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man oh man, if only i could find the time...to talk about all of the things that i am experiencing.

these last few days have been in best way, FULL. full in schedule, full in experience, full in blessings, full in GOD. i've learned a lot bout myself, and i can feel God's hand over all of it. i would say though, that i may not be in the best place to write it at the moment. it's 12:22am, i'm suppperrr tired, and probably a bit cranky.

it wouldn't do my experiences justice if i tried to talk about them all now.

but short recap? ya sure.
1. SUNDAY: church, got to play with the keikis! such a blessing to be around children. then got to spend time as a church group, FINALLY. at kahala mandarin! so cool getting to spend the afternoon with friends outside our church group as well (: (robbyn, jo, gino, hanna & matt!)
2. MONDAY: free day! went crepes no ka oi, pillbox hike, lanikai<3<3 one of the best days i've had in a while. got to do an all girls thanggg & get some good quality time in!
3. TUESDAY: discouraging campustime, but AMAZING weekly meeting. SO SO GOOD! oh & amazing simply ono timee.
4. WEDNESDAY: LEGIT campus time. connections up the wazoo! god is so good. long day though.

anyway, there's the recap (: more details to follow. i finally feel like i'm getting the hang of things. just gotta deal with the inner ish a bittt. God will lead me through it though.

TIME FOR SLEEP NOW! i shall update later♥
nightnight. <3nickayy.

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let's bring it back, ohh, let's bring it back (:

soooo, i realized lately that i haven't quite blogged about what i'm actually doing here at UH Manoa on my summer project. LAME, i know!

so i'm dedicating this entry to my endeavors & happenings, as opposed to my feelings. hahaha oh boy.

anyways, so as i mentioned before, we arrived june 20 (father's day, i know!) and have been here for about two weeks, tomorrow (:

the first week went pretty slowly, i must admit--but man, in this past week it's been carazzyy fast! i can't imagine how fast the next 4 weeks are going to go. but yeah, so basically we're on a pretty regular schedule now, consisting of 3 days a week of campus time, 1 day a week of community outreach, 1-2 days a week of free time, about 4 days a week team training, 1 day a week women's time, and 1 day a week 'ohana time. now if you could picture this, it's a pretty packed schedule! the first week took a lot out of me to adjust, but this second week was much easier. (or maybe i just learned how to adjust to the time. ha!)

so basically during campus time, we're reaching out to the students, via surveys, KGP, regular conversation, and any other outreach tactic we choose. while the first week was fairly difficult for me to meet people, i found this past week to be much more successful. annalynn and i paired up and had a sweet conversation with a girl named brooke on wednesday! it was cool to just have a chill conversation with someone new (:

i got to experience that feeling again the next day, as daniel and i were able to meet a few new people at leeward community college. so stoked that one of the guys we met even came and hung out with us yesterday at ala moana! god truly does answer prayers, and i am beginning to see how powerful that truly is.

for instance, today lisa, mark and i went sharing at ala moana mall and prayed for God to lead us into a conversation. only a few minutes later, we spot a girl from across the mall & decide to approach her. and WOW, immediately God opened up the conversation for us. we found out that she was a student about our age from australia who was interning in NY and was currently in HI visiting her friend from her internship. crazy, ya? anyway, we used the quest survey and found out that she was highly interested in pursuing a deeper relationship with God. and let me tell youuu. i tend to think that things like surveys, the KGP, etc. are very difficult and aren't something i generally like to use when sharing, but this time God put it to work! haha. it really opened my eyes to see that people really DO desire to know God, and that conversations like these really DO just happen, even randomly in a mall. it just encouraged me to take that leap of faith and know that God can truly use me/you at any time and at any place. i'll have to keep that in mind as i continue to share throughout project & beyond (;

