Is my new favorite thing! :) haha We get free bread here (like more than we can eat) and so toast is the popular thing haha Anyways.... wow, what a week!! Lectures this week were beyond incredible. "Hearing/Recognizing the voice of God" was the topic, and Chris Twin was our speaker. It's hard to explain what we learned really, me and another girl were talking about how it would be hard to explain it to others, partially just because it was SO MUCH! I will try to explain a few things we did to see if it makes a bit of sense. After the week of lectures, we did an excercise to put what we learned into practice. We were given 5 minutes, and were told to ask God what He thought about us, and then to listen to what He told us, then to write it down. After 5 minutes was up, we came back together and a few people shared what they got. One friend in particular, wasn't sure if what she had heard was just her own thoughts, or if it was from God. Some of what it said was "You are beautiful, I love you how you are, you are my daughter" and along those lines. The next excercise we chose from a basket a piece of paper, each with a name of someone in the class (leaders included). We weren't allowed to look at at it, and were instructed to do the same thing; ask God what He thought about this person, write down what we saw, or felt, or heard, also for five minutes. After that five minutes we were brought back together, and one by one, read what we had gotten from listening to God, and then opened the piece of paper to see who it was about. It was SPOT ON for everyone! For one of our leaders, she had been asking God something about her mom, and was doubting what He was telling her; the first thing on the paper that was written for her was "stop questioning Me"! I hope this is making sense to you all how this worked... Now came time for my friend who had earlier doubted what she had heard. She read off what she had gotten from God about her person, and it was a message of God loves you how you are, you are beautiful, and you are His daugther; part of what she got was Stevie Wonder's song "Isn't she lovely." Guess who's name was in the little piece of paper when she opened it up?? Hers!! It was so cool to see that God really wanted her to know what He though of her, plus He wanted her to know she really COULD hear Him!. It brought tears to many of our eyes. It was so awesome to go around and see how everyone's was so specific to them, and that God was the one that spoke to someone else to write about about that person! Because HE was the only one who knew who's name was on the papers!
Now on to outreach locations!! We found out this week!!! The sports DTS is going to South Africa during the World Cup, but the Frontiers were given 2 options, of which we were to pray about and ask God where He wanted us (perfect for just after the week of lectures on Hearing God!). The options presented before us were India, and a Russia/China trip. For me, it wasn't even a question. We find out tomorow what the teams will look like (we told our leaders yesterday where we wanted to go, and they are to pray about it to make sure its all good), so then I can tell you positively for surely :) But I'll just tell you that I knew where I was supposed to go BEFORE the locations were revealed! How awesome is God?!!
Some other things that happend this week; Thursday night some of us when to dinner over at Romishes house. He is a guy that lives nearby that the base has been ministering to for years. He is an older man, now in a wheelchair, from India. Let's just say, that was a funny night haha Romish is a character! But it was fun, no doubt :) Friday night Forts had a birthday party for Stewert (Sports team), who's bday was actually last weekend, so we were a bit late lol But it was alot of fun! I think it brought us closer together as a group.
And last but not least, tomorow we leave for a little country town called Stanthorpe for an fruit festival, I can't remember the name of it... Anyways, the deal is that this little town gets a ton of backpackers, especially this time of year. The backpackers generally are short on money so they stay in this town for a bit and pick fruit to earn some cash. There is a church in Stanthorpe, mostly of the older generation, who really wants to start ministering to them; how awesome is that?! So they decided they wanted to run a month long ministry, starting the week of this festival. They asked us to come alongside them and parter with them in evangelism and other ministries (not sure quite yet what they are). So we will be headed over there for the week to kick off this month long ministry! We get back Saturday, so hopefully I will be able to write of some awesome stuff that happened :)
OH! I almost forgot... I cut my hair!!!! haha I generally decide these kind of things spur of the moment, as in this morning coming back from church. So seven hours later, its short! My friend Laila (Denmark) did an awesome job! Yes, I do miss my hair :( but! this hair is more appropriate for the weather, and for the humidity, and for all the traveling we will be doing lol
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