El Finito!!!

… I’ve decided that since I’m living in Mexico City for 2 months I should start to learn Spanish.

So as far as the el finito goes, lecture phase is over.  It’s been such a crazy, amazing experience.  I can’t believe that I”m leaving Australia in 4 days.  I remember getting here 3 months ago, and thinking it was so far away, and now it’s here.

We do a weekly journal as part of our school work here, and one of the questions for the end of lectures was what has God taught you over the past 3 months?  It’s a crazy question to actually try to answer, because he’s taught me so much, but I figured I would put some of it up on here so that you know a bit of what God’s been teaching me:

 God has shown me over and over again every week how much he loves me. It sounds like a simple thing, and it’s something that I thought I already knew, but I’ve really been realizing how much more there is to it than I ever knew. God’s really been showing me more of the depth of his love.  Whether it’s in his constant forgiveness for me every time I mess up, or about how he loved me as my father, as my dad, way more than even my dad ever could love me.

God has been telling me so clearly that I need put him first above anything.  For me it hasn’t been about huge thing in my life that I had been putting before God, but lots of little things that I didn’t even realize.  For example, when I would play sports or be in classes at school, or at work, I would just forget that God needs to be there with me.  It wasn’t about turning against him for me, but more just about forgetting that he is constantly there.

God reminded has a perfect plan for my life. I’ve always known that, but it’s become so much more real to me while I’ve been here, because now I’m not just going through high school, doing whatever I need to do to get through school or whatever, but now it’s about living a real life for me. about me actually being able to make the decisions about what to do with my life, about how to live out the time God’s given me here. God’s plan is amazing, and is not to harm me. He has the absolute best in store for every moment of my life, all I need to do is follow him, and listen to his guidance.  It makes me so excited about my life, and about how God’s going to use me so much to bring glory to him.

Thank you !!!!

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support!  In just over 2 weeks, my school has seen God provide about $130,000.  It so amazing, God has built up the faith of everyone in my school so much, and its so exciting to know that outreach is actually a reality now, and that we’re actually leaving in 2 weeks for Mexico.  I can’t wait for all the things that God is going to do through my outreach team, over the past few weeks, I’ve just really been realizing how God is looking to do such huge amazing things through us both in Mexico and in Bangkok.

Almost time…

So we’re leaving in 3 weeks for outreach!  We’ve been praying a ton for both the locations, as well as been hearing from some of the contacts that YWAM has there that we’ll be working with.  I can't wait to see the amazing things God is going to through us in both cities.
In order for our school to be able to go, we need about $35,000 before lunch tomorrow (which is about 8 pm tomorrow for all you guys in Canada).  Personally, I still need approximately $3500 to be able to go.  I you guys could pray that my school would see this money come in that would be amazing.
Also, if you would like to give, that would be amazing.  The easiest way to have it actually here tomorrow is to give online.  If you go to https://www.ywamperth.org.au/007/payonline.asp.  When you're here, if you put my name under the line that says 'recipient name', and then under school payment select "Discipleship Training School - October - Sports", and then select 'outreach fees'.

Thank you so much for your continued prayers and support as we go out on outreach in the next couple weeks.