Week 3- Surviving without napkins, and first tears in a year

Did you know that we don't use napkins here? I only realized it maybe two weeks ago. ONWARD WITH THE BLOG!

ah nuts. Totally forgot to talk about community outreach and my birthday last week. So, for community outreach I travel to a local area (usually a park, or a basketball court) with a bunch of others, and we play with the kids and spread the gospel to them. The goal of this is to bring the communities together, and try to bring Christianity into the homes through the children. Alright then, my birthday. I got an awesome brownie cake (I think it had some mint also), a card, fro-yo (frozen yogurt for those uneducated in the ways of frozen desserts), annnd I saw my first whale. Pretty awesome birthday.

Week 2- Outreaaaaach and the beginning of lecture

Halright. Here we go. Totally forgot to put the whole outreach thing in my previous post, sooooo here it is. In case I didn't put this earlier, I am spending the first three months of my DTS in Maui, Hawaii, and the next three months will be spent out on outreach, echoing the saying of YWAM- To know God, and make Him known. After Exodus, we had a beach day. (Actually, thinking back, I have no idea about the course of events, and it's all really jumbled up. Sorry about that.) We didn't stay around our base where there are a bunch of beaches with huge (meaning 3-5 feet high), vicious waves. We traveled to the other side of the island (the side that is much more touristy), where there were beaches that had finer sand on the beach, clearer waters, and much smaller waves. We spent the whole day there, but as the sun started to set, Matt Laskey (the DTS school leader) gathered everyone together. After a couple of delays, he started calling

Week 1- Welcome to Maui

Alright, the next day I wake up and meet some new people, and see a guy sitting in the back of a truck. After a little bit of talking, I find out his name is Brennan, and they're going to run some errands in town. With nothing else to do, I hop into the back of the truck, and spend the day going around to the different YWAM properties to take care of things, and then we filled up some propane tanks, and did a few other small things. As unique as I thought riding in the bed of a truck was, I'd be doing it many more times, and it's always fun. The next day we went to the beach, and the last of the students arrived. That evening was an event called Opening Night. The staff introduced themselves during this time, and then we had a time of worship. Afterwards, the staff introduced a 'camping trip' that they call Exodus.