Where Has Time Gone?

I’m really struggling with how to share what I learn in class during the week without going through the whole class over again. I’ve never been very good at summaries, and this proves it again.
Spiritual warfare week (3 weeks ago) wasn’t so much about demons and rebuking the devil as it was about making sure there are no doors of opportunity in our own lives for the devil to work in. We have spiritual battles going on in our minds every day, whether there are sins or not; Satan hates the purpose of this DTS and will do as much as he can to hinder our progress in Christ. People here are struggling with family situations at home, sickness, doubt, and fear; there are nights where no one sleeps well at all, we’ll pray the next night and sleep fine, but restlessness is back the next night. We are all learning the real power of prayer.
Last week was Divine Plumbline – measuring ourselves up against God’s straight line to discover where we placed a brick wrong or are not straight in our thinking. We had a time of confession and sharing on that Thursday, and all of us girls agreed that we feel closer and deeper in friendships now. We were able to pray for each other and share burdens, ask forgiveness, and release things that we have been carrying around for a long time. Me, as well as many of the other girls, feel lighter as we finished the week – just talking about things helps the healing and processing process.
Like I said, this week was Biblical Studies. Basically, the teacher took us through a method to actually study the Bible, not just read it. We studied 2 Timothy through the inductive process, something similar to the spiritual warfare week when we studied Ephesians, but a little differently. The teachers know each other and are familiar with both methods, which helped our understanding. We were able to build off of the first time and do 2 Tim. much faster.
It’s about to rain, and I’m super tired. Kind of a bummer day…yesterday I was super happy for no apparent reason, so for today to be any less is kind of a bummer. I smell the Swiss and German food cooking for our Celebration of the Nations dinner. Each week one country is celebrated with food from that country and intercession for that country. Ramona (German) and Nathalie (Swiss) are making dinner tonight; the two countries have similar food, so they are doing both tonight. It smells amazing, and I know there’s chocolate mousse for dessert!! I’m really excited about that part.  The fog is moving down the mountain toward our little base – so gorgeous. There are really no words to describe it, and I would need a super wide lens to capture the full effect, so I guess you’ll just have to fly out here to visit so you can see this amazing work of God…
We have one more week of class, and then we have one week of DR outreach (one group to La Vega, one group to Santiago). The following 2 weeks are class again, then 3 weeks of DR outreach (#1 San Juan, #2  San Pedro); one week in Puerto Plata for the 50th anniversary of YWAM conference (yes, at a resort, but classes and meetings all week—not much time for the beach); the last 3 weeks we are in Port au Prince, Haiti (all together). There are 2 days of debriefing back at the base, graduation, and then I fly out on the 12th of December! It seems so close when you break it down by weeks – that’s only 87 days – almost ½-way done (official ½-way is in 2 weeks!). I will see everyone sooner than you’d think. Time has gone by so fast.