WEEK THREE. 1/25 - 1/31 I'm going to the MARSHALL ISLANDS!

Week three, no biggie (:


Jeff Waalkes was our speaker this week.  He spoke on obedience to God, and how He called us to a life of adventurous obedience.  Some things I got from this week...

in a tree, happy as can be

"Hear me and obey" simple as that.

Pride = thinking of YOURSELF anyway other than how Jesus thinks of you. Too HIGH or too LOW.

Move from knowing about God, to knowing God. 

So WEDNESDAY, we go to workout Wednesday as usual, but this time we're meeting up at the soccer field, opposed to the regular Ohana Court workout.  We get up to the field and there's bowls of paint and rice on a table.  I get handed a paper with "Kayleigh-Red."  And then Lindsey, one of our school leaders, announced that we were, in fact, finding out our outreach locations!  At the "GO" we all run with little cups of paint.  I pour my red paint on Kayleigh and shortly after I get paint poured on me too.  RED PAINT.  I look around to see who's on my team.  I only see girls... 

goofing

Okay, so at first I was really freaked out about being on an all girl team.  I thought we would need guys to protect us and lead us...  I've always been somewhat sexist but I'm coming to understand that God has so much planned for women and he uses them in ways just as powerful and life changing as anyone else.  So I'm excited to be on an all-girl team, to see what we can really do through God.  My leaders are the beautiful Belinda and Lisa.  I honestly love all of the girls on my team.  I can't wait to get to know them better <3

But even more than an all girl team, I was worried about where my location was.  I had put New Zealand as my second choice, but I did NOT want to go there.  I felt like God had been assuring me the whole week that he would send me to the Marshall Islands.  After we met up with the all girl team, we had to eat through a bowl of rice, and find a flag at the bottom of the bowl.  I didn't know what country the flag was of... but I asked all the girls, and they each said Marshall Islands was their first choice!

Marshall Islands team! Me, Jenn, Lisa, Belinda, Linnea, Kayleigh, Hyehyun, and Victoria (from left to right) 

After a confirmation that we were in fact the Micronesia/Marshall Islands team, I broke down crying, tears of joy and relief.  God is so faithful!

Then Belinda and Lisa told us there was some news... instead of Micronesia we would be going to Fiji!  The old plan was to sail to Micronesia, but YWAM Ships lost a boat a little while back, so instead we would fly to Fiji.  BUT going to Fiji is also still only a possibility because we think it's important to spend all of our time in one location, so that we can build strong relationships with people and show them the consistency of God's love. <3

too happy (:

Something always happens on Friday during class.  It's like the whole week is just building up and preparing us for that point.  Jeff asked us, what is holding you back from hearing and obeying God?  He told us to get an object, which represented what we needed to give up. 

As I walked to my room, I thought, what should I give up? ...and somehow I just knew, my favorite pen.  05 MICRON pen.

One-by-one we all went up to the microphone.  When I went up, I was shaking.  And I said that my favorite pen, represented my IDENTITY, my FUTURE, my DREAM, that I had planned for myself.  I want to be an artist, a teacher, a mother, a wife, I want to live in a tiny house in Santa Monica... but I laid it all down for God, so that nothing would hold me back from the life he has PLANNED for me! 

My lovely team <3

After I gave up my pen, I got to take a little bouncy ball, which represented the consistency of God, his love and his faithfulness.  Then Belinda came up to me and let me know that God was proud of me for letting go, but he put those desires and passions in my heart for a reason and he wants to bless me with those things (:  Good vibes

Weird side note, a couple of days before Friday, I lost almost ALL of my pens.  All but one of my microns, my highlighters, and my writing pens... I was super bummed out about it.  I searched everywhere and I remember digging in my navy backpack, feeling the dust at the bottom of it.  A couple days after I gave up my 05 MICRON pen, I found them all in that navy blue backpack!  Super weird haha... 



So yeah!  I'm going to the MARSHALL ISLANDS!

Much thanks to everyone who has been supporting, praying, and reading my blog.  I love you all and can't wait to come back home and tell everyone what God has done. (:

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