Mmhm? Love?

Well i think this post is long over due... its been a while... i kinda feel bad, but oh well, theres only 6 followers hahaha... but seriously... lets get down to the nitty gritty... well things are going great!!! i am falling more in love with God than ever and just really finding out what TRUE LOVE is... its so cool... our classes lately have been so intense... this week is called the "plumb line" week... a plumb line is what some old school builders use to make walls... you have a string with a large lead weight on the bottom and it hangs in a straight line... i actually used one in Guatemala almost every day... so it ensures you have your walls built straight... this week focuses on the walls of your heart, and life... how you have built them, and who has influenced you to build them this way... its really cool... i am learning so much about myself that i didnt know... and i thought i knew myself pretty good... but its very humbling... i am learning alot about the character of God too... it is so awesome... so after this intense week, i have weekend duty, which is just hanging out at the house and making sure everything gets cleaned up etc... but me and joanna got a good deal, on sunday we as a group are going on a retreat, so i only have one day of duty! woot woot!! which brings me to my next point...

on sunday we as a group are going on a retreat... (side note, sorry if my lack of punctuation, or over use of "..." offends you, but i hate taking the time to make it all swell)... so we are going to a base in England, outside London called The Kings Lodge for a week... the heads of YWAM are coming to speak, and its supposed to be unreal!!! so im so stoked for that...

on another note, update wise, recently i have been very involved with the musical side of things here... last week i lead worship, which was challenging, cause the band isnt very tight, but it was humbling and stretched me... so im thankful for that... but im playing bass and acoustic and singing lots... really working on the guitar and vocals... also i have been writing quite a bit lately... mostly lyrics, but i love it... its very cool that stuff can come out of me in the form of a song... i think im gunna start recording songs (prob not mine yet) and maybe put them up some where... we shall see...

two weeks ago me and Jose (the leader of the YWAM) went out and trained a local keeper... he was rubbish... but Jose helped him alot (Jose is an ex-pro football keeper) so that was fun... i havent been playing much out here, but im bringing my boots on the retreat cause i guess they have a football pitch there... cross you fingers :)

i have been (trying) regularly attending the hillsong church here... i really love it... the worship is so great and the speakers are always unreal... i just love the atmosphere there and i fit in to the age demographic very well... also it is the closest place around here i have found to my home church, worship and preaching wise... very un-reserved... which i love!! i have found myself lately trying to push my boundaries of faith, and question why i know what i know... which is really neat to me, cause it gives me new ambitions and aspirations...

last saturday i DJ'd a 15 year olds bday party... YEEEHAAAWWWW!!! but really it was fun... on of the YWAM familys daughter turned 15, and in Argentina (where there from) they have their "sweet 15" rather than 16... so they came to me cause at the time i had over 3000 songs and asked me to help out... hense the picture at the top... (yeah kinda late for an explination) but i basically just ran the whole night off my mac and my ipod, we had another laptop in there later for the Argentenian music... but it was really cool... since then i have had a strong conviction about my downloaded movies and music... i had like 25+ movies on my computer (even ones that are just in theatres) and like i said 3000+ songs... but reading the book of Exodus, God really laid on my heart the commandment "Do not steal"... i realized that i had made exceptions, and that wasnt cool... so theyre all gone, sadly... cause i had some good stuff... but its for a better cause right?

heres a pointless note, we got reassigned work duties, where last month i was in the "garden" (backyard) but now im cleaning one of the bathrooms... that in itself pushes my boundaries... but i actually like it... which is weird... its really pretty simple... cause i do it everyday so it never really has time to get dirty...

pointless note #2, for some weird reason theres fireworks outside my window... last night too... oh london...

i have learned alot of dicipline in my life here... even sleeping patterns... seriously, who know this Bretton that goes to sleep at 8:30... thats right, he never existed before... but i like getting up early, and tommorow im gunna run to this amazing park by the house and just go read... maybe ill bring my camera and take a few pics... who knows? right? no?

overall im really happy here... this is so right in life right now... there is always battle being fought, but theres also alot of healing too... i am so content and cant wait for what tomorrow brings... however, i miss home terribly... not really dreadmonton specificly, but i miss my family, and all my friends... but dont feel sorry for me, cause i live in a house maybe a bit smaller than my home in edmonton, and theres 15 people here, actually 17 at the moment... so i get my fair share of interaction... ITS FUN! F-U-N! and its raining! hard! I LOVE LONDON!!

this is a long post, i just realized it... im trying to get everything in on one post so i dont have to do a second "clean up" post... hey i just made my text pink! neat!

well i think ill bid you loyal readers adu, the mustache is gone, although everyone was encouraging me to shave something else... but i think instead ill take part in "No Shave November" so ill get some interesting pics up of that... but until then, i love you all and talk to you soon!

Bretton...