Home at last

I am home...well my other home, good old Rohnert Park. I made it here after all day of preparing to drive here, then actually driving here. It was a long day but I'm happy to see my family, I missed them.

I've been relaxing since school got out and it has been soooo nice...no homework, tests, papers, work...nothing...I am free, for the meantime. Crocheting has become my relaxation lately...I've been doing a lot of it, mainly to make Christmas presents but it is also very enjoyable.

Sunday at the Stirring was really good. 1. We had the kids Christmas performance...they all got up on stage and sang Christmas songs and did hand motions. It was so cute, and it went much better than last year...no kids jumping off stage or fighting on stage.

2. The message was really good. It was about making time for relationships out of your busy schedule...the busy part doesn't apply to me so much because I'm not that busy...but the part about building deep friendships did. I want to go deeper with my friendships...i don't want to be a shallow person with surface relationships. I want to really connect with people and learn to love deeply. I feel like I am so self-centered and everything I do revolves around me, but I don't want that. I want to focus on other people and building relationships and pouring into people. I want to love unconditionally like Jesus loved. I find myself being judgmental and pushing away from people. I don't want to be that kind of person. I want to be broken...I want to break for other people...I want to be broken of myself...I want to have Jesus' heart for people. I don't want my selfish heart but Jesus' loving and passionate heart.

I want to be fully broken by Jesus.

FINALS have arrived...

Finals week has arrived and is now almost over. I have completed 5 out of my 6 finals and my last one is tomorrow morning. I feel pretty confident about the finals I have already done, now I'm hoping I get overall good grades.

Something I am very excited about is that I got accepted onto the Kenya summer mission team for this coming summer. I am so glad I got accepted and now I can't wait to go. I know there is going to be stress involved with the whole trip but I think it will be well worth it to be able to go to Africa. I've never been on a mission trip before and I am anxious to get a feel for it, and I'm also relieved to get out of America! I want so badly to live in another culture, and I will finally get to do that.

So yay Kenya and boo finals...but Christmas break is almost here.

School=LAME

I realized I am not doing good in some of my classes...that is not good seeing how it is the end of the semester.

I failed a test...didn't turn in a few homeworks...forgot about the take home test...was absent a lot...and had no motivation to get my work done. Aaah shoooot. That's all I can say.

The stress is just beginning! FINALS next week and I have so much to do...a lot of extra credit to get my grades up.

Oh and the fun begins...why did I procrastinate???

Even better than Thanksgiving....

Are the days after Thanksgiving when you get to eat leftovers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I think I look forward more to the leftovers than I do the actual meal. Turkey sandwiches with stuffing, potatoes, and yams piled on top and then pie afterward.....mmmmm. Sure you gain a few pounds, but it is so worth it.

I'm enjoying spending time with my family and just relaxing before the chaos begins. Next week is cram time for finals, and then FINALS. I feel I should be doing some schoolwork right now because it seems that everyone else is, but I don't think I have anything to do.....other than maybe studying for finals. I hope I didn't forget that I had something to do....that is very possible with my disorganized life. I will find out on Monday when I come to class with nothing to turn in and everyone else had been working all break. That seems to be happening often this semester.

Anyways....today I think I am going to relax...get some reading in...crochet a little bit...hang out with my mom before she leaves...and just enjoy the down time. It's a nice day outside so maybe I'll go outside too. I feel like keeping it low key....at least for now.

A time to be thankful

I love a holiday where we reflect upon what we are thankful for...negativity fades away as we focus on the good in our lives. It ultimately brings us back to God....for all good things come from Him.

I am so thankful:

• God has called me into a love relationship with Him
• That i have been blessed with an amazing family
• That I have support in my life
• God has given me a purpose and a calling
• For my community
• I have a mother who is an amazing woman
• God always provides for me
• I have a prayer partner who walks out life with me
• God has given me freedom, passion, and love

There is so much to be thankful for....we should treat every day as a holiday for thanksgiving.

A few weeks ago we had a commuter chapel where the commuters were in charge of running chapel. Since I am a commuter assistant I had to do a lot for the chapel. I spoke at chapel but I also made a video for the Handbook Wisdom. We were told that we had to inform the students about a rule from the Student Handbook, so we chose to do the Safety Whistle Program. We made a video about what the rule is and how you can put it into action. It was really fun to do, so I decided to share it with everyone.


Handbook Wisdom-Safety Whistle Program from Elisa McKeown on Vimeo.

