Back to Normal Again . . .

Well after the craziness of last week it sure was nice to get back to our regular routine this week. We resumed morning exercises again and I actualy decided that I had missed them the week before! We also got back to our regular class schedule and were able to connect as a school again, which is something we were unable to do when we were all attending different modules and such during the National Leaders' Meeting. It was once we were all back together again that I saw certain people and realized that I hadn't seen them for a week because our paths simply did not cross during NLM. So it was very nice to reconnect again and eve hear about the highlights of the week for different people.

On top of the relief of getting back to a normal schedule and getting to reconnect with people, it was also Relationship week, so we were all in for a real treat! Our speaker was the fabulous Hinrich Kraenzlin who is actually the regional direction of YWAM for all of the Pacific! He really was fabulou though. He was absolutely hilarious in the way he spoke and with many of his favial expressions and he had been through a lot in terms of relationships so he had real wisdom to share with us all. All in all it was a great week of teaching about realtionship with GOd, with peers, and of course the ultimate guy-girl relationships as well. We received very valuable teaching and insight on this topic and I certainly came out of the week with far more hope that Godly relationships do exist and can occur regardless of that statistics and the world itself says!

It was a pretty uneventful week apart from the teaching, however. I did not go on any big adventures yesterday . . . I was so exhausted from the week that I ended up sleeping until 11am on Saturday which NEVER happens (even at home!). We did have a little bit of excitemnet last night though. Pearl Jam was playing live in the apen air stadium across the street from my house so we were able to het a fre Pearl Jam concert! Some guy named Ben Harper opened for Parl Jam too; I had never heard of him, but apparently he is quite the big deal! Anyhow I got lots of rest and am now prepared to enter into a brand new week focused on Lordship and Submission to Jesus. It should be an interesting week to say the least!

One other thing that will be happening this week is we wil be getting information about outreach. Our leaders are right now going through the process of praying to figure out how our outreach teams will be divided up. Usually diferent outreach teams go to different locations so students are able to pray about where God wants them to go and the teams are decided that way. Since everyone in our DTS is going to the same place the leaders pray about which staff should lead each team and which students should be on which team. It is quite the process as we are really trusting God that our outreach teams would be the exact make-up God wants. So it would be great if you could be praying about this. Also you could be praying for energy and stamina. As we have crossed the halfway point of the lecture phase of our school many people are feeling slightly burnt out spiritually and even physically. We really need continual prayer to keep pushing forward so we can get everything out of this experience that God has for us!

Life is going to be getting very exciting and hectic in the coming weeks as Christmas is quickly aproaching, but it all promises to be super fun! It will continue to write my weekly updates at least until January when we begin outreach. I don't know what the internet situation will look like then or if we will even have access to internet once outreach begins. However, until that time I hope you enjoy hearing about my adventures in Australia!