Nov. 7, 2009 - ECMT #2
While stopped in Blacksburg we got to hold a balled python after breakfast. In the midst of our leaving we drove around Virginia Tech and prayed for the campus. We then headed toward Purcelville, VA.
In Purcelville we had a one day workshop (we were going to return later in the trip) and we gave the first two of three Bible studies for the first time. While we were giving the study on of the people attending the workshop summed up our entire two studies in less than five minutes, so we just expanded on what this person said. We then added them into some of our songs for our Washington D.C. presentation. After finishing the workshop we headed to our host homes.
The morning of the 25th the entire Team headed to Washington D.C. for fieldtrips. YEAH!!!. While in Washington D.C. we saw the WWII monument, Washington monument, Lincoln memorial, Vietnam Wall of Casualties, and American History museum at the Smithsonian, not in that order. After spending the day in D.C. we headed to our hosthomes. The 26th we stayed at the girls host home all day and worked on songs, and Bible study. Sunday morning we went to church and then headed to our D.C. presentation.
The presentation went well though the sound gave out a few songs before we were finished with our second set. We did America Beautiful, America Again, Honor to Serve, End of Beginning, Always Been, There is a God (Purcelville team), Pledge to the Flag, God Bless.
We left and went to the host homes and early the next morning for Fayetville, PA
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Nov. 6, 2009 - ECMT '09 entry #1
This is the first of many blog entries that have to do with East Coast Mission Trip 2009 (ECMT '09 for short.)
On the morning of Sept. 16 my brother and I woke early and prepared to begin our first AIM mission trip. I know several people who have gone on AIM mission trips and they said it was hard and you were stretched. So it was with great trepidation that I put my duffle bag, back pack, sleeping bag and pillow in the trunk of our car and drove to the place we were leaving from.
Upon arriving at the place we were leaving from our stuff was packed into the back of the 15 passenger van we would be riding in for the next six weeks. We left at around 8 AM and headed toward Dickson, TN where we would have training camp. We drove through a lot of hard rain. Upon arriving at the cam we discovered that there was no electricity and it was beginning to get dark. So the MO part of the Team ate a candle light dinner of... sandwiches. It was a lot of fun. The electricity returned at about 7 PM.
The following morning the MO part of the Team went to the Nashville airport to collect the WY members of the Team. Now that we had our full Team we headed toward the camp for orientation, dinner and a little bit of socializing while we waited for our trainers to arrive.
AIM presents the gospel through mime, so the Team was broken up into 2 groups; 8 presenters (6 girls & 2 guys) and 3 members that would not be presenting (Our directors and another "director").
When our trainers arrived the morning of the 18th the training began. During the six days of training camp we put together over 20 songs, wrote the majority of our Bible study, learned more mime technique.
We left training camp on Wednesday morning and headed toward Blacksburg, VA for a overnight stay.
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Nov. 2, 2009 - I'm home
After being gone these past six and a half weeks on a mission trip up and down the east coast of this country, I am home and exhausted. Tomorrow I have a dentist appointment.
I feel like I am losing all the "spiritual fire" I gained on the trip, and it has been less than 48 hours.
I miss my new found siblings that I acquired on my trip.
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Sep. 5, 2009 - 11 days to go
In 11 days Jarek and I will be leaving to go on ECMT with AIM around the World.
Please pray as we finish our Bible studies and get the remaining $2560 to go.
Will give updates when possible.
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Aug. 27, 2009 - just now
Just now I was listening to my brothers doing science and one of them needed a chicken bullion cube but said "Do we have any chicken balloon cubes?"
Just an example of what goes on in our house daily.
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Aug. 15, 2009 - Lately
Okay, I am almost done with my MT application (Yeah). Sent out 64 letters with more to send out.
This morning I woke up to my sister telling me she had made my breakfast ( she said that she wanted to do something special with me everyday before I leave since I'll be gone for six weeks). She had made me grilled cheese for breakfast. LOL. It was funny to wake up to a ready made breakfast of ... grilled cheese.
Praying Jarek and I get all our support.
Learned colors in french. Took a virtual tour of the Louvre museum in Paris on my computer (that was really cool. There is alot of excitement in our house a lot of stuff is going on in the next month and a half.
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Jul. 22, 2009 - shaving
My five year old brother saw my father shaving his face and decided to shave. So he took a razor (in our bathroom) and tried to shave. Without shaving creme. Needless to say he has a slight cut underneath his nose and one on his chin. One of the many things that have happened with the beginning of the school.
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Jun. 27, 2009 - Thinking
Today is my parent's 17th wedding anniversary.
I feel God wants me to go on a Mission Trip and I have been arguing, using the many reasons I should not go. I'm pretty scared about possibly going.
So if you could pray I'd really appreciate it.
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May. 28, 2009 - Just a quick post
Thought I get on here and post a little something. So there it is. I'll come up with something more brilliant later.
Post more at a later date. I know I'll be on here to tell about my sixteenth birthday and everything that comes along with it.
