final preps

hey everyone, sorry it's been a little while. i peace out for outreach early tomorrow morning so this is the last you'll hear from me in a while. the last couple of weeks have been really awesome as we've really dove into basic Christian doctrine and the Godhead and Trinity and all that, as well as exploring different world views and really picking apart what people think and how they go about life. The last couple days we've had a couple of lectures on evangelism and how to approach it and really what the Great Commission means and entails (Matthew 28:19-20). I've learned so much over the past 3 months and I really can't wait to apply it all and teach others what I've learned.

talking about this just makes me that much more excited for outreach. i feel like i'm as ready as i'll ever be in a classroom/sheltered environment so now it is definitely time to put everything into practice and see what the Lord has in store. it is really an exciting time around the base here though since this is the day that every student looks forward to and is pushing for. i don't have a lot else to say to be honest other than.. i really really really appreciate all the prayer. when we pray, things happen in the spiritual realm. prayers do not go unnoticed at all. so ya, please keep that up because ya, it's so so huge.

a couple things you could pray for could be... safety traveling and for us to get into our outreach countries with lots of ease, for discernment and wisdom when ministering and talking to people, and for the Lord to prepare the hearts of those who we're going to run into. It's the Spirit who does all the work.. we're just vessels. So ya, I would really appreciate it if you kept the prayers flowing because ya, it's huge. Anyways, that's about it.. I will be back in Hawaii in the beginning of June sometime and then back in Canada later on in June. I'm excited for the summer and to hang out and talk and share with all of y'all but yes. that's that. i love you all so so dearly and ya, God bless! thank you so much for your prayer! Payce

rain rain rain

hey everyone. so while it snows and snows at home, it has been raining and raining here the last couple of days. but i'll take it i guess. anyways the last couple of weeks have really flown by. we are now two and a half weeks away from leaving for outreach (we leave on the 23rd). i'm so ridiculously excited. like i said, if you haven't found out from anyone as to where i'm going, send me a message or email and i will tell you in some way. so there!

the last couple weeks have been really awesome though. our speakers have been amazing as we've talked about our identity in Christ as well as cleaning out our hearts and legitimately receiving new hearts because of what Jesus did on the cross and ya. It's been so awesome and refreshing and i realize that it is a continual process throughout life to keep working through things as the Lord brings them up in His time. But either way it's awesome. I'm excited to sit down with whoever wants to when I'm home so I can share some of the sweet revelation i've received on a lot of things. when i say excited, i mean super super pumped. so the teaching over the last little bit has been really, really, really good. for example. i'm learning to live from a spiritual perspective and not from the flesh (aka from our sinful nature). so that just is like trying to see life and everything how God does. We underestimate how spiritual we are. and ya, we're super spiritual. so i want to view life from that perspective. everything makes way more sense that way and ya. i now realize it's quite difficult to explain over the interweb but basically... Satan focuses on sin and our sin nature but God focuses on the life that we can have in Him. So if we focus on that life and all the abundance that is the nature of God and not on our sin nature and shortcomings, then it's all good! it's really hard to get across how alive and amazing this revelation is but man, it has legit changed my life already. we'll talk about it sometime.

anywayssss, the last two weeks of lecture are on basic Christianity so I really have no idea what that will entail and then we have Worldview week so i think that will be something along the lines of what the world thinks and other religions and that sort of thing. I'm sure these last couple weeks will fly by so fast though.

A couple weeks ago the other outreach teams from the fall school got back so it was really cool to connect with them and hear lots of their stories. it was really good to get an even more accurate description of what i may be doing on outreach so ya, it got all of us current students so stoked. and in a few short months we'll be doing the same for the next school! it was also really cool meeting a couple people who are friends with people i'm friends with back home. i like the "small world" mentality at times. connecting with others is best! so ya, there's still a couple students from the previous school hanging around for a few more days so ya, new people are awesome! you should meet new people sometime. it's fun haha.

anyways, when i'm off on outreach i will be very limited with internet access shtuff. so if you want to ever hear from me while i'm off the island, send me your email addy through facepage or whatever and i'll do my best to fill you in sometime. you guys that are reading this are my closest friends so ya, i do want to keep you all updated but it will be extremely difficult. that's my disclosure haha. i'm listening to mumford & sons right now. boooom! anyways, that's that. the Lord is doing awesome things in all our hearts and He's gonna do some crazy amazing things during outreach and all throughout life. I'll throw another blog up oh say in another couple weeks or so and then maybe a short one right before i leave or somethin like that.

if you could, please keep praying that the Lord will continue to reveal stuff to me as well as prepare my heart for outreach big time as well as those that the Lord wants to minister in the country that I'm going to. so there. that, in a nutshell, is what has been happening the last couple of weeks. i miss you and love you all and whatever you do, don't freeze :)