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Nov. 22, 2006 - Girls night

Life has been going pretty well lately. This past Saturday Melanie and I had a girls night with 3 girls (they are actually the ones I mentioned in the last blog) So Melanie, Ashely, Jennie, Abbey and I were all at Melanies Saturday night. We did this little craft thingy....it was really cute when it turned out. Its a glass box with Christmas lights in it and then a ribbon tied around it like a present. its neat. We played a few games then we played this one game...where we write down like 2 questions....like funny or personal....and then someone would draw it and they had to answer it. it was really funny...Jennie and Ashely both left around 9ish. but Abbey spent the night with us. Well when Melanie was tryign to hook the DVD player up Abbey and i were talking...and then Melanie couldnt get it to work so she was tryign to get us to move into the other room...but Abbey wouldnt go cause we were in the middle of a conversation. She wouldnt move at all...like even when i started to get up...so i said and talked for a minute longer and then she like got up and left...it was really weird.

We watched LakeHouse and i dont know if you have ever seen it..but its really confusing! haha. but it was great.

Sunday morning Abbey decided to sit in the service with me the second service. And during the music part of the service they played "Jesus paid it all" and Abbey was crying.. but i looked at her and I couldnt see that she was crying. but when we sat down...i looked at her when they were palyign this video clip...and i said "are you alright Abbey" and she cried on my shoulder...a few minutes later i passed her a note...i dont like passing noted in church but theres sometimes you need to...so i asked her again...i said "Abbey are you ok" and she wrote..."yes, I just wish the holidays would never come because of what they used to be" and like i didnt know what to say...i thought about it all through service...and like it hurts me to know that shes hurting. Like even though I dont know her that well..and I cant say i know how she feels...but it has got to be really rough. its only been a little over a year since her brother was killed. so they are still fresh wounds. but after service was over she didnt get up again...which i was glad cause I wanted to talk to her. So we sat and talked for a few minutes...or rather I talked she jsut cried. i told her to call me if she needed anything...but I dont think she will. but Im going to call her and I think Im going to ask if she wants to do something sometime. but i jsut dont know what to do. At chruch sunday night when we were in out small groups I was talkign about it. and Robbie (the leader) she said that she thought that i had been put in Abbeys life for a reason. and that she needs to be loved and for someone to help her through it. and my mom said... "What Abbey needs is a big brother but I think she will settle for a big sister" meaning she wants her brother back...but since she cant have him back that i can be her "big sister"

anyways if you guys can keep her in your prayers I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

Mindy

Nov. 10, 2006 - life...

This week has been a little rough...things have been going on and im not sure how much more I can handle...but just when I think I cant handle it any more Im reminded that it will all be ok...

It basically all started last week...I am having this friendship problem and on Sunday a friend was talking to me and shes been having a rough time...and then out of nowhere she says "Hakuna Matata" i busted out laughing and we sang the song...then a few nights ago I got a text messgae from a friend...and it just made my day...and then last night I was up late talking to a friend who made me think...and she was talking about something and I was like that all happened to me....and thats a problem I am dealing with now...and she kind of brought it out...but it was good. Then this saying came to my mind...it was given to me over the summer...it says "Lifes an adventure! Embrace the changes God has in store for you" its great quote and helped me alot over the summer.

moving on....

so Fusion ( high school) theres these girls that Melanie and I are tryign to become closer friends with...its 3 freshman...they are all sweet kids. Ashley is on the puppet tema with Melanie at church and has been for awhile so we have known her for awhile...but becoming frineds with her is differnt. lol. Melanie, Ashley, Jennie and i went to Camp Flipt over the summer together to be counselors. so...then we tried to get to know Jennie more. and they have another friend Abbey....who Ive know who she was for awhile but never talked to her until the beginign of the school year..melanie ahs known her for while....and they started to build a really good friendship over the begining of the summer.

Ashley...is hyper outgoing very loud person haha.

Jennie...is out going..but laid back. lol

and Abbey....very quiet....and has had a very hard life...she lost her brother just a little over a year ago.

So weve been getting to know these girls...im tryign to think of how to right what im tryign to say here but i cant think of it so never mind haha.