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Mar. 13, 2009 - Memories
Tonight we are watching the Nutcracker for a history assignment. Well we have to copies of the Nucracker, both of them with me in it. One as a mouse, and the other (the one we're watching) as a Snowflake and a Flower.
Well the one we're watching happened in December of 2002. That year I actually signed up for it, the first time I was only in it because the girl who did what ended up being my part hurt her ankle a month before we were supposed to perform it. Well The girl who hurt her ankle was a great deal taller than I was and had a equally tall soldier, I was dwarfed. Well during rehersals in 2002, on the day of November 16, the rehersals were taped. Well a couple days later, after a dance class I over heard a girl talking about " how sad what happened to Amy". Amy (she was a Mormon) had several main parts and was a vital part in the dance company. I asked the dance teacher what had happened to Amy. She told me Amy had been killed in a car accident coming home from Springfield. I didn't know her real well, but there was one day when we were sitting around waiting for the next class and Mom (she told me after the fact) felt she should talk to her and she didn't. For some reason when dad picked me up and drove me home I sobbed the entire way home. This was someone I looked up to and she just died. It was one of the first deaths I had to deal with.
There is an AIM song that fits the relationship I had with her, that of a watching from a distance hoping I would be like her some day. I haven't gone to a ballet class in almost four years I regret it but, shortly before I stopped my mom's dad died. That made yet another reason to just stop dancing. I did but I shouldn't of.
I guess the point of this post would be to say " If God wills drop your dream but if it's anything else don't stop.
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Feb. 8, 2009 - Whatever I guess!?
I guess I've been getting discouraged lately.
In Aim they have a system of grooming leaders and I sorta was thrown/ put myself into a position to be in the process of being groomed. For a while I wanted to be in a position of leadership but lately I have wanted to take a vacation from Aim. And despite wanting to take a break for a while, the first session I will be taking off will be this summer. Well anyway they decided to put me into SALT in Training. Well they invited me to a SALT meeting. I was undecided as to whether I should go because it would put me in leadership over others. Being in leadership just doesn't sit right with me. Particularly the part of being in leadership over both genders... Not that I want to be Amish or anything it just doesn't sit right with me.
Well (I am finally getting to the main point of this post) my mom got me this book Lies Young Women Believe and the Truth That sets them free. I've been reading it in bits and pieces. And tonight (after we had prayer meeting at our house for our church) I starting reading the chapter about "Lies about the Future" and the first one the authors address is the lie that young women are fed through just about anything they see, hear, or are told, by the outside world that " You have to have a career, wanting to be a wife and mother is wrong." Even well meaning Christians (I believe) have bought into that lie. In the chapter they discussed how women were made to be a man's helpmeet and to complete him. Well one of my dearest dreams is to be a wife and mother after which is to translate the BIble (not necessarily into another language but possibly into books and childrens stories.{I am opening this to remarks about what people think of this}).
Well when certain people heard that Bible translating was a desire of mine, the just started bombarding me with the message that "being a Bible translator is a higher calling than being a wife and mother." Even in certain "more conservative" quarters its " there is a possibly of your being a wife and mother, but more than likely you'll be single and you'll be involved in some ministry." Or at least that's what I feel like is being slightly conveyed. Well I was reading the above metioned book just because I was feeling a bit down. And it said "While God sets apart some women to serve Him as singles, that is an EXCEPTION*. God's norm is for women to serve Him by completing a husband."
*I typed in bold and capitals to emphasize my point.
Why then do people seem to think that being single is the norm? It's not what we were created for. We were created to be a man's helpmeet. I'm not saying that you can't serve God as a single if thats what God has called you to go after it with your whole heart. But people treat the exception as the rule now. It distresses me in so many ways.
I recently wrote elsewhere that what is going on in the government distresses me, but the distorted rule of women in the world distresses me more. I have cousins who have been in public school for sometime (they were homeschooled at first but weren't learning anything really) one of them recently commented that " I don't want to have children. It's to hard on the body" What she was really saying was " If I have kids I'll get fat and I don't want to get fat."
The desire that God instilled in all women (the desire to have children) is rapidly being trained out of women. I believe the economy is directly tied to the birthrate and the number of abortions. If you count the amount of abortions since making it legal there would be millions more people in America alone that would be buying and selling goods.
I don't want to hurt people's feelings, but If I feel called to be a wife, mother and possibly a Bible translator, I would better spend my time learning how to be a wife and mother and learning languages and how to write then I would learning how to teach people how two mime and how to get bookings for presentations.
This post wouldn't be complete if I didn't put on here that I have no desire or call (as of right now) to go to college. Even If I would go to college what major would be pratical. Teaching is out because my mom got a teaching degree and she says it has hindered her more than it has helped her. But everyone around me seems to think that YOU HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE. I'm going to cite my Uncle Tim here. He Never went to college and he makes the most money of all his brothers (He only has brothers.). Yet he feels bad because he didn't go to college and all his brothers did. Well Uncle Tim you may never read this but I'm going to say it anyway. God has blessed you for not worshiping education.BRAVO.
