Travel here was awesome. There were frustrating moments, like the kids behind me yelling and not having the cell phone number of the person who was picking me up. But the Lord is gracious and I found who I needed to to and got to the base safe and sound.
The first week was orientation week. I feel like it lasted forever! My team got over the "awkward" I just met you phase really fast. We were all on base by Sunday night and by Monday night or Tuesday morning we were all pretty comfortable. I'm extremely blessed to have a team with whom I can be myself and not feel uncomfortable with. We went over rules and why we have discipleship before we do ministry. The Friday of that week we were able to go out to see the "two sides" of Vegas. We went to the strip and explored through the Belagio, Aria, Cosmopolitan, etc. I loved it. But I'm a city girl.
Here are some pictures in the city (Photo credits to my friend: Katie Greenfield)
Then we were able to go out into the dessert to go to Lake Mojave and swim/cliff jump. We went down the wrong road and ended up getting stuck, in the middle of nowhere. It was slightly terrifying.
Yeah. We eventually made it to the lake and life was good with some minor dehydration and lack of water! :)
Week two we had a speaker, Paul Childers. He spoke on "Hearing the Voice of God" and it was awesome just to start out training focusing on how to hear the Voice of God and how to confirm the things that people speak into you. Ministry is every Thursday night, this week we went out to Fremont (the old strip, where allot of locals hang out) and we offered free prayer to anyone who would listen.
Week three we had another special Speaker Les Hall. He spoke on missions and world view. There was allot of information thrown at us and allot of stuff to learn. But it was good to see some statistics and such.
We just got done with week four and I need more time to process.
So, I'm on my way out.... I'll blog as soon as I can again!
