Life

Life is messed up. Life isn’t fair. Things don’t always happen the way we think they should but we have to get up every morning and see just what God has in store for that day. No matter how much evil, no matter how much pain, no matter what happens God has a plan and will use every piece of our sinful life to make something beautiful! Each and every one of us is a masterpiece crafted by the ultimate artist, healer, protector, and friend. There is no possible way we can fail with someone so incredible by our side. So take the good with the bad, the happy with the sad and let God lead you to the perfect place, at the perfect time, in the perfect way.

Mr. and Mrs. Calculus

Mr. and Mrs. Calculus

We were the staff models for the Freshman Welcome Party. We chose nerdy as our theme! :)

Sabbath Afternoon

Roomies :)

Living together in a foreign country for 10 months makes us familia.

My island family

Scuba

I am getting certified to scuba dive! I am very excited. We went on our first dive on Sunday and it was amazing! At first I forgot that I could breath underwater sense I had the tank so I would just hold my breath but then I would remember and boom I was a fish in no time! I had a few problems equalizing, popping, my ears but other than that it was splendid. You wear a weight belt to make you sink and mine was definitely heavy enough cause I sank like a rock to the bottom of the ocean. We practiced sharing oxygen with our buddy and other safety things. My buddy, Josh, and I are obviously the best but we tried not to out shine the others to much. Just kidding!! Anyways, so after one dive we are half way certified. Sunday after next we will go on another dive, take the final written exam the following tuesday, and I will be certified for up to 65 ft. Our instructor can certify every type of diving though so I'm thinking I might continue and get certified for 130 ft and maybe night diving! Our instructor is one of our parents here at school, he is awesome and so much fun! Who's getting scuba diving certified on the island of Pohnpei? This girl!

What to do when you don't know what to do.

There is a poster up in my classroom that says "What to do when you don't know what to do" it has a list of things student's can do if they finish their work, reading, or whatever before the other students. Today I was sitting in my classroom grading papers and I was feeling defeated. It's only the first week of school and my kids are barely passing. What am I doing wrong?? I help them as much as I possibly can and I am moving as slow as possible. I love my kids and I think they are brilliant, don't get me wrong I just don't know how to bring that brilliance out. In America education is the focus of our kids, here it is not.
So what do I do when I don't know what to do??? I give the kids a nice list but there is no list for the  teacher. I put my head down on my desk and pleaded with God to give me wisdom and creativity to teach my kids. I know most of you might be thinking come on Macy you are teaching Health, Physical Science, and PE those aren't hard classes but they are. These kids have no idea what goes on in their body or what happens to their body when they use drugs or drink or anything else, they have no idea what it means to take care of your body because they don't know that the things they do mess their body up permanently. Physical Science is the basis for Chemistry and Physics. If they learn the basics now maybe Chemistry and Physics will be more fun and easier for them later! PE, these kids have no idea what it means to workout or exercise and I am here representing a healthy person to be there example and they actually see me as their example. I asked my students to give me one person they thought was healthy and was their health and fitness role model and over half of them put me.
I have a big job to do, but I'm ready for the challenge. I always wondered why God gave me a love for medicine but no desire to be a nurse or doctor or why he gave a brain that is so health/ medical oriented, I have found the reason. I'm ready to give these kids the random abundance of health and medical knowledge God decided to give me.
Bring on the new week!

School Starts Tomorrow!

Today I feel so accomplished! I finished my syllabi, did registration, went grocery shopping this evening, put the groceries away, made banana bread with Josh, did the dishes, swept the apartment, put the final touches on my classroom, and made French Toast with Jeff for supper! It was an excellent day. Tomorrow is our first day of school and everyone is gearing up for the adventure of a lifetime! We feel as though our three day course on how to be a teacher won't help us to much but we know with God's help we've got this! Today I was walking out of the high school and one of my student's yelled across campus "Hi Ms. Fisher!" Let me just tell you that things got real at that moment! I am Ms. Fisher! I am suppose to impart wisdom on these high schoolers about P.E., Health, Physical Science, and so much more! It was an excited and nervous moment, but there's no stopping what comes with the sun in the morning!

Simply Beautiful

One of our guys went spear fishing and caught this!

