Week 4

I am starting my 4th week here in Australia! Like what? September is almost over, then It's October! Like what? Crazy how fast this is going! 

Been pretty busy here. At first I was like holy cow so much free time, what am I gonna do with myself..... We do have free time, but we are kept pretty busy too. 

A normal day for us is leaving our houses at 7:30 to head to the base, we have worship, interseion, lectures, TEA TIME (more like coffee time for me) finishing lectures, lunch, free time, dinner, free time. Through out the week there is odd stuff thy get put in there like, small groups, night lectures, BBQS. On Fridays we have outreach prep group from 3- dinner. We have only had one so far and it's pretty legit. Actually it's 2 legit 2 quit.... It's just a fun time to hang out with your group, and learn more about what we will be doing. 

 

My house is AWESOME, I love all the girls in my house and the staff in my house. Our houses are not on the base, we have 2 girl houses and 1 guys house. Personally I think our house is the best. Our house has 11 girls, we have 2 floors and 2 bathrooms!! We also have a pretty nice pool in the back yard! My roomate is fabulous, and her name is Fabi. She is from Switzerland and is halrious at night. 

So this is a legit school here, like when I said we graduate I thought it was just like "Hey you fished congrulations" nope we legitly graduate and can go to School Of The Nations after we graduate, it's pretty sweet!  

This was a very random blog post about what's been going on down here, so thanks for reading, I'll have some better ones soon.... I hope. 

Hello from down under!

I'm the realest....for real doe....
Sorry this has taken so long to write. I don't have a lot of time with WiFi, which isn't bad, but I try to limit the time I do have WiFi to calling my family because I miss them! So, this blog might be long but it will be good.
First and most importantly I am having a wonderful time. It's beautiful here.
I thought I would share some stuff that I'm struggling with so far being here.
One...I am homesick. It's getting better but it's still hard. I'm not just homesick for my family, I am homesick for everything. I miss my family, I miss my church, I miss the people in my church. I miss my friends. I am just homesick. I do know this, everyone back home is being so supportive and that helps....A LOT! I know I need to be here and they know I need to be here. In this time I turn to God and say: "God you have me, you never left me. You had me back home, you have me here and you will always have me anywhere and will be right by my me helping in the struggles I am going through.
Two...I am having a really bad time with countdowns. As I write this I have 132 days till I leave and when I post this it will be sooner. Or, I have about 6 more times to do dinner clean-up. 9 more Sunday services I can attend. 68 more days till I leave for outreach. Stuff like that. And that's not always bad. But, instead I am trying to say, "Sam, you only have 6 more times to do dinner clean-up with your crew before you leave." "Dude, you only have 68 more days to live with the girls you live with." "9, only 9 more times I can go to Good Life Church before I go home. So, I'm trying to turn it around and see that instead of being completely happy about getting to see everyone back home and tell everyone about my amazing trip, I need to take the time to connect with the people here. Because people back home will still be the same people. Maybe their looks will be different, but they will still be the same people that loved me and was supportive of me when you left and they will still be that way when I get back.
Before I left a lot of people kept saying when I get back I can turn right back around and staff a DTS school or missions sight. As I prayed and spent more time with God this last week I have realized right now, that's not for me. My heart and passion is middle school students. I love them so much. I don't feel God is telling me to staff here or anywhere in the world. I feel Him telling me to go home and affect the lives of middle schoolers in a greater impact. So, when I get back in January that's what I will be focusing more on. I was to get more involved with my church and help way more with student ministry in different ways. I just can't contain the love I have for middle school students! I miss seeing them! Today at a church service I learned a new word to call them....Youthies. So, I miss the Youthies.
Some fun things I've heard or learned here in Aussie....
A quote from Fluer, one of the staff members here: "When someone is scared of turbulence...Oh don't worry....we are just saving the birds." Another fun quote: "I only pray for the food I like."
A crazy law here...you can stick any body part of of your window except your arm. You will get ticketed. Even if it's a little bit.
Oooooo.....the coffee I had today was the sweetas....
That's it for now. Blog you later.