Hiya Everyone! Hiya is the greeting they use here in the UK. I haven’t been able to say it yet without laughing though, but I’m hoping it’ll be natural before I leave haha:) This past week was absolutely amazing but extremely exhausting so I’ll do my best to just hit the high points. Sunday September 6th was a very full day. When we got up to the church that morning the 9 British students we are serving along side of this semester were there, and it was complete mayhem trying to introduce everyone and remembering people’s names. After the church service, the church put on a big lunch for all of us trainees as we are called. During this semester each of us have been assigned a mentor so this lunch was set up for us to meet our mentors and get to know the staff we will be working with. My mentor’s name is Anne. She seems extremely nice and has a real heart for missions so I am definitely looking forward to getting to know her more. Monday was full of mixing us and the British students together so we could get to know one another and build relationships:)Tuesday was started off by a scavenger hunt in the middle of Cardiff City Center. Even though my team barely came in 2nd it was still lots of fun running through the streets of Cardiff and getting to know people better on the team:) That afternoon we did general service at Glenwood Baptist Church (The church I am serving and attending this semester) which is where we generally do any type of service they ask us to do. That night we went over to the British students’ house to hang out, and they introduced us to their desserts of custard and chelsea buns. Fortunately the food isn’t TOO weird here, but almost everything they give you could use a good round of salt on it so it has flavor haha:)Wednesday was exhausting. It was started by grocery shopping. Just in case you thought grocery shopping and public bus transportation mix well together; they don’t LOL! After an adventurous morning lugging all the groceries back to the flat, Carrie and I headed up to Glenwood to set up for Wrigglerz which is a kids club for 4-7 year olds. It has a pirate theme so we played pirate games, sang pirate songs, ate pirate snacks, and of course dressed up as pirates haha:) It was great fun! By the way, British pirates do NOT say ARGH. I found this out when I started saying Argh, and everybody looked at me funny. British pirates evidently say YAR! Who knew:) Thursdays the whole entire team which is now 18 of us come together for a day of teaching and training. As the semester progresses, us trainees will take turns leading worship and a lesson to start Thursdays off. However this Thursday our leaders simply gave us a bit of a model for how things go. Friday was my favorite day yet. After a week of always being surrounded by people and getting all kinds of schedules, we had a day of just prayer and praise to God. We all went to The Gate which is an art center that Glenwood has taken over. It is actually an old Presbyterian church that people redid as a place for the arts. There are actual art galleries, dance studios, a café, and an auditorium for plays and shows. The people that redid The Gate into an art studio were ready to move on to something else so Glenwood came along and took The Gate over. It is a really neat place though. So on Friday my other supervisor Emma set up prayer stations all throughout the auditorium at The Gate for us to pray about specific things. It was absolutely wonderful to be still before God and both speak but more importantly listen to Him. We had surprisingly amazing weather all this week. So whoever is praying for us to have good weather keep it up it’s working haha:) But seriously thanks so much for the prayers and encouragement that you all send my way. They are very much felt and evident in each of my days here! We got our schedules this past Friday so please pray that as we begin our actual ministries here that things would easily fall into place and relationships would be opened for mentorship and discipleship. I am so excited to see what God has in store, and I am already feeling like time is flying by! On September 18th I will have been gone for a month which seems so crazy. Well have a great rest of the week, and the British word of the week is a hole in the wall which is an ATM here.