Lots of updating overdue!
Well I'll start with the most current and work my way from there.
After a long 16 hour drive to Denver with my parents and 2 puppies we made it to my sister and brother in law's house. To my surprise, Koos was there!!!! He flew in yesterday from Vietnam to surprise us and is spending Christmas and New Years with the whole family! All 6 of us (Theo, Mom, Norm, Else, Koos, and me)! God is so gracious an d protects us wherever and whenever we travel!
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| Rocky Mountains in Aurora, Colorado |
Next up: Map making! My maps made it to Lesotho! MAF Lesotho is using the maps and this is another wonderful way that God works in our lives. Unfortunately, the large map got ruined in a torrential downpour and so will have to be reprinted.
Schools and scholarships: I got my official acceptance letter to Redstone College in Colorado! As of now, I am still applying to other aviation schools in case I could get a full ride scholarship somewhere else. God has been and will definitely provide for me as I decide where to go for school. I am looking into other scholarships as well to help fund my schooling. You can be in prayer about my decisions for the future. If I go to Redstone I will start on June 25th and would move a couple weeks before hand. If I go to another school I would start in August most likely and am thinking about going on a mission trip during the summer or working on building up flight hours. Please be in prayer for guidance from God on what He has in store for me in the future.
Flying: Since my checkride I had not been able to go flying much mostly because of school and final exams. However, I did get to fly in IFR (Instrument/ poor visibility) weather one day and went on a night flight another. On my IFR flight, I went with my instructor, and we flew to Lexington, Clark County, and back to Bowman Field (Louisville). On our way in to Lexington we were almost being "run over" by some planes that were faster than us so we simply had to get out of their way and turn around to land again. On our way in to land at Clark county the visibility was quite low but we popped out of the clouds to see the airport. At Bowman field we had to go down to the very minimum allowed altitude on the approach (about 200 feet above the runway elevation) because the base of the clouds were right at that level (300 feet above the runway). Without that extra 100 feet where we popped out and could see the airport we would not have been able to land and would have had to divert back to Clark County. God certainly kept us safe during that flight!
On my short night flight, I just hopped over to Clark County to do landings in order to stay current. It was such a beautiful clear night and God's wonder was shown in many aspects. Before I got in the plane I saw a meteor (which I always miss) and when I came back I saw another one. It was so cool to see and experience God's creation of day and night, the stars, and the moon, and the vast sky. I find night flying the most wonderful time to fly. There is a certain peacefulness about flying on a clear night with hardly any traffic around and just the black sky and a million lights twinkling above and below you. The best part is when you take off, you are rolling down the lit runway but all around is darkness, as soon as you lift off hundreds of lights fill your window and as you gain more altitude you see more and more of the sea of gold and white lights. God is so evident to me in nature whether it is in the day or the night.
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| What night flying looks like (taken from someone else). |
Christmas is here! It is so wonderful to know that God governs our lives and that he sent His son for us- to save us from our sins! God has everything in control and all we have to do is obey Him, worship and praise Him, and thank Him!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKk9rv2hUfA
Merry Christmas everyone!
Fly with Christ,
Helen
