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à Trois-Pistoles

I guess rainbow-in-montreal isn­t quite so fitting anymore... but I´ve arrived safe and sound to Trois-Pistoles as of 5am yesterday morning! Getting here was a bit of an adventure in itself after my train was late and overbooked, but I got here, and God´s really really provided for me. I AM staying with a family here, not in a residence, with a cute little eccentric host mom. I also have my own room, which for me at this point, is a HUGE relief and blessing. Theres another girl at my house, Sarah, which is great! As I was on the way to the train station, I was just like my gooodness im completely not emotionally equipped to deal with this right now, after having just packed my stuff and walked away from another set of friends and another place that I called home. With the craziness of my last week in Montreal, it didn´t even hit me that I was leaving until some of my Project team people left me notes and cards to say goodbye. But I´ve settled into my new home a bit and AM beginning to look forward to the next couple weeks here.

As expected, Trois-Pistoles is a super tiny town, and my host mom only knows a few words of english... but I´m surprised actually how much I understand and am able to communicate with her. I´ll be taking a course for oral french while I´m here, so it´ll be fun to see how much I improve in the next little while.

It was a bit of a shock, almost amusingly, realizing how much of a spiritual greenhouse I´ve been in for the last 2 months. No more safe haven of spiritual encouragement from start to end of every day (except from afar =) ), but now I´m out on my own in this next part of missions in Quebec. Pray for me for discernment and wisdom of how to be a true reflection of Jesus while I´m here, when building relationships with the students here... cuz I´ve soon realized that I really don´t relate to their life at this point. And I really want to in a real, genuine, loving and nonjudgemental way while at the same time upholding integrity and the real heart of Jesus. It would be easy to just congregate to other Christians or even to other people who share similar lifestyles and values, but that´s not the example nor the call Jesus left for us. Please pray especially that I´ll be able to build solid relationships with my host mom and my housemate Sarah, since that is where God has placed me!

Okay well I have to get going for now, but will be in touch again. I have some internet access here... certain hours of the day at the school computer lab. so do keep in touch! à bientot! =)

luv Rainbow =)

ps. My address here is 21 Rue Leblond, Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, G0L4K0

posted by Rainbow Choi =) @ 12:21 PM