beach day

Thank God this girl is in my life!!

With some of the Chilean police force on Sept. 18th - keeping the streets of Rancagua safe

All the kids dress up in the traditional Chilean outfits and dance!

A beautiful sunrise marking a new chapter....

Prayer Requests:

-for health and restful sleep

-for my Spanish!

-for unity and focus among students of the school, to listen to God's voice

-for financial provision for students in the school

-for Pastor Britt Merrick's 6 yr. old daughter, Daisy, who has a tumor and just had an emergency operation to remove it (visit http://prayfordaisy.tumblr.com/ for updates almost hourly). It went well but she is in a lot of pain and may need chemotherapy in the coming months for cancer treatment... PRAY!!

Prayer and PRAISE...

Also, I sent out an email to some friends and family asking them to prayerfully consider financially helping students here complete the school. Many are from very poor areas of South America and could barely pay their bus fare to get here, but came in faith knowing God would provide.  My good friend Teresa Sepulveda (of Chile) has been blessed with some donations from some of you, but she still needs $400 by the first week of November more to finish the school.  Praise God for His provision for her, thank you for blessing her if you helped out, and let me know if you would like to donate funds to invest in God's kingdom through this opportunity of missions training. Thanks!

Chilean again..

Ok so this is a very basic recap...

Arriving in Chile Sept. 15th was perfect because we arrived in time for their weekend-long national holidays (like their fourth of July), and I feel so Chilean after four days of dancing their national dance, eating empanadas, going to the fair, learning their national anthem, and basically becoming Chilean. So fun!

I had a great bday - Lindsey made me french toast (improvised with weird chilean bread and weird syrup someone had on the base, but it was good, and she brought starbucks coffee just for my bday!!) and it was our free day before the school began so we all hung out, reconnected, made brownies, relaxed and enjoyed the sunny day. Really it was the best way to spend a bday here I loved it!!

I am LOVING my time back here, it has been sooo amazing to be back on the base and I immediately felt so at home again. There are tons of people here I knew from other schools happening when I was here before, there are new people who came to take schools when we told them about YWAM during out outreach in Peru, which is so cool to see the fruit of our labor, and lots of new new faces to meet. I live in a cute, brand-new little house in the middle of the base with 7 other girls, and besides a little bit of cold and one girl who has allergies and is snoring a little bit, its really nice. We have automatic hot water, which is such a luxury because we dont have to get matches out, go outside, turn on the gas water-heater, light it, come back in and then shower. It just comes out hot! I feel like I'm in America! We had our first classes today, which was great especially because we are the first Escuela de Consajeria to inaugurate the brand-new building. They put in the windows yesterday, the walls, floors, roof and everything is very basic, the walls are just wood and the outer part but its cool to be the first school to pray in the new building. The base is super green as we enter spring here, and there are horses all over the place grazing in the fields of flowers - its a lot more picturesque here in the spring and I love it! It's been so great to reconnect with the friends I already had from my DTS, we are like a little family and we finally reunited. Daniela, the crazy Chilean, is the only one of my old friends that they put in my house with me, which is a miracle since we thought for sure they would separate us since we are too loud and always late together, but she sleeps right next to me. We recorded the girl snoring on her camera last night and almost woke her up we were laughing so hard, so things are feeling like old times very fast. I pray Daniela can come to the states one day!

Classes began today and I can already tell God is going to do great things here. The whole theme of the school is seeking Him more for your calling and ministry to bring truth and light to the nations. I am praying for more of His clarity and more of His direction for my future, and I know He will bless this time and be pouring into us all. Keep me in your prayers, for my heart to be open and willing to hear His voice, and for focus and purpose. A theme for me this summer has been "His dreams for us are always great than our own" and "Blessings always follow obedience", so we will see what else He has in store for me!

I have lots of pictures I will upload soon, it just takes forever. Miss you all!!