On Wednesday nights at church we all sit together...and theres like a total of 9 of us...and only like 6 seats....so we always pull more up and have a long row...but like Ashely always sits next to us...which is ok...but the Jennie sits behind us...and melanie and i were talking and we were like I dont like that....so every week we try to get Jennie in the smae row as us...but theres a few things that makes it not work. haha. and wednesay i got so fed up with it...but oh well. we will work it out one day. So melanie and i were tlaking one day and we were all like lets write letters...so we did...we wrote one letter to Ashley and signed both our names and so on and so forth...then we gave it to them....it was sooooo funny when they read it though. But over the past few weeks soethign has really been bothering Abbey...and ill be like are you ok? and shes says little things...but then like stops in the middle of the sentences...but i know it has to do with the loss of her brother.

Next weekend Melanie and I are going to have a a cook out with the 3 of them. and actually I jsut a text message saying the Abbey is spending the night. so that will be fun....we arent sure about the others yet though...anywyas...im gonna go...i habve homework...and other stuff to do.

Nov. 10, 2006 - life...

This week has been a little rough...things have been going on and im not sure how much more I can handle...but just when I think I cant handle it any more Im reminded that it will all be ok...

moving on....

Ashley...is hyper outgoing very loud person haha.

Jennie...is out going..but laid back. lol

and Abbey....very quiet....and has had a very hard life...she lost her brother just a little over a year ago.

So weve been getting to know these girls...im tryign to think of how to right what im tryign to say here but i cant think of it so never mind haha.

Oct. 23, 2006 - AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

So far today has not been a great day!! AHH!! I woke up and my legs were hurting because last night at InFusion we played a game and we used our leg muscels...and im guessing i used some i havent used in awhile lol.

then when i left i pulled out of my driveway and my car felt funny...and i was like oh no i think i have a flat tire...and so i pulled off the raod and sure enough i had a flat tire!! AHH!!

Then I got to class like 2 minutes before my porfessor walked in...and so i didnt really get to look over my vocab words...and we had a test today!!! but thats ok...cause i finished it in like 5 minutes cause it wasnt hard at all if you studied which i did...but the good news is...we got out of class and hour and a half early.

Then I just called my advisor for a paper thats due on wednesday...or not really a paper more of a survey about our advisor...so i called her...and shes weird too...and didnt answer half my questions so i think im going to flunk that paper...

oh and im also begining to think that all professors at WCTC are weird in some way or another.

well i have homework to do so ive got to go.

Oct. 21, 2006 - To my friends...

I LOVE YOU LOTS!!!!

Oct. 20, 2006 - Wednesday!! YAY!!

So Wednesday was a great day!! So great im going to write about it. Cause im bored and dont want to do homework haha.

Wednesday morning....I was up at 6 (that wasnt so grand) but anyways....in my first class we watched this video or well a comedian...and it was called "How to be a Humor being" It took up most of the time....and it was funny. so that was good. lol

Then in my second class we jsut went over the chapter and was dismissed...an hour early!! It was great!! haha.

Then when I got home I was like Im going to go see my friends at choir. Cause Tuesday night I was talking to someone over IM and she was like hows everyone where you are and im like im not even sure...cause I hadnt talked to them in awhile...and it made me sad...so i went to choir and saw everybody. and that was great!! I love seeing my friends!

Then church was GREAT! When I got there I was walking up to the Hangar (which is what we call the building the youth meets in) at the same time one of my friends was gettign out of her car. I was like wow shes here! Im gonna give her a name but not a her real name...not that any of you know her...so were going to name her... Brittany...so Brittnay pulls up...and we talk and shes like "I made it!" Which is great...and ill get into that story in a little bit...then later i sat with like s bunch of friends during the service...haha. There were like 10 of us...well actually 11...anyways we took up a row and a half. So i was sitting next to a freshman Ashley and a junior Molly. Two great people. but then i felt bad for Ashleys friends casue they sat behind us...but moving on...worship was good...Hannah L was leading it was her first time leading and it was good. Then some girls did this dance...and it was good...they were all scary looking and we couldnt figure out who one was until like half way through lol. But the dance was good then...John did a message about Pride Vs. Humilty it was really good and really got you thinking. After the message was over Gregg played a song on his guitar and it was "Jesus Paid it all" and like it hit alot of people really hard. Well after I was getting my stuff and "brittany" turned around to get her stuff and she was crying.... i went around to her and gave her a big hug.and she just cried....

