The latest from my world

Wow there is so much going on with me right now. Sorry for not doing a better job with keeping you all updated with what's going on over here. I have many excuses but I'll spare you. The biggest reason for the lack of communication is my arm injury. My arm has been in pain for the last few weeks so I've been trying to keep typing to a minimum. I would love to send so many people personal e-mails but it is just not possible with my arm. (Sorry mom I'll call soon).

God is making me deal with so much right now. It is actually overwhelming but I'm trying to eat the elephant one bite at a time. (I heard that expression for the first time the other day). Wow I just had the biggest twitch of my life. No one saw. Cool. Anyway, yeah, God is making me fix a lot of things that are broken inside me. It's stuff that I've never wanted to deal with, but I can't run from anymore.

I am hosting an outreach on Fri night at the hostel. The way the outreach has come to be is ironic and completely God's doing. Ok. A few months ago, when I first got here, we had a class on how to host a movie discussion. Honestly, I was totally bored and uninterested-I don't really watch movies. During the class the teacher brought up the movie "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and I shared with the class that I thought that was the worst movie I've ever seen. He kept going on and on about how great it was and I did not see where he was coming from at all. Fast forward 2 months... Our (really cool) manager Freek (pronounced Frake) hosted a movie night at the Willemstraat last Thurs. What movie did we watch? "The Talented Mr. Ripley." I wasn't even going to go. I was just as content studying dutch. But, I went to watch the movie and it was really intense. The discussion afterwards brought up so many tough questions. Unfortunately I could identify with the dark sides of the characters in the movie. At the end of the discussion a bunch of people decided that I should host the same movie with a discussion for an outreach. What? Me? So, I prayed about the possibility of being the leader, and started dealing with all of the things God said to me through the movie and the discussion that followed. Now today in small group we had to decide what we would do for an outreach. Freek the manager who has never come to small group and Krista and a few other people again said I should lead a movie discussion on this particular movie. Since this has God written all over it of course I said yes.

Other details about the outreach, mainly for David Potter: The movie will be shown on a huge screen in our cafe, our hostel will be full that night, and our cafe can hold about 60 people.

I need prayer that:

God will keep teaching me to be more like Christ, and that I will be obedient and let Him change me.

God will teach me how to be completely vulnerable, raw, and emotionally naked at the outreach.

God will use this outreach in a mighty way and that he will be preparing each person in advance to really hear what he has to say to them

God will help me sort all these things out in my head

God will lead me in my preparation for this outreach.

So many more things are going on right now but I can't write it all here. Just know that I am changing for the good, God is repairing things that satan broke or stole from me, and that I am trying to serve God in any way I can.

I love you!