YWAM Perth Golf Classic!!

Monday I had the chance to play in YWAM Perth's 1st ever Golf Classic. For the first time in the base's 25 years they have felt like God is calling them to buy the property for the base to run out of. Currently they rent over 50 properties. They have bought about four buildings right now and are really praying that God continues to open up other buildings for them to buy. During the celebrations they talked about how all along they really wanted to buy but God never opened things up for them. He now has been doing that. The Golf Classic was a fund raiser to help raise some of the money for these buildings. I was able to golf as part of the Compassion DTS team (see pic of my team and us playing with Perth in the background). We had four of us from my class that golfed in the best ball tournament and even had two caddies that were awesome and extremely helpful! There were about 20 teams of four that were golfing and the rest of the base came out to cheer us on and all be together. It was a very fun day. My team golfed extremely well. Overall we had one over par and came in third place. The winners had one under par...so close!! I even won a prize. On the 7th hole they had a closest to the pin award which meant my drive was closest to the hole and so I won two huge bags of coffee! Even though I really don't like coffee, it was fun to win. One of our caddies won the best dressed award. I was glad he won because they worked so hard for us and made the day a lot of fun!! Overall we raised over $20,000 towards the buildings.

After the golf game we were waiting around in the parking lot for our rides and there were these gorgeous birds that were in a tree nearby squaking at us (see pic). One of the things that has surprised me the most about Australia is how tropical it is. I never thought of Australia as being tropical but it really is. There are palm trees everywhere and I have seen all different types of unique tropical birds. The flowers are very tropical as well including ones that remind me of Hawaii! It is a beautiful place! Thanks for reading! Blessings to you all!!