now im going to back up to Sunday and give you the other story real quick. So Sunday nights are our InFusion groups...and brittany has only been to one...and then she went to 242 one time. So after every InFusion I would come home and send her an email asking her were she was. And she always came up with excuses...like "im sick" or "I couldnt get a ride." wel llets back up a little more...at run thrus one night I was talking to Mz Kim and she was like did Brittany show up and I was like no and then another lady came over and she was like "yeah she called when she found out Hannah wasnt coming and said she was sick" so Mz Kim told me to give her a call and she would call to...so then i eamiled her casue i didnt have her number

so this past Sunday i was like shes not here again..so when i got home tht night i sent her an email and i was like why arent you coming...whats the real reason... and i told her she didnt have to answer but she did with my dad wasnt here and my mom couldnt give me a ride...so like i sent a really long email back saying i havent seen you at church lately...and thats not good.

so now back to wednesday....so i gave her a hug and she said "Ive fallen" and im like its ok and she was cryign so hard...and she was like "Im gonna start coming back" and im like good ;) and we talked and i prayed for her and i told her to call me if she needed a ride or anything. so like later i was telling my mom about it and i was like yeah i suppose that email i sent her kind of convicted her.

But back to church....so then when we were getting ready to leave i realized I had a birthday card for someone so i went back inside and i was looking for this person...and i saw Molly and she came running up to me...and this is the converstaion.. Molly " I accepted Jesus!" mindy "What?!" Molly "I did! I never really did it before..I mean i always believed but i dont ever remember accepting Him into my heart" mindy "Thats fantastic molly Thats so great!" i was so happy it was such a great feeling! She was so happy and so excited.

But wait my nights not over yet....so outside in the parking lot i was talking to Melanie...and we were all like YAY for Molly!! and then we got into all these different conversation. the one main conversation that we kept having was about this one girl...and how she acting differently at school, at church, and around us...and we didnt really like it. well then it was like 9:30 and like everyone had left the church by now cause church was over with at 9...so me and melanie went to Chick-fil-a to talk some more..and when we got there this girl was leaving and i was like "are you laeving?" and she was like "yeah, why?" so i told her i just wanted to talk to her but it wasnt anythgin big. well then when we got inside she was in there...and she was like im not leaving till we talk...and then her other frined came up so we didnt get to talk about what i wanted to but thats ok. so anyways me and mel got the chsnce to talk to the 2 of them for awhile. but the day was just great!!!

So thats what happened to me Wednesday night haha.

Oct. 16, 2006 - Update on Kassie

She is home from the hospital...she actually came home either Thursday evening or Friday morning. So shes home and thats great. Info is coming little by little. She was at practice and she was coming up on a jump and she wasnt ready and the horse went anyways causing Kassie to fall off. The horse kicked her in the back but didnt step on her. So she has a bruise from that and a few other bruises. But she is alright. At InFusion last night Robbie was like are there any prayer request and I was liek we need to pray for Kassie. So we went into this whole thing and none of the girls in that group had heard about it. Mz. Kim knew a little so she shared. She said that Kassies dad and grandfather had a feeling something was wrong and they were both praying for Kassie the whole day and then found out about the accident. Mz. Kim also said that Kassie knew she was going to fall off her horse and that it was going to hurt. I jsut recieved an email from Kassie...Im going to copy it so you get the effects of what it said...cause it made me cry. Keep in mind this is a girl who is 17 years old and just fell off her horse and....she just amazes me! Oh and so your not totally confused I sent her an email first saying that I was prayign for her and had started a prayer chain....so here it is...

Hey Mindy thank you so much for your prayers that's really sweet of you! It was a scary moment i am not even gonna lie but I was in good hands and the Lord took care of me because it could have been a whole lot worse!! But i am doing much better still kinda sore and have headaches from time to time but thank you for your prayers!!:) The Lord had his protection over me which I am ever Thankful!!! He is Awesome and Amazing!!! Hope you have a great night!:)
Kassie

So thats what she wrote me...and like I said she just amazes me...she always does. She always puts God first and you can really see it in her life. She is one special girl and the great God who saved her isnt ready for her to go Home just quite yet...hes going to use her in many many ways to further His kingdom.

