i'm back!!!
i know you all missed me and what not...ahah i knwo i know i'm being a
tad bit too modest. well thats just the kind of mood i'm in right now.
cept for i just got a letter from my field hockey coach expecting me to
already have begun working out.....major problem here...when you're on
duty, working out cannot be done. and oh yeah my dad isn't too hot on
the idea.
my mission trip was absolutely freaking amazing. when i say life changing, i really do mean lifechanging. i learned so much about life and about myself and others that i really do think that i will be able to make it after all. haha. i know it sounds like at one point in time i was suicidal or something, but i really wasn't. i just didnt' like my life all that much. but i think that its going to be a lot better this next year. now that i have a lot more things workign for me, i know that it will. that is how optimistic i am going to be about it all. thanks to julia for teaching me how to see the good sides of things and how to be hopeful. this allowed me to get through this trip.
the people were great and i wouldn't have traded a single person there for somebody else. thats just how much it all rocked. i don't exactly have a favorite part of the trip, because truthfully tehre were so many parts to it that i loved that i just can't list all of them in the time i have provided. not to mention most of them are better told in person. so just ask me any time and i'll let you know..ahah come to think of it, i'll freaking enlighten you. :) favorite snips: campout, 11:30pm, VBS, offroading, worship, car rides, ABQ -> DALLAS, baggage claim, first aid, bloody noses, jokes, cooking, friendships that will never die, cranium, and most of all, the lessons. it all rocked so much, its not fair to put it all into words on paper, i feel like i would be entrapping the memories.
one of my favorite worship ceremonies was the one that we had during the campout because phil played you raise me up by josh groban. but before even realizing who was singing it, i thought it was a song from the hymnal that was sung at my grandmother's funeral. this was really tough for me to deal with because i still have a heavy emotional heart about her passing away and i didn't know if i was going to be able to deal with the song that was sung at her funeral. i didn't get through the first verse of that song without breaking out into tears at the funeral, but at the campout once i realized that it wasn't the same song, i knew that i could pull through without having a major breakdown (i'd had enough of them).
thanks to all the sponsors who helped me get through that trip. you all made it absolutely amazing for me and supported me through all the tough times in the midst of it all. and to every person on that trip, you rocked just as much. i didn't know any of you going into the trip very well, but coming out of it, i knew that you were always there for me and that the friendships made during that week would never die or lessen. its amazing what can happen when you just conquer your fear and timidness and reach out to show yourself to others. thank you.
off to be 53. i'll update tomorrow.
~M*
my mission trip was absolutely freaking amazing. when i say life changing, i really do mean lifechanging. i learned so much about life and about myself and others that i really do think that i will be able to make it after all. haha. i know it sounds like at one point in time i was suicidal or something, but i really wasn't. i just didnt' like my life all that much. but i think that its going to be a lot better this next year. now that i have a lot more things workign for me, i know that it will. that is how optimistic i am going to be about it all. thanks to julia for teaching me how to see the good sides of things and how to be hopeful. this allowed me to get through this trip.
the people were great and i wouldn't have traded a single person there for somebody else. thats just how much it all rocked. i don't exactly have a favorite part of the trip, because truthfully tehre were so many parts to it that i loved that i just can't list all of them in the time i have provided. not to mention most of them are better told in person. so just ask me any time and i'll let you know..ahah come to think of it, i'll freaking enlighten you. :) favorite snips: campout, 11:30pm, VBS, offroading, worship, car rides, ABQ -> DALLAS, baggage claim, first aid, bloody noses, jokes, cooking, friendships that will never die, cranium, and most of all, the lessons. it all rocked so much, its not fair to put it all into words on paper, i feel like i would be entrapping the memories.
one of my favorite worship ceremonies was the one that we had during the campout because phil played you raise me up by josh groban. but before even realizing who was singing it, i thought it was a song from the hymnal that was sung at my grandmother's funeral. this was really tough for me to deal with because i still have a heavy emotional heart about her passing away and i didn't know if i was going to be able to deal with the song that was sung at her funeral. i didn't get through the first verse of that song without breaking out into tears at the funeral, but at the campout once i realized that it wasn't the same song, i knew that i could pull through without having a major breakdown (i'd had enough of them).
thanks to all the sponsors who helped me get through that trip. you all made it absolutely amazing for me and supported me through all the tough times in the midst of it all. and to every person on that trip, you rocked just as much. i didn't know any of you going into the trip very well, but coming out of it, i knew that you were always there for me and that the friendships made during that week would never die or lessen. its amazing what can happen when you just conquer your fear and timidness and reach out to show yourself to others. thank you.
off to be 53. i'll update tomorrow.
~M*