Days of Joy!

Well on Friday Dec. 19th I took Kar to The Nutcracker Ballet. Wow what a day that was! I had to get up at 6:30am and those of you who know me well know i am not a morning person. Well i ended up leaving the house without breakfast that morning but i was excited to go and get Kar! When i got to the house she was looking beautiful in her little Christmas dress! We did photos before we left then we had the 45min car ride to the ballet. I never heard her ask so many questions ever. She was sooo excited to get there and i was the same way. Well We got there and she didnt want her shoes to get dirty so she asked if i would carry her till we got inside. So unable to resist the cute face she gave me when she looked at me i caved and said i would! We walked for what seemed like forever but we finally got in and got main floor seats! We were 7 rows from the stage. She could wait till it started. Part way through the first part of the play she asked the cutest thing i have ever heard. "Cindy Why aren't they talking?". Well i couldnt help but giggle at that it was too cute. She sat in my lap for most of the first half of the play then the break came. We sat there and she didnt want to wait any longer for the second part to start she wanted it to keep going so there was no break. Well when it finally did start my stomach was starting to make noises. About 10min into the second part of the ballet Kar looks and me and says "Im tired and hungry! When will it be over i want to eat?" about another 10-15mins later i am sitting there with her next to me laying in her chair watching the ballet and now i am thinking "I am hungry and tired when will this be over.". I never thought i would be the one thinking that. Well when the ballet ended she told me the directions to get home cause every turn went left right left right and that was how we got home. We went to BK for lunch and had fun little talks and she got to play in the Play place at BK. My all time fav. thing she said to me went like this "K Cindy Next time we go to the same place for the ballet i will wear this same dress, this same tights and this same shoes. Then we have to come to this same place for lunch. Understand Cindy?". K i was laughing in my head about that cause she had the most serious tone in her voice and gave me a serious look while she was doing it! I so wish i got that on video! When we got back to her house to drop her off she wanted to do her own ballet so Ma put in the cd and she put on her own little ballet for us!


Now on to my Birthday!!! So yes its official i am 19!!! As of Dec.20!!! I woke up at 10:49am and i turned on my phone thinking i would have lots of texts if not phone calls. I had 1 message on my voicemail! It was from a person very special to me. We where planning on getting together and doing something for my birthday since my family told me to find my own thing to do om my birthday. So i was trying to do just that! She ended up planning on having me over when i was done going out to eat with my fam. So when dinner was over my dad droped me off at their house. I walked in and all the kids where soo excited to see me and they all yelled Happy Birthday! Well their ma was in the other room she was asking me random questions like "Whats your fav. color? I dont have that one! Whats your next fav. color? oh well this one is close enough! Some one turn off all the lights!!!!". I am sitting at the end of the table with the kids and thinking "What on earth?" Well Ma finaly comes out of the room holding cupcakes with an orange/pink candle in one of them. They all sing to me then i get to blow out the candle. Kar and E both had me unwrap my gifts they had for me and J looked and me all sad said i dont have one ran to his gingerbread house and ripped off a candy cane handed it to me and said Happy Birthday! so i got a home made soccerball from Kar,E gave me a snowglobe with a nativity in it and a candy cane from J. well we bundled up the 4 kids and jumped in the van and took a trip to stillwater and visited a live nativity! I held the little Cait most of the time while we walked around. The funny part was when we pulled in J yelled 1 more min. we where so confused then we saw the clock it was 7:27 in 1 min i was offically 19!! so we sat there and when the min was up they bursted in to song again! When we were all done at the church we drove back home and droped off the kids and me and Ma C went to River Falls and saw Bolt!! cutest movie ever!

The next day was sunday! Well i went to church and the life shaping meal. Watched the kids for ma C while her and PB were in a meeting. Cait was attached to me like none other it was so cute she was calling me "indy" all day. Well it came time for me to go and them to go and Ma C went to take Cait out of my arm and Cait didnt want to leave it was funny she is always excited for ma! Well ma looked at her and said "You like Sydney dont you?" Cait replied " I luv Cindy!" Ok offically the cutest thing out of her mouth and it made my day!

Birthday wishes...

Well here it goes.

meet Jaime Jamgochian and that the weather will hold off till at least sunday cause i want to do stuff on my Birthday. This month has been hard dreams where crushed and fights broke out. I had a day or two that where great however i would love good weather tomorrow.

Tears from wishes....

