Exhausting yet an amazing two weeks.

These past two weeks have been full of unexpected happenings.. One of the things that I miss of home is knowing when you get up what you're going to do and how your day is going to be more or less. But I do enjoy being able to fully rely on God not knowing what each new day is going to bring, even if it is exhausting at times!
We have now been in Port of Spain, Trinidad the past three weeks and have had thousands of visitors (Sunday we had a line of almost 800 people waiting outside) keeping the whole ship quite busy. I have been able to work some with Jo (picture) having a great time and have also been training the new recruits in the engine room (which I will be doing again this week starting tonight at 00:00: night watch with a trainee).
Not only is my work schedule quite hectic but I've been assigned the position of coxswain of Life Boat 6, which means more responsibilities and extra stress on Wednesday mornings (drill day). But I do enjoy the position and realize that God is teaching me so much.
I've also taken the initiative of signing up more often for ministry opportunities (my work schedule only gives me two or three days a month), which has allowed me to play soccer against YTC (Youth Training Center, aka a youth prison) and will go play with them again on Tuesday, as well as eat and talk with them! I also went to a prison one Sunday and enjoyed playing my trombone during our worship time there. The men joined in the singing and listened to a message and a powerful testimony...
The following two Sundays I was part of church teams who went out to local churches. I was able to do a mission's presentation at the first one of about 250 people (quite an experience) and was asked to be the team leader of the second one which was at a small church of about fifty. Both Sundays were experiences in themselves and I was especially struck by the fact that the second Church was in an area totally surrounded by Hindu and Muslim congregations...
Well that's what's been going on. I'd try to say more but we're having a scheduled black out and I should get off the computer before I lose everything! God bless and thank you for your prayers (you can pray for my night watch and the Tuesday soccer game)

In Christ, Jeremie