Holy Spirit

So much has happened in the last two weeks. Last Sunday I went into London with a few people from the school to go to Hillsong, I also went to Holy Trinity Bromton where Nicky Gumble, the Alpha guy preaches. They both were great, in HTB a pastor spoke who runs a church in Baghdad. Some of the stories he told were crazy, he has over 20 personal body guards. As far as the actual school, it is also going great. At times it has been really hard living and spending so much time with people so different then myself. There have definitely been a few conflicts, however I can honestly say that things have gotten way better over the last week. We are really starting to come together as a group, it has been amazing how God has been working in each of our lives. I wont go into too much detail but this week we learned about the Holy Spirit and had some amazing experiences with Him. To be honest a lot of the changes in people came after some encounters and Baptisms with the Holy Spirit. It has been a really good week and I learned a lot too. The week before we learned about discipleship, we looked back at the culture during Jesus’ time. It was really interesting to hear about what it meant to be a disciple during those times. In those days a disciple would follow their Rabbi day and night and literally try and learn how to be exactly like that person. I found that to be profound because in church we always throw around the word disciple, “go into all the world and make disciples…”, I am on a “discipleship training school”. But it wasn’t until that week that I really understood what that meant and honestly I am still learning what that means. Other than that life has been really good, I am very happy right now and even when I am dealing with problems I just feel a joy and excitement for the future. Thanks again for all the prayers! -Colin