Oct. 12, 2006 - URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

I have a prayer request that I ask everyone to pray for...whether you know me or not...but I got word just a little while ago that one of my friends Kassie Brooks fell off her horse today when riding. She is currently in the hospital. It has scared me half to death....I cant imagine what it would be like to be in her familes shoes right now or for that matter hers. She did have her helmet on which was definitly a good thing....because if she didnt we most likely would not have our Kassie on earth anymore. But she is lying on a backboard right now...she can feel her toes so she isnt paralyzed...which is also good. I jsut ask that everyone can pray for her. I wont know if you pray for her or not unless you tell me...but God will and He will hear your prayers...so please join me as I pray for my friend Kassie.

I am so shaken over this thats its hard to focus my attention on typing this so sorry for the misspelled words and so forth.

In Him,

Mindy

Sep. 14, 2006 - InFusion

InFusion groups started last Sunday night. It was so much fun! Lets start somewhere near the begining lol. Over the past 3 years I have been attending the Mantzell/Brooks group. Well this year the Mantzells werent doing a group. So one night at church me and Melanie were looking over the groups. there were 6 groups. 3 of them looked good to us....like they were all great groups just not the right group...so anyways...we narrowed it down to the Copeland/Roberts the Gravvitt/Wilson and the Adams group...well alot of talking through everyhting and stuff we both decided we would go to the Copelands group...so the saturday before groups started melanie calls me and shes like im going to the Gravitts group...and i was like ok....i wasnt really sure how to tae it...cause like weve always been in the same group...and this year we were going to a different group and we werent going to be inthe same group. So I showed up at the Copelands group as planned...I walked in and i knew most of the kids there...well all but 2.so i talk to them all and stuff and then we start group...we didnt do a lesson that night but we bonded. and like weve already connected alot more then we did at the Brooks group. We played lots of games, lots of "get to know you" games. It was lots of fun. There were only 13 of us there...3 guys lol...but it was great. I had a wonderful time. but somehting we said when Chris (the leader) asked what we wanted out of the group the kids mostly said just to connect with everyone cause like we have frinedships with eachother but not to where we really know eachother. it was cool cause thats excatley what i want.I want to connect. THEN last night at church our youth pstor John was talking about our InFusion groups. And how like everyone needs to feel that they are cared for and they can share things...and he just went on and on about what the group is supposed to be...and like what he said is how i have felt for 3 years. like in the Brooks group they already had a cliche and they didnt really accept anyone into it...and i stayed in the gorup for 3 years...and i have no idea why...i love the Brooks but i think i was scared of change. But last night at church I was sitting next to this girl named lindsey. Shes goign to the Copeland group this year also....and like during the service she kept looking at me...and I would just smile....because what John was saying about the groups is what Lindsey was saying in group. John said we live for friendship with people....but we crave for deep friendships with people. we want to connect wit hthem we want to know what makes them tick as John put it. Honestly I crave those deep friendships wit hsome of these girls. and lindsey is one of them. when we went on stage to sing she kept lookign up at me (cause she shorter then me lol) i dont know know how to explain what im feeling. like Lindsey is one of the sweetest, funniest, people i know...and i guess since our Katrina trip which was in December last year ive been wanting to get to knwo her better. but we havent realyl done anything about it....like i know from the way she talks to me and looks at me and from what she has said to me and she really loks up to me. which is a weird postition...like i know i look up to people...i look up to most of my friends but its really weird to hae someone look up to you the way Lindsey does. but i crave for that friendship and i crave for a friendship with this other girl Taylor. I think ive written a few things about her in here...she confuses me most of the time...weve talked through emails and stuff alot...and her main problem is boys....and i dont know how to expali nher either but i want those friendships wit hthem...and i dont knwo if that will ever happen. but well see wont we? we find out whos minis (small small groups) we are in this week. wel lat least im hoping. which minis are jsut groups of like 5 people inside of the 20 or whatever...like we had 13 kids...the 3 boys would have gone with the 2 male leaders and the 10 girls would have been split between the 3 female leaders.

ok so now im done.

