YAY GOD!!!

      This past week has been so fun! it was a whole lot of orientation and getting to know each other, but what a week its been! this past saturday we went to the park and played sports. it was quite interesting watching all these art oriented people try and figure out how to play sports. (especially for me) but it was a blast! i am still sore, but my team won a game!!! i had to run around and i actually ran kind of fast! yay god! they all teased me a bit by my inability to not scream when trying to do a play but that was bound to happen.
  On sunday, we all went out to breakfast. the breakfast here at the base consists of cold cereal and toast; naturally, we were craving some eggs and bacon! afterwards, we did a bit of shopping at the mall for a few things we needed. as fun as it all was i was floored by the price of everything! the minimum wage here is $16 so everything is way more expensive!!! its tough adjusting and slightly intimidating. but oh well, god will provide! just like he will provide the rest of my outreach costs and my living expenses. Later that night was amazing! My friends and i missed church so we could eat dinner here so we did our own thing! what was going to be a little bit of worship then discussion turned into the most incredible worship time i have had in a long time! We were sitting around singing and i just felt god telling me to "dance". of course i went through the process of debating/doubting. but i decided to just go for it! so i danced! it was the first time i had ever danced during worship and completely surrendered the movement to the lord. and it was liberating! people were singing and praying and reading scripture. one moment people are crying and the next i am so overcome with joy that i burst out laughing and cant quiet down! our god is so amazing! he is a god that can bring people to their knees in tears and one second later have another bursting out in a fit of giggles because of his excitement. YAY GOD!
    This dts does SO much more than realized. we have a lot of homework to do, along with a lot of challenging courses and workshops. we also do weekly community outreaches on Wednesday. we are going to be doing art/sport in the park! a time where we will be inviting the entire neighborhood to come; play sports, paint, sing, dance, and eat with us! its going to be great fun and a good way to get to know some people from the community. that fun-filled afternoon will be filled by a worship night at our base that we open up to the community and invite them to worship with us. i am really looking forward to it all!
     Along with learning about all this, i started my dance focus class. and instead of intense training in technique it will be a complete focus on glorifying god. and we will learn how to use dance as communication, as intercession, and as a tool in spiritual warfare. i am so excited!!! to do these things, we will be doing improv and our own choreography. plus we will have a number of performances on stages and on our outreaches. there will be two big dances we will learn to perform, but one of the dances will not be seen by anyone. it will be just for God. i cant even describe to you guys how excited i am to start dancing with god.

thank you all for your continuous support! please be praying for me and my fellow YWAMers!

us looking awkward in the city!

the amazing girls in my room!

beautiful architecture in the city!

such pretty flowers!!!

this is part of the base i am at

ironically i was wishing that we would all be great friends. then i threw the penny directly up and it hit me on the top of my head; it instantly bonded us.

BRISBANE!!!