Prayer Walks

I feel very encouraged today. A couple of weeks ago me and my cousin Chelsea went on a prayer walk to pray for our families and our family as a whole. I feel that God has called us to come together and be in prayer for our family, and so we try and go on prayer walks often. God does crazy things within our family when we start our prayer walks. Last school year we went on prayer walks every Saturday morning, and each week we would walk for an hour or more and just lift up our family and other issues to God. He was majorly at work in our family and we saw His blessings being poured out. It was really amazing.

So anyways (I just had to explain a little before I could get to the story) we stopped doing or prayer walks for a long time because I went home for the summer, and this school year has just been so busy. But we were finally able to go a couple of weeks ago because there are some things going on in our family that definitely needed to be prayed about, and so me and Chelsea did that. Right away we saw the Lord begin to work. There is something so strong about family coming together to pray for family, it is like a double bond of strength. Every time me and Chelsea come together to pray we are dangerous!! So after we went on our first prayer walk we had been on in a while, we both began to feel very oppressed. We have both been feeling discouraged and negative and we don't have reasons to be. We realized that this started after we had gone on our prayer walk, because Satan knows that we are praying the Lord's will over our family and that is exactly what he doesn't want. So he has been on the attack! We both realized this as we were talking today and talking about experiencing the same things, so we decided it was necessary for a prayer walk. We prayed for our family and against Satan's attack and took the authority Christ gave us to stand up against Satan's schemes and be strong. When we use the authority that Christ gives us it is powerful!! Satan cannot stand against the Lord's power, and that power lives within us, so we need to use that power for the Lord's glory.

It was just a great and encouraging day and I feel free from oppression, but I am still protecting myself with the Armor of the Lord.

All Light and Fluffy

I shared my testimony for the first time today in chapel at Simpson...in front of everybody. The Lord totally spoke through me and He blessed me so much through sharing my story. I was so encouraged by people who came up to me and told me that my story really touched them. One lady even told me that I am supposed to show people my freedom and share my story, and help them to find freedom as well. It was such an amazing day. Not to mention I got my hair done and it is amazing, and so is my Aunt Amy because she did a great job and we got to talk about all sorts of things. She always encourages me. So I feel an even greater sense of freedom now after sharing, I feel all light and fluffy. So I thought I would share my testimony here as well:

Today I want to share a little piece of my story with you. It is about my journey to discovering who I am and who I want to be. It is a journey that has not been at all easy, but it is the most beautiful and freeing journey I have ever been on. This journey has cost me so much, yet it is such a little price to pay for what I have got in return.

My story begins with the entering of a new and uncharted territory in my life: high school. High school became the place where I was introduced to the world and all that it had to offer. It was this time in my life that I began to think for myself and decide what I really wanted, and what I wanted was to party! I began drinking and getting high at parties with my friends. It was just an occasional thing up until my sophomore year of high school when it became a weekly habit. I would go out every night of every weekend and party with my friends. I would lie to my parents so that I could stay out all night and not come home. It was during this time that I also became sexually active. This was all normal in my group of friends, and so it is what I did. I became a person who got drunk and high, lied, cheated and stole. I let go of my morals and inhibitions and I did whatever I wanted. It was also during this time that I decided I wanted nothing to with God. To me He was non-existent, or so I told myself and so I went on with my party life for 3 years. At the end of the three years my habits had become so destructive that I became severely depressed. I was partying almost every night of the week, sleeping around, stealing all the time, and destroying the relationship with my family by being deceitful and disrespectful. I reached a very hard bottom in my life; I began to realize that the life I was living was anything but fulfilling. I became very depressed, I felt disgusting and extremely dirty. I felt as though I was the lowliest human being on the planet. I felt used, abused, discarded, and severely lonely. I was crying out for help in every way, I needed out of the hole I had dug myself into.

Then one night I encountered the love of the Holy Spirit, and my life was changed from that point on. Although I still struggled I was changed. I had grown up in the church and I had accepted the Lord as a child, but I had pushed myself away from the Lord and that night He held out His arms and He opened my eyes. He cleared away all that had been blocking me from seeing Him, for He had always been there right beside me. He had never left me, but waited patiently for when I would run into His open arms. From that point in my life I knew that the Lord loved me, and I had truly felt it. Although I continued to struggle, I could no longer ignore the Lord’s convictions. I eventually surrendered everything to Him and dedicated my life to Him. In the process I lost many of my friends, including my best friend, because the Lord knew what I could handle, and what I couldn’t. He knew I couldn’t I live a life for Him while being surrounded by my old lifestyle and the people in that. But the Lord gave me more than I could have ever asked for, he fulfilled my life. He filled that hole that I had been trying to fill with alcohol, drugs, sex, and friends. He gave me the love that I had been searching for, and he gave me a new identity. I was saved by His grace.

