Last week of DTS Lecture Phase!

Ok... I know it's really late to start blogging about my first step into missions, when it's more than half way over, but I think that there is so much more in missions waiting for me, and there will be many times after DTS to blog about other places God calls me :)

This is the last week of the DTS lecture phase, and although it's been extremely good and deep and impacting, most of us are ready to move on to outreach phase. This will be our 12th week of lecture phase, having teachings on many things. We've studied "Hearing the voice of God", "The Holy Spirit", "Worship", "Intercession and Spiritual Warfare"... and this week is "Missions". God has spoken so much to me through these topics and the speakers.

Over all though, most would agree with me that the most learning has been out of class. Trying to say nicely to your room-mate to clean up their dirty socks lying on the floor, or cleaning up dirty dishes that aren't yours. Learning how to be selfless instead of selfish. It's fun to talk about the pretty topics each week, but then God starts testing us on where we really are in our walks. How we react to normal everyday things like relationships.

As of right now, we leave in 4 days to go on outreach. There are 5 girls on the team, and 2 leaders. It adds up to be 6 girls and one sad and lonely guy! For the first 12 days, we will be in Durango, Mexico. This is about 8 hours West of here. We will be helping out with one of our outreach leader's church, and will be doing dramas and street ministry also. After that, we come back to Monterrey, Mexico to fly out to Argentina on December 29th. We will be there for a month, and will return again to Monterrey for one week of review. School ends February 2nd, and I will finally be home February 4th!

I will try to keep you all updated on the outreach. I believe it will be amazing, and that God will use each one of us in sweet ways. God Bless and Merry Christmas!!!!