I am normally the first person to say I love winter bad weather and all. However when it ends up messing up my Birthday wish I don't like it. My Birthday wish for the past 4 years was to be able to go see Jaime Jamgochian in concert again. So for my Birthday this year I got myself just that 2 tickets to go see Jaime Jamgochian in concert 5 days before my birthday. The concert is to be held tomorrow at 7pm in North Mankato MN.Well as we all know today we had some freezing rain oh and snow all through the day. That iced the roads and tomorrow its going to be cold with a horrible windshield. Well Great i normally dont mind at all i mean snow day for my sisters and what eve. However this time I have tears in my eyes praying for warm weather. I mean I spent the money i had set aside for my Birthday spending money for my bday and spent it on the tickets so now what i get to be out of my money and wont have the chance for quite some time to see Jaime in concert. It took 5 years before she came close enough that my parents would let me go and now cause of the weather i dont get to go and i wont have money to spend on my birthday! What a great gift i just got myself for my birthday. I cant believe this is happening to me. I try so hard not to ask for much of anything and the one time i do something for myself it bites back.Well i guess i will just have to have the same wish for the next 4 years before i get the chance to see her again.

Poems!

SINCE WHEN?

Since when have you known me my heart and my soul?
Since when have you known me my life and my mind?
Since when have you known me my tears and my sorrow?
Since when have you known me my smile and my laughter?
Since when have you known me my call and my faith?
Since when have you known me my God and my Father?

TAKE A HIKE!

As I take my hike i see the Grace of God above me.
I see the peace He gives in the swaying trees.
I see the mercy in the water rushing by me.
I see the hope in the animals running around.
I see the love in the couples passing by.
I see the beauty in the sun while it sets.
I see the dance he puts in our lives as time flies.
I see the patience of God as the night grows dark.
I see the trust in God as I climb the hill.
I see the wisdom as I watch the other hikers.
I see the understanding in watching the rain fall down.
I see the selflessness in everything i pass.
I see the friendship he gives as someone helps me after a fall.
I see the encouragement in the waves coming in with the tide.
I see the authority when i hear the wind.
I see the comfort as I sit and take in everything around me.


WHY?

Why is life hard to live when you live it for your faith.
Why can't people believe God can lead you to a place.
Why do you crush me for what i believe?
Why don't you see the life I lead?

Are you blind to the grace of God
Are people too scared to go to a place they don't know?
Are you afraid that what i believe is true?
Are you afraid you can't lead this life too?

I tell you life is hard but when you have faith you will pull through.
I tell you if you believe He will lead you!
I tell you don't be afraid its going to be ok.
I tell you you can lead this life too!


HER FATHERS.

One Father makes her feel like no matter what she does is never good enough.
The other Father makes her feel like everything she does matters.

One Father doesn't show at events he wants him to be there at.
The other Father is always there.

One Father doesn't show his love for her.
The other Father always shows his love.

One Father doesn't see the pain in her life.
The other Father reaches down to help her through it.

One Father leaves her to grow in faith alone.
The other Father is the cause of her faith.

One Father doesn't kiss his little girl or give her a hug.
The other Father kisses his little girl and gives her hugs every day.

One Father doesn't see how broken she is because of him.
The other Father is there to help mend the relationship.

One Father doesn't believe God is there.
The other Father is God who is here!

Thanksgiving...

This year everything i am thankful for all ties into one big thank! I am thankful for my Father above all GOD!!!! I want to thank him for everything he has given me good and not so good. For the discouraging words out of my fathers mouth to a new member of the family standing up for me! From the arguments between my sisters and I to a family who took me under their wing as a girl of theirs! Food,shelter,clothing,to the ability to have faith in Him. The call He has on my life. Friends and the adults i have in my life that are there for me!

Will it land on your shoulder?

Pictures from the Butterfly garden at Como Zoo this summer!




"Love is like a butterfly, the more you pursue it the more it eludes you, but if your calm and still it will land on your shoulder." random quote i got yesterday

In a place i loved.

