We are to cool for school...so went to Master's commission!!

My Class!! That's right for the first time in my life I have a class!!! This is one of the many firsts for me this year. I also have a locker for the first time EVER!! and I have a dog for the first time EVER!!! I have to get up super early every morning for the first time EVER!!! and many more. Life is going good down here in this awesome state. I am getting used to this life and greatly enjoying it. Getting to know lots of people and learning to call this my new home. With it comes many new challenging as well as good times. Missing family and friends at home has been a big challenge but that is when his grace and mercy keeps me going.

I want you all to meet my class!! There is eight of us students from all over the world!!! I love them and they are my MC family. I love getting to know them better and growing in the Lord together as a team. Let me introduce ya'll to them.

This is Laura, Ariana and MeMelissa and SarahLevi, Ryan and Joseph

I love these people so much and I feel so blessed to spend almost everyday for the next year learning with them. Last weekend we went camping in the Wichita Mountains. Other then waking up in the middle of the night soaking wet, and finding ticks, it was a blast!! It's a very beautiful place to camp and it was very different from camping in MI. We went to a great burger place on Friday for lunch, went on a hike around a lake, and just enjoyed being out in the beauty that God made. This is a picture of the whole group(including interns, staff and pastor Dwight) on top of MT. Scott.

Later I will tell you about my awesome house, and host family and my sweet roommate. God is doing good things in this class and it's going to be a good year. Keep praying that God will continue to connect us together as a class, that he would keep moving in amazing ways, that we we would be able to impact people with his love. Love you all!!

OKLAHOMA....my new home.

We are here!!! In Oklahoma City, the place I will for a year and call my home. Right now it's all excitement to be here, hangout and see the city today, and meet my classmates tomorrow!!! It has not hit me yet that I will be saying goodbye to my family and that I'm not going home with them on Sunday. And that I can't just call my friends and go take over eastwood and see free movies, and go to lunch with them. It all just feels like another vacation, not reality that this is my life. My new home. I think it will start to hit home this weekend when I go to church and move in to my new house. This is a new beginning, a new chapter in my life. So Hello new home!! It's time to embrace the moment and Jump in, no matter how scary it feels, this is what He has called me to do.

The poll is closed and the results are in...

Well, Tuesday has come and almost gone and my family and I are sitting in the hotel after a short trip, only six hours :D So, we left about 11:20am which means all of you who voted for 10am are the winners!!! and it had the most votes so you must know my family well!! It was a good trip, I didn't realize how tired I was from all that packing and not sleeping till I got in the car and couldn't stay awake. Lots of sleeping and jamming to Jesus culture and Jake Hamilton!!!! We got in Springfield about 6 MI time. Got some steak in shake and went swimming. Now everyone is sleeping and I am just counting the hours till I will be in Oklahoma!!!! Tomorrow is sight seeing around Springfield which should be great fun. Way to go voters and all four of you who voted 10 get the prize!!!! If their was one I would be sure to give it to you :D Thanks for playing with me!!!

GO STATE!!!

Today was shopping with Mom for all that stuff I needed, ya know the wal-mart run. And I am happy to report that we got pretty much everything I needed!!! It was so God and totally awesome. So that and getting all my music moved over to my new computer are my praise reports for today. I feel like it is all coming together now, every piece is fitting in just right. It feels so good. One week from today I will be in Oklahoma!!!!! AHHHH!!!! Talk about crazy. So the plan is Tuesday, my family and I are driving to Springfield IL and staying there for two nights and doing some sight seeing and then Thursday we are going to St. Louis and seeing the arch and from there driving to Oklahoma city, my new home :D Friday we are going to hang out around town and hopefully see some awesome stuff with our other sister who lives there :D Saturday we have a lunch where I get to meet my class and staff and host families. And that night is our induction service!!!!! Where we become real MCs. A dream I've had since I was 13 is almost here, something I thought was way to good to ever come true, is only a week away....WOW!!!!!

So that is what is going to be happening in the next week and after that is all just one big adventure that God is taking me on. I will be sure to let you know how the trip goes. And last and very important is that today is week two of collage football and my team (MI state) is playing at home against central MI. So friendly reminder to wear your Green and Cheer for the only colors, GREEN AND WHITE!!!!! GO STATE!!!!!!

New poll

Ok I need your help by voting on what time you think we are going to leave for Oklahoma on Tuesday. We are going to Springfield Illinois which according to google is about 6 hours away. This is a short trip for us so we could leave at anytime that day. Humor my family people!!! I will let you know what time is the closest. So everyone VOTE!!!!

I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!

It's coming fast and one week from today my family and I will be leaving for Oklahoma!!!!! I can't believe it. I'm mostly just excited right now. Not to nervous yet but oh so excited!!!! Very stressed with packing and all the last minute hanging out with people but in a week that will be over!!! So today I am going to be excited because this is one of the most amazing adventures of my life. I am going to enjoy it while it lasts, while I'm not freaking out yet ;) So here are my three excitings for today!!!!

1. I found out last week who I am going to live with all year and got to talk to her!!! Her name is Carol and I am so excited to live with her. Also, I will have a roommate which I am soooo excited about. We are going to have a girls house!!!! I talked to Carol last week and talked about my room and lots of other exciting things!! Point is, talking to her and knowing who my roommate is, has got to SOOOOO excited! 11 days and get to meet these awesome people that God has put in my life!!! I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!

