Sorry its been so long :(

As I remember saying in my last blog post "speak soon"...soon has turned into weeks and I still haven't wrote another one. I'm sorry to all of you who I'd promised to keep you up-to-date but all I can say is that you would have to actually do this gap year to know how busy and packed our time table is.

To make this much better to read and so I can include picture and it won't be a mile long I'll split it up and only include the most key moments of my last few months here in Llanelli.

Since I last wrote I've been on development training or DT week as its known at work horizons. It was a highly challenging, injury causing, teaming building, and productive week  that I will never forget. I faced my fears on this week and was stretched but in that it produced results I wouldn't have imagined. Firstly if you haven't been on any form of development training before this week involved various tasks such as planning a meal, hiking, abseiling, sleeping in a cave yet more hiking and sleeping in a concrete hut..supposedly...if there wasn't torrential rain an it floods. Along the way also doing various other tasks, going 3 days with a maximum of 5hrs sleep and my anaemia coming back.
Although that all sounds like great fun in itself, trust me (looking back) it really was worth it and showed me a lot about how much I am capable of if I push that little further and keep focused. That even the things and places that seems unreachable aren't if your remain positive and don't give up.
God taught me he can answer your prayers and we can be so wrapped up in the problem and the situation that we're in that we look over the solution that God has provided for us. I learned this when I was on the literal edge of a slippery cliff at night. Being scared of heights this wasn't at all my favourite place to be and I was terrified, asking God to help me, or give me something to help me through this. After about 5 minutes my friend Aurora came and held my hand and kept telling me everything was going to be okay and she wasn't going to leave me. During this I was still stupidly asking God for something, anything to help me in this situation. He kindly opened my eyes to the fact he'd already placed someone in my path to help me and as she said I was going to be okay.

Left Photo - The team in the bothy after a veryyyy long and wet day.
From left to right: Aurora, Me, Nate, Godgive, David, Hollie, Isaac, Joy, Sarah, Joce
Right Photo - Me and my roomies in the flooded bothy

You're probably thinking we're all looking far too happy to be anywhere near as exhausted as we were. Trust me we were all bordering on hysteria due to tiredness by this point. 

So this doesn't become ridiculously boring and too long to read I'll spilt it up into a few more posts, so please read on if you can be bothered :)

Byeee for now
Helen xoxo