Last week was an awesome week. The topic was evangelism which I have really grown to love since being here, and we had a sassy Brazilian woman named Anabel speaking. Her testimony was pretty crazy; she has spent several years in the Amazon ministering to the Indians there and now she is head of the YWAM base in East Timor. Her stories were so inspiring and convicting, she really challenged us to step out of our comfort zones and follow the call that God has for our lives. But the coolest part about last week was that all of our outreach funds came in! At the beginning of last week we needed about $10,000 by Wednesday. Every morning we spent 30 minutes as a group praying for those finances. God was faithful and by Wednesday, which is when all the money was supposed to be due, we were down to only $5,000. So Wednesday afternoon we met as a school in our classroom and for two hours before dinner we just worshipped and prayed that God would bring in all the money that we needed. I was so confidant that He was going to provide, so the whole time I was just so joyful and excited as we were worshipping him. It was so awesome, after about an hour of worship and prayer the money just started to come in. People were getting random emails from their friends saying that they wanted to help get us to outreach and people in our school started giving money to other people who didn't have all their finances. By dinner time we were down to $500, it was truly a miracle. It was such a good day because not only did we see God do an awesome miracle, but I also got to help someone make pies for a fundraiser which was so much fun because I haven't baked in so long, so that was a real joy :)
Last Thursday was our last night of evangelism before outreach. It was an exciting night because we had been learning about evangelism the entire week so I was pretty pumped. Me and my two partners were able to have three awesome conversations with people about the gospel and about God's love for them. They were so open to hearing it and I think we really planted some seeds. God did some really awesome things through other people in my school that night too, it's so much fun to see God working! I can't wait to see what he's going to do on outreach!
Speaking of outreach, today we met in our outreach teams and kind of went over what we would be doing during the three months in Nepal and Thailand. It was a lot of information so I don't remember all of it, but here's what I know: we will be together as our entire school in Kathmandu for three weeks and then our teams will be splitting up and going to three separate places in Nepal for two weeks and then my team will be returning to Kathmandu for another two weeks. My team will then be flying out to Bangkok and we will stay there for three days just adjusting to the culture and everything else, we will then be taking a train to the northern part of Thailand for about 23 days (the train ride will probably be 11+ hours..). After that we will travel back to Bangkok for a couple days and then back to Perth! It crazy, I feel like it will go so fast because of all the traveling. But I am so excited! I'm especially excited to use the squaty potties and eat all the yummy fried cockroaches.. Okay, I'm not too excited about that, but I am excited for all the adventures I'm going to have and all the pad Thai I'm going to eat!
Oh, one more thing! Last night during our last soccer league game I scored the winning goal! It was so much fun!
Here are some pictures from these last couple of weeks!
This was during Carols by Candlelight, it was a beautiful night of singing and dancing
These are some of my wonderful friends :)
This is a gingerbread house, there was a contest!
Me and karoline and Kaitlin went to get our toes done last Saturday :) it was so much fun!
Okay, that's all for now. Next week is Christmas so it's going to be such a busy, fun, exciting time, but I will try to write at least one more post before I leave! I love and miss everyone at home!
Merry Christmas :)
Xo, Helen
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