I have just completed my first week of Discipleship Training School! This week we had teachings on hearing the voice of God, and already I can tell you that God has been teaching us amazing things! Our speaker’s name was Jen, and she has been part of YWAM for the past eight years and is a strong woman of God. She shared part of her testimony and her past experiences with us, as well as how God can restore us and speak to us. It was very cool and I’m very excited for the next speaker!

But first of all, please pray for us, because many of us – including myself – are getting sick with various illnesses. Right now I have the cold that has been going around and it makes concentrating and learning very difficult!

I did my first outreach on Friday, at an asylum, a place for refugees. Most of the people who live there are Muslim men.  A group of about ten others and I went to the asylum, unsure of what would happen. We didn’t want to force the Gospel on them, so we went to spend time with them and talk to them, wanting to show them the love of Jesus. And in God’s timing we know that He would come into the conversations we would have. Several of the students and leaders (myself included) went to the apartment of a few Muslim men, and after a few minutes, they began talking about their beliefs. Before long, we were in a discussion about the Bible, the Quran, Jesus, and Muhammad. The men spoke about five different languages, so it was very difficult to follow the conversation at times. But I think that God used that conversation to plant new thoughts into their minds, so please pray that God would continue to water those seeds until they grow!

Yesterday, me and a few others decided to take advantage of our first free weekend and we went to Prague! It was cold, wet, and at times completely miserable, but overall SO much fun! A group of girls went to Prague on Friday afternoon, and so my friends Cassie, Maria, Jayson, Mark and I met up with them in Prague on Saturday morning. We spent the day enjoying the city and the beautiful buildings, taking pictures and going shopping. I had my first hostel experience - and I’ll just say that it was very interesting. It was a very nice hostel and it was in the city, so it was easy to get to. But the people were interesting and from what the girls who stayed at the hostel the night before told us, sometimes the people you room with can be very unpredictable.

But now we are all back at the base and ready for another week!