A Sturdy FOUNDATION!!
Hey everyone...
Foundation was AMAZING!! I really was seeking to make a lot of awesome friends who had the same morals and values and I guess just similarities. And face it, God is a pretty big similarity if you ask me. When I first got there I was a little discouraged because I felt I was having very lame small talk with everyone. "hey what's your name?....I'm Rayla....What's your major?....Where are you from?" and then that was the extent of our conversation. But it got better after I stopped focusing on trying to make friends and focused more on my spiritual growth and starting off my freshman year with a solid foundation on Christ. After all that was the reason i was there in the first place. First day we had a speaker named Wes who gave sessions everyday for the week. He was a pastor, who had actually worked in Lubbock for awhile. Anyways he gave his session and we got dressed for our night event which was Cowboys and Indians. I dressed as a cowgirl...anyways we all got together and played a game called Cowboys and Indians which was a mix between capture the flag and freeze tag, and to get someone unfrozen you had to dive under their legs it was a whole lot of fun. Next day, we had a session on managing your money in college by a banker. It wasn't much of a Christian thing as more of a prepare you for college thing. It was good but I knew most of the stuff already from my parents. We had some awesome worship everyday which was awesome. I'm not much of a hands raised in the air kinda gal but there where several people who did that. But still people like me who aren't so showy when they worship. It was awesome to see so many Christians who truely wanted to be here this week praising their God. We also had a 45 minute quiet time Thursday and Friday to sit and talk to God with no distractions. It was kinda difficult the first day but the second day it finished before I was done with my quiet time so I had to rush and finish. One of the other sessions was about noise and the many distractions of this world. We put so much noise in our lives it's crazy. Then we had a ten minute quiet time to "listen" to God. I was kinda doubtful of this activity because how to you "listen" to God. I mean I didn't really expect him to talk clearly to me in my head. But this quiet time proved to me really rewarding. I can't say God talked to me but my thoughts wondered to things that I wanted to change about myself and I think God also wants me to change about myself. We always broke into small groups after sessions which was also really awesome. People really opened up and it was really just an awesome experience! We had Midnight worship Thursday and Friday too. We also had team leaders give testimonies...they just shared their experience and hoped that we'd gain some wisdom from them. We also had a sessions about being holy and a woman or man of God. The night we dressed up as movie characters (I was peter pan) a Christian rapper came. It was not exactly my style of music but kinda cool none the less. I thnk overall I just learned a lot about myself over that time and decided things I wanna change. I want to worry less cus in the great scheme of things the little things I stress out about aren't that important. I can still work hard at things and not stress out over them. I also need to just trust in God more, I mean he does offer me this amazing gift. He died so I can be forgiven and he tells me in the bible to lay everything on him, all my worries and stresses included. Anyways Foundation was AMAZING!! And I met a lot of really cool people. I'm rushing this week for a group called RSC (Raider Sisters for Christ) and then next week Sigma Phi lambda....I'll have to choose one later on. At any rate I love you all I'm doing great...a little homesick but alls well and classes are great. I miss you all very much.
God Bless,
*Rayla*
P.S.~ We also had an "olympics" in which I definitely carried a raw pigs foot in my mouth for quite a distance. I don't recommend it!
Foundation was AMAZING!! I really was seeking to make a lot of awesome friends who had the same morals and values and I guess just similarities. And face it, God is a pretty big similarity if you ask me. When I first got there I was a little discouraged because I felt I was having very lame small talk with everyone. "hey what's your name?....I'm Rayla....What's your major?....Where are you from?" and then that was the extent of our conversation. But it got better after I stopped focusing on trying to make friends and focused more on my spiritual growth and starting off my freshman year with a solid foundation on Christ. After all that was the reason i was there in the first place. First day we had a speaker named Wes who gave sessions everyday for the week. He was a pastor, who had actually worked in Lubbock for awhile. Anyways he gave his session and we got dressed for our night event which was Cowboys and Indians. I dressed as a cowgirl...anyways we all got together and played a game called Cowboys and Indians which was a mix between capture the flag and freeze tag, and to get someone unfrozen you had to dive under their legs it was a whole lot of fun. Next day, we had a session on managing your money in college by a banker. It wasn't much of a Christian thing as more of a prepare you for college thing. It was good but I knew most of the stuff already from my parents. We had some awesome worship everyday which was awesome. I'm not much of a hands raised in the air kinda gal but there where several people who did that. But still people like me who aren't so showy when they worship. It was awesome to see so many Christians who truely wanted to be here this week praising their God. We also had a 45 minute quiet time Thursday and Friday to sit and talk to God with no distractions. It was kinda difficult the first day but the second day it finished before I was done with my quiet time so I had to rush and finish. One of the other sessions was about noise and the many distractions of this world. We put so much noise in our lives it's crazy. Then we had a ten minute quiet time to "listen" to God. I was kinda doubtful of this activity because how to you "listen" to God. I mean I didn't really expect him to talk clearly to me in my head. But this quiet time proved to me really rewarding. I can't say God talked to me but my thoughts wondered to things that I wanted to change about myself and I think God also wants me to change about myself. We always broke into small groups after sessions which was also really awesome. People really opened up and it was really just an awesome experience! We had Midnight worship Thursday and Friday too. We also had team leaders give testimonies...they just shared their experience and hoped that we'd gain some wisdom from them. We also had a sessions about being holy and a woman or man of God. The night we dressed up as movie characters (I was peter pan) a Christian rapper came. It was not exactly my style of music but kinda cool none the less. I thnk overall I just learned a lot about myself over that time and decided things I wanna change. I want to worry less cus in the great scheme of things the little things I stress out about aren't that important. I can still work hard at things and not stress out over them. I also need to just trust in God more, I mean he does offer me this amazing gift. He died so I can be forgiven and he tells me in the bible to lay everything on him, all my worries and stresses included. Anyways Foundation was AMAZING!! And I met a lot of really cool people. I'm rushing this week for a group called RSC (Raider Sisters for Christ) and then next week Sigma Phi lambda....I'll have to choose one later on. At any rate I love you all I'm doing great...a little homesick but alls well and classes are great. I miss you all very much.
God Bless,
*Rayla*
P.S.~ We also had an "olympics" in which I definitely carried a raw pigs foot in my mouth for quite a distance. I don't recommend it!