I heart S.F...

Hello family and friends,

This month has gone fast and we have had some good times. Snow fell.. So pretty, but too cold!

At the moment Ben is gone, he left me to head to Ecuador. He shall be back shortly, but we will miss each other by a day as I head to Honduras. We want to send the biggest THANK YOU!!! AND KISSES!! to everyone who supported us and whom have been praying for us. After asking for some help from friends and family we got all the money for our mission within 3 weeks!! God is so good for taking care of us, and for blessing us with such great family and friends. Please pray for us while we journey into lands foreign to us. Especially me, I'm not so use to this mission field, it's my first mission trip, and I am very excited. We will update you on all that happened as soon as we return.

On the 18th of Feb we had the oppurtunity to head down to San Francisco for the weekend with a few other students. We went for what they call a 'ministry trip', which is pretty much you travel with a pastor to another church or conference and minister to them & support what your leader is doing. We went to a church called Promise Land. We joined their school of ministry on Saturday afternoon and shared some things we felt God was saying to us and for them, just really encouraging them in all they are doing and giving them prophetic words. After we had spent this time together we headed to the city to do what is called a 'Treasure Hunt'. We drew prophetic art and headed to the city to find our treasure (the person God has revealed details to you about before you start to hunt). When we arrived we split up into groups, I was leading mine although I had never done this before, pretty scary. Any-who, for a while I couldn't find mine, then about 20m away I saw pretty much the exact picture that I had drawn so I walked over to the area where it was. Looking around, I found exactly who I was looking for, a teenage girl with red long curly hair, I knew it was her straight away. With a bit of fear I approached her, explained to her who I was and what I was doing, then proceeded to ask her if she sang or wrote poems. She does both! (Inside I was relieved, I'm not the type to just approach randoms) So I gave her the prophetic word I had for her and she allowed me to pray for her. It was so good to encourage a stranger with the thoughts of God towards her. She was so happy and blessed that I bothered to share with her.

Later that night we joined the ministry team at Promise Land at their church service. It was great, and more but for the sake of  less reading, it was great!! The next day we headed back to Redding.

Probably the best part of this month was heading down to San Fran for the second time, on the 25th of Feb, to see the Best Man, not just by title, but by life. We got to see Mr Simon Kobler. It's was only for 2 days, but the travel was well worth the embrace. Two of our good friends from Redding joined us for the journey. Thanks for the good times Yari and Dayna! We shopped, ate, laughed, rode the cable carts, wished we could do this everyday and hugged lots. We celebrated that Saturday evening with Hillsong United. Was weird seeing them in "concert" but the best to see them, so great to hear some Aussies accents from the stage!! Thank you friends for touring to San Fran just so we could see you, hehe.
Miss you! Love you!!

The week we returned from having fun in S.F. we had to pack up our little apartment, and move across the road to join our friends Yari and Scott in a 2 bedroom apartment to enjoy for the next 3 months. It is beautiful in here. It's a lot fresher, bigger and happier. We miss you Apt 68, our first home as a married couple, but are so grateful for Apt 23.

There have been many exciting and encouraging things happening, as it seems I could write forever. I will leave you with a very exciting testimony. Our dear friend Scotty, who we live with, his mum had been diagnosed with diabetes 7 weeks prior to this event, about 2 weeks ago now. He was talking to her on skype one night, and came and asked Ben and I to come and pray for her. She wasn't feeling very well and had already taken insulin 6 times that day. So that's what we did, we prayed and asked God to take away what had already been paid for by Him. After praying a little we asked her how she was feeling. She answer "my whole body is burning, it feels like it's on fire!" Now that's a good sign, she was feeling the presence of God all over her. 2 days later we called to see how she was doing. Her sugar level has remained normal and hasn't taken any insulin and her eye sight which had been badly affected by the diabetes had returned to normal. She is in the process of getting test to confirm that it is gone! Praise Jesus!! YAY!!

We only really have one prayer request at the moment, and that is for finances. We are pretty much at our wits end and have 2 months to go. We trust that God will take care of us and he wont let us go in need, and he hasn't yet. We also have our bank details up if any of you wish to help support us at all. It would be greatly appreciated and we wouldn't let it go to waste! Anything would bless us greatly. We really have been blessed by all your support in any form. Thank you so much for loving us and sharing this journey with us.

Love you all, You shall hear from us soon...