Sep. 13, 2006 - Prayer Request

Please pray for me and my sister right now. We are going through a difficult situation. I dont really want to say much about it. But I would love to know someone is praying for us. I dont even know if anyone reads these anymore but I do know me and my sister need your prayers.

Sep. 7, 2006 - YAY!!

Hey it works!! YAY!!

lol...ok so ive tried posting things but it hasnt come up...so heres a blog. lol

So im going to see Beauty and the Beast tomorrow at the Fox!! I am sooo excited! Its going to be great!

Things here have been going pretty well...Im bored most of the time...all my friends have started school and i dont start till the end of the month. Im kind of excited kind of not lol. Ive been babysitting alot too...min. of 4 jobs a week. its crazy!! One Friday a couple weeks ago i babysat for 14 hours straight. It was really crazy. But i need the money. so its nice.

My youth group is going ok...like some of me thinks its still not worth it and some of me love it. and that sounds completely funny but thats ok. I love my friends but i dont know. I get tired of most of them all being in cliches. and like wednesday night at church our youth pastor John said that it was ok to have cliches as long as everyone is in one. And I dont believe that. cause he was also talking about how we need to be one and we need t ofurther the kingdom of God. but you cant do that if your in like 20 different cliches!! I dont understand it all!

They kept me on the worship schedule which im kind of glad about that. I didnt really care if they took me of or not but they kept me on. so its cool. the freshman at church are cool. Theres this one group im trying to connect to. 2 of them went with me and Mel to camp Flipt as leaders. So we try to include them and stuff. Their cool. lol

Well thats all ill write right now. I suppose. Maybe some more later. Who knows?? Not me!! hehe

Jul. 20, 2006 - My blog is gonna be a comment....for some reason

Jun. 14, 2006 - um....not sure what to name it...

I am realyl bored and its like after 11pm. haha. well i just posted a blog about Big Stuf...I didnt really get into anythign deep or use names cause i wrote it on somehting else then copied it. and the other ting is what all my friends read....well like all my church friends.

So lets see...All State is around the corner....I leave Sunday. Its kind of sad...cause like tongiht was the last time I was gonna see some of my closest friends for 4 weeks!! AHH!! It made me want to cry. iwas talking to Karen...and like weve grown really close over the past couple of months. And i went up to her and im like i dont know if ill see you again before I leave and shes liek thats right...and so we stood there and talked for awhile. And then she went off....and i went ot go find Lindsey. Well Lindsey was talkign and when i turned around after getting my camp picture Karen was there..again. She jsut kind of appears when i need her. lol. Well anyways...so i was talkign to her....and shes like ok well then ill see yo uwhen you come back from your all state trip. and im like no you wont casue your gonna be gone then one wednesday im here. lol...it was sad. then Lindsey came up to me...and I told her that i jsut wanted to say bye before i left cause i wasnt going to be there the next week...and shes like oh no! and i told her that i would be there the next week and she said she would be gone....and then i told her that i would be gone the next week...and shes like how am i goign to survive with out my mindy? haha it was really funny. She makes me laugh...shes like im gonna miss you sooo much you have to call me. and she went on and on for a long time...and it was really funny. lol

ok...heres some more info...Taylor...ok so at Big Stuf i told her i needed to talk to her...and shes like ok...well then later i told her i needed to talk to her...and shes liek ok...well the next thing i know is its friday nad i still havent talked to her. lol....so that was kind of getting on my nerves...not that i didnt talk to her but i kind of felt like she was ignoring me. so it was weird. well then saturday me being who i am...sent her an email...telling her i really had a need to talk to her in person...i didnt really know what i would say to her if we did talk....and i told her that too...lol...but i had a need. so i sent that and she replied...and she told me that we would either talk Sunday or Wednesday....so it made me feel kind of bad....well Sunday came....we didnt have time to talk...i told her that i didnt mean anything by the email i sent her...and she put one of her Taylor smiles on and said i know and well talk on Wednesday....she said she would come early. lol...ok so today is wednesday...and guess what??? we never did talk. haha....she leaves friday for texas and i leave sunday for All State...so i went up to her as she was walking out the door...im like Taylor Taylor...she finally turned around....side note lol...i think shes one of those people that unless your standing rihgt in front of her she doesnt see or hear you lol...ok..anyways...so she turns around and shes like oh my gosh...and she kept saying it....and then she kept hitting her head...and im like taylor its no big deal....and shes liek ill call you...and im like im leaving...and shes like oh yeah me too. lol...so this is probably going to eat at me until i return from Sonpower and can actualyl talk to her...whether it be at church or we go out for lunch or somehting. well anyways....so thats about it...oh excpet for the whole...i felll flat on my face incident...theres nothing else to cover rihgt now.