Who would have thought i would be at this point right now but God. Tonight i went to the one place i loved for the past 4 years. Tonight i was the most fake person i have ever been. I wore my mask all night that said i am soo happy to be here and cant wait to see what the year has in store. When in reality nothing was the same. I have NEVER felt more alone then tonight. The kids i went back for this year have NEW friends so i get kicked to the side. NO ONE can read my feelings any more. I hate to say this but i dont want to go back what so ever. It was so hard faking how i felt tonight i just wanted to leave but i couldnt.(helps to have no car) Now i am just so lost on what to do. I am afraid this feeling is just going to get worse as the year goes on. I am having a hard time trusting people again. Feeling like you dont belong is the worst feeling ever and i feel that way all over again. Maybe i should just keep going back faking how i feel every time like i did tonight. How can a place you once loved and belonged to end up like this with you being the outsider in a place you loved? Thats all i want to know.......I pray Lord that you will help me through this and that i will not have this feeling any more Lord. I need your help.

loosing ability?!

Well today has been successful in some ways and down casting in others. I am 4 weeks ahead in my health class right now so i am excited to only need to focus on 2 classes right now!The down casting part is i found out something is hindering my singing ability. I started to notice it yesterday morning during service then i went to the Well and it was fine. However this morning while i sit and get ahead in health class i was listening to songs and tried to sing along but i was having the hardest time even trying to get through a line of the song with out coughing. I wonder whats going on with it. What is God teaching me? What is he trying to show me? Where will he take me? those are all the questions going through my head right now! I can only imagine what he has in store!

First time eats/drinks!

K so I am odd i haven't been pressured to eat certain foods while i was growing up! Well i am going to write a list of all the foods i have had for the first time ever at 18. This is a interesting list i will put them in order of how they where eaten from the first thing i tried to now.

Peanut-butter and jelly! Yes first time ever!!! I always ate Jelly but NEVER Peanut butter!
Strawberry! i was forced to at a friends grad-party and they have the proof that i did eat one!
spinach still dislike that stuff!
asparagus......still gross
Pie! yes i have never had pie before call me crazy! i had French silk and lemon ma-rang at the 9th grade welcome!
Green Tea!

K well thats all for now that i can think of i know some of you out there have been keeping track so if ya have more to add let me know!!!!!!! or if ya wanna make fun of and laugh at me you have my permission!

Baggage! We all have it!

K well this is about a drama that changed my life for me a year go. I had gone to the Revolve Tour and they did this drama. I couldnt contain myself while they where doing this drama. We all carry so much baggage and it holds us captive. We need to let God take care of it cause he WILL give us peace. Well since i cant figure out how to get the video on here i will post the link for ya!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrvJIznZKtU

Hope ya enjoy this video as much as i do!

Quotes!

K so on a bit of a lighter note from the last post i made here are some of my quotes i like!

*Every little girl should be so loved, so welcomed-seen, known, treasured. From this place she can become a strong and beautiful and confident woman.* From Captivating

*No matter where you are on the journey to the glorifying, liberated life in Christ, you are His treasure. He does not want to take from you. He wants to give you and free you from any hindrance.* From Breaking Free

*Today I figured out I can't fix everything or anything myself for that matter.* From me talking about trying to fix a problem i had one morning that i couldn't fix So i gave it all to God and he gave me peace!

Where where you?

K well today 7years ago the twin towers fell to the ground. You always here you never forget where you where the day the Twin Towers fell. Well today i chose to tell you all about where i was when i heard. It was 2nd or 3rd hour i was in my 7th grade math class. It was your normal day me sitting in my spot at the front of the classroom in my desk working on a work sheet. All of a sudden the door to the room swung open. It was a student from one of the other classes in our house who ran in to Mr.H's room and yelled "turn on the news now!" Mr.H was so confused as to why or what was going on but he turned on the news just in time to see the second tower get hit by the plane! Oh my goodness was what was being said all over the classroom. For the rest of the math hour we sat there watching replay after replay after replay of both the towers getting hit. We where all so scared. The bell rang and it was all we could talk about! I was on my way to gym class talking to my friends and all you could hear in the hall was "Did you see what was on the news today!" "How could something like that happen." and "This will be in the history books!" Well I went to science with Mrs.S after gym was over and everyone in the class wanted to watch more of the news to hear more about what was going on. However the Office had chose to inform all the teachers that they where not allowed to let us watch it anymore. Wow the fact that i still remember all this still amazes me but it is one of those things that you never forget!

Praying for my life!

