Anyway, this weekend was fun. Other than surf camp, alot of my weekend was taken up by watching football, which i don't even understand or enjoy in the least. I think we watched a few movies, and bounced around town a bit and went out to eat. We have to go to a stupid laundromat if we want clean clothes, which sucks because it takes so much time! In the evenings of the weekend we chilled in the cafe here with homeless people. That's actually so cool to do and it's crazy how those people just love the feeling of someone being interested in them. One of the homeless guys was "teaching" Winston and Judah his ways of playing guitar. Man did he ever love that! On sunday a bunch of us went to this outdoor church. Not really a church, more a random lady that God called to go out and preach the gospel to the people going to the beach every sunday morning. that was different for sure but it was good. So yeah, I decided i'm a huge fan of weekends here. Curfew is later, the classroom magically becomes a hangout and movie watching room, the meals are different, and you can sit around all day and not have to worry about any schedule. I really love the whole community concept of living here. How everyone lives on the same schedule and on the same rules and everything. It's so awesome because it makes us all so much more united because we're mostly all doing the same thing at the same time. And then when we have unscheduled time we are free to just go wherever with whoever, and nobody really gets left out unless they want to. I love the people here so much already and they are seriously like my family. As a group of students we're already so close to each other and have shared so much together already and are so comfortable around each other. it's crazy to think how much closer we're going to get over the next 5 months. Because this adventure's only just barely started!
Today we got to hear our speaker for the week for the first time in class. His name is Art Collins and let me tell you, he is HILARIOUS! Pretty much had us all in stitches an hour into class. Our topic for this week is the incarnation, cross and resurrection of Christ. He'll teach us about that every class this week and then next week for class we'll have a different speaker and a new topic. After work duties this afternoon Art took a whole bunch of us out to Yogaberry and treated us all to frozen yogurt and then told us hilarious stories. That was awesome!
Tonight all us girls went to this conference/worship type night called "Women Alive." The topic was human trafficking and the sex trade. We watched a movie about it and heard a testimony from a lady who God had healed from being in prostitution. After that we had worship and prayer. It was a pretty moving night.
After that, we came back to the base and watched Modern Family with the guys. the end. i'm going to bed. good night.
Oops, wait, not yet. Prayer request, one of the DTS students (Jordan) got word at around lunch today that his dad had a stroke. He left right away to drive home to Georgia, and another student (Justin) went with him for moral support. We heard from Jordan tonight that his dad isn't doing as badly as he thought, so that's good. But just pray for Jordan and his family that his dad would recover quickly and that the family would pull together and that Justin would be given the right words to say and the strength to be to Jordan what he needs to be. also that Jordan's dad would be doing well enough soon that Jordan and Justin can quickly come back to the school and keep learning and growing. so yeah, NOW i'm going to bed!
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