Hello Everyone!
I am so sorry for my lack of blogging recently. Our life
here on the base has been incredibly busy as usual.
However, I have some very exciting news! I found out last
week where our outreach is going to take place. We are leaving this next Sunday
to spend 7 weeks in a village on Doi Inthanon! Doi Inthanon is the tallest
mountain in Thailand and from what I’ve heard it’s one of the prettiest places
in the country. We will be spending our time up there in a village making
buildings, digging trenches and most of all, farming rice! We will be fully
submersed in the village life and be able to reach out to the locals through
daily conversations and serving them. I am very excited to see what it’s like
to live in a mountain village. There will definitely be plenty of opportunities
for personal growth (for example it will be absolutely freezing and there’s
only one bathroom for 20 people!) but it will be a great learning time for me.
As for the last couple of weeks, we have mainly spent our
time on base wrapping up our lecture phase and preparing for outreach. This
last week we had a man from the Philippines named Joel Bringas come and talk to
us about having a clear conscience. It was not a week full of pressure and
guilt rather a time where people could share past mistakes and receive healing
and release. It was a great week and unified our school tremendously. This week
is our last lecture week. We have a Norwegian man named Eivend Freeon talking
to us about the Two Kingdoms. He is an old time YWAMer (started at the
Switzerland base with Loren Cunningham!) and has many amazing stories about the
revivals he has been apart of in China. I believe that this week is going to be
extremely interesting and a great way to end our lectures.
These past couple of weekends I have had a lot of fun as
well! Last weekend my classmate Sarah and I went to a sort of zoo called Tiger
Kingdom and got to play with tigers! She played with the bigger cats while I
decided to stick with the babies J.
They were so adorable and soft! It was loads of fun and an experience I will
remember for the rest of my life!
Yesterday (Sunday), a big group of us from the school went
to a nearby limestone waterfall and swam. It was so incredibly beautiful and so
much fun! The water was warm and since the waterfall was made of limestone we
were able to climb up it from bottom to top! It was definitely a good way to
spend our last free weekend together as a school.
This will probably be my last blog post for a while. As you
may have been able to guess, a mountain village does not exactly have internet (let
alone electricity), so I will be leaving my computer at the base. However, I
will make sure to tell you all about my outreach when I get back in February!
I hope that everything at home is going well, and as always,
remember that I am praying for you all!
Blessings,
Hanna
P.S. Below are some photos from Tiger Kingdom. Enjoy!
