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update time !! :)

im going to try and update every week or so. its going to be hard though with everything going on.

since my last update ive done tons of fun stuff ! last last saturday i was supposed to go out and do some stuff with foster connect and my dts mates, but i forgot that i told my room mates that i would kill anyone that woke me up. so i woke up at around 1 and they were leaving in 2 minutes. i couldnt shower that fast, so i ended up staying here at the base. later that night we went out and did some shopping, and just walking around. and then we went bowling ! it was my first time playing with the big massive balls. it was a lot of fun!

that sunday after church me and 2 guys went out to go hiking again at red rock. i cant remember if i posted that in my last blog. for a weekend activity we went to red rock to do some intense hiking. so we went back to do it all again. i love it, hikings fun!! :) its a really great work out too.

this past week our speaker was egbert, from holland! its fun to have speakers that are from all over the world. this week we also prayed about where to go to outreach, and if we should go to turkey or not. soo we decided, that our outreach is to turkey !! its cool because egbert is living in turkey now so we were able to ask him some questions and stuff. im really excited to be going to turkey. he told us that theres about 70 million people living there, and only about 4000 people are Christians. so its a country in great need, and i cant wait to minister to the people there !!

we did another strip tour of a couple more hotels with our speaker. we just walked around the stores and stuff. we went mainly to the luxor, which is like a pyramid and has a bright light that shines on top to the sky. its insanely bright. in order to go onto any of the floors in that hotel where the people stay, you have to have a key card thing for the elevator. some of us really wanted to go on, so we got in and waited until some cleaning ladies came on, and we just rode up with them. it was fun !! lol.

this picture is us near the top looking down at the stores at the bottom of the luxor. pretty cool.

you can see the light in the back ground !

on thursday night, we had small groups. so while the guys were out, we baked some brownies and decorated for our surprise valentines day thing for the guys! we each picked a guy to be our valentine (we all pretend to have crushes on them, its quite hilarious). so when they got back we blind folded them all and took them into the dinning room where we had gifts set out for them all. they were all mainly gifts that we took from the storage room, or cheap things that we bought. it was a lot of fun !! we all couldnt stop laughing. i had woo (the 32 year old korean on my dts, SOO hilarious). we always joke about his age, and make fun of him so i got him a package of adult diapers. (i didnt buy them, i got them when we were doing stuff with foster connect). we got them lots of other fun stuff and wrote them cute notes. us girls dressed up all in valentine-y colors.

this is me and my dts mates/room mates. zianna, me, kristen, and sarah !

on saturday we all took a road trip to the grand canyon !! it was about a 4 or 5 hour drive there. in order to get to the part that we thought was cheap to get it, it was a lot further than just going to grand canyon west where i had gone last time. it was a really fun time, and there was SNOW!! it was kinda exciting ! we thought it would just be 25$ for a car load, but since we were in a 15 passenger van, the lady made us pay 120$ (12$ each) even though we only had 10 people !! not fair. but whatever. i havent uploaded my pictures from the grand canyon yet, i didnt really take that many anyways.

today kevin and ted are teaching us for a couple of days (kevins one my dts leaders, and ted is here for a couple of days from ywam denver). so tonight for speaker hang out we're going to the hot springs by hoover dam. its about a 2 mile hike in, but then we get to swim in the hot springs !! im really excited, it should be fun !

well thats all i want to tell you for now. no just kidding. this is getting too long. hope you enjoyed the pictures and the update! make sure to comment please !!
love beth !! :)