Snow, sunshine, and I wish it were summer!

Snow upon snow upon snow upon snow! The weather here is quite white. We keep getting more and more snow (right now there is about 2.5 feet of snow that has accumulated over the last month or two) and the temperature never manages to get above freezing. On the other side of the world... it's nice and sunny and warm. Here's a picture, courtesy of Bryan from MAF Lesotho, of what flying looks like in the summer- I wish I were there! Also, here's a link to Justin Honaker's (another MAF Lesotho pilot) blog that he just recently updated about some of the surprising things that have been going on there.

Lesotho in the summer (Courtesy of Bryan)

Lesotho in the winter

 This week we worked more on our hydraulic and landing gear projects (taking pumps apart and putting them back together) as well as our sheet metal pieces which we are beginning to rivet together. My car also died this week and so it's spending the week parked at school. The battery was not being charged and we determined that it was the alternator that was bad. I took it out and found that one of the brushes was completely severed from it's connection and that's why it wasn't charging the battery. This week I'll clean it and put it all back together and hopefully my car will go again.

Some more headlines of this week:
I was able to go to my church on Monday for a Missions committee meeting. Most of it was business oriented but I was able to see how River Terrace Church supports and connects with their missionaries. It was great to see how they are very involved in what the missionaries are doing and how they can help them as well.
At school I am also involved in the SAT- Student Advisory Team. The group of 7-8 of us collaborate on how the school can improve and we plan events that purposely involve the community of Ionia.

Now on to the good stuff!

LORD’S DAY 4 Heidelberg Catechism
9 Q. But doesn’t God do us an injustice by requiring in his law what we are unable to do?

A. No, God created human beings with the ability to keep the law. They, however, provoked by the devil, in willful disobedience, robbed themselves and all their descendants of these gifts.

~We were created to keep the law but through sin we no longer can do that. 

Gen. 1:31; Eph. 4:24
Gen. 3:13; John 8:44
Gen. 3:6
Rom. 5:12, 18, 19

10 Q. Does God permit such disobedience and rebellion to go unpunished?
A. Certainly not. God is terribly angry with the sin we are born with as well as the sins we personally commit. As a just judge, God will punish them both now and in eternity, having declared: “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.”

Ex. 34:7; Ps. 5:4-6; Nahum 1:2; Rom. 1:18; Eph. 5:6; Heb. 9:27
Gal. 3:10; Deut. 27:26

11 Q. But isn’t God also merciful?
A. God is certainly merciful, but also just. God’s justice demands that sin, committed against his supreme majesty, be punished with the supreme penalty— eternal punishment of body and soul.

Ex. 34:6-7; Ps. 103:8-9
Ex. 34:7; Deut. 7:9-11; Ps. 5:4-6; Heb. 10:30-31
Matt. 25:35-46


** For those of you who are reading my blog and following along with the Heidelberg Catechism, tell me what you think about the questions and answers or even thoughts that come to mind as you look up the verses and such. I would love to hear from you, even about the other things I write or that you might be interested in. Shoot me an email at hagg.helen@gmail.com and I'll get back to you! Thanks for reading! May God bless you.

Fly with Christ,
Helen