College....Life

:D haha Mary(my roommate) Matt(my boyfriend) and I had another poker night last night! It was soo much fun although Mary won with two full houses!! :P After poker night I had the idea that I wanted to hike the Butte...so Matt and I loaded up and off we went, to later realize that I didnt think to bring a flashlight! So we had to take a quick trip to 7/11. Finally we started the hike up...WOW was it beautiful!! The stars were perfect :)

Today I woke up and said happy birthday to my best friend Emily, whoot whoot she is 19 now!! Then we went shopping. Now I have a TON of homework to do and alot to study, midterms are this week AHH >_< 

Im on a pursuit of happiness

"la la la wait till I get my money right...nah la la la then you cant tell me nothen right."

So im just layen in my bed thinking again...How is it that I get to have an awesome job, an awesome boyfriend, a super sweet roomate, and a dog who loves me to death? AND all my family and friends who support me no matter what:) Sure I can look on all the negatives in my life right now, but why do that when there is soo many awesome good things happening in my life. Life is short...live it happy :)

SO im gonna put my freaken happy glasses on and look at the good things in life! Join me?...

Im Back(with a purpose)

Sorry for the short post last time...I was in a hurry:) Before I start though, I just want to say congrats to my awesome roommate Mary for re-committing her life to Jesus!!=) WHOOT(the angels are having a freaking huge party right now) Last night was movie night at our house...we attempted to make delicious nachos...but for some reason the stupid cheese stayed super thick!! It was ok though everyone loved it!

Anyway Mary and I have been cleaning our house of any bad spirits and only allowing positive things/people come in:)

I know my last post was a little random but as I said before I have been really thinking of how I want to live the rest of my life or even the next 5 years of my life. Someone pointed out to me the other day that they noticed that the general community of Christians keep lowering their standards/morals/values to fit in with the world everyday...but why? Why try to be normal?? As Christians we are supposed to stand out from the crowd, be leaders of men, and share the good news! But it is definitely a struggle, and its NOT supposed to be easy at all, but seriously does it have to be this hard?! (lol) I was just thinking how selfish of me would it be to know and to love Jesus and keep him all to myself...never telling anyone how he has changed my life, or all the good things that come from being a Christian. So I have been thinking about different ways to talk about Jesus...from small things I do everyday to doing something drastic like attending a YWAM mission http://www.ywammadison.org/dts/faq/ This one I found focuses on children at risk in other country's. I have known almost my whole life that my calling is to help kids, especially kids who really need help, who need to know that Jesus is their dad that will never leave. I am going to keep praying about this, where there is a will there is a way! Please pray for me!!

Dont Just go through the motions...

Goodnight:)

ok ok...need to do laundry

I know its time to do laundry when I have to dig through the very bottom of my closet to find something decent to wear, hehe. So I was thinking I just need to get it in my car and drive to somewhere that I can wash it...hmm then I got to thinking...(you know what happens when I start to think)...lol...I am at a point in my life where I need get my butt to church and wash the so called "dirty laundry" out of my life...to be continued

My 19th birthday

HOLA everybody:) So as you know I turned 19 yesterday! WOW I used to think that was sooo old LOL. I started my birthday morning with my man taking me out to breakfast, and then shopping with a good friend at Rue 21. I was surprised at work with some Delicious cupcakes, and awesome birthday wishes! After work i was surprised again with my boyfriend (Matt) and some friends from high school, we all went bowling at Sun Mountain Fun Center. I totally lost, it was really sad how horrible I was at the game :p Didn't get home until 3am, then off to work at 9am...Thats ok Im only gonna turn 19 once!

I just now got off work and promised my roomate that I would write in my blog so here I am writing so that she can read it.

I have been thinking alot about the purpose of my life lately, and what God really is calling me to do. One thing I have decided is that I will learn how to speak spanish fluently, and I will spend at least 3-6 months in a foreign country. Now all I have to decide is how and when? I was thinking back on my mission trip to Costa Rica and remembered the skit we performed while there. I couldnt find the video of my team performing it but I found the same video that we learned it from...I would like to share it with all of you...enjoy:)

lifehouse "everything"

WOW its been awhile!!

