It has almost been a month since I have been here and I am bewildered at how fast it has gone! These past couple weeks have been intense but so good!!
My roomates and I are having a lot of fun together and getting closer as the days go by. I went with a couple of the girls on Sunday to a snorkelling beach! It was beautiful! The sand is black because of the volcanic rock on the island. I had fun laying there picking out pieces of coral, shells, lava rock and other super cool things that were in the sand! We rented snorkel gear and went out into the water and I was not expecting to see so many fish! So many colours! I was in awe as my friend Danielle and I explored together. God is seriously SO creative! I wish I had an underwater camera to take pictures with and show you all. I am very thankful to have these opprotunities to do fun things like this while I am here :) I will post some of the pictures we did take when they get uploaded, so stay tuned!
This past week we had a speaker named Brian Brennt. He was hilarious and also so life changing in the things he spoke about. The main thing he spoke about was origional design. Who God says we are and showing His love to the people we come in contact with. We did lots of prayer times with each other, to hear from God and see what He says about each person in our groups. We sit in our outreach teams in class, so I have gotten to know my team more this past week through all the prayer we did over each other. There is so much more on the teachings of Brian, so if you are curious at all, email me (smith.dani12@gmail.com) and I can elaborate a little more for you.
We had a women's conference this past weekend on the topic of Brave Love. It was life changing. Brave love is loving people how Jesus loved. So they spoke into how Jesus loved and how Him dying for us is the bravest kind of love the world has seen. Then they went into talking about what brave love looks like for us individually. Some people's brave love was starting churches in their hometowns, being a journalist and bringing to light stories of those who don't have a voice, being a missionary in Africa and showing God's love or starting their own brave love conference. It was so cool to hear what God has laid on people's hearts and that He wants to dream with us! I have a brave love booklet that goes into depth what the weekend was all about so again, hit me up with any questions and I can share more with you.
This week is family week here on campus. Which means all the DTSs going on gather together for class instetad of individually like normal. We hear from Loren and Darlene Cunningham, who founded YWAM and live on the island, and other amazing people that do missions all around the world. Michael Ketterer, who leads the band United Pursuit, is leading worship all week. He is so talented and I can't describe in words the atmosphere of worship we had this morning! SOO thankful God has brought me here!!So that has been a glimpse into my life in the past couple weeks.
My outreach team has met up quite a few times I am loving this group of people that will become family! We don't know a lot of details still about our outreach, so if you guys could pray about that, I would appreciate it! My group leaders are amazing, I am beyond blessed to have them. I will write another update specifically on outreach in the next week or so when they know a bit more.
I am having an amazing time here! Learning so much about God and who He says I am, it is so life changing. I have beautiful friends that I know will be life long frienships when we leave after these 5 months of being together. We are soaking up every minute of it!
I wouldn't be here if it wasnt for the people who supported me, so thank you!
Please email/text/facebook me! I love talking with people!
Love you all, hopefully I know more about my outreach soon!
No comments:
Post a Comment