Dwindling Down..

Hello Blog Followers!
Hope you are all doing so well :) Sorry I haven't been super great about posting on here every week, but if you could see how busy we are I'm sure you would all understand haha. ANYWAYS, I would love to update all of you on the cool stuff that has been going on here at NMB. My last post was at the halfway point and the staff were about to leave us. I dreaded the day that the staff were to leave.. BUT it really has been so good! We became a student lead project and it has been so cool to see all of the leaders stepping in to their roles and seeing EVERY SINGLE student stepping up one way or another. Truth is, we're all needed as leaders here now that staff is gone and whether or not someone has an "official" title, we are all needed! So to see everyone stepping up and leading has been amazing for me to see.
Over the last few weeks God has really been teaching me about being a humble follower as well as a Godly leader. I was really excited to be taking on the position of Outreach Leader when staff left! But there was one problem.. I was too concerned about what I could do to make people go outreaching and if people didn't want to go or if God "wasn't doing anything", I felt like it was my fault. This was such a big lie and until last week when I was able to realize it Outreach was more of a stress than a joy. HOWEVER, since having the realization that I was leading for the wrong reasons, I have been able to turn to God and He has been using me and doing what He needs through me and it has been GREAT! Outreach is much more of a joy than a task and my eyes are finally open to see what God is doing here at NMB.
Some other fun stuff that has been going on... I have gotten to be really good friends with a girl named Kelsey and she is truly a blessing! Kelsey pushes me to seek Christ in everything I do and she has helped me to get in the flow of a quiet time every morning. It's really cool to hang out and study the Bible and journal and just hang out! She's super cool :)
I've also been hitting the beach a little bit more again! YAY!!! I have vowed that in the next three weeks that I am here, one of the days, I WILL go to the beach in the morning after breakfast and I won't leave until supper time! Wish me luck blog followers haha.
Well I think that is it for now.. Hopefully I'll get another post up by this time next week. I'll leave you with a verse tonight.
"For the Son of Man did not come to this Earth to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many." - Mark 10:45

Love, Setareh :)