Life!

     Okay, so I figured I would try something new for this blog update. I put up many different pictures and then I will write something under the picture explaining it! But as far as life in general goes, things are amazing! I am so blessed by God to be here in Byron Bay with all these amazing people! It just shows how God is for us and not against us! He loves to bless us and fill our lives with joy and happiness! Jesus himself says, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10 I think this world has a misconception that God is this dictator that sits in Heaven on a throne telling people what they can and can't do and judging them if they mess up. It is almost hilarious because quite frankly that is the complete opposite of who God is. He loves us so much and sacrificed the most precious thing in someones life, their child, for us. Imagine having only one child, who is your everything and that you would do absolutely anything for to protect them and make them feel loved and happy. Now imagine that some random kid decided to steal the worlds most precious jewel and the punishment for this was death. However, instead of this kid paying the penalty of the crime he committed you volunteer the death of your one and only child so that this other random kids does not have to die. Crazy right, who in their right mind would do that... GOD would!!! This is the even cooler part, check this out. God didn't do this because he was told to, he did it because he loved and cared that much about the other kid that he would give up is ONE and ONLY son to take on the penalty of our punishment. This was all done out of love; in my personal opinion I don't think it could have been done out of anything else, certainly not out of duty! Let me blow your mind a little more, that kid who's life was spared is YOU! The kid who died so you didn't have to was JESUS! The parent who handed their kid over to die was GOD! I don't understand how the world can think that God is an unloving God who does not care for them and who is not real when he did such a selfless thing... FOR THEM! "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 6:23 Everyone that walks on the face of this earth is a sinner, even the holiest people you can think of, and we all deserve death as a consequence for those sins. But Jesus died on the cross for our sin, he gave his life so that we wouldn't have to give ours. We are free from our daily sins. I have nothing to do but fall on my knees and praise God at the top of my lungs with thankfulness for sending his son to take the punishment of the my sin! I hope that the lost people of this world will some day realize that Jesus died for them too and that God wants them to realize that they don't have to be held down by their sin but can be freed of it because of Jesus' blood shed on the cross. All out of pure and selfless love! God is for us and not against us, he wants to bless our lives. So now I would love to share with you some exciting moments in which God has blessed me through this amazing time!
I love you all bunches! I hope you had a great holiday season and try to stay nice and warm. And hey
even though  know it can be miserable at times, enjoy the snow because once you have a christmas
without any it makes you really sad! God bless and hugs and kisses to you all!

Marissa and myself went to Sunshine
Coast for Christmas! We stayed 4 nights
and 5 days. Christmas day we walked
around the beach with our Christmas hats
on. We stayed in a YWAM house. For
Christmas dinner we had hamburgers
potato wedges and chips and dip!

Some more friends from the base
ended up coming to Sunshine
Coast. So on Christmas Eve
we decided to go to get a
girl from Switzerland and from
England their first slurpee from
7and11. Then went and got
30 cent cones from McDonalds
to put in the slurpee!  

This is part of our Christmas
part at the base! We split into
outreach teams and competed
to see who could make the best
gingerbread house... we lost!

Me just doing a little surfing ;)) I
don't go out a ton but I have
surprisingly gotten the hang of it! It
is a lot of fun!

We hiked down to the base of a
rive/waterfall and got to swim around
and play under a waterfall! It was one
of the coolest things I have done in my
life!

Two other girls and myself
went to Mt. Warning and
climbed/hiked up! It was
intense and just proved to
me just how out of shape
I am! It was actually really
nice...once you got to
the top. It was stunning!

Guess who?! This is me
under the waterfall! It was so
powerful and I could barley
keep my swim bottoms on! 

        On the top of Mt. Warning! It was
actually really nice...once you got to
the top. It was stunning! It is 3,792
feet tall.