Mission Trip!
My team and I have been having meetings every Sunday for awhile. They are good meetings. In the meeting we have been learning Spanish. Learning other languages is very hard for me. I am dsylexic and thats why it’s so hard.
One other thing that we are suppose to be doing is dramas. We don’t have the video to show people how to do them though. We have not even started practicing them and we ONLY have six weeks left - that’s not long. They are kind of hard to learn. I am just praying that we learn it very quickly.
During our last meeting, we had prayer before everyone left. It was really AWESOME! God was totally there. Prayer is a very important part of life. God does amazing things in prayer. Some of the things we had prayed for are: money to come in, fundraisers and for God to do amazing things when we are there.
One of the things that I have really been worried about for this trip is money so that I can go. I totally know that God wants me to go. He has made that very clear to me. I really want to go. I want to go like crazy. I don’t feel like the money has came in like it did the last trip. I think that God is doing this so that I can learn to trust him.
If all I am trying to do is get the money so that I can go, that’s not right. I need to be in constant prayer and seek God, making sure I am ready to go. I think that this trip will be a little bit more challenging. There are things like giving my testimony that we didn’t have to do last time. I don’t like getting up in front of people, so I think that it will be good for me.
God!
I believe that God speaks to everyone. Sometimes it’s very loud and clear. Other times you have to listen and it’s very quite. Its just your choice whether you are going to listen or not. I really want to walk in what God has for me. God shows so much mercy and grace. One of the ways that I really hear from God is when I am in worship. I hear him and he shows me things.
I want what God has for me. I bet God has so many things in store for me. I have to wait for all of it though. Sometime waiting for stuff can be hard. At least I know it can be for me. But if I wait, in God’s timing it will be so much better. People sometimes go with what their flesh is telling them. When I say people, I am including myself in that.
God wants intmacy with you. God wants you to be in love with him. I think people tend to forget God wants every part of you.
Sunburn
I HATE getting sunburn. It looks really bad but its not the worst one I have got before. Sometimes you just get sunburn and have to deal with it. One friday afternoon I had to be at field day. I watch a bunch of kids. The sun was out but it was not super hot so I didn’t put sunscreen on. I just I would have. Oh well
School…
School is almost over. Only 12 days left! Oh yeah, only 12 days left of being in high school for this year but next year will be a piece of cake. I only will have TWO classes. I am not worrying about next year at all. Next year will be the easiest year EVER.
I am so done with high school. I am a A+ student. I am always working on school. I have spring fever so bad that it is really hard to focus and care at all right now. I am ready to be an adult. I don’t want to go to college. I could, but I don’t want to. God did not create my brain for school. Not at all.
I am ready to be on with my life. I am ready to get married and take care of a husband, have kids, be a homemaker. And cook lots of yummy things. That is my deep passion. People think that I am crazy, but I don’t really care. Its the passion that God has given me and I don’t think that it will change. That is who I am.
Amazing weekend!
So I didn’t have very much planned this weekend, well, at least that’s what I thought.
Friday: I got to sleep in. Then went out to lunch with a friend, Chrissie. Hosh asked me if I wanted to go to Red Rocks with him and his friends, J.P. and Summer. So I got out of cleaning and went to Red Rocks. I loved meeting Summer – I had a blast with her. I wish that she lived closer, because I think we would have so much fun together. I had a really good time. It was kind of windy though. I was kind of shy because I didn’t really know the people. I really got to know them and I love them. I was sad that they had to leave.
Saturday: I woke at at 5:30 thinking it was 7:30 and freaked out and jumped out of bed and into the shower. lol I got to hang out with Hosh, J.P. and Summer. He got breakfast brought it back for his friends then drove up to Estes Park. That was fun. We went to Bear Lake and other lakes. Then we went out to lunch. Summer and I got to go shopping, while the boys went to Starbucks.
I can’t remember having so much fun.
Sorry!
First of all I want Josh Brage and Mark Thomas to know that I went and changed what they lectured me about. I guess I messed up 
I feel super bad! I hope you will forgive me Josh. I will never do it again.
I want everyone else who reads my blog to know that this last weekend I hung out with Josh and I should have specifically mentioned Josh by name instead of saying that I hung out with a friend.
I learned so much from Mark Thomas in just the few minutes that I spent with him today. His intense stare made me feel awkward at first but then I realized that I should not be intimidated by him.
Well you guys, I hope that I fullfilled your wishes in this post.
Oh Goodness
Friday: I have been a little crazy lately. Let me tell you about my weekend. Friday morning I got up early to get dinner started, then went off to work from eight to five at solid rock. It was the last day and I work in the office, so I have to stay later than everyone else. I got a lot of gifts from the students. That made me happy. Then I went home and finished making dinner because Ben and Holly were coming over. I had a great time with them. After they left, my mom and I hung out for a little and just talked with each other. I love my mommy.
Saturday: I rested a lot. Friday was a long day. In the afternoon, we meaning Hosh and I hung out and played risk. It was a great day. Then I went to church that night.
Sunday: I went shopping for food because I am the cook around here. I helped clean the house and watch the little kids. Hosh came over and we played football. I am not very good at it, but it was fun. I had put homework off all weekend and I really didn’t want to do it. It was eight o’clock Sunday night and I guess I needed to start it. I didn’t have very much to do. I am so ready for school to be over.
It might not seem like I am always working hard, but I really am.
Missions Trip
So my youth group is going to go to Belize this summer. I was planning to go. I was very excited because I only have been on one other mission trip before and I really wanted to go. I felt God say you’re going to go.
The last missions trip that I was on was in El Salvador. I just loved it there. I loved working in the orphanages. That’s what we did most of the time when we weren’t doing dramas. I didn’t really like doing the dramas.
It turned out that Belize wasn’t going to work out. So they decided that they needed to pick a new place. I would have never thought that they would go to El Salvador, but that’s what they picked. I am so happy. God knew that I really want to go back there. We watched a video of the trip that I took to El Salvador a couple of years ago and I saw people that I talked to. It made me so happy! I couldn’t believe that I get to go back.
My favorite part of working in the orphanages was just spending time with all the kids.
House Versus Home
You would probably think as both of them as place where you keep all you stuff or where you sleep at night or maybe where you can have parties. My brother was talking the other night about Home versus House. I thought that what he said was very cool. I have really been thinking about it.
House is here on earth. It’s where you sleep, eat, play, goof off, date and where you can tell people about God. You get to fulfill the mission that you have here on earth. It means learning to be thankful for what God did on the cross.
I love our house. I love the environment. It is so welcoming. It is always full of loud noises, people and activity. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
Home is where you will live eternally. A place called heaven. It’s where there will be rest and peace. There will be no fear of rejection or fear of anything. It means not having to make sure the house is clean, or making sure you’re at work on time. Heaven is a wonderful place.
As much as I love my house here on earth, I can’t wait to be in my home in heaven.
