Time flies!

Wow! It's already the end of week eight! We have three weeks left of lecture phase and then we have one week to prepare for outreach and Christmas! I feel like I just got here but it's crazy the amount of stuff that I have learned and experienced so far. Two weeks ago our topic for the week was spiritual warfare. We learned that Spiritual warfare is always going on and that if you want to do anything for God then you are guaranteed to be apposed, but we have authority over satan and his lies because Jesus gave us that authority when he died for us on the cross. It was a  really good week. And last week our topic was on lordship, submission, and authority. It was very convicting because I realized that I have been holding on to a lot of stuff and not fully submitting my entire life under the lordship of Jesus Christ. So yes, last week was very eye opening and it probably was the fastest week yet because the lectures were so good that the time just flew by! Next week our topic is relationships, I'm really excited to see what God is going to teach me.

In other news, last week in our soccer league we played the other YWAM team and we won! It was so exciting because it was the only game that we really cared about winning. Now we have bragging rights :) it was a really good time though! And it was our first win, so that was exciting.

The base is being decorated for Christmas which is super exciting! Although it doesn't really feel like Christmas is coming because of the warm weather. Even though it is so hot outside I have been listening to Christmas music just to get into the Christmas spirit. A few of us watched elf last night which was really fun. But anyways, the base is really nice. There is a huge "Christmas tree" in the middle of the base and soon they are going to put stockings up for every person note he base! We get to fill each other's stockings with goodies, I'm so excited! 

This is them building the Christmas tree..

And this is the finished project! It lights up at night, but it isn't really the same as a real Christmas tree.

Last week the whole base went to the beach for dinner. It was a much needed break and it was so fun!

I also had the opportunity to bake someone's birthday "cake" last week! (It was actually a peach tart, not a cake). I had so much fun! I made the recipe up as I went along and the finished product looked good! I didn't actually get to taste it, but someone that did try it said it was so good, so that's good.

Last night I saw the first scary spider that I've seen in Australia, it was dark so I couldn't see the details of it, but what I saw was enough.

This picture doesn't really do it justice, but you can kind of tell that it was incredibly scary!

Well that's all for now, I'll probably write again in a week or so. If you guys can please be praying for my school because a lot of people still need finances for outreach! I have all my finances by God's grace, but a lot of my friends still need money, so please pray that God will provide that for us! If you want to help by sending some money just Facebook me or email me and I can let you know how you can help :)

Okay, I love and miss all of you!

Xo, Helen

Two weeks worth

Wow it has been a while! Last weekend was really busy because we spent Saturday at the beach and then we had people over that night for ice cream and cookies and games at our house.  And on Sunday I had weekend duty which consisted mostly of preparing meals for Sunday and Monday. So that was kind of fun, but also very tiring. But last week was really good. We had teaching on the the fear of The Lord and it was very powerful. We learned that the fear of The Lord is respect and reverence for God's holiness and a hatred towards sin. Evangelism was also really really cool this week, my friend Julie and I walked around Northbridge praying for the people there and mostly for young teenage girls, that they would find their identity in Christ rather than guys, and then God led us to this girl who was waiting for a date outside of a club and we were able to talk to her for a while. It was crazy because before the night I felt so sick and so tired, but then during evangelism God gave me the strength to get through the night and I felt great! 

Okay I have lots of pictures now to share so bear with me.

This is from the beach last Saturday, we went to a different beach and it was actually nicer and even more beautiful then the other one we go to. ( I'm getting really spoiled)

This is my team that is going to Thailand with me! I'm so excited, these people are awesome!

This is one of my best friends! Her name is karoline and she's from Norway, she's actually helping me practice my Swedish. It's really fun because we can talk to each other and people don't know what we're saying :)

This was on Thursday before evangelism, I was so tired so I took a little nap on the couch. These guys thought it was pretty funny..

This was yesterday! The sports dts helped out for a sausage sizzle during one of Perth's biggest festivals. There were around 120,000 people there and it was so crowded! But we had lots of fun. I was made team leader for one of the shifts and it felt a little like I was on master chef, it was pretty exciting.

Last one. This is Kirsten and Felix, and this is right before I started writing this post! Exciting, I know :) 

Okay well that's all for now! I have been a little homesick lately so just keep praying for me please :) 

Xo, Helen 

Worship, intercession, and dancing.

This week has been so awesome. The teaching was on worship and intercession and we were taught by Hyung Myung Kim who is the leader of the school of worship in South Korea. The lectures were in Korean and then translated into English which was kind of hard at first, but I got used to it by the end of the week. And on Friday for application day we spent the morning worshipping and glorifying God, and interceding for the nations, it was an awesome time.

This week we had our first indoor soccer league game. We lost. But now that we know the rules I think we will do a lot better this week. We also had a base picnic on Wednesday which was so much fun! I love having fellowship all the time and meeting new people. Last night was the best night of the week though, one of the schools had a dance and invited everyone to come. It was an old school Danish dance because the leader of the school is Danish, so picture like Pride and Prejudice style dancing. My friends and I got all dressed up and fancy, I seriously felt like I was going to homecoming all over again, but it was so much more fun than homecoming. And they served cheesecake and cake at the dance so that's always a plus!

Yeah so that was so much fun.

By the way, we found out where we are going on outreach. We are all going to Nepal for six weeks and then we will be splitting into three groups and one will go to china, one will go to Malaysia, and one will go to Thailand. I will be with the group going to Thailand and I am so excited! We will be working with an orphanage and I'm sure doing so many other things. I cannot wait!

That's it for now! 

Xo, Helen