Well Today i was excited for a great day! The morning started out with a big family brunch witch was loads of fun! In the evening we had planned to go to my sisters boyfriends house for a party. We left for his house at 5pm. When we got there I ate 2 tacos that where amazing!!! After that we all where going to jump into the pool. Well i forgot my swimsuit so i took the van and drove back home! What happen next sacred me! I got home and i walked in to my room to grab my suit and all of a sudden i started to weeze. I had the hardest time breathing! I was so scared i quick put my suit on and i had to sit for a bit cause it hurt to breath soo bad! Well as i sat there all i could do was pray. I sat there with tears in my eyes Praying to God Please help me please help take the pain away. Finnally i got back in the van most likely speeded to the party walked in and walked up to my dad and asked for mom. She had just got in to her suit and i looked at her and i told her i couldnt breath and i needed to go to the ER. Me mom and dad quick went over to the hospital i was still frightened for my life. We had got there and they took me in to a room and hooked me up with wires and i ended up on a nebulizer. I had to get chest X-rays and they came in and told me that they have no idea what so ever what had caused my air way to close up like it did. They said we may never know what caused it and that it might never happen again. Just incase it was to happen again thay gave me a inhaler. This was MY first time ever in the ER for me. I am soo happy that i can breath with no problems right now!

Iowa part 3! the last leg!

K so we got home at 2pm. We woke up at 7:00am this nice sunday morning we at at the hotel got out of there at 7:46am. We stopped twice on the way back. We crossed in to the great state of WI at 9:16am and got home to hudson at 2!!! i am excited to be home but we might be going back down this coming weekend!!!! Wow a world of things happen while i was gone! The only website i was on while i was down in Iowa was this so i could blog! When i got back this morning i found someone had gotten on to my facebook some how and changed things on it! wow all those comments i had to reply to!!! well i fixed that now so everything should go well! I get to go to the church picnic! and the Well tonight so all is happy for me!!!

Iowa part 2!

K so today we slept in for once in our summer! I got up first out of the girls at 8:44 am. We got up by 9am and we went to Kohl's cause its right next to the hotel we are staying at so we walked! After we got back from shopping we went out to eat at Best Maid! They have amazing burgers!!! When we where done eating we went to my dads aunt and uncle's house to hang out! We got back to the hotel at about 3pm and we just hung out in the hotel room! At 5pm we went to the 50th wedding anniversary that we came down here for! We left there at about 10:25pm i think! While we where there i saw some relatives i have never met before and some that i have met! I think thats about all for today! We get up bright and early tomorrow morning at about 5:30am!!! We are going to eat breakfast here at the hotel at 6am then we will hit the road!! We hope to be back by 2pm and if that happens i will be at the church picnic and the well! So i pray we get back in time for those!!!

Iowa part1!

K so yesterday was friday and we started our weekend trip to Iowa! Well it was "going" to take us 4 hours to get to Iowa where our hotel is at. Yah right it took us 8 hours total before we got to where we needed to be! I had to nanny friday from 9am till 3:30pm. That is a shorter day then normal. I had to pack on thursday and i was already to go with all my stuff. Here was the rundown of yesterday!

4:30 left Hudson WI
8:00pm ate dinner at mexican restront
8:30pm still driving through Lacross WI!
11:10pm in illinoise
11:16pm debque Iowa
12:43am pulled in to hotel!!!
1:00 am in bed and ready to sleep!!!!

I think my dad relized that talking to girls in their teens about sharing a bed for the weekend at 1am is a bad idea! My cot was not in the room and they had told us they where out of cots. My dad asked me if i would share a bed and i told him no i am the oldest and i didnt get any sleep in the car at all and i wanted my cot!!! well a bit later a cot came in and my youngest sister had to sleep on it! I was happy to have a real bed and i was tired so i took the bed!

about to give....

I am getting tired of people telling me that they will call me and start including me in things. I found out this summer who my real friends my age are. I found out it was just me. I was only called to be the third wheel. I wasn't included in anything where all the rest of my "friends" my age where included in. I know its going to carry in to youth group this year and i am starting to think my mom is right. She told me i shouldn't do youth group this year and go to a church group more for young adults. My cousin's girlfriend is in the group at church for older teens and college age students and she would like me to go to that too. However some of the underclass students have talked to me and want me to come back cause they connect with me and they know they can trust me and tell me things that they dont tell anyone else. I just want to be included for once i dont what to always plan things in order for me to hang out with people. I wish right now that the friends my age cared about me enough to call me not as a back burner person but as a real friend. I am sick of looking at their pics that they post and see all them hanging out and all that goes through my mind is why was i not invited do they not like me. I am tired of it it makes me sad every time i see pics of all them. I just want to give up and be a quiet person again cause i dont know what else to do. I dont know how much longer i can pray about it I just want a friend who will call and hang with me. I feel soo alone soo much that i am excited for summer to end and school to start just because i get something to do even if its school work.