I have been living for the Lord ever since, but I will not tell you that is has been easy, because it has not. It has been the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my life, but the most rewarding. Until recently I had never truly embraced the freedom that Christ gave me the night that I gave up my old life to live a new one in Him. Christ changed me and made me a new person, He forgave me for my past mistakes and said “Elisa you are a new creation, you are not who you were.” The problem was I never truly believed this for myself. I had been living in shame for the mistakes of my past. I had felt for so long that I was worthless and deserve to feel the shame because they were my mistakes. And because I struggled so long, I would never get it right, I would always be a screw up, a failure, a nobody, a person that didn’t matter. Satan drilled these thoughts and words into my head. For so long I had let them hold me back from being who the Lord really wanted me to be. It paralyzed me with the fear of rejection because I felt like I could face no more of that in my life. But recently the Lord has shown me that I do not need to accept that shame in my life any longer. Christ did not die on the cross to take away our sins, only for us to wallow in them. Christ died so that we could have freedom from our sins, He offered us the chance to have life and have it to the fullest. Life to the fullest does not mean continually feeling shame for how we have lived our lives, full life is life found in the Lord, where we have freedom from our sins.When He forgive us He no longer looks at that sin, He forgets it. For the Lord does not care about who we were, but who we are and who He is creating us to be.

I would just like to encourage you all, if you are living in your past and holding onto your mistakes and the shame of your past, you need to let go and give it up to the Lord because He wants you to feel His freedom. It is as though you are saying to the Lord, "I know you died and took away my sins, but I am just going to hold onto the shame of those sins for a little bit but you can take the rest." It doesn't make sense, Jesus takes ALL of our sin away including the shame that goes with it. God made you a new person and He wants you to live a new life free of shame.

Some Family Additions

Yesterday, October, 20, 2008 Danielle McKeown and Luke Green got married. We now have a new family member, and I have a brother-in-law. It was really exciting for my sister and for all of the family because she has been waiting for her wedding day her whole life (as most women do). Although they haven't had their official wedding ceremony, they are now legally married. Danielle McKeown is now Danielle Green. I was the official witness and signed the marriage license. I'm so glad I am able to be a part of my sister's life and be there on her wedding day. I can remember when we were little, we had our differences but we also got along. When we started getting older we got along really well, and I feel like she is my best friend now. I am so happy for her and Luke and I'm really excited to be a part of their lives.

Is it that time of year already?!?!

I'm sick. Congested head, runny nose, sore throat, aching muscles sick. It's a really bad time because I have so much to do for school....midterm, paper to write, power point presentation to make and present, not to mention a big family weekend; this is not good at all. My plan is to go to bed early and wake up feeling refreshed and healthy, at least I hope that's how it will go.

While being sick I watched the final presidential debates tonight....I know who I'm going to vote for but I don't really like either of the candidates. This is my first time to be able to vote in the presidential elections and I'm quite dissapointed in the choices. It will be very interesting to see how this election is going to turn out.

I'm going to get ready to go to bed and try to get in a little bit of homework in before I do and I hope I will feel better tomorrow morning.

My weekend of concerts, hair dye, and shopping

I'm sitting in the commuter lounge right now, eating way too many peanut M&Ms that I bought last night. Today is a busy day, I have to work in the lounge until 2, then post some fliers for our events, and then go to the student senate meeting until about 6 or so. I then plan on going to the gym and after watching the Office. The amazing thing about today is that it is the last day of the week for me. We have Columbus day holiday this weekend, so we get tomorrow and Monday off from school. I am really stoked to have a 4 day weekend, but I have no idea what I am going to do with it. Here are some options I have come up with:

1. Stay here all weekend and do nothing! Enjoy having no school or work
2. Take a road trip to visit my cousin in San Francisco, then head down to Santa Rosa to visit the fam and friends

I haven't decided yet, but I probably should seeing how the weekend starts tonight. I probably will end up staying here because I haven't made any plans yet, but who knows it's always more fun to be spontaneous. We'll see what happens.

