DTS Day..... 23?

Mah! This has been a good week.
Last weekend we went to London for Chinese New Year! It was crazy. We got the whole tourists-in-London experience - Trafalger Square, Big Ben, cheesy phone booth pictures, Westminster Abbey, getting completely lost and seperated from our group without any of their phone numbers... all of it.

It was... exciting. I got a little paper Chinese dragon, and it made everything worthwhile.


This week's topic was Destiny by Design, taught by Joylynn Landshut, who is from Washington State, but lives in South Africa. Oh gosh, it was soooo good. It was all about our dreams, our gifts, our identities, and our destinies. It was so awesome, because at the beginning of the week a lot of us thought we didn't have any dreams, and she just helped us recognise that we DO have dreams, and that God put them in our hearts. Eeeeh! I am so excited for the future.

One of my favourite things from this week was an excercise we did yesterday afternoon. We all wrote on pieces of paper the negative things about our identities that we or other people had believed and/or spoken out about ourselves. Then, we stood in a circle around a bin, and took turns speaking out the lies that we had been believing about ourselves, and each time someone said one you had been living under, we would rip off a piece of our paper and throw it in the bin, and then declare the truth!
Did that make sense? Because I don't really feel like it did. If your confused, just comment.

Anyhow, it was soooo great! I really can't believe how many lies I have been believing about myself for a really long time now. It was really freeing. I know that throwing pieces of paper in a bin doesn't really sound like it would help anything, but it was a physical action to concrete what was happening in the spiritual.

We are going to Brighton to hang out tomorrow, I am excited :-)

Oh my, we are also going to Brighton TONIGHT to do street evangelism (give me strength). I'm nervous. It is going to be so very very cold.


OH and I found out my parents are going to Macedonia tomorrow?? What the heck?! I am sooooooo jealous. But I'll deal.


What has everyone been up to? Missing you all!