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Water Heat

We travelled to DC and on for another 14 hours in a lush train carriage with big swooping seats. Our destination has beautiful trees leaning in all directions, a million lakes full of alligators and bright red yellow blue birds, caterpillars and butterflies. 

One night after walking through a jungle type scene over a stream (at 12 midnight) we saw a shuffling shape move across our path...man those armadillos get everywhere (apparently they carry leperacy)

We set up camp in a shady area after riding in the back of a truck (the heat was beating down so hard) Since arriving we have been fed (cereal, hot dogs, noodles and rice) from people donating food at the 

communal area. We are well looked after and got to know heaps of people. The showers are always full of people singing and the guitars are in constant use - there's prayer tents and all sorts going on....

Anyone guessed yet? We are in Lakeland! The Florida Outpouring!

The night before we arrived 3000 people got baptised in water at the evening meeting. Our first night they organised a prayer tunnel to get to pray for everyone. The heat is intense - stodgy almost but its a great excuse to just sit still and relax, pray and think on God. 

It feels like Real community, Real life working church that you just suddenly live in. Everyone talks to everyone.

For those who have no idea What the Lakeland outpouring is, here it is:

We met a lady called Gwenda (?) who gave us hot dogs and advice on national parks. Her son got saved 2 days ago.

The meetings have been packed out - two massive marquees of people. We've been blessed by hearing 4 different people speak and 2 different worship leaders. Each night has been radially different. 

My favourite night was when we got together with some good friends from the campground - Dale and Grant. We chatted and prayed throughout our last meeting and maaaan it was amazing. We had only known them for 2 days and we're talking about life destiny.

We met a Rabbi - a Messaianic Jew. A few weeks ago he had a dream about a woman he was going to marry. At the rivival he saw the same woman and walked over to talk to her. They are to be married with a week!  (some years back she had a word spoken over her life about marrying within weeks of knowing her H2B (Husband to be)

Its amazing seeing the annointing on people here. The Rabbi prayed for everyone he met, his hands had oil on them that smelt so sweet.

I know that soooooo many people - even fellow Christians are skeptic about the outpouring here. YouTube slates Todd Bentley - but they forget to mention that the miricles happening her have actuallly been medically verified! Even if your not in it for the healing, there is fruit:

1) people are hearing the word and getting saved

2) people are worshiping - at the campground its 24/7!

3) people are praying and seeing their prayers answered

Worship word and prayer.

Zayways, the campsite is beautiful, but the heat is so intense I've had to shower 3 times a day to stop from burning up. The trees  look wistful and romantic and the lightning storms are powerful enough to rival any you might see anywhere. The campsite even has an 'extreme weather evacuation point'!

One night I was craving some chocolate and a young lad went and got me some proper choc cookies. Same night we were all mimicking accents (I've learnt that my alabaaaana accent aint so good boi) and talking about eating some good MEAT (the community cooking is aamazing and always right on time but some steak or something would be good)

The next night someone donate

d 60 burgers!! J's bbq skills came in helpful but the americans had a new thing on us - putting the burgers into hot water right after they are cooked to keep them juicy!?

I was torn when leaving - I'm going to miss the meal times and regular evening accent talking (our englishness is loved) but we know that God has a whole other adventure for us now. Im looking forward to getting some SLEEP (following photos were taken at about 3am)

Being away from the bugs would be nice! This fire ant would EAT you (well....make you feel on fire) Its dangerous man, you dont wana try nd squish it either.

We tried to photograph the fireflies too but it rained that night so there were only a couple.

These are J's poor feet that have been attacked. This was three nights ago and now they are even worse! :(

Some of y'all wana hear about what florida is like?

Its hot, sticky and pours with rain and is still hot all night. 

Some of y'all wana hear about the outpouring?

(man we didnt even plan on going we just did?!)

Is it real? Yes.

Is it worth going? Well God TV broadcasts it and you can pray and worship wherever you are. However, the campground is a whole other thing, its like Living in what its all about, everyone shares everything (in a Holy way!!!!!) 

