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Australia!

I've had an awesome time so far here in Australia. I'm staying with Ev in Port Kembla at his YWAM base. They just recently bought a hotel that now serves as their base and It is about a 2 minute bike ride from the most beautiful beach I have ever been to. I just thought I'd put up a few pictures from my time here so far. It has been very interesting to see the differences between the base here and the one in Jamaica... they are very, very different. I really like it here, too. I can see why Ev has stayed so long. There is such a strong sense of community and I can tell that every single person loves what they are doing. I have been wanting for a long time to spend some quality time with Ev. I really look up to him and respect what he is doing here. You can tell that he has a place at this base and is really doing what God has called him to do. He just recently got back from China and we have been able to share stories about our travels. I will only be here a few more days... but I can definitely see myself coming back sometime. Anyway... here's some pics!

                                                                                                                                           

Amy (Evan's ladyfriend)

The classic

Went out to dinner with Ev's base leaders

Jammin with some Aboriginals in Sydney

The Opera House is warmer than I thought

Manly Beach

Hillsong Church. BOMBIN!

Remember Ben? Got to chill with him a bit :)

                                                                                                                                             

So... remember how I went to Africa? And I still haven't posted any pictures or video? Well... this is the reason why. Yeah... "SEAN IS RAD" is my external hardrive, you know, the thing that has my life on it. I have done everything in my power to try and recover all of my files, but nothing has worked. I have some of the tech guys here looking at it... but I might just have to bring it in and have some pros fix whatever is wrong. So it's not that I am just being lazy... I really do want to share these things with everyone... I just cannot at the time. So... Sorry. Soon come, soon come.

                                                                                                                                            

P.S.

I think I might be moving to tumblr.
I just like it better... it looks cooler. Maybe I will keep both? 

Anyway... here's another link to add to my array

seanjanas.tumblr.com

It's times in life like these

that I will never forget.

                                                                                                                                               
What saves a man is to take a step.
Then another step. 
 [C. S. Lewis]                                                                                                                             


Sitting in the dew damped grass, watching the sun rise over Montego Bay, Jamaica for the last time. I can't believe I am leaving today. I have grown more in the past five and a half months than any other time in my life. I'm thankful that it was difficult; thankful it wasn't comfortable. One of the biggest lessons I have learned while being here is if we want to grow and mature, we must be stretched. We must be taken out of the easy, out of the normal, out of the comfortable. We must be put in situations that require more of us than we have to offer. Honestly, we can handle a lot more than we think we can. God will never put us in a situation, put someone in our lives, or push us in a direction that we are not already equipped to handle. Why, then, do we hesitate leaving home? Why do we avoid confrontation - avoid being vulnerable? Why? Because it is hard. So we hide things from those we love, spend hours in isolation, waste hours a day on the internet, depict ourselves as someone we are not. We easily spend $8 on a movie, $5 on a coffee, $20 on alcohol, but walk straight past a starving man on the road and act like we didn't even see him. Is there reward in all of this? Not just instant gratification, but real reward?


I was hesitant to come here. Last year... I was struggling so much with the idea of taking a whole year off and not going straight into college. All I could think about was how much I would be missing out and how I would be getting such a late start to my life. But I took that first step, and then another, and then another. Looking back, I am so glad I did. Just a quick encouragement from my experience... there comes no great reward without first having to sacrifice.


 I have seen a shift in my life from:                                                                                            

            complacency   -->    contentment
        purposelessness  -->    acting, speaking, thinking with true purpose
     being comfortable   -->    ruined for the ordinary
 hesitation and doubt   -->    boldness and belief
   feeling unprepared   -->    eagerly anticipating every new step


 Q&A                                                                                                                                     
Am I a completely different person from when I left? 
Definitely not.

Have I grown in experiences, built a stronger foundation, changed the way I think and process, been stretched, tested, refined, and strengthened? 
Ahhhh yeah.

                                                                                                                                                                                          

So... I didn't really mean for this post to be what it turned out to be... I kinda just wanted to get on and say how I can't wait to have a hot and spicy McChicken and see ma momma... oh well.
On my way home in 3 hours!
LOVE:D

Sorry for the delay...

So remember how I said that I was going to be posting stories and stuff? Well that was my intention... but you know what they say about good intentions, right?
:)
This week has gone differently than I thought it would. I worked all day Thursday, all day and through the night Friday, and didn't stop until Saturday morning working on a video to show at graduation. About an hour before grad, the video was finished, but it wouldn't transfer from my computer to one that we could plug into the projector... so we didn't even get to show it. I got mad at technology for a couple of days... but we're ok now. Except, currently, my hardrive is crashed, so I can't access any of my pictures or videos... therefore I can't decorate any blog posts for a bit. But don't worry! I will get it all sorted out and give you some bombin stories soon.

Anyway, like I said, I graduated last Saturday. I was running off of about 36 hours without sleep... so I forgot my camera... but thankfully someone else had one.

Welp, I'm officially finished with my DTS. It was a crazy 5 months, but it wen't by pretty fast. I am so excited to get home. I will be leaving Jamaica this Saturday, but I won't be "home" for a couple more weeks. I fly out to Australia on Monday morning to visit Ev for a couple of weeks. I can't wait to finally go visit him. Ah God is so good. Ok. I have to go rest now... big day at the beach tomorrow. As soon as I fix my hardrive, that video will be up and pics will start rollin! 

LOVE