5 Days

Only 5 days until we head off. Everythings coming together so fast. We've been working on dramas (the clincer and lifehouse which you can find on youtube if you want to take a look) they're both amazing. Lifehouse will be for the Philippines and the clincher will be Australia.. so it's going to be great. I can't wait. I've got nearly everything I need - just need to grab some laundry detergent so I can have clean clothes once and a while haha. And I'm good. Anyways that's just a quick update. Won't have solid or stable internet there probably so I won't be posting or emailing too too much the next 12 weeks but for sure after :).
Have a good one.

Trip Agenda

We leave Perth on Tuesday March 31st at around 5:30 pm Perth time so around 4:30 am Ontario time. It's two 5 hour flights to Manila (on Luzon - an island) in the Philippines and then we wait 5 hours in Manila and then fly to Cebu City (on an island between Luzon and another big one Mandonao or something). So we are in Cebu on a YWAM base for a month. April 1st to May 1st and then the 4 teams living there leave for 15 days. So I'm flying back to Manila and then straight up to the top of Luzon. Then on the 16th we all come back to Manila (all 4 outreach teams that had been seperated) and we all do ministry in the big city Manila and area. So I'm pretty pumped. So the rest of the 8 weeks are spent there and then we all leave to our seperate countries. So I'll fly back to Perth and then we'll drive up the coast going North to small towns and do youth ministries there. I'm so excited I can hardly wait. I have pretty much everything I Need for outreach and I can only pack 25 pounds of stuff for 3 months .. holy goodness. I'm excited though - it'll definitely be an unforgettable experience :)

Guys Night

Thankfully with a lot of help from our leaders, we got to do our guys dinner which was a blast. These are a few pictures from it. I was in charge of servers and set up so this is us getting the tables all ready.

Holly welcoming our big strong men and telling them why we did this for them (the bless them and thank them for who they are to us)

Their dessert.. amazing.

Their dinner.... also very well done.

Getting thier dinner ready

some guys waiting for their food i believe.

more guys.. clearly Tanner was the most excited to get his food :)

And then after they ate they watched a video Anne and Louisa made of us saying a few things that we've been blessed by by each student and staff member so it was really good they love it and we loved doing it. So it worked our really well.
Then ater that we went around and gave everyone hugs and then it turned into the school of Male Modeling.. brought to you by Jason and Nick :) lol. it was hilarious
We all stood in an oval pretty much and the guys all did a run way strut and posed at Jason Cho (amazing photograper/student on YP) and they all did something different - it was an amazing night.

PRAISE GOD

OH MY LANTA!
Okay, so every morning like I've mentioned we get up at 6 and pray for finances and stuff and this morning my team still need almost $4000 dollars in order for us to book our tickets. God short of showed me while we were praying that I wasn't serious enough about it and that I needed to ask forgiveness for doubt and unbelieve and just slacking so I did and I felt a lot better and I was actually surprised at how much different it felt but anyways. So THEN we are sitting in class and Landry (leader) comes up and says that of the pool of money that we've raised (around 36 grand JUST the 90 YP students in like 3 ish weeks) was divided up between everyones till needing money and now my team is totally done.. no more outreach fees needed.. and there are only 5 more people left in the entire school.
Let's get a bigger picture at God of what God's done shall we? So 4 weeks about we needed 120 000 dollars just YP and then we brought that down in 1 night to just under 100 grand and then NOW like omg .. we need a couple thousand.. between 5 individuals.. I'm still in shock.. God is so.... I can't even find the words - He's just that good .. wow.. I am stunned.
Anyways ya so flights are getting booked today and that means we're ditching this joint next weekend! yay!

Guys Dinner

So probably about 2 or 3 weeks ago Holly mentioned doing something like a dinner for the guys just to thank them for everything they've done for us. We got all the girls together and talked about it and so we planned to do a dinner. After many many talks about what we would serve them we decided on roast, cold veggies to dip in ranch dressing (which we never get), baked potatoes, gravy, and then of course all the toppings for the baked potatoe.. and since they are guys we decided to do chips, salsa and mashed avocados - I know what its called but I cant spell it lol so I won't try but its like their favourite thing. So ya they loved it. Like absolutely loved it. And then for dessert we had icecream, tim tams, chocolate sauce and a whole bunch of random toppings like chocolate candy stuff so it was amazing. They loved that too and then we played the video that Anne and Louisa made that had 2 girls per every guy (so we each did 2 or 3) and then said something nice about them and how they are encouraging to us and when it was over we all got up and just went around to everyone and hugged them and said thank you .. so it was awesome it was a really good night. It actually ended with a mini dance party haha.. it was awesome. Oh haha they also had a male modelling party.. where the guys strutted themselves down the gap between .. it was so funny.. they all did something different - they are really good guys. Actually like brothers and some of my best friends. It's going to be hard saying goodbye next weekend but I can't wait to hear their stories of how God used them so it'll be amazing seeing them again.

Few Outreach Details

*Departing 28th or 29th weekend
*Apon arriving, we stay in Manila and leave a day or two later and fly to Cebu City (massive 2nd world city apparently)
*Staying in Cebu for 4 weeks I believe? I can't remember exatly.. possibly being a part of the YWAM conference there during week 4
*all 4 Philippines teams from my school will be staying together (near eachother really) for those 4 ish weeks
*leave for 3 weeks and go just our individual teams into other areas
*come back after 8 weeks to Perth for a few days and then up the coast (north) to small village towns to work in high schools and with youth I believe

Other than that i don't know too much else.. except what we're allowed to wear. And since I don't have the proper attire and money is on a shortage considering I'm starting my life as a missionary haha, trying to go affordable if you catch my drift, so any prayers about clothes put in our Salvation Army bin (a bin of clothes that any one can put anything in or take anything out of if they need stuff - find really cool stuff in there. I found a dry fit T today, black jeans that are super adorable, Nike Fit sweater and a light T so that was awesome haha) so anything that actually works for outreach.. skirts etc would be awesome.. since I have like none. So ya
I'm getting pretty excited, we're practicing skits so its getting pretty real :)
miss you all have a fabulous week.

Thanks

Every morning for the last like.. I dunno, say 3 - 4 weeks we get up at 6 am which is normal and instead of exercise we pray for finances for outreach. And this morning as we were praying for the remanding 2 people that still are waiting on God for finances I just felt it necessary say thank you, again for the support you've given me, not even just financial. God really showed me this morning how big of a part you guys are to reaching the nations. There's a different role for everybody - not everyone is called to go out, we need supporters.. emotional, financial, spiritual. So this morning when God brought that to mind I was like wow, I am so blessed to have all these people behind me, fighting for and fighting for these nations. Again, thank you so so much for the encouragements, prayers and overall support of me being here. This is experience is probably the best thing that's EVER happened to me and I know God is going to bless those who followed His leading to back me up on this. I don't know how to thank you enough for what you've done. It means so much, thank you.. that's really all I can say.. thank you.