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it's sunday morning at 9:35. i'm in my church office. i miss you all sooooo much!!!
last night i got back from memphis. again. :) so i was there a total of two weeks. i was there for a mission trip through a place called SOS, which stands for Service Over Self.
the first week was amazingly fun and enjoyable. i was a leader with the middle school group from my church. i never realized how different middle schoolers and high-schoolers are, and yet how much they are the same. it's like this: middle schoolers have the same thoughts and emotions as high schoolers, they wonder the same things about God. but! middle schoolers still have faith and hope like children. they are not too old to impact. well, actually high-schoolers aren't either, but middle schoolers will accept your message more and jump into God a lot quicker than a high schooler will. so being a leader on the middle school mission trip was awesome.
now... being a student on the high-school mission trip....
haha. almost a completely different story.
first of all, as soon as i got back to michigan last friday night at about 12:30 am, i had to run home, to my laundry, take a shower, sleep, and then drive back to my church. lucky for me, abbie helped me with my laundry (kinda) and made things a little more enjoyable. the sad part was that i had to be back at my church at 11:30 giving me 11 hours to do all this and be ready to drive another two days back down to memphis.
i thought i could handle it. but i didn't realize how much fast food i would be eating and so yeah i'm telling you that i ate fast food for three days. and nothing else. DONT EVER DO THAT.
i got sick. we were just outside of memphis (well two or three hours outside) and i was kinda snoozing and all of a sudden i woke up and i needed to puke. i didn't though, because i have a strong stomach. but i was really nauseous. and i thought i was just car sick. so ya know, i figured it would go away.
i was sick from then on until thursday morning. i couldn't eat anything without feeling really sick and just this amazing pain in my stomach. and people were praying over me for healing and stuff but it just wouldn't get better. so then one night sarah lov (who was with me and made everything a million times more enjoyable) told me that when she was praying during chapel that she felt that God was telling her that He was testing me. she told me this on tuesday night i believe.
so that kind of became the theme for the week. yes, a whole lot of kim being challenged and tested and fasting against her will. haha.
i still learned a lot this past week though, and i survived the drive home last night with zero nausea. so that's good.
so i'm back now for a while. if you want to hang out just give me a call. i missed everyone a ton and i'm praising God to be back. i'd love to talk more with you about my trips.
at your service,
kimbert :>
last night i got back from memphis. again. :) so i was there a total of two weeks. i was there for a mission trip through a place called SOS, which stands for Service Over Self.
the first week was amazingly fun and enjoyable. i was a leader with the middle school group from my church. i never realized how different middle schoolers and high-schoolers are, and yet how much they are the same. it's like this: middle schoolers have the same thoughts and emotions as high schoolers, they wonder the same things about God. but! middle schoolers still have faith and hope like children. they are not too old to impact. well, actually high-schoolers aren't either, but middle schoolers will accept your message more and jump into God a lot quicker than a high schooler will. so being a leader on the middle school mission trip was awesome.
now... being a student on the high-school mission trip....
haha. almost a completely different story.
first of all, as soon as i got back to michigan last friday night at about 12:30 am, i had to run home, to my laundry, take a shower, sleep, and then drive back to my church. lucky for me, abbie helped me with my laundry (kinda) and made things a little more enjoyable. the sad part was that i had to be back at my church at 11:30 giving me 11 hours to do all this and be ready to drive another two days back down to memphis.
i thought i could handle it. but i didn't realize how much fast food i would be eating and so yeah i'm telling you that i ate fast food for three days. and nothing else. DONT EVER DO THAT.
i got sick. we were just outside of memphis (well two or three hours outside) and i was kinda snoozing and all of a sudden i woke up and i needed to puke. i didn't though, because i have a strong stomach. but i was really nauseous. and i thought i was just car sick. so ya know, i figured it would go away.
i was sick from then on until thursday morning. i couldn't eat anything without feeling really sick and just this amazing pain in my stomach. and people were praying over me for healing and stuff but it just wouldn't get better. so then one night sarah lov (who was with me and made everything a million times more enjoyable) told me that when she was praying during chapel that she felt that God was telling her that He was testing me. she told me this on tuesday night i believe.
so that kind of became the theme for the week. yes, a whole lot of kim being challenged and tested and fasting against her will. haha.
i still learned a lot this past week though, and i survived the drive home last night with zero nausea. so that's good.
so i'm back now for a while. if you want to hang out just give me a call. i missed everyone a ton and i'm praising God to be back. i'd love to talk more with you about my trips.
at your service,
kimbert :>