Oh wait...not true...ok so im reading this book...and its called Gods blogs...and its an AMAZING book. The head guy at Big Stuf...Lanny Donahoe (or however you spell it) wrote it...and its what he thinks God would write in His blogs...it might seem weird explaining it..or reading it in your case....but it is an amazing book. You should deffinatly check it out...go to the big stuf sight i wrote in a prevoius blog and check it out there...oh and if you do...you should tell me.

Oh there was one more thing...tonight at Fusion we made clay hearts...and it was lie kactually clay...like dirt clay...and it was slimy and really gross... but inspite of the mess on our hands we had fun making it....now theres like 100 clay hearts laying on the stage in the Hangar. lol...its great. well i really am getting off now...night!!

Jun. 14, 2006 - WIRED!!

Well I jsut got back from Big Stuf. It was soooo amazing and soooo much fun. Things were a little different for me this year and im not really sure how to explain it.

Well Monday was the day we left. The bus ride went smooth. At one point me, Melanie, and Robin were laughing at nothing...like one of us would just start laughing and so the others would...and that went on for awhile. lol. Nothing much happened until later that night in session. Jared Herd talked about being Wired for another world. It was great. Oh yeah....my roomates...they were great! I had Mrs. Cindy as the chaperone...and then Melanie, Anna, and Brittany were the kids. It was great! We had so much fun!

Tuesday Jared talked about being Wired for wealth. After the sessions we went to the ocean and the pool. It was fun. Um...We had quiet time on the beach. It was amazing! Then we had another session...Jared talked about bieng Wired for Wow. Then we had church group. and i think that was the night Jancy and Amy came and talked to us.

Wednesday morning Jared talked about Wired Weird. He also told us we were like playdoh. and how we all have one manifacture (which is our creator) and he made each one specail...a different color and different bottle. It was cool. Then after sessions melanie, anna, brittany, and i hung out in the room. we played cards...it was funny. um...lets see....we didnt do to much that day. At quiet time i was thinking...and like it made it feel really wierd. After wuiet time i went up to my room and one of my friends stopped me and gave me a hug...and shes like are you ok? and i was like im ok. shes like whats wrong...and im like nothign. So then like we were in session....well like right before it started i textd her and told her i wanted to talk to her after church group. But everything ran late so we didnt get to talk. Um...louie Giglio spoke that night he talked about Wired for worship...althoug hhe didnt really stay on sublect. But it was good. Oh...that day i had given some notes out to some poeple and when we were in the elevator one of the girls was in it and she was thanking me for it and then she told me that it wasnt true...and i was like yeah it is. lol.

thursday morning louie talk about being Wired for this world. then after sessions we went and played cards with abunch of people. Then Robin and i went to the ocean. then to the pool. It was fun. Um...quiet time again made me think...so i went and i found my friend who i told her i needed to talk to...and we talked for awhile. It made me feel much better. Session that night was amazing. Lanny and Jared talked about Wired to Win! They also did their cool stories...one of which was from our church. Then Lanny talked about Rick and how he won when we passed away a few months ago. Oh Jared said if anyone wanted to win when they die and wanted to accpet Christ as their personal Savoir to stand up right there. That it was something to be excited about. Well I looked a few rows behind me and roomamte Brittnay was standing. I was thrilled. It was great! Then Jared said that if one of your friends was standing to go to them cause they didnt want to stand by themselves. So melnaie and I went back there to them. Then we sang some more. It was an emotional night. I looked around and like everyone was crying...raising their hands to God. The guy i nfront of me turned around at one point...he said something to melanie then shook my hand and pulled me close so i could hear him. And he told me that he had been either in front of us or behind us the whole week and he told us that he enjoyed watching us praise God. It was amazing...to get encouragement from someone i didnt even know was watching was cool. It made my night even better. I also had a few people that came up to me and wrapped their arms around me and just cried. Then there were a few that i went up to. Well after church group I went up to the girl who told me that what i wrote her wasnt true...and im like it was al true. and then she went on and it made me happy. Thne I turned around and another friend was there....the one that i had talked to after quiet time...and we walked back up the room...well....one thing that both of them said was that they would miss me next year when im not going to be there. So im gonna try to straighten this out for everyone right now...I am stil lgoing to be hanging out at Fusion and InFusion when I can. Which should be most of the time. So I will be there so no worry. lol. Im only hanging out though cause im so young and dont wantto move up to the college age kids...besides the fact that i dont really get along any of them..so there you have it.

