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.