Have you ever seen that kids book "The little train that could"? It's a cute book about a little train that would always say "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can" and in the end the little train made it to wherever it was going, hence the name of the book. If you've never read this book, i just sound crazy right now...
But anyway, this was totally the story with the bus we drove to North Carolina. It's a really old school bus... It broke down on the way there but we were able to get it "fixed". Then it broke down in north Carolina and we couldn't use it all week, we managed to get it running on the way home but it was burning through oil like nothing else. We had to stop 4 or 5 times on the way home to put more oil in, it was really the longest bus ride of my life - 13 hours!
The conference itself was pretty good. The conference was intended for the DTS students but we went along with them because the speaker, Danny Lehmann, was speaking mainly on evangelism. Some of it was review but it was all good to hear. He talked about spiritual disciplines as well which i enjoyed. It really challenged me to spend more time studying my bible. My school requires that I read the entire Old Testament before I graduate but it's hard to read and really study it in this amount of time we're given. I'm really going to start putting more effort into finding time to study as well though. Right before i came here I got a new study bible. It's really sweet and has a lot of notes and maps in it, I love picking my bible apart and looking things up, it's something i thoroughly enjoy i just need to make time for more of it. You can pray for me in this area!
On Tuesday afternoon the 12 of us in my school spent the afternoon at a bus station praying for and chatting with people. It was a really good afternoon! My friend Stacie and I got the chance to talk to about 20 people. We just asked people if we could pray for them and i was shocked how many people were so willing to let us pray for them and were fairly open. It was definitely a good conversation starter as well. Things like this always motivate me to really know my bible better because people always have so many questions!
This next week is going to be crazy. I have three days of classes before thanksgiving break. On Thursday we're all having thanksgiving dinner at the church. That'll be wonderful. hear it's more food than anyone knows what to do with. Then there's a huge football game during which we hope we won't have to make any hospital runs...
The day after thanksgiving there's a Christmas party at the base directors house. How crazy is that?? Thanksgiving and Christmas parties all in one weekend! The day after Thanksgiving is also "Black Friday" - the biggest shopping day of the year. People start shopping in the middle of the night to catch the crazy sales!
I shall update y'all after thanksgiving!
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