I know that if certain people read this they will be very mad but I don't care because it needed to be said.
Signing off.
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Dec. 8, 2008 - Wow!
It's been quite a while since I've been on here and there are several reasons.
1. Aim has had alot of presentations and service projects. This last Saturday I helped build a float for the Branson Adoration Parade (where the theme is always keeping Christ in Christmas.) Then last night we ( My brothers J, JM and I) put the float together and decorated it in about an hour and a half, marched in a parade ( in old fashioned clothes, and (for me) an old fashioned hairdo. After the parade we tore down the float went back to the office and sorted out everything and packed it in the vans and left ( in the process I about twisted my ankle).
2. School. We just got our math Friday. And we're kind of behind on lessons (because of all the days we have had to take off for AIM). And (drum roll)...
3. 50th wedding Aniversary Celebration. My Grangparents have planned a Reception for Branson, AND a celebration in Indiana where they will renew their vows ( my grandma didn't think renewing theirs vows was a good idea till grandpa had a heart attack (in June of 2005). I am choreographing a flag/ ballet routine, and signing to the hymn "Now Thank We All Our God" for me and my little sister. Just to give perspective there are 16 grandchildren who rang in ages from 16 years to 9 months. And the flag routine has to be easy enough for the younger but Hard enough that the 4 of us who are teens don't feel like little kids. Another hard part about it is 4 of my cousins won't be at the Reception here but will be in Indiana (if the youngest gets out of the hospital in time, he has the flu.) The ballet is for My sister and I and it will be interspersed with the flag routine (because it is all to the same song).
One good thing that has come from all this is that we have been given money for clothes, school stuff, the rental car, and the hotel room. Thanks to a very special person. I only ave a little of the flag routine done and none of the signing or ballet ready.
So I guess this is all a huge prayer request for me and my family that we will survive the holiday season (My grandparents anniversary is Dec. 26, and we leave the 26 or 27) (because the Reception in Indiana is the 29th of Dec.) Mom, J, and I still don't have our entire dressy outfits for the Receptions. We will be in the car for a while and even though it is a 15 passanger van and there are only 9 of us in the car it will be hard considering that 7 of us are all under the ages of 16. If you could just pray that would be a blessing espically for traveling mercies, because we will be driving back New Years Eve.
I probably won't get around to writing till after Jan. 14 because that ends birthday week at our house (Mo, J, JM were all born within 8 days of eachother although they are all two years apart.) So until then I am signing off.
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Oct. 21, 2008 - What I have been doing these days.
It has been a while since I was last on here. For the past month I have been doing school work, AIM, an d celebrating 2 family birthdays. That is about it. There has been alot of school work. On that note I am getting off. I will probably blog more Saturday, then I can write about AIM practice. So long.
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Sep. 22, 2008 - This Life of Mine 2!
Yes 2. The first version I unwittingly deleted. So here we go again.
My posts have been few and kind of far between for 2 reasons. 1. school and 2. AIM
AIM (Action Impact Ministries), the mime group I am a part of had their training day this past Thursday. Training days are really hard (especially when you have to choreograph 7 people into the songs and prepare people to take the parts of people going on a mission trip in a couple of weeks. The 20th (of September) we (myself and two of my brothers, the others are to young to be in AIM) had an all day presentation/ service project.
For school I am doing well in just about everything, but unfortunately we don't have our math yet.
Just some facts about me.
I love reading and books (not going to the library within two weeks is a horrible thing).
Favorite color: pink.
I can be kind of stupid while driving ( yesterday I turned on my right blinker when I was turning left, if I would have turned right I would have driven through a field and crashed into a building.)
I hate my first name, but love my middle name. I love my silblings to death.
I hope to travel the world, be a polyglot ( be able to speak, read, and write multiple languages), become a bible translater and stay-at -home wife and mother( considered anything but a lofty goal by some family members).
I detest all sports, excepting dance (particularly ballet), ice skating, and skateboarding.
The majority of the time I feel like I am the antithesis of myself.
That is all I can remember from the first post. Post more later.
Gos Bless,
M.E.
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Sep. 12, 2008 - A Post.
This blog will be serving several purposes. 1 to talk about what i am wondering about. 2 to talk about what my family and I are doing. and 3 for school.
This evening we are having a cousin spend the night. Tommorow we are (hopefully) going to the libaray :), CBO, and taking lunch to some friends who had a baby this past week. I need to get off and do school work. So this is all for now. Post more later.
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Sep. 11, 2008 - A Wondering
Last night as my dad prayed with us before we went to bed and he prayed that we would live everyday the way Christ would want us to live, because we don't know when our last day is.
He was thinking of 9/11/01. He talked about how he couldn't believe how time had flown. All of that set me to wondering what the phrase (time has flown) means to people. Does it mean that life is going too fast for their liking, or does it simply mean that the years have gone by and they have enjoyed it.
Just curious.
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Sep. 10, 2008 - I did it!
I have been thinking about getting a blog and I finally did. It is kinda late so that is all for now.
