First Couple Days...

So I have now been here for like a day and a half and I am having a blast!!! The flight was awesome. I had kind of been worried about the potential of major turbulence... and I get really motion sick, so that kinda sucks... BUT it was like... not much at all! From Toronto to Vancouver there was no turbulence whatsoever so that was great, and then from Vancouver to Sydney there was only like... 2 areas of turbulence, one over Hawaii and one near Fiji, and I slept through the Hawaii one, and it wasn't even that bad over Fiji, so that is like such an answer to prayer! The first day was really sweet, everybody is super super friendly here, like I can't even begin to describe which makes the going away and being away from everybody a bit easier to get through. My DTS (Discipleship Training School) has 11 students... potentially 12, and right now there are 10 of us here in Newcastle. So it is really sweet because of it being a bit smaller, we all will get to know each other even better! There are 7 Canadians and 4 Americans, which I am told is not common, usually they may have like 1 or 2 Canadians, so thats exciting! We are all in a completely new place in our journey and it is comforting to know that there are people around going through the same things. I have two roommates, Dave and Trevor, both pretty solid guys, and both from B.C. Our leaders are all really great too, I can't say enough about how friendly they are.

So then today, Tuesday, we had a lot of orientation stuff. We learned about lots of different rules that YWAM, and more specifically this base, has. It might not be the most exciting stuff, but I think it is still important, and the random story in the middle of everything kinda adds a bit more flavour to the discussion. We also walked down to the Youth Street building, which is like a warehouse. Youth Street is basically a program they run every Saturday where they reach out to the youth in the community and run different programs, with the goal being sharing Gods love and the gospel. So we will help out with that every Saturday which is super exciting! There is so many cool things to look forward to!! The warehouse that it is in is actually pretty sweet. They bought it within the last couple years and they have a crazy vision for what they want the building to function as and look like, and it is coming together! It is pretty crazy. I just had dinner a bit ago, and also can I say that I love the food, it is delicious mmmmm. 

I think that is all for now... it is all that really comes to mind. 

If you wouldn't mind praying for me about just like being super open to everything that I here. That is one of the really big things, because I think that I will really be challenged on things I believe and I think God will be really moving through things and teaching me new things, and I just need to open to that and willing to let God kinda do his thing. On a side note.... that is kind of related, I was talking to a girl and she kind of said that we don't have to intellectually think everything through, like it is good to think things through, but sometimes we can over think things, or we can like think about how God works and thinking about if it "makes sense" or not, but I think that just kind of doing what God leads. Like move first, think later. That will be a big thing for me and I would appreciate prayer!

Looking forward to hear from you guys, and sorry if this is a really massive post!

Love you all lots,

Jon