Erika's England Adventures

Every Thursday, during our third morning lecture, we have a mission organization come in to do a presentation. Today, we were blessed with a man and his wife coming in to give us books. They gave each student two Oswald Chambers books ("Abandoned to God" and "My Utmost for His Highest") at no cost. I was really thankful for that; I wanted to bring my paperback version of "My Utmost for His Highest" with me, but had no room in my suitcase. Now I have a hardcover copy of it to study while I'm here.

I also handed in my second assignment today--"Managing Your Time and Yourself". Basically, it was about goal setting, scheduling, and prioritizing. Pretty straightforward. The first assignment was an essay/book review on "Alive in Christ", a book written by the former principal of Capernwray Hall, Charles Price. I'll probably start on my next assignment this afternoon. I have to reply to a letter written by a girl who has a lot of questions about the Holy Spirit and Scripture.

Lectures this week have been not as good as usual. We have one going on Personal Evangelism, which has been running for the past couple weeks, and that's been interesting. The principal, Mr. Whittaker (who is 60ish and has snow white hair, just like Adventures in Odyssey!) teaches that course, and he's a really great speaker. However, we have another session this week on Acts 1-12, and the speaker isn't as interesting. He has a really quiet voice and doesn't use a lot of expression, which can make it hard to pay attention at times. Plus, he ends up getting really sidetracked by telling stories for most of the lecture. Sometimes in a full hour he only ends up getting through 3 verses in a chapter. As my principal, Mr. Whittaker, would put it: "it makes you flipping lose the will to live". He says that often--he's quite a character. However, I've just been trying to take my own notes on what we're reading in Acts, so I've still learned things from him.

Last Sunday we had a speaker come in who said that only 20% of people in churches were real Christians--that was quite an experience!

I'm leaving for Edinburgh tomorrow, and hopefully while I'm there I'll be able to put some pictures up. We have free wireless internet at the B&B, and it will be a lot faster than the internet at Capernwray.

Also, next week is the electronics fast--so I won't have internet access until the 7th or 8th of November, in case you think I disappeared off the face of the earth.

I finished 1 Samuel earlier this week and I will be reading up to chapter 19 of 2 Samuel today.

The food has been really good today--chocolate pastries and fruit for breakfast, and fish and chips with lemon pound cake and custard for dessert! Mm!

Well, I'm off to hit the books! Talk to you soon.