Hey !!!! So this last week has been really good... quite a booster actually... Art Collins was our speaker... he spoke on servanthood but also touched on some other things... it was so good... He is at least in my top two favorite speakers so far... I really liked Liz... The thing that was so good about Art's teachings was that they were so convicting... like incredibly convicting...

I had been feeling really overwhelmed the last few weeks because of the crazy schedule we are on... with new speakers every week constantly... Ive just been so busy it's ridiculous... and looking in the future I couldn't really see any breaks you know... But the staff noticed just that everyone was getting tired... we are on week 9 already!.. so they gave us today (monday) off for more rest and tomorrow we are going to the museum of tolerance... and then tomorrow night we have the dance fundraiser ( I will explain in a moment ) so tomorrow we don't have class either... it has been such a blessing and I feel so much more rested and ready to go... God is restoring my strength and it's great...

So the dance fundraiser... We, as the create track, have been working on this for a really long time and actually the dance that we have been working on all these weeks is going to be the main thing of the fundraiser... its going to be here at the base in LA... we are expecting 200-300 people from outside the base... all the profits will be going to our outreach teams... well the students that don't have all their funds yet... I will be representing our outreach to North Africa and explaining what we are doing to people... so that's exciting!

My knees (mostly my left knee, the good one =)) have been bugging me the last 4-5 days... it's a little discouraging knowing how much hiking I will be doing on my outreach.... but I know God has it all under control... so if you are reading this please be praying for my knees because they have been talking to me a lot ... =)...

A cool thing that I realized at church this week.... okay so a little backtrack... In my quite times in the mornings I decided I should start working on some sermons for the future... so I tried looking back through all my DTS notes and was getting frustrated because I didn't know where to start... But the revelation I got yesterday in church was really cool... it seems so simple I know but it really is going to help me... it is to start sermons based off of bible verses first and then plug in thoughts and sayings, stories etc... instead of starting with a thought and then plugging verses in... I mean you want the base of everything to be God's word right??? I just thought that was cool.. =)

I leave for outreach in less than four weeks... oh my!!!

Thanksgiving is next week.. this is really exciting for me.. knowing that I get 4 days off to just be free you know... I almost came home but it ended up costing to much... So I am going to my new friend stephanie's house in San Diego... I am going with 5 of my class mates! Stephanie Aubrey Dorothea Bob and I.... It's going to be really fun... I actually already met her parents they visited one day... I talked with them for like an hour... they actually started a church in their basement... it was really cool... they have inspired me so much and now I get to go spend 4 days with them! I am hoping Bob can teach me how to surf too!

Okay I gota go ... Have FUN!!!