Thank you everyone for your support and for your prayers! I have been so encouraged by your support for me and what I am doing! I am sorry that my blogs have been a bit all over the place. I hope you will forgive me :D But we have been pretty crazy busy, and this is my first Saturday of relaxing since I got here :D Funny thing is I almost prefer crazy weekends. :D
Did want to let you give you an update about the past few days. On Thursday, we went to the reading club that we have in Burlington, Queensburgh which is a few minutes from here, but it a squatter village that has 'improved' and now has become a township. It is definitely one of the nicer townships, but it doesn't mean they don't have difficulties. While reading to the kids, one very little girl who could not speak any English, came and sat in my lap. I continued reading to the other children and helping them, but it was not until one little girl started poking the girl in my lap's face that I realized she was asleep! Pretty much adorable!!!
I am hoping to do mine closer to November so I can talk about Turkey Month :D
On the way home from Burlington, our leader's car broke down on the freeway :) Definitely a new experience of being stuck on the side of the road in a foreign country! But her husband was very kind and towed us home. (He has a land rover and she has a small VW - we all piled in his car...just for clarification he was not pulling us in the VW) :D
Friday was the last day for Wilson our lecturer, but it has been a very impactful week to say the least.
He ended the discussion of the Lordship of Christ by having us write everything that has precedence in our lives (friends, homes, futures, family, feelings, and rights- Ex: the right to comfort, health, life, etc. - pretty much everything!). The idea of laying everything on the line was VERY daunting, but once we had we physically laid them at the cross in the room just as a representation that we were giving it to Jesus. But the real change was when we did that in our hearts. It was VERY relieving! We then burned the papers we had written everything on. Definitely the fun part :D
That night we were suppose to go to an Indian youth group in Chatsworth, but for some reason they had to cancel. Which meant we got to go to Westville Presby's youth group, crossfire. It was funny because it was the one night that they had a LOT of visitors for some reason. It was definitely a good time of fellowship and teaching. We made videos for a project on thanksgiving. My team performed a rap. (AKA one of my YWAM friends wrote lyrics while 2 of my friends laid the beat and I bobbed back and forth with what little swag I have :D ) At the end of the video, one kid may have broken a door doing a back flip, but who knows, it my have already been broken :) Now it is Saturday my one free day.
Since actually coming, I haven't actually put out anything specific for you guys to pray for me. I am very blessed and thankful because I know that many of you are in fact praying for me, but I also want to throw out there a special request about my next step. Where to go after YWAM? What I should do? Those questions have been popping up a lot. Even though, I am not fearful of the future, because in God's Word it says,
'Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.' Phil 4:6
But I still do want to know what God has planned for me. I am considering many different options right now, but if you could I would really appreciate prayer for guidance and wisdom.
Thank you everyone for keeping up with my blogs and a special thanks for those who read it all the way to the bottom. ;D Love you guys!
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