I am set FREE oh oh oh oh!

    well hello everybody! how are you all doing>! so again the weeks are just flowing by! i can't believe it. there is always just so much info and things we do that it is just hard to process! Last week, (i'm not sure where exactly i left off, BUT it was called Hearing the Voice of God week and it was awesome! we had a woman named Maria Daughtry, and she was so good, it's been funny because the last three weeks have been women speakers, 2 of the speakers are woman around the age of 41, the first one reminded me (FAITH DUtton) reminded me so much of my mom. She would be sweet to speak here sometime i think:)
     Anyways, last week was awesome. Maria, is always trying to listen to the Lord speak and will listen to see if someone from our group is being highlighted to pray over right in the middle of lecture. The very first day this happened, and one guy named Martin was prayed over and it was crazy like he screamed, and was crying and shaking. God's present was sooo crazy present in the room. Some people were really scared though, but it was awesome and Martin told us the next day what God was saying to him and explained it so people calmed down. :) I learned a lot and it became clear to me that throughout my life, God HAS spoken to me, I just haven't recognized it. We went through a list of about 14 different ways He can reveal things to us, and it was crazy to see just how God wants intimacy with us. He talks to everyone differently by going with what you'd connect with! that is crazy!
     God spoke to me a lot and I had some great new revelations and freedom over my life from things that were holding me bondage! Last thursday night, we also had a giving night and it was so awesome. Between our group, the people that had to still raise funds for their outreaches totalled over $20,000, and at the end of the night we had raised over 10,000! it was incredible! We just allowed God and the Holy spirit to work in us and it felt so good. There is DEF a reason that God asks us to give! it is awesome! I laid down things in my life that were keeping me and my home-boy Jesus  from growing deeper in a relationship.
     We also did some fun ways to experiment hearing the voice of God by trying with our friends to allow God to speak prophetic words through us. We were asked by Maria to come to the front and be blindfolded and then a person came in front of them and they were asked to seek God to give them a word fro the person in front of them. It was so cool! everybody had something that  spoke to them. For me, a guy named Dillion gave me a word that really connected with me, it had to be God! it was so cool, he said that i have a passion for music on my heart and that he could see guitar and singing and to just keep playing for the Lord. i've never had anything that personal, and it was what i had been praying about so it was sweet! it was a great week and i learned so much!
    This week was called NEw Hearts and our speaker was Janet. I just am so happy with all that i am laerning about God's character and who is to me. New Hearts focused a lot about going deep with the issues you had in your life and cutting away the root that is holding you back from going deeper with God. At first i had the attitude that i had dealt with everything already in the last two weeks. I mean they had been really emotional! But i just came with a open heart and allowed the holy spirit to do some more work in me! We had two nights out of the week were prayer ministers came from around Maui and prayed for us, and it was just so amazing to see God just work through the room. I am going to try my best to walk out what i have been taught and remember that the doors have been closed! I am set free oh oh oh oh!- sons and daughters- such a good song! (look it up!) pretty much sums up how i feel!
     This last weekend was so fun but jam packed with things we did! We volunteered at a marathon and were at a water/gatorade stop at the 2 mile stop at the 10 km run! the only tough part was that we had to leave the base at 5:30 in the morn, but it was worth it. The night before was a meteor shower, so i stayed up till oneish watching and i saw my very first shooting star! it was beautiful! and i didnt feel tired the whole day. we got free t-shirts and snacks, and me and and a few girls decided it would be fun to wear some fun outfits! we went to savers-which is the american v.v. and you know me, i like to go all out! so i had to get some fun  stuff to wear at this event! so i got purple stripped tights, suspenders, and purple eyeliner, OH and i black out my teeth with some black tooth wax that i got for 99 cents there so it was worth it. in the morning, i put my hair up with a bottle in it like cindy loo-hoo. I HAD to dress up, it's in my blood! and i am super excited for this other marathon that is coming up which is just between ywam, called manny's mustache marathon and we get to dress up super 80's.
       I loved helping out though! we had so much fun at the water station, we were the most enthusiastic one they had ever seen! there were five of us girls at this one and we had about an hour before the runners came by the time we got everything set up- so what did we do? what we do best-rapped, made videos, planked, laughed. it was so good! and there was this one leader on a green quad that came by and everytime we would chant his name, kirk! kirk kirk! kirk! every biker that came by before the race, i had to ask them if they were world renown, and there were a few! jk they were local but some of them had done the ironman. Lots of the runnners were from all over the world! believe it or not but lance armstrong was there! we didnt see him but he was preparing for the triathalon that was on sunday! pretty cool hey?!
     Sunday was a sweet day and church was really good! i go to waipuna hope chapel and sat in the service this week instead of hanging with the kids, but a missionary spoke to us about being beacons of light to the world and it was sweet. And then we went back with my bangladesh team at night to hear him talk about muslims and how they are not all the same. We need to treat each muslim with love, and there are differnt degrees to today's muslim people. under 7% of them take violence as a means to deal with stuff. He really challenged us to look at the news differently with new eyes, and not judge. It was super encouraging as well as we watched furious love tonight and that just made the fire grow inside of me for the excitement to really do something with my faith! I'm so pumped for Bangladesh!
     Oh yeah! and i also had given my chapel talk on tuesday! it went super well and i talked for 20 min on the joy of the lord as our strength (neh. 8:10) it went awesome!
     Man i am just falling more and more in love with jesus and i can't wait to see what else God will do with my life! for now, i am just sitting in Paia, waiting for my laundry to dry. have a great week! talk to you soon!