http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:28:00 -0600 Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:28:00 -0600 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 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/742931/ Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:28:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/742931/ 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. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/742618/ Fri, 6 Nov 2009 11:06:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/742618/ 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. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/741543/ Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:47:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/741543/ 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. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/724173/ Sat, 5 Sep 2009 11:33:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/724173/ 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. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/721170/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:43:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/721170/ 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. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/717649/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:47:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/717649/ 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. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/710472/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:45:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/710472/ 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. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/702988/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:03:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/702988/ 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. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/693635/ Thu, 28 May 2009 19:08:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/693635/ 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. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/668533/ Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:32:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lillymaiden/668533/