Lisa's Adventures: The beginning

Good bye Indiana!

Hello Colorado!!

I made it to YWAM at Cimarron, Colorado! The base is just beautiful! We have lots of snow and it just sparkles in the sunlight! The moment we drove past the welcome sign, I could feel the power of God! These last 4 days have been very powerful. God’s presence is evident all around and I have found myself randomly crying with the awesomeness of His presence! Each staff member is truly filled with the Spirit of God and it is evident in their walk, talk, and how much they truly love and care for each one of us students. I am so blessed that God would want me to be here!

This is the building where I live. In the middle of the building is where we have our lectures.

This basket with snacks was waiting for me when I arrived.

The fist night we were all we were introduced to the mountains and snow by going snow tubing! The staff had made a wonderful ‘slide’ for us to down with the tubes! It was lined with tiki torches for light. It reminded me of a water slide with all the curves and twists! Talk about a blast!! They also had a bond fire for us to enjoy.

Snow tubing.

We have home cooked meals, fresh produce from their organic gardens, and fresh elk meat that the men hunt. Each lunch and dinner we have family style meals where we all sit around the dinner tables and pass the food around! If we are on Crew we are the host of the table.

Crew is where an assigned group of us has to do kitchen duties and also shovel snow at 6am if we had snow during the night. Kitchen duties are done after each meal. We wash and sanitize all the dishes, sweep and scrub the floor (on our hands and knees), wash all the cupboards down, take out the trash (into the bear proof trailer), and wipe down the countertops. I was lucky enough to be the first one of Crew, so it has been a lot of fun learning everything.

I addition to Crew, I also have been assigned to the kitchen for my work duties for each day of this week. I get to help prepare the food with the cook. Has been awesome to get to know each cook! We have work duties each day of the week for 2 hours. After this week, someone else will have kitchen duties and I will be doing other types of cleaning.

Snow on the roof

All morning we have lectures and special speakers come. It is great being back in a classroom setting. Has been a while since I’ve been in school. We have assignment for each week that need to be completed. We have to keep a journal that shows are personal goal and growth, prayers, what we learned from the week’s lectures, etc. We also have 4 books to read and give a report on each one. This counts toward the outreach phase. If they do not see any progression in our lives, and we do not complete our assignments, we may not be allowed to go on outreach. The lectures have been great so far, and I have lots to think on during the rest of the day. I am SO blessed to be here! Thanks for being obedient to God and being a part of making this happen for me! I know that I am in His complete will!