We have enough!

   Hello everyone!! It's been a while since I've sent out a real update! Things have been so busy around here and will stay that way until the day that I leave for outreach. And speaking of outreach I am going!! You guys God preformed a miracle and provided for me to get the remainder of my funds! One day I needed $3,500 and then by Monday it went down a couple thousand! God is amazing!! As of this morning God provided the rest!
   A beautiful friend of mine for Switzerland shared some scripture with me when I was in the middle of trying to figure how to come up with the rest of the money and it became a prayer for me. I am so excited to be able to share it with you. It is from Exodus 36:3-6. It says, "Moses gave them the materials donated by the people of Israel as sacred offerings for the completion of the sanctuary. But the people continued to bring additional gifts each morning. Finally the craftsmen who were working on the sanctuary left their work. They went to Moses and reported, "The people have given more than enough materials to complete the job the Lord has commanded us to do!" So Moses gave the command, and this message was sent throughout the camp: "Men and women, don't prepare any more gifts for the sanctuary. We have enough!" So the people stopped bringing their sacred offerings. Their contributions were more than enough to complete the whole project"
   My amazing church family I can say "We have enough!" Praise the Lord! You all gave selfishly and I now have enough to do what God has commanded me to do.  Words can't express how grateful I am! You are all a part of this trip and I can't wait to share with you all that God has done through US!
   Now on to just some highlights from the last few weeks.  Ok so two weeks ago our speaker was John Bills. He is probably my favorite speaker from the whole DTS! He spoke on the Father Heart of God. The whole week was amazing, but on the first day God brought up some things from my past that I realized had set up a barrier in my life and had been keeping me from truly knowing the heart of God. These things from my past were events that were out of my control, but had scared me deeply. I was on emotional shut down. I was broken, but it had become more comfortable for me to stay in a place of negativity then to allow God in. I believed that I wasn't worthy of healing. I believed that all the things that had happened to me were my fault. But deep down inside I knew that these things were lies from Satan. So in an act of faith I got up in front of the class and began to tell Satan that I wasn't going to allow those lies to be in my life any longer. Before I knew it all of the guys in my class stood up and just surrounded me and held me and began to speak truth into my life. Through their shouts and all my tears I really began to get a picture of how God felt about me. For probably one of the first times in my life, I allowed Christ to truly speak to my heart. I realize now that I am worthy of healing and that He longs to speak to me! Tell you what guys if I came home now, this trip would have been worth it. What an amazing breakthrough! 
  This past week was a ruff one for me. Our speaker was an Amazing man name Alesandro. He is a Brazilian who is a missionary in Afghanistan! What an amazing man! On Monday he just shared story after story about how God has worked in his life. On Tuesday I missed class because I had to take care of getting my finances in. On Wednesday I was down in bed sick :( But I heard some amazing things about breakthroughs my classmates had! Praise the Lord for that! I think God was especially moving in the lives of the men in the class! Continue to be praying for these guys! They are some amazing men of God and the world needs more like them!
   Thursday was Thanksgiving! Oh what a ruff day! I was really homesick and physically sick on top of that. But my school leaders worked hard to make the day special for us! I am so grateful for them! We had a nice Thanksgiving meal and then spent the evening at their house playing games and fellowshiping. Friday we began set up for the 50th celebration! Our class alone moved and set up a couple thousand chairs and a few hundred tables. It was crazy! What is even crazier is that we did it in only a few hours! Oh man did my whole body hurt after that!
   This weekend was really nice! Myself and a few of my friends went to what the locals call Children's beach. We rented snorkeling gear for $5 and spent 2 hours floating around on our stomachs looking at coral reefs, tropical fish and sea turtles. So amazing!!! I wish everyone had a chance to do something like this! As I am sitting here I still feel like I am floating around in the water! I was so stinking excited and the whole time I was screaming under the water! Haha! Apparently I didn't breathe through the snorkel right because when I got out of the water I had a huge ring around my face from the goggles, which stayed there for the rest of the evening :)
   Well guys that about it for now. I am sure I will have lots of stories to share about the 50th celebration! There are a couple thousand missionaries from all over the world that are going to be here! It's going to be amazing!
   I love you all and miss you with all my heart! I am so grateful for each and everyone of you!