A whole lot of everything

Matt Rawlins was our speaker last week! HE WAS AMAZING. My brain was spinning. He really challenged us in a bunch of different ways. The hardest one for me is to be vulnerable. He started off saying we need to be vulnerable to God because he makes himself vulnerable for us... Let me just tell you, I HATE BEING VULNERABLE.. I know most people do. But I rarely make myself vulnerable, and when i say rarely, i basically mean NEVER. So I was like all right.. You know, I'll try for God.. Then he was like not only do you have to make yourself vulnerable to God but also to people.. I was like DANGIT! haha. But I'm going to try my hardest.

Another thing he taught us was about intimate reverence(respect). How people from asia rarely have an intimate relationship with God because theyre so used to having so much respect for their fathers and God.. To the point where there is no intimacy. but how the westerners have less respect for their parents and we're used to having a super intimate relationship with families and everything.. but how most people are not used to both. And we need to have both with God. He also talked about how women should submit to their husbands so that their kids can see respect and learn from it. And the husband must love his wife like Christ loves the church so the kids can see intimacy. I love that! I've never heard it put that way..

This weekend was great. Friday night we got dressed up and went to David Cunningham(Lorens, the founder of ywam, son) house(which was incredible) to work a halloween fundraiser. It was a blast! I was in charge of the bean bag toss! Saturday me and mary ran(literally) to safeway(a grocery store) which is only like 1 1/2 miles away but its up this HUGE hill.. I was pretty proud of us. Then we bought some SUPER healthy snack foods and then went to subway where i had the most amazing salad! We came back and cleaned our room SPOTLESS. I was on my hands and knees scrubbing the floor.. It gets prettty gross really fast having 8 girls in one room. Then we went to "candyland" where the compassion dts was working.. It was a huge free halloween party thing. Today we hitch hiked to Magic Sands beach. It was the most amazing day for the beach! We were there for a few hours and then went and got icecream(Half baked -- aka the most amazing thing you'll ever put in your mouth). Then went to the pier and just sat and talked and took goofy pictures :) we were gone literally ALL day.

I'm looking foward to another busy and exciting week! :)