Oh How He Loves Us...

Time is flying over here. I feel so close to everyone so it's like I've lived here forever. But at the same time it doesn't feel like I've been gone for two weeks already! I am starting to feel like I'm finding my groove though... which is a blessing. We (the students) find ourselves calling the base "home". hah which makes us laugh.

Lectures are awesome! This week we are studying on "Prayer and Intercession". We've been discussing the different ways God can speak to us, and why sometimes it feels like He doesn't answer us when we pray. I really love how the teachers back up everything they say with scripture. It just makes the teaching even greater. I have almost completely filled my first notebook with notes and we're only in week two, oh my. :)

I'm really enjoying my room. I have the bottom bunk with all my pictures from home on the wall next to me. (bc we moved our bunks against the wall) Elyse, Krystal and I are growing pretty close as room mates. And our first book report was due today. So my room is celebrating and having all the girls over for a party tonight. hah

I found out they have a dance studio here at the base. It's basically just a room with nothing in it.. but a hard floor and mirrors. So I danced around for about 40 minutes this morning in my ballet socks. It was fun. :) I'm planning on doing it regularly.

Random facts:
1.My new nick name is "Gracie-lou" like the girl in the movie "Miss Congeniality"
2.Everyone wears beautiful hats and scarfs all the time here.. so it's given me courage to do the same. lol
3.I've never written so much in my life.
4.I'm not home sick at all. And I mean that in the best sense possible! I miss everyone, but I'm doing better then expected.

There is a rabbit right outside my window... so I decided to blog.

So I made it! I arrived at our base around three on Thursday. Met my room mates, unpacked, got lost a few times in the halls. All that good stuff. Everything is slowly getting easier day by day.
I now know where to throw out our trash bags. Although I still haven't found the storage room for more trash bags... but that will all come with time. :)

We have had a lot of orientation the first few days here and one of the things that we found out about was our "work duty" basically two hours a week Mon-Fri we have a job they assigned us to help out the base here. So as they were calling names and assigning jobs I was praying I wouldn't have to have the "cleaning duty" haha. I mean I was willing but wasn't excited about it.
SO they finally called my name and said I would be..................... the receptionist! Which is awesome. I will be answering phones and helping people at the front desk from 1:30-3:30 everyday. I'm very excited about my job! Ten hours a week isn't bad at all.

Saturday we toured Springs. We visited the "Garden of the God's" really really cool place! And then we walked around Springs town (?) I think is what they called it. lol Which was cool. We walked in and out of shops that were super unique and made you want to buy everything. BUT I resisted the urge. lol So we just chilled at a Coffee shop. After that we got to see the Airforce Base. Their chapel is gorgeous... and apparently they have the largest pipe organ there? so I heard. hah And then our last stop was the "US Olympic Training Center" which was pretty cool too. It was raining so I didn't go to the gym.. but in other news we did see a random fox running around outside that made me scream. And the people from Colorado were like "It's no biggie we see them all the time" sooo the fact I thought it was cool/scary apparently looked stupid to them. hah

Moving on...
today is Sunday and we visited "New Life Church" which is a LARGE, non-denominational church here in the springs. We chose to go there just because YWAM gave us a list of churches we may want to visit so we started with the one everyone had heard of... not for good reasons though. lol But they have a new pastor now. And honestly, I really didn't like it. Walking in I felt like I was going to a concert. The people were nice.. but it was just too big for me and I didn't connect with the pastor. SO we all pretty much decided to visit a new church next week.


Random facts you may get a kick out of:
1. I'm known as the "Georgia girl" and apparently I have a slight accent.
2. My room is known as the "really clean room that has good smelling candles"
3. The majority of the people here have iphones. lol
4. I found out I will be able to bring my laptop overseas and will have internet access.
5. The food is awesome here! :)
6. The girls and I are planning on visiting Focus on the Family soon!


Thanks for reading and supporting I will blog every few days!
-Grace

Flying and blogging.

September 10th has come extremely fast! I am now sitting on the plane to Denver, Colorado. I will then take a shuttle to Colorado Springs and head to the YWAM base from there!!
I'm so excited to meet everyone and see where I'll be living for the rest of this year.

There is a welcoming dinner tonight at the base that starts at 6 pm. :)
Don't know exactly what to expect... but I'll blog about it soon.

I've never been a writer but I will try my best to capture what I see and experience here.
I'm feeling good! Nervousness is past me.. traveling has been good so far. I'm eating skittles at the moment.. which are yummy. Other than the fact the plane is freeezzzziinnggg.. I'm awesome.

write soon.
-Grace