Turns out this blogging website is blocked on the base's internet so I have no way of getting to it. Potentially I could type something up every once in a while and upload it on the weekends when I go back to the outside world, but I keep forgetting. So this one isn't really an in-depth update, it's just letting you know that that's the reason I haven't been blogging. Sowwy everyone.
We've been crazy busy. I mean... my free time comes in half hour spurts. We have weekends of course, but we usually have things planned at some point, plus laundry, wal-mart runs, church, and whatever else I need to get done... Not to mention book reports every other week, journals we turn in once a week, and lots and lots of reading. I spose I could tell you my daily schedule. Breakfast at 6:30 which means I wake up anywhere from 6:12-6:43 (if you don't already know that I work by odd times...well welcome to my life). We don't necessarily have to be at breakfast, but we do have to be there at 6:55 so they know we're alive to the world. Then they send us off to our Quiet Time with God from 7-8. 8-9 is different depending on the day, some days we have worship and some days we have prayer meetings. We are, after all YWAM -Youth With A Meeting. We're all about acronyms. So far I've learned that YWAM not only stands for Youth With A Mission, but also young women after men, young wolves after mates, youth without any money....they're all true. Anyways. 9:15-12:30 is class. Lunch. Afternoons depends on the day. Monday's and Friday's we have free time for a couple hours which I usually have to use every minute of doing something... But every day at 3 we have work duties, so some people are on maintenance crew, some are in the kitchen, and I am doing housekeeping. I clean the entire basement/game room, we're supposed to clean for 2 hours but mine takes me about an hour and a half. Then I shower and hang out till dinner at 6.
Monday nights are Outreach meetings -officially decided on the Amazon/Peru!-, Tuesday nights are Local Outreach -my group is a tutoring outreach in a nearby trailer park-, Wednesday nights are designated for reading so we can catch up on homework, Thursday nights are Community Night which is worship and usually someone comes to visit me :), Friday nights are basically weekends so we're free -depending on what's planned... some Sunday mornings, we speak at churches, sometimes we have fundraisers, we've had a couple events that took all day but were super fun, etc..- until Sunday night.
All to say.....every hour of my life is pretty much planned out for me while I'm here. It's kind of overwhelming a lot of times because I just want to add 6 more hours to every day. But I'm learning a ton- I can't even begin to tell you... If you haven't done a DTS there's no way you can even fathom what we go through. I can already tell I'm growing emotionally and spiritually so hopefully other people notice as well. There's also been some rough times, especially the past week. There's a ton of spiritual warfare going on, if you don't know what that is, you should send me a message and we can talk about it. So there's been a huge lack of sleep for everyone around the base the past few days and I don't know of anyone that hasn't wanted to go home at some point. We're all pushing through though for now.
Prayer requests for the moment:
-spiritual warfare is crazy, overwhelming, and sometimes scary. you can ask me for details if you want
-God's been growing me most so far through helping me let go of things. small things, big things, forgiving things, there's been some reconciliation with people and some letting go of relationships...even letting go of about 1,000 songs off my ipod the other day. so just that I would continue growing through it and not get defiant towards it
-a lot of personality clashes...if you know me, you know i'm blunt. and people that aren't used to that sometimes get really offended by me. ok I'm offensive either way. there have been many confrontations which is mostly a good thing, but yeah, sometimes dealing with people and making them deal with me is stressful.
I guess this is all I can think of off the top of my head. Facebook is probably more up to date on pictures and stuff. well definitely more up to date. I'll try to remember to update this more often when I get a chance
Shalom friends
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