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As another month draws to an end, I've reflected back on the last few weeks on my favorite moments:

1. Standing in the back of a pickup truck with Ashlee and Laura from Salima to Senga Bay, a 30 minute drive – the wind in our faces, tears running down our cheeks as we enthusiastically wave at every person we pass – this is the life!

2. Prayer walk around the property line with 3 amazing women of God! God gave us insight into doors we've knowingly and unknowingly opened that have allowed the enemy to attack the ministry and those living there.

3. All night prayer session – we have experienced alot of spiritual warfare since being in Malawi – to combat the darkness, we each took a one-hour time slot to pray. We wrote down words, verses, and visions from God for each hour. After reading everything in the morning, The Lord opened our eyes into what doors needed to be closed – all confirming what the 4 of us got during our prayer walk the day before.

4. Observing 5 people get baptized! The old is gone, they new has come!


(My team mate Kirby taking the plung!)
 

5. Witnessing Ashlee's hearing and Liz's vision get healed after a crazy worship and prophecy session!
 
6. Becoming a team leader for a week! We are working with one other World Race team, and three Passport teams, plus Zehandi interns – totaling roughly 35 people. Our contact, Johan, felt like we needed to shake things up for a week to get new blood flowing, so we forgot about our teams and were placed on new teams for the week. I became the team leader for my team! It was a stretching, yet somewhat familiar place to be in and the Lord used me in mighty ways and taught me new lessons.
 
7. Burn session – we had a bonfire between the sand dunes – a time where we could burn lies the enemy has spoken to us and get rid of anything else that weighs us down! It was a powerful night! It was a night filled with freedom and claiming God's truth! Upon closing the night in prayer, a strong man of God prayed an amazing prayer – fire is used for many things, heat, light, cooking, and to shape metals. Metals are heated in the fire then beaten into the desired shape. It's a painful process – especially when God is shaping us! But once the metal is formed into the desired shape, it's placed into water to cool down – the cool waters of the Holy Spirit! It's a beautiful process! After we burned our pasts, God filled us with the cooling presence of the Holy Spirit!
 
8. The well! Women are at the well from sunrise to sunset filling container after contain with clean water. Girls as young as 3 years old accompany their mothers – learning to carry water on their heads from a young age! The bucket gets larger as they grow – the muscles in the neck, back, abs, and arms also grow! This is also social hour – we are often topic of conversation – although we have no idea what they are saying about us!
 

 
9. While at the well one evening, the kids were specially wild! We brought the donkey, Jack, with us to haul water. While we pumped water, Zenika gave the kids rides on the donkey. All of a sudden, one of the older women, Mama Esnod, grabbed a stalk of corn and used it to chase all the kids from the well. Apparently she had had enough of the kids!
 
10. Surviving hurricane-like conditions in a tent! It will be a night I remember forever!

11. Visiting with Grace – an amazing woman, wife, mother, and friend. She and her husband have 4 children of their own, plus they raised 4 of her sister's children after she passed away. Grace is a humble servant of the Lord.