Teachings Start

This first week has been awesome. Your prayers have definently been helping. I have really bonded with the 3 guys that I am sharing a room with (Adrian-Oregon, Tim-Mississippi, and Levi-Canada) Teachings started on Wednesday afternoon and they are great. This whole week (Wed-Fri) are teachings on the Nature and Character of God. I have really had fun going to the Gap and just worship God with others. Wednesday has been the best day so far. We had "recreation" and played volleyball with water balloons and it was was quite refreshing after having the sun beat down on us for hours. After that I had some time alone in my cabin just playing the guitar and worshipping. Later that evening Adrian and I got a huge group of people to gather in the Gap and just hang out and play games. For about 4 hours from 7-11 we played ninja, Wa, and mafia. It was so much fun! Us guys walked back to our cabin and read a chapter of "Is That Really You God" together. After that we were just laying talking about our lives and what we see God doing. We decided to just go to the prayer room and just soak in the presence of God together praying for each other. We have all really struggled with many of the same things in our life. All of us did know about each others lives because we had told our "life stories" in front of our DTS during the past week. It was amazing to see everyones low points and high points. We ended our time in the prayer room at about 1 am Thursday morning and we all felt like it was a great time and we really got closer as brothers. Your prayers are very much appreciated still for focus.

Thanks,

Matthew