My week so far has been pretty uneventful, but this past weekend was pretty eventful. Friday night I hung out with my sister and we went shopping at Kohl's for some new clothes. We ended up getting some amazing deals! I spent $16.00 and got: $2.00 red flats, $10.00 silver flats, $4.00 black v-neck tee, and $7.00 black vest. I then got an extra 35% off all of my stuff with my sister's discount, so it ended up all costing me $16.00. We were pretty excited. The next day I went to the gym and then went and had my sister put pink in my hair again. I was getting so bored with just blonde, and it's always so much more fun to have color. Then later that night Nolan picked me up and we went to the Myriad concert, where we met up with my sister and AJ. It was a good show, and I got to see my Aunt and Uncle there as well as some friends. After the concert we went to Red Robin and ate some food, then went back to my sister's house where we hung out all night. On Sunday I did some homework, and then Chelea came over and we prayed for each other and it was so good. It is so nice to have somebody to pray with and to confide in about issues in your life. After that I had to get ready and go to church. Teaching the pre-K class was so much easier this past Sunday than it usually is. We were missing about 7 kids, so we had a much smaller number and it was so much easier to teach them because they actually listened. I think now that the morning church is starting we will continue to have a smaller class size, so it will be much better. After the kids, I went to the 7 o'clock service and my sister came with me. It was so nice to have her there. I then went home and went to bed because I was so exhausted. It was a really good weekend.

Freedom

I have found the most wonderful thing this past week....freedom. The Lord has freed me from all that I have let hold me back in my life and keep me from being the woman that God has created me to be. I finally have truly embraced what it means to be free in the Lord.

I have struggled with loneliness, fear, self worth, regret, and shame for so long and I have let it take over so much of my life. I came to accept it all, and I listened to the negative words that played over and over again in my head. All of these things have held me back for so long and kept me weak and fearful, not living the life that God had intended me to live. I never felt good enough, I was never confident in myself, I never viewed myself as being worth anything. I dwelled on my past, I let it consume me. I continually felt the shame for all of my mistakes and I was regretful of the things I had done. I was hopeless, thinking that I could never get it right, that I would always be a screw up, a nobody, a nameless shadow. I felt that I somehow had brought all the pain I felt on myself for making the choices I did. I accepted the fact that I wasn't a person that mattered.

I have struggled with some of these issues my entire life, and others for the past year or so, until God showed me what He means by being free. I realized after talking to my Aunt Amy that I have allowed all of these issues to take reign in my life, and I have allowed Satan to speak those negative words into my life. Once I realized this I was able to pray against that and no longer accept those things in my life. Shame, fear, and loneliness are not of God and since they are not of God I do not have to accept them. As soon as I did that I felt like a huge weight had been lifted from me. I truly know what it means to have freedom in the Lord. Although these issues still come up, I don't let them have any control over my life anymore. As soon as I have a negative thought I pray over it and give it to the Lord.

I have never felt so good as I do now. I feel like I can finally become the woman that God has created me to be, and I can now love other people the way that I am supposed to love them. By letting go of all that I held onto I am free to live my life for Christ. I want Him to have all of me, I am ready to live completely and solely for Him.

Eventful

I have so many things to write about today, an eventful weekend and week so far. I’m going to first start with my weekend. We went to San Francisco to surprise my cousin Alex for her birthday. It was me, My Aunt Amy, Aunt Heidi, Uncle Tim, all their children, my mom and Alex’s grandparents Dave, Donna, Willie, and Norma. It was a lot of people but it was great to have everyone there. We stayed at Haley’s house and went to the beach on Saturday morning then we got ready for Alex’s surprise birthday party which was at about 2. We had tons of food, music and awesome ice cream cake. We hung out all night long, and when it got too cold we went inside and had a dance party. We all ended up going to bed around midnight because we were so exhausted. The next morning we woke up, went to breakfast, then me and Aunt Amy drove all the way home so we could make it back in time for the Stirring. It was a great weekend overall.

Second event of my week was Women’s night for the Stirring the other night. It was a night where all the women who help out at the Stirring got together and we had a night of fellowship, worship, and prayer. It was really awesome, it was exactly what I needed and I think what a lot of other women needed as well. The Lord really freed me from the things that I have let hold me back and keep me down. He showed me that I don’t need to accept those things in my life and the Lord took them from me and I feel totally at peace. I realized that I spend so much time thinking negatively, and that is not of the Lord. God lifts us up; he doesn’t put negative words in our mind, that is the attack of Satan. God is really showing me where Satan is attacking me and I prayed over myself against that and I feel like a weight has been lifted. I am ready to be the woman that God has created me to be.

