Monday Funday

Today started off like any other, I woke up and went for breakfast at 7. I ate lots of peanut butter and some coffee. Then I had a glorious nap because I was feeling sort of down in the dumps and tired. Then we had base worship and lectures.

The lectures this morning were on fasting, prayer and intercession. The lecture was given by two of the staff members. Tiff talked about fasting. Fasting is actually super cool and can allow for increased intimacy with God and more time for prayer since you don't have to eat!! I think I'm gonna fast through breakfast tomorrow because I am feeling like a bloated glutton. Rich talked about prayer and intercession. I am learning so much about the power of prayer and the power of prayers of intercession. This week I am really going to work on my prayer discipline.

After lunch the afternoon was free. I finished my homework pretty fast. Each week we have to write in a journal which is called a CIR. In it we have to write the memory verse for the week, what we learned that week, and do a character study of God. For my character study I chose Healing. Because God is a healer and I believe that he has brought me to this place for spiritual, physical and mental healing. I kind of had a revelation of sorts while doing the character study. I had always understood that Jesus performed miracles and healed people and raised them from the dead and stuff. I thought it was cool but didn't really see the application of this in my own life. Now through the study of the Holy Spirit last week, I am starting to see that the healing power of God is relevant today - God heals through the power of the holy spirit. I am so ready for the spirit to work in me, man. So ready.

After handing in my CIR, I took a little nap on the trampoline.

Then I found Henk standing by the clothes line reading. It was so funny. He was guarding his undies from flying off the line in the wind! Haha

Then I ran into Carly, my one-on-one. I have been feeling pretty low the past few days, and it was so nice to talk to someone. I don't know what she said to me, but something she said made all of the doubt and worry that had been bringing me down go away. It was really cool to have a time all about me and to seek advice from someone that I can relate to and that can understand me. I am so excited for mine and Carly's time together, I believe that God has brought us together purposefully.

One of the things that I really struggle with is spending time in the Word, but Carly gave me some pointers and challenged me to just pick a few sentences every day and ask God to show me what that verse is saying throughout the day. So I am going to start in the book of James bright and early tomorrow morning for morning prayer at 6 or 6:30 ish. I'm so ready.

So after my chat with Carly I was refreshed and the rest of the day went smoothly. Some hilarious moments happened today. Marit is a girl in my cabin and she is from Germany. She is so funny, but sometimes she doesn't understand some English words, so things can get funny. This afternoon I was telling her how my body feels like poop because I have been eating so much and feel all bloated and stuff, and she was like "What is poop?" and I responded "The brown stuff that comes out of your butt!" and everyone in our cabin bursted out laughing. It was hilarious.

There is also this guy on our DTS that is named Kyle, and this afternoon at the same time as the poop conversation, Marit was standing in the kitchen in our little cabin and said "Go away Kyle, I cannot help you!" and I was like "What?? why is kyle by our window?" And Merit had actually said "Go away cow, I cannot help you!" HAHA! Because there is a farmers field right by our cottage and the cows can come up really close to our cottage. Oh man. So funny.

This evening was ended off with our first small group meeting. It was awesome. My small group is lead by Johanna and Alicia. And Me, Katherine, Tasia and Hannah D are in the group. It is so funny that all three of the girls from Calgary got in the same group, and then there is Hannah from Tennessee, but we will adopt her into our Calgary family. We just had girl time, and snacks and shared photos of our family and friends. It was really awesome!

And now I must sleep because morning will come all too fast. Peace out!