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hey y'all!
so i'm super excited to announce where my 3 month outreach with YWAM will be.
it's amazing that we found out so soon.
i was expecting to find out in 2 weeks,
but we found out yesterday!
ahh, i'm so excited that i don't think i can wait another 11 weeks until outreach...

i think i'm just going to keep blabbering.
i want to keep you in suspense as long as possible. :D

it started on friday.
we were ready for lunch.
after sitting in lectures for the whole morning, i was ready to go eat some yummy food.
the leaders told us to sit tight and not leave yet.
they started playing a video.
a few minutes into the video, everyone started to realize that it was the outreach locations.
i thought it was a joke.
it wasn't.

throughout the video, the names of the places came up on the screen,
and when the video was over, i was so pumped up.
our leader, Jonathan, told us that we had 15 minutes to pray and ask God where we were to go.
we had to pick two places.
1st choice and 2nd choice.
we were not allowed to talk to anyone or call home and ask our parents.
i went off by myself and asked God where i was supposed to go.
i texted my mom and told her to pray for me.
God gave me a verse in Romans, and i instantly knew what my first choice was.

i don't think i've ever had the desire to go to this country,
and it was probably last on my list of "possible outreach countries",
but i felt that God wanted me there for a reason.
i'm not sure of that reason yet, but i believe that He has everything in His hands.

after handing in my paper with my #1 and #2 choices, i called my mom.
i didn't want to tell anyone back home what my choice was until i knew where i was going.

so.
yesterday at 5:45pm, we went to the soccer field.
we were playing in the "76th Annual Hunger Games."
(hahaha, not really! it was just the leader's way of announcing our outreach teams and locations).
it was a lot of fun.
they called out 8 districts (because of the 8 outreach locations...duh. i don't know why i didn't see it before), then they called out who was to go to which district.

we lined up in our teams and were getting ready for "the Hunger Games"
when Jonathan said there had been a change in plans.
he announced that the people "in our districts", were in fact our outreach teams.

by then we were all dying to know our locations.
he started calling them out.
when he got to my team, i waited in suspense to find out where i was going.
when he said the country, i wanted to shout with joy and do a dance.
i knew God wanted me on that team.

well, are you dying to know where i'll be going for three months???

okay, fineeee.
i'll tell you. :)

i'm going to this continent.

wait, you want to know what COUNTRY???
ohh, my bad. :P

i'm going to this country (the one highlighted in dark green).

you geography freaks (and i mean that in the best possible way) probably know what country this is, but for the rest of you, just sit tight. i'll tell you in a few minutes. :)

it's a land of beautiful people and places.

it's a land of ancient ruins and mythology.

ladies and gentlemen, i am going to the country of...

GREECE!

me and 7 other photogenX ladies (plus our two leaders, Campbell and Jillian) will be "pioneering" YWAM into Greece.

there are currently no YWAM bases in Greece, so we hope to start something there.

i'm SO stoked! :)

^"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek."

Romans 1:16