Time flies!

It is so exciting to live life with God isn't it? It seems like I was just packing getting ready to come to Hawaii, and now I'm packing to get ready to go to Thailand! Its amazing to think that for the rest of my life on earth I am going to be doing 2 things: Loving God and Loving People! What a simple life to live right? I just thank God that we have an awesome retirement plan! I am constantly reminded of James 4:14: "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."

So I'll be flying to Thailand in 6 days now, and I just so thankful for every that has faithfully been praying for me and supporting me this whole time! I pray that the Lord pours out on you what you have been pouring out on me.

By the way, it will be very easy to communicate with everyone back home from Facebook (Nate Uttley), E-mail (tadmordrummer@gmail.com), or Skype (thenuttley). I hope to update my blog as often as I get the chance!

God cares... He really does :)

Its just been an amazing journey following God and actually trusting him for every single thing. Jesus says not to worry about any of your needs ever, to just seek him and He will take care of every one of your needs. That is so true! I didn't have the cash to buy contact solution, but after praying to God and giving that need to him, He radically provided through a friend just giving me some!
Over the past few days my feet have been infected, and right after praying and seeking God's will to find the cheapest solution, a friend comes and tells me that there is actually a doctor walking by that can make prescriptions and everything! So then I go and talk to the doctor and he fills out a prescription... free of charge! Then one of my other friends completely gives up 2 hours of time, takes me to Walmart, gives me $20 and now I'm all set! Just because she was moved by the love of Jesus!
So that just goes to show you that God is always there, and He will always take care of every single one of your needs. In fact, He's already taken care of your biggest need, salvation!

A gift of abundance

Just a little note of thanks to all my supporters! I hope to contact you all through the phone, mail or email. I also wanted to just thank all of you guys! Because of all the amazing donations, I have been able to help out the leaders of our outreach with their funds as well! Its quite amazing, because if I hadn't received as much money as I did, our leaders wouldn't be able to take us on outreach! Its just amazing how God will give some an abundance to fill the need of others! Thank you all and God bless!

God is so rich!

We're at the point in our DTS right now were we are paying all of the final funds so that we can go on outreach! At the end of week 4 we needed about $60,000 over the past 4 weeks, and especially the past few days, we've seen God provide even more! God is just getting us to trust Him even more right now!

Its awesome to see everyone just worshiping God for who he is, not as a reaction to the money that they got. God is so good that if we just focus on who he is and what he's like, we can have complete faith that He will provide. And with faith, God will move mountains for us!
Praise God for his faithfulness and provision! Everyone will get to go on outreach because He's so awesome!

By the way, the teams are going to:
1. Afghanistan for 12 weeks
2. Philippines for 6 weeks, Singapore for 6 weeks
3. Thailand for 3 weeks, Cambodia for 9 weeks (That's the team I'm on)

Freedom of speech is awesome

Those that live in America are extremely blessed! We have freedom of speech and freedom of religion, amazing! God is so good! I just read a book about a guy who was imprisoned in Iran for 9 weeks. Not only did the book get me stoked to fall in love with Jesus so much that it doesn't matter if I get imprisoned or not, but it got me deeply thankful for the amazing blessing that we have in simple things like being able to talk about our relationship with God anywhere in America!

God also asked me to fast from speaking for 5 hours today. It was the hardest fast I've ever done! If anyone knows me in person, they know that I like to talk about Jesus a lot! Cause He's so awesome! The crazy thing is that when you're trying not to talk, God teaches you even more about himself! And the more you learn the more you want to tell people! And then God just creates this hunger inside you to tell the whole world about him! Oh GOD! TO PROCLAIM THE WONDERS OF YOUR HOLY NAME!

It seems that only once we have our freedoms taken away are we truly able to enjoy the fullness of them. Thank God that we EVER get to talk about how awesome He is.

Worship Duty

When we think of worship, I normally think of intense praise in the form of music. There might be some people dancing, a few people on their knees, and most people probably with their hands raised at least as high as their belly button.

The awesome thing that God has really been showing me is that everything we do can be worship unto God! The way we love each other, the way that we do our schoolwork, the way that we play sports, the way we spend all our of free time.

The coolest thing is that we get to do 2 hours of work every day as a part of our DTS learning experience. And its not actually work, its worship! And what better way to feel closer to Jesus than to actually do what Jesus did! For Jesus came not to be served but to serve!

So have a great time living a lifestyle of worship! And the greatest part is, that means we can enjoy dying to ourselves and loving our enemies just as much as our favorite worship service. Pretty Rad!

Thailand and Cambodia!

By the way, I'm going to Thailand for 3 weeks, and then to Cambodia for 9 weeks for outreach! It's going to be really exciting, and God is totally gonna show up in massive ways!


So far we know that we will be:

• teaching english
• helping out the orphans
• doing street dramas and worship concerts
• helping and encouraging the local missionaries
• And much more! God full of fun!

If you could pray for the following I would be so stoked and very thankful:

• The soil to be ripe for the harvest in Thailand and Cambodia
• Unity in our class and outreach team
• More divine inspiration for ideas to reach out during outreach
• For a continued motivation to reach out while in Kona
• Continued wisdom and love from the leadership
• To be eternally minded in everything that we do
• Guidance for the leaders and kids