Theology, Valentine's and snow caves

Hello everybody!
Sorry, I'm a day late! Sunday's are way more hectic than I usually anticipate so it gets hard to write Sunday night when I try to make it. SO! Another big week, seems like they get bigger and bigger each week!
I'll give you the events and then I'll give you some heart in it all:
Monday was kind of a work day, we had three assignments due the next day for Theology class. We needed to write a psalm, write a response to a theology textbook we had to read and had to find six images and do write-ups on them, three images of humanity and three of God. Kind of interesting. I pretty much slacked off/did another almost as important things all weekend so it was a bit of a rush on Monday to get everything done but I did it!
Theology class was Tuesday. I enjoy theology quite a bit but our teacher can be a little much at times. He's a guy from Poland and I have a great respect for him. He holds to the truth in the face of probably any ridicule and won't candy coat faith for anyone. At the same time, he can be a little harsh in his presentation of things. The morning was really interesting but then he gave us a homiletics assignment which seemed out of the realm of what we should have been learning and then spent the afternoon tearing us apart because we're not preachers... I learned in the afternoon but my heart was a little tired of the beating by the end...
Wednesday we got up early and headed off to Mt Washington again! Snow caving!! We all had our big packs on, stuffed with food and firewood and whatever we needed for clothes overnight and up the mountain we hiked with snowshoes on. We found a wide open space and picked out our spots and started digging. I was with two other guys which made us the smallest group which made it a bunch harder for us to have less people to help us dig our cave but we made a really great cave!
By 6:00 we had finished our cave and it was looking great! Made sure the floor of it where we would sleep was flattened and made sure the roof didn't have any points that water would condense and drip down on us. We watched the sun go down and hunkered down in front of the fire for a couple hours and just spent time together. Good time was had by all I think, the girls were getting pretty cold. Finally time for bed, it's a lot easier to go to bed early when there's no light or warmth. :P Slept like a baby. I tested my warmth and it won! Had a great sleep breathing fresh air and woke up happy. Had breakfast and tried to eat a fraction of the food we brought which was WAY too much and hiked back down the mountain.
Friday was a lax day. I told the group my testimony at chapel which was neat and I think I good connection to get in with them a little better. Still a bit of a struggle to fit in but it's a lot better, I have much more of a foundation which I didn't have before so as I push and try and get in closer, I have a place to fall back into now with these people rather than no place at all. It's been a neat learning experience to have to work SO hard to fit in. I've never come up against this kind of challenge because God has always blessed me with a quick door into any group.
Had youth in the night. We played a game called Jewel Heist which is just a turn all the lights off in the church game with Security, so we all dressed entirely in black and walked around scaring the crap out of kids. A great time was had by all I think. Went out to Boston Pizza after which was neat cause that's never happened before. The youth program is really evolving which is neat. It's becoming a lot more than it was and is providing so much more for the kids involved. Pretty neat how God gets what He wants.
Saturday was another day to just work... or not work depending on your disposition I suppose. One of the girls sisters came which was neat, it's a good time anytime there are visitors. Nice to see some new faces, especially when those faces look a lot like a face you're very accustomed to. We had a movie night in the evening and they watched Freedom Writers, which I didn't stay for. Not really sure, just wasn't feeling it. Which is weird because I love movies, especially ones I've never seen before. Still trying to figure that one out. Played soccer after that which was a good time. I've avoided soccer lately, probably for the same reason that I didn't stay for the movie, neither of which I understand yet. Just like a block or something I have against it. :S Playing in nets which has been interesting cause I've always hated nets but I've been playing really well and who doesn't enjoy something they're excelling at?
Sunday! I really have come to love Sundays in a new way! Get to sleep in because we go to the second service at our church. Usually enjoy the service a lot. Mark talked about servant hood and just what that means which was neat. It's nice to have Mark Buchannan preaching to you each Sunday. Then we went to a lady named Faith Whittaker's house. She's a really neat woman. She just opens her house to youth people and hangs out with them and calls them her friends. It's really interesting and shows in her youth how God has blessed her in it. We talked about the Shack for a while which was neat to hear what she had to say and get to verbalize my thoughts on the book in new ways. We just laid in the sun for an hour or two and just enjoyed the joy that is held in a relaxing Sunday afternoon away from home.
Came home and got back to work. I'm reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Cost of Discipleship which is a crazy book! So much to take out of it and so little time! I have to write a paper on it for Wednesday and I'm only half done so I have my work cut out for me. We had a New York team meeting which was a good time as usual. Kim and Kim who are the couple that are taking us down weren't there so I volunteered to run the group which I enjoy but I feel weird leading people that often I feel I haven't worked up the authority or right to instruct... at the same time, I'm very used to being in charge of people their age... there's a lot of emotions.
I'll give you my Monday while I'm here. Woke up late, went to chapel. We just had a prayer time which was neat. Good to hear where people are because we spend so much time together and yet so much of it is just surfacey... seems like a waste to me. Read half of the book today and had a nap till 3:30, had my interview for getting the job as assistant head counselor which went well I think. I enjoy interviews because I've learned the true value of things and understand that if I'm not to have this job, God will put the person that should in that position. So I have to wait till after reading break to find out what happens.
So yeah, this week is reading that book, writing a paper on it due Wednesday. Then Thursday will be quiet cause everyone gets on the bus to go and I'm flying so fly out Friday morning I guess...

Prayer requests: that if I'm supposed to work Assistant Head, they would decide right. I really want the position because it'll stretch me in new ways!
Trying to root through what motivates what I do and get rid of the excess and be motivated by God alone. This Bonhoeffer is eating my believes alive and I'm hoping what comes out the other side will be much greater.

Thanks for reading what I write and caring about me!