RAFTING!!!!

WOW!!! Thats all i have to say about white water rafting! I went for my first rafting trip ever this weekend and it was a blast! The ride up to shotgun eddies on the other hand was not my cup of coffee! 4AM and ME do NOT mix well at all. Expecially when i have 5 girls staying overnight at my house and staying up till 12:32AM the morning we need to be up at 4! We didnt sleep at all the whole 5 hour ride over to the rafting place! Once we got to shotgun eddies we waited and ate lunch got in line and sat for a bit. We loaded the bus to go to where we where rafting down the river. They told us the trip down the river would take 6hours we would go through about 3 sets of rapids and down 2 water falls! Well me being who i am i was scared about the whole waterfall thing cause i have a fear of falling from hights! Well, to make it more interesting we where all in pairs in the rafts so one of the leaders decited it would be fun to flip other peoples rafts while we where on the river! It was fun to watch and be a part of. Well after a bit me and the girl in my raft decited to switch rafts so we would get the chance to connect with the others in the group!

After we had done that our Youth Pastor had asked us who had not been flipped over yet so 2 of us raised our hands! well it was now unfair cause we where in with girls who had already been flipped! We thought we where in the clear! Until we hit a sandbar area and he charged right at my raft running like he was going to flip my raft so i being "smart" jumped out and started running. What i didnt think about was he might do something else. So all of a sunned "SPLASH" there i go face first in to the sandbar! He had seen me taking off running and he grabbed my foot and i had fell! After all that happened we had gone down the first water fall it was only 4ft though so i wasnt too scared. We hit a set of rapids and man those where fun! After all that the girl in my raft had lost her paddle so all of us in our group where all by eachother. Well our pastor said to me " it looks like she could use a hand grab her foot and help her to the water" well if ya listen to him someone will be in the water! There she went right in to the water. She got back in before we got to the next set of rapids. After we got though that i dont know what i was doing but the pastor pushed me in and i couldnt reach the bottom of the river and it took me forever to get back in. We changed rafts again so i was with one of the jr.s in the group. Well we had another set of rapids to go through and well we got stuck in the middle of the rapid and it took us forever to get down it but we got down the first part.

While all this was going on i got lunched on the second part of the rapids and went flying to the oppiset side of the raft and the girl i was with lunched to my side! when we got down our pastor and the other leader looked at us and said it looked funny and they thought one of us got lunched out of the raft! Well my legs where up straight in the air and she just fell so the raft covered her cause she was laying in the raft! After that there was much eventful things that happened! Until we hit the end of the river! There it was the 8ft. waterfall the one i had been fearing the whole trip! Well to say the least it was sooooo fun i never thought i could have fun on a 8 foot waterfall! However i did! We rode back to the camp site set everything up started a fire and started supper! We had Hobo dinners witch are amazing if you never had them before! It was a bit of a frustrating night for me with 1/2 of the girls in my tent though. Some creepy things had happened while our youth pastor was gone i was soo happy that our other two leaders where there for us though! We all laughed about it later! Well i was happy for bed time when it came! Well one of the Guys decited to pull a prank on us to that related to the creepy stuff earlyer that night! He knocked on our tent made his voice sound different and said "How old are you girls?" well there was a pause and i was about to we got scared and where about to yell for a leader then i saw our y.p. come over to say good night and it was one of our boys that just came over to say goodnight to us! it was one of those you had to be there things! I soo want to go back again!!!

VBS!!!

K so i never thought the day would come that i would miss something like VBS but i do!!! I miss seeing all the kids learning about God and what he has done for them! I miss the songs soo much that i play the CD EVERYDAY!!! I even learned new things while i was helping lead our crew! I miss my tacky hair do's through out the week! Seeing the kids faces when something finally clicked was soo neat to see! I have missed teaching little kids in the church since i am not doing Children's Church anymore. Working at VBS was amazing i have loads of fun memories from the 4 days of doing it!

To run...or not to run?!?!

K so the Pepperfest has a 5k on saturday the 16th. I have been told that i should run one. Now is my first chance to do so! I just dont know if i wanna go run it alone on my first time! Well we will have to see what happens. i think i may Just go and reg. at 6:30am!

I will miss....

