From Queenstown we made our way to Omarama. And the guys experienced the first cold night with George. On Saturday morning we went to New Zealand’s highest mountain, stunning Mt. Cook (3754 meters). On the glacier lake our ice-skating was entertaining us.
Ballet Dance Class
Back on the road we were impressed by the amazing view of the alpine scenery. That night we spent in lake Tekapo backpackers. After the Sunday morning church service in a nice and welcoming little church we found the worlds biggest jersey as well as a mosaic which the shop owner has passionately worked on for 25 years.
On Monday we started our 3-day tramp at Mt. Sommers. We had the most beautiful weather and a lot of fun walking, sliding and rolling through the snow in the winter-wonderland. The team unanimously declared it as The Best Tramp.
Wednesday and Thursday night we spent in Christchurch where we had an exciting and interesting city rally where Bea and Karo became best mates with the police department. To prepare ourselves for the cold of the next tramp we relaxed the whole afternoon in the natural hot pools of Hanmar Springs.
On our tramp in Lewis Pass Reserve the "Snowmen Inc." was founded which produced a whole population of American snowmen. (Audra, not used to snow, made a trail of snowmen every where we went.)
Due to a bad weather forecast (which didn’t come true) the team had a whole day to build a tremendous igloo. Special honour to Nathan and Sara for the amazing artwork, the essential rain pipe and fancy chimney.
After a really nice and interesting evening in Murchison Kiwi Park we now sadly say Goodbye to George. Thank you George for personal encouragement, challenging discussions, wonderful tramps and the yogurt! We thank everyone for your prayers as the Mt. Sommers tramp turned out to be awesome.
Norm & Christy are back with us now and we will be heading back to the North Island soon. Please keep on praying as we still have 3 weeks left to grow and intensely focus on God. Please pray continuously that we will have many more opportunities to meet people to talk about our faith with.
Prayer Requests:
- Continued good weather on our journey.
- Excitement to talk to people wherever we go.
- Health & safety for our last tramp & travelling.
- To continue to bond together as a TEAm and support, encourage & share with each other these last three weeks.
Thank you for your prayers!
Bea, Phil, Nathan & the TEAm
3 comments:
Hey Tea 3 so good to hear about your adventures and follow you through on your journey in NZ and with God. So sorry I could not meet up with you in Christchurch, I was thinking about you at the time, but God has a way of putting us where He wants us to be. Bless you all as you continue and it was so good to meet you all.
Love Ruth
Hey TEA 03!! Glad to hear you are having a great time! Make the most of your time left on TEA. Be bold and talk to everyone you have the chance about Jesus and his love. :)
Remember Phillipians 4:13 (Maybe Christy could teach you the song if she remembers) I miss my TEA family and the many adventures. So make some good memories together these last weeks.
Love your sis in Christ,
Britt TEA 02
hey tea 3, n&c, ruth, brittney and everyone else. it's been great to follow your adventures on here. we pray that you will be blessed in your last week, that you will hear from God, you'll be able to speak with boldness and that you'll remain open to the last of the challenges.
blessings from Germany, frostie 2 and twinkletoes
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