In thailand!

hey all,
I dont have a lot of time before dinner but I thought i would updte you a little bit about how life has been turned upside down. after 30 hours of travelling and skipping over thursday bc we crossed the date line I finally got to bangkok. Its crazy and insane. The people and traffic and city are not my kind of thing, but i'm learning to embrace it and see the beauty behind the first impressions. Surprisingly, I'm the only one that is not enjoying the Thai food, I guess I got picky with food over night, but all i get excited about is the toast and pb in the morning when it comes to food. oh and the pineapple here is amazing. Today we went on temple tours we took buses, sky trains, tuktuks, and boats to get around which was kinda fun. the tuktuks was scary though i thought i was going to fall out of it as we were being whipped around corners. its so sad to go to the temples it brings a heaviness on your heart when you see these huge idols and people worshipping them. The hardest part for me so far was going to JJ market a huge outdoor market where you can't move and just have to push your way through and it doesnt smell the greatest. You also see a lot of hurt and pain ain peoples eyes, as people follow you. Not only is the smog sufficating but the Buddist religion as well. Continue to pray for strength and courage for our team, especially in the next few days as we are going out into the sex trafficing industry and talking to men. It's going to be really challenging, also mentally and emotionally exhausting. Thank you for all your support, it means a lot to me to know that my team is being uplifted in your prayers. I have so many pictures to show you already!

Off to Thailand in the morning

It's 10 pm and I'm just finished fully packing. Knowing me, my pack is quite full, so I'm hoping to leave some stuff behind in Bangladesh so that I can fit in all the souvenirs into my bag. How I'm going to take it all back to Canada is a whole different story. So as many of you heard, my team was in a bit of crisis with our passports. They were in Washington and we still didnt have them back from the Bangladesh embassy on Friday! Through many prayers (thank you for that) and by the grace of God we got them here today at about 4 pm!! We can go to Thailand! It has sunk in that I'm leaving and its a crazy feeling to realize that I will never sleep up on the top of the 3rd bunk again, and have these 12 roommates that I have now. It seems like so long ago that I started bonding with these girls on our Exodus trip, that it feels like I'm separating from dearly loved family. Thankfully I get to fly with them to Seoul, South Korea and to Bangkok Thailand so we have plenty of flight time to say our goodbyes. The LORD has blessed us all so richly over the last few months. The YWAM motto is "to know God and make Him known" now that the lecture phase is over the "knowing God" discipleship has switched to "making Him known" I'm not saying that learning about God ends, because it's a never ending relationship, where you learn more and more about God throughout your life. The focus just changes from being discipled to discipling. 
Thank you all for your prayers and support along the way. I'm hoping to update you when I'm in Thailand.

Its about time.

First and foremost, the tsunami didn't affect me where I am. I'm in a town called Haiku and it's upcountry. Some of the towns I frequently go to were affected through floods in buildings, but I believe that was all, which I am very happy about. Continue to pray for the nation of Japan, for comfort, peace and restoration as they are going through great loss and confusion.

I'm about to go to Thailand and Bangladesh in 8 days, March 23rd. It's unbelievable. I dont know if I'll ever be completely ready to go, so we'll have to see. My group will be in Bangkok for 9ish days where we will be staying at the YWAM base there. From there we will be taking tours around the city and going to temples. We will be doing prayer walks as we go. We are also planning on doing sex trafficking ministry, which we here is pretty intense but an amazing experience at the same time. It is going to be incredible.


In Bangladesh we are going to be there for 2 months. For the first month I will be staying in Dhaka doing ministry to the slums, universities, and children's ministry. I kinda know what children's ministry will look like because we have skits, object lessons, and games to play with them. Everything else I really don't know what it will look like but I'm excited for what God has in store for us.


 The LORD has been so great the last little while, the lectures haven't been blowing me away but the prayer ministry has. One night 2 weeks ago my Bangladesh group had a through the night prayer. Some of the students saw angels in the prayer room! We all got pictures of what God wants us to do and the roles that we are going to be playing out during outreach. One girl was told to be prepared to be a morning person... she's not a morning person. I was told that I am a comforter, and I will feel things that others don't feel. There is also going to be a lot of spiritual warfare, I saw a picture of whenever the churches back home prayed for us a cloud of oppression was lifted off of our heads. SO PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY! It has meant so much to me to have your continual support and prayers as I am gone here, please continue to pray as we pour out the light of the LORD to these 2 nations!

the craziness of life in YWAM

so... its been a little while and I apologize for that. Life gets busy here and I forget that I have to keep people updated on my life. A week ago all the 40 students came back from the fall DTS. Lets just say things were a little hectic around here. I loved loved loved spending time with the team that came back from Bangladesh. Hearing there stories and seeing how excited they were about the country, really helped my team to get excited about where we are going. They told us what we MUST bring with us, and what we should keep here. Things we really needed to know. Girls are going to be wearing the cultural outfits, so we really do not have to bring a lot of clothes, which means more room for pillows and a few luxuries... maybe...hopefully. There is so much we are learning all the time. We talked about Identity last week, and how we are the the tabernacle of God. In Exodus 26 God tells the Israelites all the things that they must do for the Tabernacle of God. They were expensive things that were needed, everything must be perfect for that Tabernacle and that was only a foreshadow of us being the Tabernacle of God! We are made completely perfect in God, for the Spirit of God to be living in us. We need to see ourselves as God sees us, completely perfect in His eyes. Its been crazy, and people are talking to me now, so I'm having such a hard time writing this. So I'm sorry if this doesnt make any sense, but I hope you understand what I'm saying. Please pray for unity in our outreach team!!