febuary happenings

Hello!
I believe this is my first February blog. I suppose I have been busy or something. The weather hasn’t been all that sunny this month so far, it seems like the weekends have been cloudy or windy so that’s too bad. But we had a sweet lighting storm the other night, it was so neat to watch. It was different from storms back home in that there was no rain and hardly any thunder, it was just lightning lighting up the clouds, and it was so nice.
On Valentines day we had a nice dinner and we all dressed up, it was a lot of fun, I have pictures on facebook.
We watched an amazing video called indescribable, about the huge universe and how earth is less than a molecule pretty much compared to the universe. It was amazing, and very humbling. “We are a ball of dust suspended in a ray of sunshine.”
Um what else? This past week was called plumbline. It was an intense week where each of us told our life stories, all the details. The purpose is to get everything out in the open, not to get to know each other, although it helped, but so that God can uproot everything in our lives that we are hanging onto, or just to speak/confess things that we needed to say. It was really amazing…There are some crazy stories. I went the 1st day, and found out things about myself that I didn’t know about. I suppose I can say it in here for the world to see, seeing as how it’s out in the open. For the past oh, 4 years, I have totally disregarded myself – I have made myself nothing and instead took on the problems of my family and cared for them above myself. As a symbolism thing john the speaker told me to walk around the hall with a heavy backpack on and then take it off and give it to him as Jesus, and it was so emotional. The whole week was really good.
ALSO we found out where our outreach phase is going to be.
Duh duh duuunn….ready for it??
I, Tierney Funk, am going to be going to ISRAEL!! :)
Amazing hey?? Israel!! I am soooo extremely excited!! I always knew I was going to be heading to the Middle East area sometime, but I didn’t know so soon! We do not know all the details yet, but I will keep ya’ll posted. I just know that something special is going to happen there, and I have a part in it, I am very…excited. Our team will be splitting into 2 teams, and the other one will be staying here in South Africa/Swaziland.
Yesterday (Wednesday) I was in a drama we did for some kids at KidZone. We were supposed to go inside a church, but we didn’t have keys or something so we were outside with all these kids, and it was soooo incredibly windy, the sand was blowing EVERYwhere. Anyways, so in this play I got beat up, and so when Joseph came to punch me I made it so real and I threw myself around onto the ground and it really hurt cuz we were on rocks. And now I have these scratches all over my one side of my face, and it hurts to smile. It was fun though, and it was the most amount of kids we’ve had. When I got back to the base it took like 18 Q-tips to clean my ears and man, there was dirt everywhere, let me tell you…and when I washed behind my ears the next morning, well it was gross. Haha. It was fun.
So that’s so far……..nothing too too else interesting has been happenin.
I miss my piano SO incredibly much….playing it is therapy for me and I need it. L Someone send me my piano please?
Everything is going well otherwise…Ummmmm….yeah I love it. This morning when we ran down to the beach, it was so amazingly beautiful, and I just stayed and ran and danced in the water, it was gorgeous, so much fun. I decided I must live by a beach.
Oh ya, and for Easter weekend I am going to be going with my friend Nikki to her hometown of George, to spend Easter with her and her family. It is about 2 hours away I think, but we will be staying at this place on the lake and she has a boat and skis!! I am quite excited, something that will defiantly remind me of home.
Hope everything is well over in Canada… I love you all.

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ…I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him.
Philippians 3:7-8

One thing I do: Forget what is behind and strain towards what is ahead. I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14