Twelfth Week

Here it is!!! The first week of outreach finally ended. It was so fast for me.I can't believe it went by just like that. It's been such a crazy experience and a humbling one at that too. The whole week has been an adjusting week as we transition from our lecture phase and its pretty cool. We've been bonded together and tested a lot. It was just pure intenseness.

On Wednesday, Mike and I was just asking God where to go and just let us talk to someone. The whole day seems to be pointless as we walk around and just had a prayer walk around the city. Mike and I ended up talking about how great God is and how thankful we should be for what He's doing and stop thinking on what He's not doing. It expanded to just describing how great God is. As we were talking about how creative God is, we accidentally walked to a place called the Palace of the Fine Arts, which was amazing. It looks like a Greek building and we were just amazed at how detailed the building is. If a human is capable of doing that, how amazing is God capable of doing much more than that. We ended up seeing an artist who's painting the building. We asked God to give us the courage to talk to the man, and we did. Talking to him also brings a lot of revelation of what we've been learning.

Hot chocolate ministry is also good. There was a team that came from Montecito and I'm in a group with two of them. It was good to just show them what we do in YWAM San Francisco. We met two old ladies and it was good that they appreciate what we do and it encourages me to do what I do. They are just thankful that we would go out and do something for the less fortunate and especially shocked when we told them that we just want to love them.

On Friday, we had a scavenger hunt, but this time it's different. We're divided into groups and we're not given any clue. We're supposed to pray and ask God for the clues. So, Jason, Kerttu, and I prayed to God and we got these words:
- Go left
- Random bus
- Gas pump
- Palace
- Fields
It didn't make sense, so we decided to pray to God and after that we went outside and went left because we got the word left. We got to a bus stop with perfect timing and took the random bus and decided to sit until the end of the destination. We arrived at Fisherman's Wharf, which is a tourist spot and we decided to have a prayer walk and just walk around. As we walk around we saw a statue of a person standing next to a gas pump. We were just surprised and decided to go inside the building and talked to people. We did and we also get to pray for them. We kept walking and we found a place called "Neptune's Palace". We just sat there for a while before we talked to another man and we heard about his daily life. It was just good and it strengthen my faith that God can work with just simple words like that.

The atmosphere is beginning to be tensing up because of the outreach. So I ask you guys also to pray against any enemy attacks. I also want to thank everybody back home who's supporting me by prayer or anything else. I can't wait for the second week of outreach to get started and I hope you guys will keep praying for me. Thank you! God bless all of you!