Sorry, these updates are getting later every time.  Just a warning, I will be posting on an unconsistant basis while in Bangladesh.

So, a couple weeks ago, our lecture topic was "Holy Spirit."  Our speaker was Maria D, she is a past YWAM Maui staff member.  We learned a lot of things; Holy Spirit is a He not an it, He has a personality, He has jobs/functions and He works in may different ways.  Another thing we learned was that God is not a communist.  In saying that we understand and recogniz...
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So, I am very sorry about my tardiness in posting.  Life here gets quite busy and it is easy to forget some obligations we have.  So I shall do my best to update you on what has happened in the last couple of weeks.

The lecture topic for the week before this past week was World Views.  We had a man named Rick Thompson come and teach us that week.  It was really cool to experience his way of teaching.  He made it very clear at the beginning of the week that he was going to be targeting our mind...
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Sorry, my updates are coming later and later every week. Life is getting super busy and we rarely have a free moment to do what we need to.

Anywho, the lecture topic for last week was New/Pure Hearts.  A team from the University of Nations in Kona led by Tom and Donna Cole led the week for us.  They had eight sessions for us to go through, and each one was quite emotional and brought up a lot of hurts, pains, or wounds that we didn't even realize were there and that needed to be spoken aloud p...

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Sorry for the super delayed update.  There is a lot to do in not much time.

So, this past week we had Chris Keim, from Alberta Canada, speak to us about our identity in Christ.  It was a super empowering week.  Christ taught us many things.  A few major points were:
- the Tabernacle is just a shadow of how God wanted to dwell within us
- our spirits are the Most Holy Place
- he reminded us that our identity should not be in anything other than Christ 
- everything in this world is a shadow of the ...
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This week our lecturer was Matt Laskey, who is also out school leader.  The topic was "Basic Christian Foundations."  It was quite a dense topic, but Matt did a wonderful job condensing it into one week and giving us a day for processing too.  We covered things such as sanctification, the apostles creed, the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the attributes of God, God's holiness, the core beliefs that are the same for every Christian, the difference between the Old and New Testament, the fundamental ...
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This week we are at the YWAM University of Nations in Kona, HI.  It is a completely different set up here, but the environment is very much the same.  God is very present here and is moving in big ways in the lives of everyone here.

There are so many people here.  We are a part of a "coorporate week" here at the University, where all the DTS's from Hawaii come together to learn from world renowned speakers and people.  It turns out that besides us, the other 8 DTS's are all from here at the Un...
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This week has been super powerful.  Our speaker for the week is Donna Jordan, an elderly lady who really knows how to listen to God.  I have never heard God's voice so clearly before this week and I only hope that I can continue to hear His voice.  Today we had to write down the things that were in the way of us hearing God's voice.  We took those things to the cross (campfire) and left them there for good (burned them).  After we did so we were left to have communion, pray individually and w...
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Last week we had to write down where we felt God leading us to for outreach.  From then on the leaders were praying about what where each one of us were to go and who was to lead our teams.  And this last night we got word of where we are going.

We were given a piece of paper with the name of the country written on it and without talking we had to find our team.  I had been pulled towards one country from the beginning and I am super stoked that it where the Lord has led me for outreach.

Ready?...
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The DTS so far has been all that I anticipated and more.  This past week has flown by, but it seems like it has taken forever.  The first few days were the infamous "Exodus" and then we moved into orientation.  Friday we went to the beach on the other side of the island (Kam 3) and that was a great day.  The entire base came and we just chilled on the beach, had a BBQ lunch.  I tried to work on my tan, but I don't think it worked.

Today was the first Sunday where we went to various churches in...
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So far we have done some amazing things!  At our opening night ceremonies they told us about a crazy trip we were taking (which they called Exodus), and they gave us a packing list but no other information.  We went camping just off the ocean and it was beautiful.  We set up camp and then had dinner of ramon noodles (mr. noodles).  Prior to the camping trip we had a scavenger hunt that had an unknown prize at the end; the prize ended up being a packet of flavouring for the ramon noodles.  Our...
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I arrived safe and sound in Maui last night around 11:50pm.  My flight was delayed nearly 2 hours in Vancouver, but I made it with all my luggage.  As a consequence of arriving so late, I had to find my bed and get ready in the dark without waking anyone.  I was the last DTS student to arrive.

Thus far, it's Saturday, we pretty much have had free range of what to do.  I woke up a couple of times in the night to a beautiful picture out my window of the grounds, the volcanoes in the distance acc...
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