Sickness and Prayers

Well! I am sure most of you have heard about the VERY strange happenings of the last 48 hours here at the YWAM base in Brisbane Australia! Beginning at around 2:00am on Sunday morning, more than half of the people on the base got sick. Really sick. Everyone was up periodically throughout the night throwing up non-stop. I first noticed it at 3:00am when I woke up to my bunk buddy puking in a bucket underneath me and then a girl in the bed right next to me got up right after that and ran to the bathroom to do the same. I got up to see if I could help them but there was nothing I could do. Then pretty soon, I was hearing girls running to the bathroom quite frequently and hearing them puke. Then not long after all this happened, I started hearing all the guys from downstairs doing the same thing. By the following morning around 60 of our 70ish people on base were super sick. At the time I was part of the group that was NOT sick thankfully. So I, along with a few others, left the base for the day to get out of that environment while everyone was trying to recover. Unfortunately I began to get sick while I was in South Bank with a friend of mine. But my sickness didn't very hard until I got back that evening at around 4. By then however I was in horrible pain and it felt like someone was stabbing my stomach and back repeatedly. I have never felt anything like it. Thankfully I never threw up but I couldn't move without being horrible pain. That lasted for most of the night. Once Monday rolled around (today) almost everyone was totally healed by the grace of God. I too was feeling so much better! I was no longer in pain. After our lectures today I started getting sick to my stomach though so once classes were over at 12:30ish i just went to my room and I slept until around 5:00pm. I felt MUCH better after waking up and am still doing good! God has helped everyone on base to recover now and now it's just a matter of gaining all our strength back which is happening pretty smoothly. I just wanted to update all of you on everything that has been happening because I know some people have been wanting details and have been worried. But because of everyone's prayers and God's healing power, everyone is doing much better and everyone is almost completely back to normal. And everyone is getting healthy at just the right time too because at the end of this week we will be saying goodbye to students from one of the other schools on base because they are graduating. This is the School for Acting on the Screen. We have come close to many of these students and one of them particularly has been a huge blessing in my life so I am very excited to see them graduate having done such an amazing job at their school. I am of course sad to see them leave too however. Also within this week we all find out where we are going for outreach! So by this weekend I will be able to do another blog update telling everyone where I am going! And aside from my 3 projects due this week, on the 15th I am supposed to turn my next payment to the school which currently can't happen because I do not have the money. So please pray for provision in that area and pray for a miracle. God has me here for a reason and I know He will provide but prayers and support are ALWAYS welcome! Thank you all so much for always supporting me and loving me. You have blessed my life incredibly! I am so grateful for all of you! Hope the update has helped calm some friends and family down. I look forward to my next update! Blessings -Christianna White