New chapter

Packing up and leaving my bunk bed world and 10 roommates with some sadness

but also extreme excitement. No offense house mates. :)

Daily life

Snap shots of what I do on a daily basis.

Weeding this lovely man's front yard

More scrubbing. Believe it or not, bathroom's

are my favorite to clean.

Lots of organizing

Taking apart a bunk bed and moving in a proper bed

for an 80 year old lady who is tired of the bunk bed.

Fair enough. :)

Hop Swiss!

Jo and I were just about to go watch the Swiss game at a friends place. Switzerland played against Spain and won!!! It was an amazing match. You can't tell but I was also wearing Swiss socks as well.

Sweet times in Sydney.

Fall in Sydney. I hadn't seen fall colors in 4 years, how refreshing it was to see them

Jo and I had a great 4 days together in Sydney after meeting there in order to sign wedding documents in person at the Swiss consulate.

Seasons of life

Ahhh!! I miss this man. Yes, he is in India helping with a health care seminar for four weeks. He than goes on to Mexico City for 7 weeks! We occasionally get to talk on the phone but usually it's a text.
Wedding plans are coming along. Please pray that we would find an outside location where we could have our reception. This is something both Joel and I would really like.
I am keeping busy with the ministry I serve helping families in crises. At the moment we are looking after three families that have twins with also two other children as well. It's good fun but you also see how much of a challenge it is for mom, dad and the other siblings.

Engaged!

We are engaged! See the picture with us on the tandem bike? Well, little did I know that he would be asking me to marry him a the end of that jetty shortly after taking that picture. How did he ask me? He gave me a ball of twine which he said had 24 knots and his had 28. The object of the competition was to see who would get to the end the fastest with taking all the knots apart. As I got closer to the end I began to see this beautiful shiny ring. He than turned to me and asked me to marry him, in French. After being shocked and speechless for awhile I said yes! I still am in shock and blessed that this incredible man chose me to be his wife. We plan to get married at the end of July in Switzerland!

Breakfast at the beach

This morning some friends of mine went to have breakfast at the beach. The beautiful thing about Australia is that they have these BBQ's everywhere all ready to go. You just have to press a button and you have heat to cook whatever you want. We cooked bacon, eggs and pancakes on that thing. We then played a bit of volleyball to work it off. Even though we were near the beach we didn't go in the water. I know we are crazy.

Exciting times!

What's new? Well, my boyfriend is a student on a 6 month school called IPHC ( Introductory to Primary Health Care). He is doing very well on his test and enjoying the school very much. He will be here for three months and than off to Mexico City and possibly India for his 3 month outreach. Yes, sad I know but I'm sure it will be good for the both of us.

I am busy leading the ARMS ministry. We were blessed with 20 extra students for two weeks come and join ARMS to help families in crises. This was such a blessing because they would visit up to 9 families a day and therefore causing our 6 month waiting list on gardening services alone, go down to a month! They were such a blessing to us and of course the city of Perth. It was quite the task to organize who goes where everyday but God was there to help me.

YWAM Perth is celebrating our 25th year in existence and YWAM international our 50th! This is a huge year for us. The celebrations begin on Sunday and with last a week. We are blessed to have our founders Lauren and Darlene Cunningham coming to Perth to a part of it all.

For those of you that may not know, I will be going to Switzerland for my 4 weeks holiday's in July and August. Yes, that means that I won't be coming home this year. The boyfriend has a bit of a pull on that one, sorry guys. :)

Here he is, the incredible Joel Wyss! On Christmas day, in the evening, him and I went to a beautiful park that over looks Perth and hung out and watched a movie on my laptop. It was a great evening. He also gave me those beautiful earring that I'm wearing in this picture.







Yes, those are all chickens. One of my jobs on Christmas Eve was to stuff those chicks and make a sauce to pour over them. Jillian and I had good fun.

Quick comment. My boyfriend Joel pointed out that he is actually in two other picture's on my blog. If you look at the 21st of October, the picture's of the volleyball game, he is there. He is facing the camera and wearing beige pants and burgundy shirt. If you double click on the photo it's self you will see him more clearly.

Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Can you spot me? Can you spot my boyfriend? Yes, he is in the choir to. Ok, fine I'll tell you where he is. He is the tall good looking, Swiss guy on the top left side of the picture. Sorry, that's as much as you'll see of him for now.




This is a picture
of me and my lovely roommates after
spending the evening decorating our
home. You can't tell all that much in
the photo but it is quite nice. That
helped to make it feel a bit more like
Christmas because the weather sure didn't. It's been in the mid 30's this
whole week!

