Hola! Week five has come and gone! Soon I will be starting week six, which marks the half way point of the lecture phase! Exciting! Before I know it I will be heading out to Mexico! This week was an amazing one! Our topic was the Divine Plumb Line. Our first three classes we learned about things that hold us back from God, such as rejection. We study the attitudes and behaviours of each area. Then on Wednesday afternoon we begin freeing ourselves. We took turns shares things from our past that have held us back from God. Stuff such as sins we committed, things done to us by others, or mind sets we were stuck in. Most people shared for area an hour (it took three days to get through all of us). After they shared we spent about half an hour to an hour praying for them and helping them forgive and let out. I shared about my struggles with self esteem, and how words I had heard as a child from people at school had really impacted me. In my life the enemy continued building on my self esteem issues, continuously telling me I didn’t belong. It was amazing how free it felt after people had prayed for me and shared words God had given them to tell me. I still have a lot of work to do with my beliefs of myself but for the first time that I can remember I am just happy with me. It really was supernatural how God freed us all. We now have a new found freedom to seek God in ways we never could before. It was also amazing be a witness to other being freed. The compassion we felt for other as their shared with us. And several times as we were praying for the person God spoke to me, giving me words to share with them. One time as I was sharing what God had spoken to me, four other people said God had spoken the same thing to them! It was so amazing! It was such a time of growth in faith in God. When we finished on Friday at 7pm we all felt emotional drained. We have just been spending the weekend relaxing and recharging. There is even talk about spending Sunday at the beach! I have been out of San Jose yet, so it would be great to see more of Costa Rica. As we enter into our sixth week please pray for us because all money is due by the end of this week. We are still missing a lot of moneyL but we have faith that God will provide what is still needed.