Davy Goes to Inflame

So pretty much I found out about the school last October/ November-ish. I got an e-mail from Amberley with a little bit of info about InFlame and also that I should pray about going. It was pretty exciting finding out about it! I had been freaking about what I was going to do after school and I was never sure about anything, like I'm still not entirely sure about what I wanna do, ah. But I guess I have some short term goals at the moment, so I'll be praying and working towards those .. So I was keeping my eye out looking around for things that I might like to do (uni & stuff, yanno) but nothing seemed to float my boat. When I got the e-mail about InFlame, I was pretty adament that that was where I was going- it sounded SO like my cup of tea! I had prayed about it for a few weeks and I felt God give me the okay, so I started to prepare myself and work out what I would to do give my parents back the money for me to go and stuff. It felt so right for me to be going, and I felt that God was stoked and all for it seeing as he gave me permission, ha. A month or two later, a few days after I came home from Parachute, I felt this huge UN-desire about going to InFlame, and I'm like 'what the?' and I started freaking and being like 'why is this happening? I was totally keen and God wants me to be there, rahdeerah ...' and just, I really dunno what it was about, but my desire to go to InFlame pretty much evaporated into thin air. It was devastating! Haha, no really it was. I started to feel really UN-everything about going, like unsettled inside, I didn't have a peace about leaving, and all these reasons why I should stay started popping up in my head, and it started to make lots of sense for me to stay put. At one point I caught a glimpse of the youth from my church (in my head, haha) and I felt like God was telling me to stay put, and that my 'work' here is not finished. I felt a huge wave of responsibility come over me and I was like 'ah I can't go yet, my youth need me' and after having huge huge chats with my sisters about it all, I decided that I was going to stay and seek out what God was calling me to do here. This was about one month before InFlame start date. I went along with it for the entire month and continued to press on and really find out what God wanted me to do. One Saturday morning my parents approached me and they're like 'Davy, we really feel like you're meant to be at InFlame. If you get confirmation from the Lord on that and you're meant to go, then we need to get onto it this weekend." I was really gob smacked by it! One, because to start with, my Dad wasn't really keen on me going, and having his support right there was like OH MY GOSH! and two, because as soon as they said that, something in me kinda jumped with excitement, seriously felt like the desire I had for InFlame woke up again, haha. I had lunch with my good friend that day and as soon as we met she's like 'Davy, I'm not gonna lie- when I first heard about InFlame God brought you to my attention and you wouldn't flipp'n go away! Haha. I've never been so sure & passionate about anything in my life, and I know that you're not really keen on InFlame anymore, but please seek him out about this and see what he says" (she totally worded it way differently, but that's pretty much what she said) and then I began to spill about what my parents had said to me that morning. We had so much to say on the matter, and I was so like ''God, why was I keen, then really un-keen and now I'm keen again?' and I didn't realize until part way through InFlame, after taking with one of our guest speakers, that it was like God was testing me to see if I would obey him in staying put, and I did and he totally blessed me by giving me the desire to wanna go to InFlame again, cos I trusted him, and he trusted me, ha. I prayed about and it and I knew God was like 'yeah go! woo' and I was like, far out! That night at like 11pm (I know the details like the time don't really matter, but I love detail, I love colour. You need the full picture haha) my parents called Josh and Amberley and told them the story and Josh and Amberley were like *screaming into the phone about how excited they were (* i made that bit up to make my story more interesting, just go with it) .. haha kidding, but seriously .. Mum said Josh was like, "'is it sweet if she flys over tomorrow?" and Mum was like 'okay' and then BAM! I was over at Great Barrier the next night. It was great ( : ... And we had steak, sausages, mashed potato, peas and gravy for dinner. Yum. Sundays nights were the mantis as .. don't get me started on the food, ha.