1/2 way

The end of last week marked the half way point of the lecture phase here in Vegas.
We had a group of 35 freshmen come last week, and we led them out in Mission Adventures. It was a great week, and super tiring. It was weird to go from about 15 of us YWAMers here at the base, to about 50 people. I haven't uploaded any pictures yet, but im sure theres tons of them on facebook that the kids already tagged me in. I was sad to see them go, but glad at the same time to have a long nap. I think we're going to go to Scottsdale AZ in a couple of weeks to check up on them, and hang out with them; which is super exciting!
After the kids left, it was nice to go out and not have any worries. Me and a couple of the guys went to the Circus Circus on the strip and just played games and won tons of stuffed animals !! it was great to get away from the base, and get away from huge groups of people. i needed that !
this week our speaker is marty meyer from the ywam base in idaho. yesterday we hiked to the top of red rock for lecture. it took us about a hour to get to the top. it was super nice out, but breezy. a lot of people got sun burns (dont worry mom, i wore sunscreen!!). it was a great work out, but now we're all sore! it was fun to not be in the classroom for lectures and just get to sit outside in God's creation! we also did quiet time and intercession while we were there.
right now im just sitting in the admin office waiting to let guests in for our wednesday community dinner. for the past couple of weeks we've had it at the park, but we're having it at the base tonight. its basically a dinner where anyone can show up, and we'll feed them !
last week we had a bbq at the park accross the street from us, and all the MA kids went out and invited tons of people. Once we unpacked all the stuff, we saw a swat crew with about 10 officers hanging off the side of the van, and some k9 units drive by. it pulled up to a house by the park and then all of a sudden there was 4 louuddd bangs with big puffs of smokes. so we told the kids to all go back to the base, while we all packed up. heather, kevin and i were the last people to leave the park in the van so we decided to drive by the house! we got to the street beside us and a cop stopped us and told us we had to turn around and go the other way because they have a search warrent and just blew up a house ..
Other than that, not a whole lot of exciting things are going on. We just booked our tickets to Turkey as well; leaving the middle of April and coming back to Vegas in the middle of June. We then stay here in Vegas for another week of debriefing, and then i think i ll be staying here to staff/volunteer with Mission Adventures for the summer. and then we'll see what else God has in store for the year.
im still waiting on getting mail !! i get sad every time when my dts mates get mail, and i dont :( :( (do you feel bad now?! :) )
hopefully i ll post some more pictures soon, and maybe a more indepth write up of the past week with the MA kids.
beth