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Sunday, June 28, 2009
The Day Ahead
Today is going to be a busy day which is just the way I like it. Church, then lunch with friends, then mission service, then Party at Elli and Blaire's house. Its gonna be a good today I can't wait. Don't really have much else to talk about other than that my life has been pretty calm over the past couple of days.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Off To A Good Start
Well tonight was fun! I had a great time at alexis's party except for my headache. But so far this summer has been busy and I am happy with the way its going. My weeks have been very busy and thats just the way I like it. I am very thankful that my parents haven't gotten mad at me for all the things I am doing. I love them very much and I can't wait to see how the next 2 months go!
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Lacking Sleep and Losing a Friend
Alright so this week has been awesome but I am so exhausted! Tomorrow I am definitely sleeping in as long as I can! I don't think I have gone to sleep at a reasonable hour since I got back from Mississippi. I know thats my fault but I am ready to change that tonight. I can't wait for Alexis's party tomorrow its going to be awesome. But I am going to miss her when she is gone. Alexis and her family are great and I am going to miss them a lot. I hope Alexis gets used to the weather and has plenty of chances to come visit the CBC kids throughout the year.
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I am gonna miss you Alexis Rowe
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Movies
WARNING!!!! May contain Spoilers
Year One: I loved this movie it is freakin hilarious. What made it even funnier was knowing so much about the Bible. In the movie Zud and Oh go from Cain and Able to the sacrifice of Isaac, to the Sadam and Gamora. This movie is full of one liners and its awesome. I plan on seeing it again. The way the timeline is all screwed up makes it all the better.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Busy Busy Busy
This week is going to be very busy for me! and I am so excited. First I have VBS, Then megans house for a fun party, then my parents are getting back from Africa, Danny's birthday party and transformers 2, tuesday nights, wednesday night bible study, then year one, then ultimate frisbee thursday. I will be going all out for 14 days straight and its going to be awesome!
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this is my 2 cents
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Whats Stopping you
People make excuses like this or that is happening that is keeping them from achieving their goals whether its I am not smart enough, or I don't have the time, its complete BS. I find this sort of reasoning stupid and if you make these excuses you must not really want what you are trying to achieve. I learned that its not the Muslims, the Jews, materialism, the Atheists, the economy, the government, or the agnostics that keep Christians from spreading the word. The real reason is our unwillingness to be a complete sacrifice for our Lord Jesus Christ. Our greatest enemy is not the world but our own human nature and unwillingness to remove ourselves from our comfort zone. I understand the comfort of being with your friends, its like being wrapped in a warm blanket during the middle of a Blizzard the blanket keeps you warm and comfortable and at piece. I am also struggling to move outside my comfort zone. I am praying that the Lord will help me with this, and I ask that you do to.
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This is my 2 cents
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Back!!!
Well I am back from the Mississippi trip with CBC and here is how it went.
Sunday
Drove for hours on end from Crossroads to Mississippi. took some pictures made some awesome videos and laughed a lot with friends. Then got situated in the camp and unpacked.
Monday
Woke up at about 6ish and got work crews situated for the week and headed out for our first job.
My group was Alexis, Nicole, Chelsea, Mary, Scott, Pierce, Chris, Nate, Stephen, Brandon, Eric, and me. Our first job was a lot of yard work... we didn't have a lawn mower =*( but we did find a nice truck in the trees =) after we finished we went to a second house and did some more yard work without a lawn mower.
Tuesday
Woke up at about 6ish and things went a little smoother than monday since teams were set up already. First house we went to Alexis, Nicole, and I made a nice stone path for the woman we were working for, while the rest of the team helped her clean out a tattered tent full of rotten food and other junk. While Brandon, Pierce, Stephen and Scott all went up to another house and started putting in insulation. After the team that was with me was done the lady we were working for brought us some popsicles and we sat around and she told us some pretty cool stories (ask in person for more details.) When Scott came back to pick us up we went to another womans house with the intent of doing some work on the door and the trim as well as powerwashing her deck and staining it. Well powerwashing took two days, and we ended up doing some extra work for her like cleaning up her garage and I mowed her lawn.