So it is 2011!! I can't wait to see what this year will bring me. There has already been soo much going on in my life. I moved out and now i am working and going to college full time. What an adventure! My mom is still raising the foster kids...although we got a NEW arrival a couple weeks ago. A little baby boy:) He is a sibling of two of the kids my mom cares for. They all have such interesting/sad stories...which I cant say much about because its confidental, but I can tell you that it has made me alot more thankful for the people and experiances I have in my life. I am just glad that now 7 kids have a happy life and are cared for by one of the best moms in the world!

Continued Costa Rica

March 26th- 27th:

Our team headed to Los Guido; one of the poorest cities in Costa Rica. We put together a VBS for about 100 kids. I was in charge of face painting, they loved it! I got to practice my spanish alot too, since thats all they new! Our team also performed a skit called the "Prodigal Surfer" much like the "Prodigal son", the kids laughed so hard. I met some teen bible students that were from America who came to help us out that day.

We had a hot dog lunch with the kids and parents of Los Guido; wow hot dogs must be a delicacy there because each child ate about two or three, and then stashed away some to bring home for the family. It made me happy to know that the moms wouldn't have hungry kids for at least a day.

After lunch we got out the hundreds of water balloons we were filling out that morning. It was a war, kids started showing up out of no where!! Everyone was wet!

Later that evening then some guys in our group put on a Christian concert for the youth of Los Guido; and I performed the skit Everything by Lifehouse. There was tears in the eyes of even the biggest guys there.

March 27th:

Had a non-productive morning. In the afternoon then the team split up, half went to Los Guido and the other half went downtown. I was with the group that went downtown. We walked around and prayed for people and saw some sights. It as Palm Sunday so it was very busy and the streets were full of action. I saw some people juggling fire!!


March 28th:

Headed for the Caribbean bright and Early!! about a 7 hour drive but well worth it. After riding in the car all day then we decided to go walk around and see the beach, although it was late at night. After enjoying the views of the night life in the Caribbean we started to head back to the hotel. This is when the story gets scary...we werent being very aware of our surroundings, too excited and focused on what we were going to do the next day that we totally brushed off the fact that we walked by two very scary and angry looking men on bikes. I took one look at them and it gave me the chills, after walking past them we never looked back.(bad choice) They followed us the whole way to our hotel...the next thing you know the same two guys came up from behind on bikes and grabbed Linda's bag. It knocked her down and they drug her about 3 feet in the gravel. She held on with everything she had. Russ started throwing rocks at the guys and they ran off,  leaving their bikes behind. After ALOT of praying and waiting for the police (who didnt care) then us girls decided we did not feel comfortable staying at that hotel, so we were able to switch hotels. Linda was ok other then a broken finger, black toe, scraped up elbow and knee, and a few bruises. To this day I thank God that he was protecting us, I mean what if they had knives?! OR a GUN?! They could have easily harmed us all, thank God they didnt.

The Girls

The Guys

 

March 29th-April 1st:

We all enjoyed ourselves at the beach very much. The water was very warm, about 83 degrees and very sunny. While at the beach then a small group of us bought some groceries for a couple who couldnt work due to physical problems, they were so happy! We walked in their house(which was more like some wood and scrap metal) and handed them a couple hundred dollars worth of food! I couldnt imagine living in a house like they did. They started crying they were so happy, we also prayed and talked with them. The older guy was telling us how God would watch over them by not letting any of the rain from outside come in where it was important such as their bed, table, and where their clothes were kept. As he was telling us this it started to rain and we witnessed for ourselves that the rain did not go any where near the places he was telling us...but only came in where it was ok to. Like the door and middle of the house where it didnt matter if it rained. WOW what a miracle!!

April 2nd:

Woke up at 2:30am got on the plane and didnt get to bed till about 11:00pm. Finally home!!!