Walking By Faith: Devil's Lake

This past Saturday, we were given the opportunity (which most of us took) to travel to Devil's Lake State park for the day. So piled into our vans -a 15 seater, 12 seater, and 8 seater- and drove the hour or so to the park.
It was absolutely beautiful! beside the lake, there was a huge bluff. There were trails leading up to the top, but our group chose to climb the hill the difficult way- by clambering over the boulders. So basically, real life rock climbing. From the bottom, the rock section didn't really look that big. But it was a lot steeper and taller than I first thought! Eventually we got to the top, though, and were able to enjoy the spectacular view! A group of us ate lunch up on the bluff, just looking out over the trees and lake below us.
Just before going home, a few of us crashed a wedding ceremony by the beach, but that's another story!
So the weekends here are good. We can relax and hang out, and we can explore the nearby places. Sundays we go to church (not necessarily the same one.... People who have a car and are willing to drive will choose whatever church they would like to attend that week, and the rest of us sign up for whatever vehicle has room based on which church we would like to go to. After church, we always stop at a laundromat to clean our clothes. It's good hangout time, because often you will be in a car with people you don't necessarily hang out with regularly during the week.
Last week, we had a few different speakers. The first was Manuel, and he spoke about worldview. The week ended with learning about clean conscience with Lea.
One thing that we will be doing regularly during out time in DTS is intercession. Our third speaker last week was Kathy Ryan, the same person who taught us about hearing God's voice during out first week here. She will be helping us learn about and begin to practice intercession. This week we will have our last class about intercession and then begin to do so. Intercession happens on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Here are some photos from our day at Devil's Lake.

This is the bottom of the boulder hill we climbed up- it is higher then it looks!

This is the view from climbing the boulders. We are not at the top yet- we still have quite a ways!

This is a rock called the Devil's Doorway. It was really cool looking! A bunch of people climbed between the two big rocks. And one guy, Codi, climbed on top of the whole thing!