First Impressions of Pohnpei

Well I'm here in Pohnpei! It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen in my entire life, even in pictures. I thought it would be islandy, like Hawaii, but it not lol It is a JUNGLE! Pohnpei is a mountainous jungle in the middle of the Pacific ocean! And it is definitely a third world country, shacks and rotted teeth are not uncommon. Everything is very expensive, especially food.
My first thought when landing in Pohnpei was how absolutely breath taking it was but my first thought stepping off the plan was oh my goodness I've never sweat this much in my life! It is extremely hot and humid. It is so humid that cuts heal weird! Usually cuts scab form from the outside in here the air is so wet they can't scab on the outside, it looks very interesting.

One Week!

One week from today I will be on a plane for a life changing experience. Today I had to tell some of my friends goodbye and it was difficult, but when I got in the car to drive home Follow You by Chris Tomlin came on the radio. Even though leaving my friends and family is going to be very hard it will be worth it. I have been called by a higher power to serve, bring it on!

It's happening!

Today my mom and I went shopping for some lovely, macy approved knee length skirts. Why you ask?? Because I have officially been accepted as the Health teacher at Pohnpei Adventist School! Once I get the money in, which has to be all in by June 27, I'm completely done. I am so excited and scared! It's going to be the most incredible adventure of my whole life and I'm ready for it! Get ready children of Pohnpei cause here I come!

Excitement and Reality Setting In

So many exciting things happening in my life right now! Lots and lots of change which scares me but maybe it's just what I needed. My application has been accepted by Southern, the NAD, and the GC so just one more step and it will be officially official. Even though I am very excited to go I am starting to realize how much I will miss. I will miss peoples weddings, graduations, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and birthdays but I know it will be well worth it in the grand scheme of things!

From the Beginning

      I would like to start by saying that I am not a professional writer and the grammar may be questionable on this blog but I want to share my story. The part of my story I would like to share began months ago really when I started the winter semester of 2012. I had no idea at the time but God had amazing plans for me! One of the classes I was taking just simply did not work out and so I switched to World Missions, an upper division religion class. Little did I know that class would save me from a lot of headache in the future. I went on living my life throughout the semester and then summer came! Summer was going to be fun but nothing to exciting, but on May 22 it got a whole lot more interesting.
      I woke-up on May 22, 2012 and grabbed my Jesus Is Calling book (which absolutely everyone should read!) and read my devotion for the day. When I got done I just had this feeling that something big was going to happen that day. I picked up my phone and sent a text that would change my life forever. I texted one of my friends and simply asked what he was up to this summer and then I remembered he was going to be an SM in the Fall so I asked if he was ready. He replied and added "You should come!" I sat there for a moment and then realized this was it, this was the "something big". I pulled up the website where the calls are all listed and before I looked at it I told God, "if you want me to be an SM in the Fall let there be a place in Pohnpei that is perfect for me."(Pohnpei is the place where my friend is going as well as the place I had looked at possibly going earlier in the year for the Fall but then decided not to go.) I looked down and there on my computer screen was a substitute teacher position in Pohnpei. Now I won't lie it was not a perfect perfect position for me but it was there so I called the SM coordinator and started filling out all of the paperwork. In order to be an SM you not only have to fill out a lot of paperwork but you are also suppose to take a class. Since I decided to be an SM so late in the game I thought I was going to have to cram the class into a short amount of time. I talked to the SM coordinator and come to find out my World Missions class went above and beyond the actual Student Missions course, which meant I didn't have to take the class, what an answer to prayer!
      A week later I got word that the substitute teaching position was already taken, I was sad to say the least but I knew God had plan. The next day I called the SM coordinator and she told me that I wasn't looking at all the calls..LOL..my bad! I looked at the place she told me all the calls were and there before me on my computer screen was the perfect call for me, the health teacher for the high school in Pohnpei. I quickly switched my desired call to the health teacher position, turned in the paper work, and now my application is on it's way to the NAD to be approved. What a mighty God we serve! He pulled all of this together in such little time and although I still have much more to do I know God has something amazing and challenging waiting for me on the beautiful island of Pohnpei.

"Faith is not knowing what the future holds, but knowing who holds the future."