Next Destination - Australia

Yay!!! I'm almost done my time in the Philippines which means my next place is.. dun dun dun AUSTRALIA. I can't wait. Apparently and it's going to be super chill and hanging out with high school students all week.. I'm stoked man. Anyways, I will catch you quickly.
Destination 1 - May 1st.. ish : Baguio >> amazing. We drove through the mountains of North Luzon - gorgeous omg.. incredible steep drops off the side of the road as well - not as comforting but that's cool. Streets of course are crrrrazy curvy but it's so much fun to drive there.. walking is unfortunate because of the ridiculous inclines - leg work out thats for sure. But it was great, we got to pray with city officials, evangelize in the park, kids programs in the park, marginalized women ministries 3 nights we were there, lots of team bonding. Baguio was amazing - I loved it. The topper was that we stayed in a house just our team it was awesome. oh y a, and we wore sweaters at night because it was .. get this.. COLD - well Philippines cold.. not Canada cold by any means.
Destination 2 - May 6th ish : Bontoc >> village with nothing. We did a lot of ministry for the base, blessing them. Running YWAM international prayer day on the first Thursday for them, hanging out with the American family - I guess its had when you never are around english speakers lol - evangelism of course. Bontoc is really pretty as well, surrounded by bigger mountains all around it it's stunning. There are rice terraces everywhere its beautiful. Then in our stay in Bontoc we went to another more villagey village called Can-eo. It has even more nothing. They survive off of their rices frields and weaving - which is incredible might I add. We only ended up staying 1 night becaues of the typhoon - causes land slides over the road which we ended up seeing.. would not have been a good time driving and getting hit by one of those - I'm just saying. Anyways so that was cool there we did a lot of praying for the village to break curses and ran a bible study for 2 families. It was cool - glad we got to do that.
Destination 3 - May.. i dunno what : Dagupan >> AMAZING time there we stayed on a base. it was so nice I loved it there this was back down on sea level right by the beach we were like a 2 minute walk from the waters edge. craziness man. anyways the base staff and directors were wonderful. We did open airs at a slum and then at a disabled peoples place that was really neat and muslim friendship ministry and stuff - it was great. they were amazing to us holy goodness. Food there was incredible they had different fun nights and we played games with them and they had a farwell for us and they danced and told testimonies and we did our skits and it was so much fun. We all laughed a lot. it was amazing.
Destination 4 - May 16 : Manila >> Im here now .. should actually be getting ready for the day. I have 10 minutes to get ready.. shoot. Anywways, so yesterday was our much needed day off so we took a trip to the SM mall of Asia - biggest mall in Asia apparently. INFACT - David Cook & Archiletta from American Idol were there on Saturday night lol.. true story. Anyways so ya that was really cool we had fun - they had a Bo's Coffee which made my day. Hadnt had a cookies and creme freeze in forever.. like 4 weeks lol anyways. so we start ministry today and then Wednesday we head our for Australia.
We'll be spending Wednesday night in the Brunei hotel again :) yay banana pancake! and then arriving in Perth Thursday night, then we have all Friday to get ready and then saturday morning we head off to Geralton or whatever its called and then after that we hit up 2 more cites farther north.. so it'llbe chillier but it'll be awesome. I'm so stoked. this is what I've been waiting like 2 months for.. youth ministry what!!!
Anyways I'm so going to be late, thanks for everything guys!
Peace

Bontok Here We Come

So tomorrow morning we wake up and go to this breakfast with city officials of Baguio at 7:30 and have a prayer meeting with them aswell. Freaking insane man.. who knew we'd be able to do that - God, that's who. Anyways, so after that we head off by bus .. with no AC for 5-6 hours to Bontok which is farther north and then we stay or 2 ish days in the appartment i guess and then from Friday.. or Thursday night .. I cant remember .. until Sunday we are living village style... We were told to bring our sleeping mats.. so Im not really sure what that means.. but I am expecting to not shower lol
anyways my time is running out on this here thing so I should deek. Peace out
Keep praying yo!

Baguio

Man, have we been doing some crazy amounts of travelling and now we're about to start again. I can't believe it. It's been so crazy.. so amazing. I know I keep saying this .. but I cant believe that I am in Baguio, Philippines sitting at an internet cafe on my afternoon off with 7 people that I never knew 4 months ago, who now probably know me better than anyone. I can't grasp that I don't think I'll ever be like "oh ya I did a DTS once" it's just too amazing. You should all do a DTS.
God's been showing me so much and doing so much in the Philippines. I still can't believe He chose me to be a part of His plan. How exciting is that.. pretty exciting.. Anyways, ya I'm learning a lot about people.. about myself.. about relating to people that you honestly probably have nothing to relate on like detanees at a youth detention centre in the mountians of N. Luzon or the prostitutes in the red light district. It's so crazy. I can't believe I'm pary of this.
We arrived in Baguio on Friday night after driving for 7 ish hours from Manila .. after an 1.5 hour flight Cebu. We have been so blessed. We're living in a house.. all to ourselves all 8 of us .. with nice beds.. hot showers.. a kitchen.. a TV! .. laundry mat aruond the corner, beautiful porches and amazing views of the mountain sides (considering that we live on one) .. it its been crazy. It almost doens't feel like I'm on outreach when I go back home lol. It's weird. Anyways. So Saturday morning we jumped right into the ministry and did a kids program at the park a few minutes away. the kids loved it and they wanted us to come back next week - too bad we wont be here - they were great. then we went home, had lunch and then in the afternoon we went to the youth detention centre and did an open air for them. George spoke.. he was incredible. I was hit with a dose of revelation and just shocked at how incredible it was. Holy spirit was there thats for sure. we did 2 skits.. diretor and lifehouse.. i hurt myself in lifehouse but whatever.. things happen. We played games with the guys (14 of them that ranged from 8 to 18.. I know riht 8? in a detention centre.. pick pocketing.. freaking ridiculous but moving on) ya so that was awesome.. I saw this guy we looked really straight angry.. and i was like.. hes in jail no wonder he's angry its just me.. and then i looked around at the other guys and didn't really feel anything so I felt God nudging me to go talk to him.. I challenged it for a while.. and lost - naturally. So I talked and prayed to/for him.. he wasnt very chatty but he was definiltely listening. After I left I looked back and he was like dead concentrated and thinking.. it was really cool. I just told him how much God's heart breaks to see him upset and then when he's hurting and betrayed by people God's totally holding his hand and so I shared some of my testimony with him.. it was really cool. Even if he got nothing out of it God showed me I can talk lol.
Anyways ya so then in the evening we went out to do some street evangelism with the marginalized women on Baguio. It was sweet... definitely a different environment .. we were just outside the redlight district and we had a few convos.. someone that Mel, Andy and a Philippino guide that was with us talked to actually rededicated her lief and was in shock that God would send someone to talk to her in a bar and that He wants her even though she was in a bar.. it was amazing the story Mel shared.. really cool stuff is happening here.
Anyways.. this is long.

*the kid next to me speaks really good english.. sounds N. American. It's kinda strange.. not used to obnoxious Philippinos yelling "DOES THIS THING HAVE ANY EAR PHONES OR SOUND OR SOMETHING!" in my ear.. first time for everything I guess.
PEACE