So much to say...

Where to begin...I can't even figure it out. I had a great plan to write today, but was distracted when Aria came down with a stomach virus, and I was the lap of choice. Sorry to say no one else ranked above her smiling every time I was with her, particularly when she cried whenever I left. It was a great friend that recently said that if there is no structural resistance to your plan, you are probably not on the right path. SO we must be heading down the right path. Charli and I could not be more sure that we are in the right place.

Our trip out was a great time for us. We spent 14 hours in and out of the car to get to Kansas City the first day. Not bad since we stopped at the Arch for 2 hours and only had two meltdowns by the kids.

That left two easy last days and a lot of fun at rest areas and great times together in the evening.

We arrived in Colorado Springs really early on Thursday and decided to head to the mountains before we checked in at YWAM, since we were not expected until the afternoon. The ride into the city was absolutely breathtaking. The highway in was a rural 2 lane road, so we saw lots of wildlife and slowly saw the mountains appear in the distance as the clouds were lifting for the day. When we finally did arrive in the city we drove past YWAM and discovered that we were only a couple of miles from Garden of the Gods. That is where we spent the remainder of the morning.

Once we finally arrived at YWAM, we met some great people. There is nothing like traveling for 3 days to go to a place that seems foreign, and having 2 very excited people yelling across a parking lot "are you the Rennekamps?" before we spoke a word. Turns out is was another young girl excited to meet Anya, and her mom, who is on staff. As we started to talk, we discovered that the same place in Honduras that inspired me to take this trip, also was a place that their family felt that same call, with Cindy and Henry Lowman encouraging them. Just one more in a long line of connections that we have seen in our story of coming here.

Since then we have had a day of orientation Friday, followed by a picnic that evening. Then Saturday we spent the morning together followed by a few of us taking off to a place called "the incline". We made it half way to the top and decided to come back to conquer on another day...but it was amazing to look down on some mountains, and up to others...praying over the city as we went.

Tomorrow starts the first day of real class, after a morning of worship.

I'm having trouble getting pictures to show up on here this evening, and have other things to do instead of fighting it, so here is the link to my photo album...there are some great ones in it!

https://picasaweb.google.com/twr111/YWAM2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCJPDovb387rPtwE#

Love you all!