Wednesday
Woke up at about 6ish and things got started really quickly. We went back to the lady from tuesday and finished powerwashing her deck and we stained the first half. We had a half day and went back to camp at around 12 and then went to the beach for the rest of the day. I got sunburnt really bad =(.
Thursday
Woke up at about 6ish and we went to work about 8. We finished with the womans deck from tuesday and wednesday. We also ended up doing some touch up paint. That got finished at around 3 and Scott took us to Sonic.
Friday
Woot! last day again got to work at about 8. But today we hooked up with Brent and Ian's team and helped take down some trees and brush from a natural park. Also cleaned the outer edge of a pond, which was disgusting btw. Had a nice concert put on by Chris. that boy has some rythm! Got done with that and went back to camp got showers and just sat there until group pictures. Seniors went to dinner with brent and Charlie while the rest of us had brisket. went to the beach afterwor where people shared what they had learned.
Saturday
Packed up and drove home with like 3 stops for gas and food. got back at around 6:40 or so. unpacked and headed home!
Random events
I think over all the pictures that were taken this week we will easlily have over 3,000. Well the boys tent had an AC leak which made the floor all wet which was not fun. The beach was a giant sandbar that went out for about a quarter of a mile =/. We had two Birthdays that week Jared Dahl and Mrs. Carrol Stewart! Shelby gave me a black eye while playing basketball with her, Charlie, and Macy (but I will say we are even because I hit her in the eye first lol). One Group had a small old lady who was more beast that a lot of people I know and shot snakes with a 12 guage shotgun. Julie made a tree fall over by yelling,"Your mother was a toothepick. Sunburns were very common. Chris played "Hey Jude" on a cooler
What I learned
What I learned over the course of the week in Mississippi is that no work is useless and shouldn't be taken for granted, and not to judge a person for what it looks like they have. For example on the first day the yard work we did seemed pretty pointless since the houese was just a frame, brick, and broken windows and nobody lived there. But at least we gave the neighbors something pretty to look at. Also when we first got to the ladies house on tuesday, the one with the deck that needed staining. She had a really nice house for all the other houses we had been to, and all she had us doing besides the deck were some small handyman jobs which I thought her husband could easily have done. Later I found out that her husband had died 5 months after Katrina. I felt horrible that I had felt bitter about doing those small things for her since I thought her husband could do them. I wish I had never had those thoughts and had gone into her house willingly and with a smiling face instead of somewhat bitter with a smiling face.
This is my 2 cents
Sunday
Drove for hours on end from Crossroads to Mississippi. took some pictures made some awesome videos and laughed a lot with friends. Then got situated in the camp and unpacked.
Monday
Woke up at about 6ish and got work crews situated for the week and headed out for our first job.
My group was Alexis, Nicole, Chelsea, Mary, Scott, Pierce, Chris, Nate, Stephen, Brandon, Eric, and me. Our first job was a lot of yard work... we didn't have a lawn mower =*( but we did find a nice truck in the trees =) after we finished we went to a second house and did some more yard work without a lawn mower.
Tuesday
Woke up at about 6ish and things went a little smoother than monday since teams were set up already. First house we went to Alexis, Nicole, and I made a nice stone path for the woman we were working for, while the rest of the team helped her clean out a tattered tent full of rotten food and other junk. While Brandon, Pierce, Stephen and Scott all went up to another house and started putting in insulation. After the team that was with me was done the lady we were working for brought us some popsicles and we sat around and she told us some pretty cool stories (ask in person for more details.) When Scott came back to pick us up we went to another womans house with the intent of doing some work on the door and the trim as well as powerwashing her deck and staining it. Well powerwashing took two days, and we ended up doing some extra work for her like cleaning up her garage and I mowed her lawn.
Wednesday
Woke up at about 6ish and things got started really quickly. We went back to the lady from tuesday and finished powerwashing her deck and we stained the first half. We had a half day and went back to camp at around 12 and then went to the beach for the rest of the day. I got sunburnt really bad =(.
Thursday
Woke up at about 6ish and we went to work about 8. We finished with the womans deck from tuesday and wednesday. We also ended up doing some touch up paint. That got finished at around 3 and Scott took us to Sonic.
