Bye Bye Brisbane

It feels right, official, just the way it should. We have finally left Brisbane, well actually we left last Friday, but none the less, it feels SO good to finally be out of Brisbane, it feels as though we are finally starting our life as the National Travelling team! Last Friday we drove 17 hours, yes that’s right, it was not a typo SEVENTEEN HOURS to Sydney, it was our first ever travel day and we went all out. We stayed overnight with the Sydney team, that is Sam’s team, which was so cool to get to see familiar faces, as we didn’t think we would get to see anyone till mid year. The next day we drove 2 ish hours to Goulburn and stayed with / celebrated St Patrick’s day with the Goulburn team which again was so good to get to see other netters, people I’d grown so close to over training and just talk with them and hang out. Then another long day, 9 hours of driving on Sunday I think and that took us to Ballarat, the town we are still in. We are here for two weeks and have currently been here just under one.

For our time here in Ballarat, which just to put that in perspective is 1½ hours out of Melbourne, we are at an all-boys school. For all of last week we ran the same Encounter day each day (for a different set of classes) which was for year 7 and the theme was leadership. Next week we will be doing year 10 and the theme, I’m fairly sure is self-image. At this point we have ministered to over 1600 young people, ministry life is crazy, AWESOME and often challenging but so blessed.

Ballarat is COLD!!! Like 6degrees cold getting up to maybe 12 at mid-day? So I do feel slightly lied to by Australia because I was not expecting this, especially after being in Queensland for 2 months where it ranges from 27-40, so my body is in a little bit of shock right now.

 I love it here, even though I’m challenged and forced to grow in so many ways, there is no place I would rather be at this point in my life, but it is hard and far different than I could have anticipated but it is good, because God is good.

We are currently on “Supe visit” which is where our Supervisors come out to meet with the team and talk to us, see how we’re going, etc. I am really loving it because we are getting the chance just to be, just hang out with each other and enjoy everyone’s company which is something we don’t get to do a whole lot of. So today we had “Hood time” which is where the guys and girls split up and us girls had a D’n’M with Sarah to get everyone caught up on each other’s lives (our female Supervisor) and then watched a movie and ate junk food. Tomorrow we get to go into Melbourne which will be really fun and I will hopefully be able to update you all on that soon!

For now I must go because internet is hard to come by and in high demand.

AMDG