End of Week Seven!

Hola! Week seven has come and gone! Only 5 more weeks of classes left! On September 29 our team will be flying out to Mexico, where we will stay for 8 weeks. There is not a lot of details of our outreach that we know yet. When I know the names of cities we will be working in I will let you know. This past week our topic was Spiritual Warfare. It was taught by Terry Keith, an American rancher. Terry has been living in Costa Rica for the past three years. He is the director of another YWAM only an hour drive from our base. Two students on our base are connected to the base Terry works at. Mario’s parents and two older sisters are staff members on the base and Mario living on the base before coming to our base. Paola lives very close to the other YWAM base and her brother is a staff member there. It was cool to have someone from here in Costa Rica but not a staff member of our base. The topic of Spiritual Warfare was very intense. We learned about the power we are given through being a believer and also about the differences between angels and demons. Another interesting thing we learned this week is about the nature of the enemy. Usually people shy away from talking about Satan but we learnt that it is good to know who are enemy is so we can better protect ourselves from his attacks. This week for local outreach we planned on painting at a community center in our neighbourhood but when we got there we realized there was no paint yet and the walls still needed to be sanded. So for almost three hours we sanded the uneven walls of the community center. We managed to keep ourselves entertained by playing ‘guess that song’. Hopefully next week everything will work out for us to paint!
Another exciting part of the week was Friday night when I got to teach Chris, who is from Kenya, to cook pizza. Our head chef went home early for the weekend, so that left Chris in charge of the kitchen and that’s when I suggested pizza. Chris had never cooked pizza but was very excited to learn. We made the dough from scratch and had fresh pineapple. I was unsure at first how it would turn out but in the end it was a great success! It was the perfect ending to a great week!