Lastly, I drove to school yesterday morning and got out of my car only to realize that I had a flat tire…..oh joy. Thankfully I have some really awesome friends who know how to take a tire off of a car and are nice enough to drive me to Les Schwab to get it fixed. They really are amazing.

Procrastination and Parties

So far this year I am not doing good with keeping up on my assignments. My first test in statistics I completely forgot about, I didn't even read the chapter or do the homework so I was unaware of what the test was on. Thankfully it was on the easiest subject, organizing data in graphs, which I have learned many times growing up. I ended up getting a B on the test, so that was a relief. That was the first test I forgot about, then there was my Intro to Business quiz. I have no idea what i got on that one but I'm hoping for something good. I forgot to do 2 homework assignments in faith and culture class, which hopefully won't have much of an effect on my overall grade. Then this week I procrastinated, i have a test in Psychology Friday, a paper due tomorrow, I had a take-home test due today along with 2 other major homework assignments, and i got more homework assigned today. The point of all this is to say that I need to stop procrastinating and become more organized. The first thing I will do: buy a planner. I'm trying to organize my life so I won't be so forgetful of important events, and I think a planner is what I need. I don't know why it's so hard for me to stay on top of things, but I'm going to work on it.

On a better note this weekend was really great. My mom came up to visit because there were 2 family birthdays this weekend, one Friday and one on Saturday. Friday night was my Aunt Heidi's birthday party at Logan's. The whole family was there and we ate, laughed, and had good conversation. I love being with my family, they are always so much fun.

Sydnie with the silly glasses

Aunt Heidi and Aunt Amy

Aunt Heidi, Grandma, and Aunt Amy

My sister and I

Aunt Amy the cake hoarder

On Saturday we had a birthday party for the twins which was a Hawaiian Luau party with lots of decorations and good food. It was a really fun day because once again the whole family was there (including my mom) and some good friends. We got to hang out and eat and just have a nice day outside in the sun. It was a good party and I think that the twins had a lot of fun, and Aunt Amy did such a great job putting it together.

Jared and his balloons

Chelsea, Simeon, and Nolan

Grandma

Chelsea

Our colorful drinks with twisty straws

Sydnie and Senele with their amazing cakes

Dan the Hula Man

Senele

Mom

So an overall good weekend, ending with church on Sunday. I taught the kids on Sunday and there was a new little boy who came, and he cried hysterically the entire time. I couldn't put him down or else he would ball even more, and he didn't want anything. It was difficult because I had a class full of 19 other kids who I needed to be watching. It was a somewhat stressful night with the kids, there are just so many of them now. Hopefully when the new church is planted there will be less kids coming to the night service.

Lastly, season 3 of Heroes on Monday was amazing and I can't wait until next week.

Current Happenings....

I've started some guitar lessons again, taught by my awesome friend Jared. They're going pretty good so far, I can play a few chords, it's not much but I've just started. I hope to learn to play fairly well, it's nice to have another creative outlet.

I've moved back to my grandparents house for the time being. They came home from vacation and really wanted me to come back to stay, so I'm back with them but will be moving back in with Chelsea in a few weeks when they leave again.

I just started watching the 1st season of Heroes. I'm going out of order, I started with the 2nd season and now am watching the 1st season, but it's kind of cool to see the characters already developed, and then go back and see how it all happened. But at the same time the 2nd season would have made so much more sense had I already seen the first season. As long as I figure it all out before the 3rd season, I'm good.

The Commuter Assistant job is going really well, it's not very hard at all and it's actually been really fun. We have to put on a commuter chapel in October (where commuters run the chapel) and I am supposed to speak. I'm supposed to give a testimony or talk about something that God has done in my life. I don't really know what I'm gonna speak about, but I'm going to pray about it and see what God wants me to talk on. We're also getting all of our events for the year planned out so we can get them approved by senate. It's really going to be a fun year! I've already met a lot of new and old commuter students, so it's good that we're starting to build a community.

This picture is of our commuter fridge and what somebody wrote on it:

This is what it was supposed to say:

I went to the gym tonight and worked out and I feel great! I finally had the time to go, so I went and I'm glad I did. My goal is to start going at least 3 times a week but hopefully I'll be able to go 5 times a week.

