Just like that the Music, Arts, and Dance school has started and these students are SO hungry for God! Last weekend we had testimony weekend where all 39 of us went north about two hours and shared our lives with complete strangers. What started out as an awkward weekend playing get to know you games and making small talk quickly turned into pouring our hearts out to one another and at the end becoming a close group all seeking the same thing, Gods heart. Seeing this DTS compared to the one I was on a year ago is crazy... I feel like they came in and were just ready to get as much as God possible as fast as possible!
We had our first week of lectures and it was on "The Bible" with one of the elders on base. She went through the whole bible in the first four days and then on the last day she showed us the proper way to study it. Something that stood out to me on the last day that she said was that we don't need to defend the Bible, if we live out what we read then The Bible will speak for itself through us! SO GOOD! Also we had a time to serve locally where we went out to a farm and put up a fence to hold up to 100 horses. So we had quite the first week!
I also had lectures with the leadership course I'm taking (BLS) and we had one of school leaders here on base speak about how to work in unity and God was bringing so much correction but also was pointing out things I do well. After he was done with the lectures I just could feel how bad I needed God in my everyday life.. It was to the point where I had no choice but to go into my room and cry out to God asking for more of him through out the day. He showed me that apart from him anything I do is pointless and you'd think that's depressing but you realize that there is nothing greater on this planet then when God uses you to love.
The amount I've grown since I have been here has been crazy.. God keeps showing me new things to work on spiritually and my classes are giving me things to work on constantly. So as you could imagine time management has been huge so its a trial and error time.
Lastly, I just want all of you guys to know how much I miss you back home. I'm always thinking about you and how badly I wish I could take you on this adventure! You guys mean so much to me and it seems like not to long ago I was in high school making some of the best memories! I miss and love you all!
Prayer Points:
1. More of a love for the students so I can see them how God does.
2. That my quiet times will be more intimate with Him and understanding what he wants to use me for each day!
3. More unity in the school so we can just be a place for God to move freely!
4. More finances, I'm still in need of a lot of money so just support me in prayer with it please!!