Friday
Woot! last day again got to work at about 8. But today we hooked up with Brent and Ian's team and helped take down some trees and brush from a natural park. Also cleaned the outer edge of a pond, which was disgusting btw. Had a nice concert put on by Chris. that boy has some rythm! Got done with that and went back to camp got showers and just sat there until group pictures. Seniors went to dinner with brent and Charlie while the rest of us had brisket. went to the beach afterwor where people shared what they had learned.
Saturday
Packed up and drove home with like 3 stops for gas and food. got back at around 6:40 or so. unpacked and headed home!
Random events
I think over all the pictures that were taken this week we will easlily have over 3,000. Well the boys tent had an AC leak which made the floor all wet which was not fun. The beach was a giant sandbar that went out for about a quarter of a mile =/. We had two Birthdays that week Jared Dahl and Mrs. Carrol Stewart! Shelby gave me a black eye while playing basketball with her, Charlie, and Macy (but I will say we are even because I hit her in the eye first lol). One Group had a small old lady who was more beast that a lot of people I know and shot snakes with a 12 guage shotgun. Julie made a tree fall over by yelling,"Your mother was a toothepick. Sunburns were very common. Chris played "Hey Jude" on a cooler
What I learned
What I learned over the course of the week in Mississippi is that no work is useless and shouldn't be taken for granted, and not to judge a person for what it looks like they have. For example on the first day the yard work we did seemed pretty pointless since the houese was just a frame, brick, and broken windows and nobody lived there. But at least we gave the neighbors something pretty to look at. Also when we first got to the ladies house on tuesday, the one with the deck that needed staining. She had a really nice house for all the other houses we had been to, and all she had us doing besides the deck were some small handyman jobs which I thought her husband could easily have done. Later I found out that her husband had died 5 months after Katrina. I felt horrible that I had felt bitter about doing those small things for her since I thought her husband could do them. I wish I had never had those thoughts and had gone into her house willingly and with a smiling face instead of somewhat bitter with a smiling face.
This is my 2 cents
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Mississippi
Well the time has come I will be leaving for Mississippi in just under 8 hours. I can't wait! I am praying that the Lord will do something significant in my life during the next week. The one thing I am not looking forward to is the 9 hour drive ahead of me. Its not that I don't like the people I am riding with but I don't know how much fun it is going to be cramming 12 to 14 people into a van =/. Oh well I can hope for the best.
This is just my 2 cents
This is just my 2 cents
Feeling Reflective
This year has had its ups and its downs. I have made some of the best friends I could ever ask for! Cameron and Macy have both been there for me this year.
I will admit that I have struggled this year with keeping my walk with God on the straight and narrow. This is one of the major regrets that I have had this year. I continue to struggle with respecting my parents as well as keeping my mouth in check. What has happened this year I could never predicted.
Then there was Allie. This is another one of my regrets I let myself go unchecked with another girl and I regret every second of it. I had told myself I would never let myself be used in that way for another persons benefit but I guess you can never say never =/.
I had the opportunity to play in a worship band at my church which was an eye opener in many ways
I am going to miss the seniors that have graduated I have learned so much from them. If I could say anything to them it would be that, even though sometimes it feels like nobody is watching you all the underclassmen are watching your every move. well at least I was anyway and it made a huge difference in my life.
If I could say something to the incoming freshmen be yourself, be respectful, don't act like you own everything and deserve to be given anything you want. To the Girls don't act helpless or grossed out by everything its kinda annoying.
This is just my 2 cents
I will admit that I have struggled this year with keeping my walk with God on the straight and narrow. This is one of the major regrets that I have had this year. I continue to struggle with respecting my parents as well as keeping my mouth in check. What has happened this year I could never predicted.
Then there was Allie. This is another one of my regrets I let myself go unchecked with another girl and I regret every second of it. I had told myself I would never let myself be used in that way for another persons benefit but I guess you can never say never =/.
I had the opportunity to play in a worship band at my church which was an eye opener in many ways
I am going to miss the seniors that have graduated I have learned so much from them. If I could say anything to them it would be that, even though sometimes it feels like nobody is watching you all the underclassmen are watching your every move. well at least I was anyway and it made a huge difference in my life.
If I could say something to the incoming freshmen be yourself, be respectful, don't act like you own everything and deserve to be given anything you want. To the Girls don't act helpless or grossed out by everything its kinda annoying.
This is just my 2 cents
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