This past week, at our campus, we had our National Leaders Meeting (NLM) that happens twice a year. This however was the first time in a long time that they decided to have this conference here on the west side of Australia as oppose to the east. YWAMers and base leaders from other Australian bases, 60 all together, came and joined us for one week. I was so blessed to get imput from people that have been doing this for a long time and just wisdom they had to share with us. We had two sessions a day on a certain topic as well as cooperate times where we just sought the Lord. As well as attending this conference, I was part of the hospitality crew serving the executive team and being part of the worship team for most of the morning times. It wasn't all listening and worship we had some fun games nights. One of which we had a huge scarble game where members of each team had to do certain things in order to accumilate letters. People had to come to me and I'd show them a face and they had to guess who it was. We had a fun night. I also got to play 2 1/2 hours of volleyball one evening, which really blessed me.
Some quotes and statements from sessions I was a part of.
- What do I resort to in times of pain, pleasure( self seeking), power or comfort for the living God?
-Humility is being known for who you are
-Will I cease to be disloyal to God's character that he is always just, faithful, compassionate, gracious, good, abounding in love etc...
-The fullness of God dwells in you!
-Focus on Jesus and not no your sin or what your not
-I've been made to live and love like Jesus!
-Sin hardens our heart. Confession is so powerful! Holiness is attractive!

I live in this home with 10 other girls at the moment but the house can sleep 12. As you can imagine this makes for some interesting and fun times especially with one bathroom. As little of space we do get I am still really bless to have these amazing women in my life that love, encourage and challenge me constantly.

Working away serving with ARMS ( Australian Relief and Mercy Services) ministry. Yes, I know I'm not being very safe with my flip flops and no eye protection. Here I am helping a lady get her yard looking good so that she can pass inspection and get a better home away from an abusive partner.

This is one of the new building we recently purchased. Five staff and 20 students will be moving in there shortly.
Today we as a worship team spent some time praying and worshiping in the building. We also walked around praying and asking God about is place and things to be aware of from past residents.









This isn't the greatest picture because of the glare but this picture is out side of a bakery that donate all their left over bread at the end of the day. We are really blessed by that. My friend Barbs and I were on the roaster to pick up the bread here at 6pm for the week.

Volleyball! This is where I play almost every lunch hour for about 40 minutes. It's such a blessing to have a volleyball court on base. I don't know if you can tell but there are flood lights on either side of the volleyball net. We got those a few months back as a DTS ( Discipleship Training School) trusted and ask God, as a school, for the finances to pitch in to buy them. This way we can play in the evenings now seeing as the sun sets quite early here, unlike Canada.

New Season!

My amazing ARMS (Australian Relief and Mercy Services) team! There are two families that are part of our team as well that were not in the office at the time of the picture. I was just recently asked to pray about joining the ARMS leadership team. After much prayer and thought and hearing from the Lord, I accepted the 2 year commitment as well as the added responsibilities. Please keep me in your prayers with this transition, for wisdom and discernment in making the many decisions that need to be made daily. Thank you!

Hi! It's Monday night at 10pm and I'm tired after a long day cleaning.Every three months we spend the whole day cleaning the campus here in order to get ready for the next group of students coming. I spent the whole afternoon scrubing down this one bathroom we have. Believe it or not I did enjoy it doing it. Sorry, I have picture's to prove it.

Just to back track a little. I've now been back in Perth about two weeks after being away from here just short of 3 months. I came home to a full house, having 11 other girls in it. We don't always have so many but this time we did. Wow, was it ever a challenge to get ready in the one bathroom. Two of my housemates will be moving into another building we purchased recently. It's sad but exciting as well that God is opening up to us property to buy as we feel that this is the area of the city where he has called us to stay. We even had one business call us up and ask if we were interested in buying their warehouse! They are calling us!

I am back in the ministry I was working with ARMS (Australian Relief and Mercy Services). I went to visit this one man that lives in a caravan park, which we have been visiting for at least a year now. Anyway, we have been praying that he would get an apartment for a long time now, and he did last week! He said that it must have been your prayers and he does not really believe in God.

I should go to bed now. Next time I'll post some picture's of something you might find interesting, I hope. Please don't be shy to drop me a note. I love hearing from you guys.

The first picture of me near the water is at this place called Cape Point. The other picture's is where I spent a week for a YWAM conference. I stayed in those round homes which were really great. I got to do some hiking as well which I loved. The one picture with the four screens is three other locations in the world, Switzerland, Ukraine, Egypt and of course South Africa, where we joined together to hear different speakers talk to us all at the same time. It was really neat to have YWAMers all over the world being connected together. We were around 500 people having 50 different nationalities represented at our location alone. It was cool to be able to see some people that I recognized from the different locations on the screen. I was also part of the worship team while being there. It wasn't a planned thing but they asked me to help out. Thank you to all of you who made it possible for me to a part of what God is doing in South Africa as well as the nations of the earth. These are exciting times!

This is us after finishing our painting job in someone's house who holds church services there.

The far left is me obviously being mobbed by heaps of kids loving my hair.

We just stop to take some picture's on our way to Cape Point.