week 8

Well we are officially back from the conference. Im going to be honest it was a little sad to leave. i had a lot of fun there. We met so many peple from all different places. Actually it was kind of cool because i met a lady that used to recruit for trinity western! so when i told her hat i was from abbotsford she knew exactly where i was talking about. But i also met people from cambodia,vietnam, myanmar,australia, south africa and like a bazillion other places. there were about 160 peple there and all together hey were able to speak a total of fourty different languages. it was pretty crazy.
loren cunningham spoke at a lot of the sessions this week,the stories he has are absolutely wild. its crazy how God has provided for him and his family. he just casually told us a story about how YWAM people had two people raised from the dead in Africa two weeks ago. we were all thinking thats crazy and he just talked about it like it was just an every day occurance.
the main thing that i think that probably got out of this week was just being reminded that Gods plans for your future are not going to leave you miserable. So many times we get caugght up thinking that we are going to have to leave everything good behind and juts be so burdened for the rest of our lives becasue we are doing Gods work. but i was reminded that,no, God uses the things that we like to do and the gifts that he gives us to make us happy.
My favourite part of the week by far was an offering that we took. there were people that werent abble to pay the fees for the conference so the first part of the offering was for that,  then there were also some people that needed bus fare and then the rest of the offering would be for Laos. But it didnt stop there, we were told to just go around listening to God's voice for wo in the room we should give to. so everybody was giving things to eachother. im gonna tell you a little story just because its cool and worth sharing :). so during the offering i went up to one girl because i felt like i was being told to go to her. so i asked her if there as anything that she needed. so she told me she needed a water bottle. So i thought to myself,"Oh ill just give her my water bottle." then i remembered that during the conference i had dropped my water bottle down the stairs nd it cracked. which is sad because i take tha water bottle everywhere. but thats beside the point. at the conference they were selling water bottles so i gave her enough money to buy a water bottle and she was so happy. But the story doesnt end there. Later that day,i had a guy come up to me, wo didnt know that i had got the girl the water bottle and he didnt know that my water bottle was broken, and he gives me money and tells me that i should buy either a water bottle or a tshirt from the conference. it was really cool. So for those of you wo think God doesnt notice the little things, he even cares about water bottles. Lter people shared testimonies about the offering and it was so cool to see how they were provided for. Oh and did i mention hat the offering taken for the other things came to a total of over ten thousand dollars!? crazy right?
One of the other fun things that we did this week was set off chinese lanterns. they are so cool. theyre a lot bigger than i thought hey were. we had a few close calls though because there were a couple of them that almost didnt make it over he trees. and you would be surprised at how much flame is in those things!its possible that i almost lit my arm on fire because one was almost in the trees but i caught it first. it was a little sketchy.
tomorrow we go back to our regular schedule of classes and stuff. that will last two weeks, then we have two weeks outreach then two weeks back again and then we go on our maor outreach. things are going so fast. it will be two months that ive been gone this week. sorry that was worded funny but you know what im trying to say.
the flooding in Bankok is getting worse. we arent affected by the water because we are far enough north. but remember to pray for the whole situation. some peple are evacuating and heading our direction. but lots of people, even some that weknow fro  YWAM have lost their homes.
Anyways thats bout it for this week, im sorry if theres a ton of spelling mistakes and missing letters in this. The thing im using is really annoying to type on.

Todays Fun Fact
When Thai people dont know how to start a conversation,instead of asking how you are doing or taking about the weather, they ask you if youve showered yet.