I took some pictures today of the new puppy Gracie and my cousin Lauren. It was a fun photoshoot, we enjoyed ourselves.

2 awesome shows in 2 nights makes for 1 amazing weekend

This weekend was pretty much amazing. David Allen Coe on Friday and New Found Glory on Saturday. I'm really tired and really sore but it was so worth it!!

NFG was just as good as they have always been. Me and Kayla went together to the show and ended up seeing a lot of people we knew. We didn't really care about the other bands that were playing, we were just there to see NFG. I got so beat up at the show. Me and Kayla went to the very front for NFG and I now have bruises everywhere, a swollen ankle, and my muscles ache. I got stepped on a lot and kicked in the head by some crowd surfers, but that didn't even matter because New Found Glory was so amazing. At the beginning of the show I was completely dry, and afterward I was soaking wet with other people's sweat......it was intense. But that's really the only way to see NFG, is to get right in the action. I wasn't able to get any good pictures though because I couldn't bring my camera in and my phone doesn't take very good action pictures. I did manage to get a few though.

After the show was over, we went back to Kayla's and I showered and then went to my friend Amanda's birthday party. I didn't end up going to bed until about 4 that night, it was a long and very spectacular night.

A little vacation

I'm in Rohnert Park right now at my parents house just hanging out. Me, my mom, and my mom's friend Jackie went garage saleing this morning and I got some awesome stuff! I got this amazing beaded, vintage sweater for 5 dollars, and I got Sweeney Todd and Smokin' Aces for 5 dollars. Great finds I would say. I love garage sales, you can find some amazing stuff sometimes.

My dad is barbequeing salmon for me tonight because I love salmon and I love barbeque, so it's going to be a great night. It's been fun to see my family and just get to hang out with them.

Also, I went to the David Allan Coe concert last night and it was great! He was so good and it was really fun. Tonight is the NFG concert which i am really stoked about, so I'll write later about how it goes.

My week so far

My week has been really long. The past few days I've been going non-stop from 6:30 a.m. until about 6 p.m. Then I have homework to do. I have to do that all over again today as well. I'm pretty tired, but I'm really enjoying this school year so far. We've actually started learning things in class, and I really like all my classes.

I'm "working" right now, meaning I have to staff the commuter lounge. Pretty much I just have to sit in here and talk to people who come and go. It's really easy and nice because I can do homework.

Tomorrow I'm going home to Rohnert Park for the weekend. My best friend Kayla and I bought tickets a while ago to two concerts that are both happening this weekend in the same place. Tomorrow night we are going to see David Allan Coe, a country singer, and on Saturday night we're going to see one of our long time favorite bands, New Found Glory. We're really excited, and I'm glad I get to have a break from work and school. It will also be nice to see my family. Hopefully I won't get too much homework for the weekend.

I'll tell you all how the concerts go and I'll post some pictures after the weekend.

A new chapter.....

So I've decided to try out blogging. I've never done it before, but I figured I would try it and see how it goes. I occasionally write in a journal, so I thought, "Hey why not try blogging?" So here I am.

In my life as of now I have just started my second year at Simpson. I have a new on-campus job as a commuter assistant which I have really enjoyed so far. The job is only 10 hours a week, but I think that's all I can really handle considering I'm taking 19 units this semester. This is new for me because the most units I have taken in a semester has been 13. I might end up regretting this, because I already have so much homework!! Hopefully though it will be worth it in the end and I will be caught up in my units.

I also just started helping out again with the kids at the Stirring teaching the 3 year-kindergarten class. I've really missed doing this because the kids are so awesome! I'm really excited for what this year has in store with the kids. I also missed hearing the messages every week at the Stirring. Sunday night the message was "We Love" and it was all about loving God with everything that we have in us, and stripping ourselves of our pride and shame to just worship the Lord. God was really working in me that night. I had so much anger in me towards certain people and the Lord just showed me I need to love them and pray for them, and as soon as I did that the Lord took the anger from me. It was an overall great night and I am so thankful to be back.

I am currently living with my cousin Chelsea because my grandparents have been gone for a couple weeks, and that has been great! Even though are schedules are both crazy, and we don't see each other too much, it's been really fun. This weekend we watched season 2 of Heroes, which I had never watched before. After watching the whole season I am addicted, it's so good! I'm really excited for the third season to start.

So that's is my life as of now, and hopefully I will write often after this.