If your going to go you gotta forget about 'home' - you wana get an open return so you can say as long or short as you need to.

Zayways  i've missed the blog!!!

I'm going on and on probably cuz this train is going on and on - to the next destination!

Peace maaan

Meez xX

ps: to those who were there at the campground - write a comment on this y'all !

Reuben Sandwich!

Hey Roo - these are pretty popular in the states - y'all can even get a Reuben with curly fries yo!

(Location: Washington station)

Love Meez xX

Blessing

Last night we were talking about food and money and what to eat that night (i wanted pizza) but without the expense of a restaurant.... Then a blessing arrived in the form of FREE PIZZAS stacked up in the hostel's breakfast room WOOP! 

Meez 

xX

J's New York Post

Wow, it's certainly been a busy few days! I've been in a pragmatic mode making sure we get to places and getting off at the right stops on the subway etc..I look forward to the next parts of the journey. What we've planed is great because we have the diversity to break up the journey and give us a variety of experiences!

There is SO MUCH to eat, see, visit, go, listen to and experience here that to truly get all of it you would have to live here. Having said that we've had a good go, getting in a mixture of sights and being in the city. As Meez said, I've loved photographing and would like to come back to just do that! 

(Meez is bored, waiting for me to finish this post so now she's videoing me typing!) Zayways...We've been to the cinema here and watched Wanted. It's funny observing the culture; like in the cinema everyone lets their opinions known and then claps and cheers at the end. I think to summarize, everything is made clearer here, everything is explained and is labelled for what it is - perhaps because there are many nationalities here - personally, i like it, It's straight forward and literal! The food is brilliant, if not a lil richer than what we have but the burgers (we've had two) are amazing! speaking of food, we're off to have some lunch...I'll post something else again, probably when we're on the train tomorrow. It's been great so far and I look forward to the coming days and what they bring us!! 

Love to you all, yours, 

Jonathan x

Discoveries

Central park has been a great place to crash and relax, its surrounded by sketchers, horses and carriages and is such a huge park that roads run thro it! (park + traffic = not really a park is it lol)

The jet lag took affect yesterday and so we fell asleep in the park for an hour or so, then felt revived enough to head to MoMA

Meez has decided that art should look good - a video of a naked woman hola-hooping barbed wire is not pretty, funny or clever....just a bit gross really

J loves architecture and loves his camera :)

We must have eaten about 100 hot dogs by now.....

A giant allium fountain - very refreshing :)

This one is for dad - a random Cathedral we found on fifth avenue...

Times square is mesmerizing... I suggest you don't bring Reuben here!

a really famous building: (lol)

Tomorrow we will be getting the train to our next destination! It'll hopfully be more of an inspiring time to be pensive rather then rushing around doing and seeing things....

Meez xX

New York

The flight was amazing! I love the clouds and everything, but we were pretty exhausted. After 2 hours sleep (due to cleaning the whole house) we somehow managed to survive until nglish time 4:50am - American time 11:45ish.

Well this is our hostel (lol) We've met some really cool people from all over the globe, including a girl who is going to Bournemouth arts institute next year!

Breakfast so far has consisted of American pancakes and omelets

On our first day in New York there was an amazing storm. It was amazing how quickly the whole place dried up again tho cuz its so flippin hot! We spent a few hours at the train station booking our entire trip which of course includes denver - and some other exciting places which we will surprise you with

Heres the rain.... Near Macy's (which had an entire floor of dresses!)

Heres some artwork we did.....

As you can probably tell, we arnt so interested in writing heaps of inspiring words just yet, all we have done is filled up my harddrive with photos so I cant even photoshop them and today is going to be a photography day :)

Brooklyn Bridge!

The art installations - a series of waterfalls that from different angles look like they are fall from the sky scrapers and bridges

and finally at the subway ( we met an interesting wheel chair guy who had just become a millionaire after shattering his knee cap when falling off the platform....)

And the plan for the next few days - The Botanical gardens, MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) and the bridge at nighttime is a must.

xX