This is my I'M SOOO EXCITED LOOK!!

Numero dos: Today is the first day of school in Michigan, and in my house. But I slept in, played on the computer all morning, and I'm going to the mall later!!! This is the best first day of school EVER!!! haha for the first time in my life I could enjoy labor day knowing I could stay up as late as I want because I don't have to get up in the morning!!!! I'm sorry if you are reading this and you are still in school and just started but no hate mail people, I AM JUST SOOOOO EXCITED to not be in school anymore. It rocks. So to all the people in high school still, just wait, your time to rub it in is coming, it's coming. I am going to enjoy this day!! Because I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!


3)My favorite band came out with a new CD today and I am going to buy it today and play it over and over and over and over and over and well, you get the point :D If you have never listened to Barlowgirl before, you need to. They rock my world. See over the last year my obsession with contemporary christian music has died. I can't stand it anymore. I love worship music and that is about it for the christian category. But this band keeps making music and I keep buying it and loving it. Maybe it's because the words are so good along with the sound. They are all about reaching this generation for God and that is where my heart is too. So I am SOOO excited to rock out with my girls today and I can't wait to have to CD in my hand!!! I AM SOOO EXCITED!!!

So there, that is my excitement rants for today. I am excited and it's better then freaking out because I only have a week left so I am going to go with it today!!!




P.S. The number things are for you Jackie!!! Love you girl and I'll never forget that awesome spanish class. <3

Your love is like...

Only two weeks left!! Can you believe it? I can’t, time is going so fast and there is still so much to do before I leave!! It’s got me going AAAHHHHH!!!! Who took all that time I had left? Truth is, I don’t think I will really be able to believe that I am going to be in Master’s commission till the day I meet my class and then maybe it will become real. It’s SO scary to think about leaving home and moving in with people I have never met before. Often the last few weeks I have found myself lost in my thoughts (if you know me, you know this happens often ;) thinking about what it will be like. Sometimes I want to freak out and most the time I end up asking myself the question “what am I doing???”. But that is when I have to grad a hold of those thoughts, take them captive and answer my question with “I am hungry for more Jesus and this is how he has called me to jump out of my comfort zone and seek Him more”.

See, thinking to much can not be safe at all. I could totally let it take me over with fear and spend the next two weeks freaking out with fear of the unknown or find peace the only I can right now. That is getting lost in how much Father loves me. My new favorite song of the month (or one of them) is ‘Your love is like’ by Rick Pino. My favorite part says this: Getting lost in the gaze of eyes, getting lost in the warmth of your smile”. And that is my key through getting through this next two and a half weeks before it all begins. I have to spend the time I would normally just thinking about it, lost in the gaze of my Father’s eyes shinning on me with love.

So much to do so little time, so many people to see and such a mess in my room to clean. But today before I pack like crazy for only the 5^th time in less then three weeks and run off the cousins house for some swimming and camping fun, I’m going to take just a few minutes and get lost in how loved I am. If you have never heard this song I encourage you to take just a minute and watch this random video I found on youtube that has the song in it, and get lost too. Just sit and let it drip down, let the heavens drip down on you. It will be worth not spending the time in fear or thoughts of the unknown, I promise for just a moment, if you let it, life will fade away and all that will matter is the love He has for you. Try it!!!

1 month left!!!!!!!

Yikes how time is flying by as I sit back and watch. Where is it going? How is it that, schools are starting, people are leaving, and leaves have started turning already? Well, it's August friends and it's that time of year and in one month from today I will be meeting the people I get to spend ten and a half months with, meeting the family I'm going to live with, and having to say goodbye to my family that I have never been away from for more then 13 days!! But looking past these earthly things is something I was reminded of this last weekend. See, our life is about the connection we have with God and his love. It's all about him and how much glory we can bring to his name. The Lord woke me from lost vision syndrome. See, in the crazy life of graduation, trying to get all my application stuff in, reading books and writing papers on them, traveling all over the country, and trying to spend as much time as I can with my family and friends I lost the vision I had for going to Master's Commission. It was suddenly just the thing I was doing and going to in September. I lost the dream that I've had since I was 13 to give up a year of my life for seeking God. But as the speakers at the conference that I was at last weekend spoke about having a constant connection with God that requires us laying down our everything to gain, I saw again why I am leaving my comfortable home to live with strangers. The Lord is calling me to live a life of surrender and lay down me to seek more of Him. I want to be totally sold on Him, lost in obsession for my King and the only way I can have that relationship is by laying down me to be more in love with Him. Don't think for one minute that this will be easy at all, in fact it is going to be pretty hard but how bad do I really want it? Bad enough to give up a year of my life to follow where He is calling me to be. It's pretty scary to think of all that is going to happen in just the next month but I am sure that it will only bring me closer to Him if my mind is fully focused on Him and off myself.





So this last month as I prepare to leave the only home I have known, as I pack all I am taking with, and say goodbye to people who have been in my life for so long I want my heart to burn for my Lord. I don't want to be caught up in the moments of leaving but be excited for the great adventure that is to come. 31 days is not a lot of time but I am praying for joy, more then I have ever had to move in His will and surrender my life to Him. So if I get to see you before I leave remind me of all the great times we have had and the many more to come because those will forever be in my heart. This is just the beginning of an adventure so great and I hope to keep posting on all the wonderful things God is going to do in this exciting year to come. Remember today how much you are loved by our King and you will be blessed!!!