OH, and another component of this summer project is GROUPS. ohh mahhh gahhh we have a million groups. haha. we have a church group (split up between 4 different churches that we're partnering with and serving--about 10-15 people per church), discipleship group (consisting of about 2-3 people per staff person), bible study group (2 discipleship groups put together), campus groups (about 10-12 students split between 3 campuses--UH Manoa, KCC, HPU), team committees (about 10 different committee groups to handle all the tasks and duties for the team; mine's weekly meeting group--we basically organize the weekly meeting!), and lastly men's/women's time groups (self explanitory!). dang. yaaa so basically we are spliced and diced up in many many ways. it's pretty cool thought to see how necessary it is to break things down to that we can reach more and be more effective.

so i think that's the main gist of the project setup? pretty confusing, i know. haha. i'm learning to get the hang of it though. and God is really moving amongst all of this. i look around and see how each and every one (yes, all 30 of us!) of us is growing in such a special and unique way. and it's crazy to think that the Lord is doing a work in EACH of us, and each so differently. i love the thought of all of us just coming together as a team, learning to depend on one another and learning to depend on God. i feel like something very very big is about to happen. about to unfold! i hope it's an adventure (: cuz i'm ready to jumppp.

kaydenn. time for sleep! gots church & beach tmro♥

SHOOTS!

i am smiling.

oh, how he loves us so. oh, how he loves us. how he loves us soo ♥

the picture above just depicts the serenity and joy that i am now currently experiencing in my heart. today was the day where understanding really started to set in. today was the day that i could finally see through the clouds. today was the day where i could just be me.

today was a good day.

...i know i said i'd continue on with my "who am i?" series, but i feel like i just need to PRAISE GOD with this entry.

lately i've been walking through some pretty tough ish, but today God just relieved me from that pain.

Instead of my usual University of Hawai`i campus outreach time, today i got to go with about 7 other students towards the leeward side of the island to pray over Leeward Community College. goshhh it was a beautiful day! and i was especially stoked that i got to spend it with a completely different group than i was used to. i'd say we had some great bonding time today (:

anyway, we paired off and set out to walk around the campus and pray for it at the same time. and during that time, God reminded me that he truly does answer prayers. we began praying for the campus, and more specifically even a conversation with someone to gain some insight to the school. now this was somewhat of a big request, as the campus was ghostly. there was no one to be found! in fact i didn't even think that summer school was in session. haha. anyway, daniel and i walk into the cafeteria & lo and behold, 3 local guys were chillin at a table together. daniel ended up initiating a conversation with them, and before you know it, daniel and i had joined them at their table, and were able to talk to them for their remainder of their break time (: it was just a sweet sweet time to just connect and know that God completely provided this conversation for us. it was especially uplifting for me, because i have been struggling with meeting people over the past week and a half.

so after an amazing time on campus, we journeyed on to poke stop. OM NOM NOM! wow, so good. i love poke. and this place was gooood. haha. i highly recommend it to any of you out here on the island! anyway, after that we ventured on to Nich's favorite beach: Nanakuli (or nanakooli, for you, koho. HAHA) i'm starting to think it might be my new favorite beach too! i'd never been there before, and boy was it beaautifulll. i want to go back already! it was just an awesome time that we got to spend together and bond while praying over the campus. it was my sweet escape♥

and to top it off, i ended up going to Chi Alpha's weekly meeting with Grace, Mark, Sarah & Kentaro. the speaker for the night, Eric, truly spoke to my heart. ohhh gosh. it was just one of those talks where God completely took over and spoke such crazy truth through him. i was taken aback, engrossed in, and utterly captivated by his talk.

it was exactly what i needed to hear.

to sum it up, Eric broke it down into 4 types of "ships" that are integral to our growth and effectiveness as both Christians and campus evangelizers.

• ownership
• worship
• discipleship
• stewardship

now i'm not going to go into detail about it for sake of time, but let's just say it ROCKED MY WORLD. i really needed to check back into being kingdom minded, and kingdom driven. i am so humbled. and god is so good.

kk, moi moi time (: have a good night errbody! ps, check out the new video i posted on FB, you'll be literally ROFL-ing. hahahaha.



aloha nui loa, nickkayyy!