I'm super tired but I'm gonna try to write as much as I possibly remember...
So this week we had Mr. Ken Helser teaching us about the Father Heart of God. Though he didn't really teach, he just told stories. He really is an amazing man of God, and a lot of people got so much out of this week that their lives will be changed forever. But to be honest, I wasn't one of those people. I had trouble concentrating, and in a very weird way I felt really disconnected. I don't know why and I'm still very confused. This week was supposed to be emotionally draining, life changing and plain amazing, but I didn't feel it.
Last saturday we got our outreach options: India, South-Africa, Japan, Canada and Australia. Our entire band was asked to go to Japan as a group, which was something that has never happened before. Noah asked us to pray about it together, and we did. Most of us didn't have anything against Japan, except for Koji, our Japanese guitar player, who of course didn't want to go back home. So we accepted the fact that Koji wasn't coming and we all prayed about our decision as individuals. On tuesday we had to make our final decision. Apart from Koji everyone in our band was going to Japan. On tuesday evening Steven, our band's staff member, came to us and told us that Koji was coming too. Koji had prayed about it and God had told him to stick with the band. How amazing is that?
So in the beginning of February I'll be going to Japan for 7 weeks. On thursday the staff announced the outreach teams, and it turned out that I am the only student girl who's going to Japan. With me are coming Koji, Josh, Izac, Nick, Steven, Ronnie and Jess, who is the other girl coming. She's staff, and she's actually my one-on-one, which is pretty sweet. All the other girls are a little jealous of me cos more than half of all the MAD guys are coming to Japan... The South-Africa team is the biggest. It's actually like 3 times too big. The second biggest is the India team. Smallest one is the dance-oriented Asutralia boat trip team. They only have 6 girls. And there was no Canada team! Nobody wanted to go there.
Thursday night when we heard our outreach teams was our pizza night. Ken Helser had this thing with every school (mad, b2b, sports) where he and all the guys cooked pizza for all the girls. Our guys had decorated the community room and it was gorgeous! They baked alltogether 60 pizzas, and it was probably the best pizza I've ever had. They served us and were all polite and wonderful and it was sooooooooooo lovely. I ate so much that I was in physical pain for like a half an hour.
Tomorrow we are leaving for Byron Bay for two weeks. I won't have internet access there so you're just gonna have to wait. The whole idea of this trip is to go minister to so called schoolies. Schoolies is the Australian version of Spring Break. When australians graduate from highschool they head to different beach locations to party for a week. Many of their parents actually buy them alcohol. Young people about the age of 18 get absolutely smashed, many of them do drugs or have sex for the first time. We are going to minister to these kids, to play volleyball with them and to bake pancakes to them. I hear it's gonna be super intense, so I ask for you to pray for me and for the whole team. After a week of schoolies we're gonna have a week of lectures at the Byron Bay base. It's gonna be less intense and we're gonna have time to surf and just hang out on the beach. I am really looking forward to it.
So that's all I have for now. Please keep praying for me. Pray that I don't get sunburnt. It's nasty. Weather here has been lovely, plus thirty-something degrees celcius every day. It's starting to get really humid which is not too nice. It's like living in a dishwasher. And it's gonna get worse. Annyway. I shall be back in a fortnight!
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