Week 9!

I seriously can not believe how fast time is flying here. In a month I will be in South Africa!! So crazy to think about. I am really really excited. We are focusing a lot on outreach now... especially the finances part. There are quite a few people who do not have all the money yet, so we have all been praying about it on a daily basis. There has been really cool stories already about money coming in, thousands of dollars for some people! It's pretty cool to see how God provides and will continue to provide.

Although I am excited about outreach, I'm still here for a bit and there is a lot going on and a lot more to come. This week's teaching is on "authority and submission" so basically all about leaders and what makes a good leader and how we need to submit to our leaders. For me it is interesting because I have been in a leadership position at camp and stuff and hope to be doing that in the future as well so I am learning a lot. Also our speaker is hilarious! He is really great. I laugh my head off every lecture. I feel like the past few weeks have been super intense, so this is a nice little break. I can't believe how much I am learning here. Every week there is more to learn, to process and to grow in. At times I feel overwhelmed because I can't process all the information that's in my head. I still have stuff to think about from week 2... However. I do believe that outreach is going to be a time where I can practically apply all I have learnt. It will be cool to put it all in to practice.

I don't really know what else to say except that things are still going good. I have been so blessed by my roomates. We all just get along so well and are so close. I thought, at the beginning, a tiny room full of 10 girls would be drama central, but it hasn't been at all. We get on so well and I really feel very supported by them. And we have tons of fun.. last night we all stayed up way too late (considering we are up at 5:30am...) telling silly stories and just laughing so hard. It was pretty great. I just can't believe there is only a month left with all of them before we split into smaller groups for outreach.. I am going to miss my roomies for sure.

Anyways, I've got to go.. do homework! We actually have homework, yes, but it isn't too bad. I hope you are all doing well!