K so tonight i had a blast hanging with a family i love to be around! We had pizza and a movie! The kids dont always call me by my real name they call me Cindy instead! I love it it sounds soo cute coming from them. Then their mom pointed out that they are going to grow up and stop calling me that at some point! When she told me this i looked at her and said i would miss it and it is soo true! Its what i have been called for the past 2 years from her kids and i love it and when they do grow out of it i will be a bit sad inside! but seeing as though its not now i will smile and cherish it each time i hear it from her kids! I love yall!!!

Over organization!

K well ever since i got back from camp i have been on this insane organization kick and its not going away! Yesterday i had a day off from my nanny job and i was in my room the entire day cleaning every possible thing i could and i ran to wall-mart twice yesterday and twice more today to get storage units! What is going on. Those who know me well know that i have never been like this ever. Normally when i go on a kick like this its clean the room so i know where everything is and I'm done. Not this time it seems like i am trying to micromanage my life! I mean having cubbies for things is one thing but buying MATCHING notebooks, journals, ohh and a PLANNER! NEVER like this! It just has been driving me insane to the point where when tonight when i went to go to wall-mart to see if they had 2 more of the cubbies i almost went overboard they STILL didnt have any and it started to stress me out. On the up side i did get the tent i NEEDED so that was a big upside! Well i cant wait to see what God is going to teach me and i have a feeling i am trying to take control of every little thing i can but like we talked about at camp "LET GO AND LET GOD!!!" thats the big thing i am trying to remember this week!!!

Shinning!

On the last night of camp we always have a big all camp bonfire! This years was the best one of the past 5 years! All week we where talking about shinning our light that God gave us. This year was a bit different at the fire. We had the fire and we all where handed candles. We didn't know what we were to do with them so we just held them for awhile. We lit the candles one person at a time and the light spread a far way! We where surprised how fast lighting the candles spread and how much light it gave off. James Allen continued on to say that if each light represented one of us and the light we have in Christ along with how quickly the light of God could spread if we would take the time to share. We where challenged to be the light when we got back home. Someone who would stand up for what we believe, listen to what God wants us to do no matter how big or small it may be. If only there were more words to describe how amazing that night was. When we put out our candles we noticed how dark it became with just the fire burning. On top of all this we had talked to the guys about things that girls struggle with and the guys did the same for us. It was a neat thing to hear they where helping us to help them and vise versa. The best thing the guys said was this " You girls could get up tomorrow morning and walk out of your cabins with no makeup and bead head hair and we would find you Beautiful." All you could hear from the girls was laughing! So we told the guys " Well we like guys who are gentlemen." We didnt know what they would do with that at all. Anna and JAH both looked at each other and said that sounds like a challenge. No one know what was going to happen the next day. The next morning when we woke up we got dressed walked out of the cabin and got in line for breakfast. Anna who is in charge looked at all us and said " Girls raise your hands if you didnt put make up on." ALL the girls didnt wear makeup or do their hair that morning! As we where getting dismissed to go eat we noticed the guys all in the lower KDA. We found out that they where being gentlemen and letting all the girls eat first! it was soo neat to have that happen!

Power of God!

Wow is all that I can say about the power of God! Never before have i known a love so powerful. On monday night at chapel at camp it was as though it was a normal thursday night at camp. Thursday is the day that God just comes and over takes the camp. On tuesday night while we were in chapel we did our prayer and worship time. God was working in big ways that night breaking down walls, giving strength, and comforting people! We had music in the background and everywhere you looked you saw teens praying and praising God. The feeling there that night is indescribable all i can say is God is great! chapel ran late that night. People where getting there feet washed, everyone praying with each other or for each other. This was only the start to an amazing week of chapel! On that night when we walked out of chapel we all felt so comforted and at peace. The next thing you know we are in front of the lake and me and my friend i was walking with looked up at the sky! WOW what a picture God painted that night is was so neat to look up and see a clear night with bright shinning stars up in the sky! If I had the chance to sleep outside in the dirt that night i would have done so.


Another night at camp we did a sin/praises activity that was neat to do. On the floor when we walked in to the chapel there was a black sheet with black sharpies and a white sheet with colorful sharpies. On the black one we wrote our sins on to confess them and no one could read them because they where in black. On the white one we put down our praises. It was neat to see and read all the different things everyone was thankful for. On the last night of camp we had a fire and we took the black sheet and burned it and the white one we hung up so that we could read it all and see what everyone else had wrote. I had a blast and when i can put more of the experience in to words i will but i am just so over taken by what God did at camp that week!!!