Day Fourteen: Spiritual and Social Over Load 6/13/2016

     We've been here for a fortnight (yes, I just said fortnight, deal with it :) ), and I must say its amazingly overwhelming. We have four to five teachings a week not including our local churches on Sunday morning, and scripture being thrown at us from all over the place. It's amazing being around such a concentrated group of wise and studied adults to guide, support, and teach me this summer. I find my self physically and emotionally drained at the end of each day and have to remind myself to take my daily quiet time to reflect on the day's teaching and pray through it with God. 

     I bet you are all wondering which teachings have been the most influential or related to my personal walk with God. Well, folks here's the answer, ALL OF THEM! I'm not just saying that because I've loved the staff members lessons or because I don't want to hurt any ones feelings, but in all honesty, these staff members have it all figured out. On Wednesday's our mission director, Shelby, speaks at our weekly meeting, Rachel, Krista, and Rebeca (the staff moms) teach during women's time on Thursday evening, and then we have a bible study every Tuesday with our wonderful Jules! Each talk has been on different ways to surrender our lives to Christ, which in case you were wondering is exactly what I wrote on my application as the main thing I want to get out of this summer. 

     We began by talking about the Spirit-Filled life, what that means, and how it would look in our every day life. That was the first time Shelby spoke. The next week he spoke on trusting God in all areas of our lives, like a baby who trusts her father to catch her every time she gets to the edge of the bed and tumbles off. The first women's time was on yielding our life to Christ and getting a perspective on eternity and how we cannot deny our creator. Then this past week was on truth and allowing God's word to be the truth in our lives. Essentially giving up the lies the devil, society, and we tell ourselves to God and to hear his truth. As I process all the amazing teachings coming in I ask that you pray for me to humble myself and give everything up to the Lord, to let him be the king on the throne of my life and to follow him completely trusting that he's got this. 

     Another thing that has been on my mind recently is writing my testimony. This summer we are supposed to share our testimony at least twice formally at our local churches and our weekly meeting. I've been brainstorming themes to work off of in order to craft my testimony, but I'm still struggling to figure out which route to go down. Prayers for all of us working on that this week would be great. Other than that thank you again for all your love and continuous support and prayers.

Lots of Love,

Maddy