Monday, June 22, 2009

yay

dts is over .. we had our graduation.
theyre all gone.
and now im moving on .. but staying .. a new season is beginning.



its weird and hard being away from the people that ive been around 24/7 for the past 5 months .. many of them became like family to me. but its easier on me than for them i think since im staying in ywam and am still going to be living in community, which im thankful of !

this week is our first week of Mission Adventures students. theres only about 25 of them which is nice, and makes the first week much less stressful. ive been taking the mornings off, and will be for the next week, to just sleep in/rest, and do some reflecting on the past 5 months which is completly needed and im so very thankful that Sam is allowing .. insisting that i do so.

thats about all thats new with me; i had a cold which sucks, but i ll hopefully get over it soon.
comment and send me emails. id love to hear from you all.
beth!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

im hommmeeee

home .. as in las vegas home. where i ll be spending my summer volunteering as Mission Adventures summer staff. im really excited for this next step in my life and i cant wait to see how God's going to use me.
we got back from turkey early tuesday morning. our flights were both really good .. only a minor delay in NY .. nothing overly terrible which was a nice change. we're all glad to be back in vegas on our 'home turf' where people actually speak the same language as us ! how exciting.

this is our last week together as a DTS, and on Saturday we all part and go our seperate ways which is sad. its going to be hard seeing my friends leave .. it'll be weird since we've spent the last 5 months together nearly 24/7. our last week here is mainly debriefing and processing things that went on in the past 5 months. MA staff training is going on (the rest of the staff have been here since about the 10th) getting things ready for the summer. So i havent been able to do much work with them, just trying to rest and focus on processing everything thats been going on the past 5 months. our first team of students comes this saturday night .. and DTS ends this friday night. so i dont have any time of rest really, to just soak and relax. but im super excited for this summer, so i guess its worth it. tomorrow is also our DTS graduation which im REALLY excited about. since im missing my high school gradution, this seams more important to me than it probably would to the rest of my DTS mates. i think it'll be really fun time of looking back at all the memories we have together and getting my certificate!!! heck ya.

thats about all thats new .. just trying to move into my new room .. i have WAY more stuff than i should. i dont know how ive collected all this stuff over the past 5 months. i feel bad for my new room mates! im also interested to see how i ll get all this stuff back home some day!



beth, heather, kristen and zianna ! near zeus' temple.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

last week!

we're currently ın the mıddle of our last week here ın Turkey. Rıght now we're ın Cappadocıa-famous for ıts pottery and cermaıcs. Thıs ıs our debrıef week .. so we arent doıng a lot of 'mınıstry' type stuff .. but beıng tourısts and reflectıng on how outreach has been. Its been a great restıng tıme sınce ı ll need all the energy that ı can get for Vegas.
Frıday nıght we take the nıght bus to Istanbul (10 hours) and stay there untıl Monday when we fly back to Vegas. Its been a great tıme ın Turkey but ım ready to go back to Vegas and settle down for a bıt and not have to lıve out of a backpack! ım ready for a summer of mıssıon adventures and spendıng tıme sharıng wıth other kıds!
check for updates from me once ı get back to turkey!
beth!