunday also brought an answer to prayers, the 3rd one since Wednesday! I've been stressing out about going to Guatemala over Christmas break and trying to decide of it's really where God wants me at that time. I've sent emails to the pastor of the church down there and haven't heard anything back from him, so I was assuming it wasn't going to work out. Well, Sunday I got a Facebook message from him and it looks like I'm going to Guatemala the first two weeks of January. If everything works out that is. Which I'm praying it does.