Ok so like thursday night....well friday morning we were all i nbed and we heard some kids laughing and stuff...we thoguht it was outside so i was going ot look out the window...well as i was walking past the foot of the bed I saw somehting black on the floor. I stepped over it and it moved and I screamed at the top of my lungs. There was a giant cockroach that was in our room. Anna was almost asleep and Brittany, Melnaie and i are like running around the room and jumping on the beds. it was really funny. well our connecting door was unlocked and the girls next door came over. They killed it for us...and it was really funny. Brittany put the lamp ontop of the bug. Then Mrs. Cindy came and picked it up. It was soooooooo gross!!!

Friday morning we had our last little thing. It was a session or anythign. then when we were down our church met in the hall thingy. joh ntold us that one of our buses had broken down and that he needed 40 kids to stay behind. i was one of them. So we were at the hotel for like anohter 45 minutes to an hour after the other bus finally left. We put the camp cd on and liek all the kids were dancing and singing to it. It was really funny. Well theres some of the details. lol. If you want to know more feel free to ask.

Jun. 3, 2006 - BIG STUF!!!

I leave Monday morning for my first camp of the summer. I am soooooo excited!! I cant wait!! I am going to Big Stuf...this will be my 5th time going. Its only a week long...but its sooo mcuh fun!! about 130 high schoolers from my church are going to hang out on the beach in Fl wiht about 1500 other highschoolers. We have sessions were we learn more about God and are challenged by the best speakers ever! We get to hang out with our friends...and met new peoples. I am soooo ready for it. Its realyl what i need right now. You can check some of it on their website www.bigstuf.org its cool stuff.

Lets see last monday I went to Callaway Gardens. I took my friend Karen with me. We had alot of fun hanging out on the beach thing and just messin around. A little while before we left karen and I got out of the lake and laid down on the towels...and I was just talking to her...asking her questions...well I asked her if she had a boyfriend...she said no cause her and her boyfriend had just broken up and stuff...but that had been a little while. so...i asked her if she liked anyone....well she said no....i guess i said somehting and she asked me what i meant by it...so i explained it...and after i was done...yo uknow what she said to me?? she told me she did like someone. lol...i laughed...it was funyn that sh esaid no and then when i told her i had kind of been dealing alot with things liek that from different people she changed her answer....and i was thinking...you know how many people do that to me?? how many tell me one thing but dont really mean it? I know thats happened more then once....it kind of bugs me too...but i cant change the way people are..so yeah.

OH! mondya mornign before we left for callaway...we went to Go Cart world to help out loading trucks to take to MS for Katrina poeple...and like this WHOLE warehouse was FULL of things! and they have already had lots of trucks go...but there was stil lalot of stuff. so we loaded up these trucks and we were done i na few hours. we had most everything packed up and ready to go by 11:30. it was neat. there were about 20 of us that showed u pto help. Most of them were from my church. But it was still neat.

thursday i had a party. it was fun. we laughed...ALOT! at one point we startede talking about our youth group again....and like things in it are stil lbuging us. like our grou phas cliques. and like its not just the highschoolers...its the interns and the leaders and i just dont think thast right. the kids are supposed to learn from the adults and if the adults have cliques, they are talking to the kids, and they dont talk to anyone who isnt in their cliques..then how are w supposed to learn. Its really getting on my nerves! I dont knwo what to do! I only hope that this year at big stuf me and melanie get put in a room with kids our own ages or at least our friends. Last year we were put in a room wit h3 freshman....who were all cheerleaders...and all stuck up..and it was really bad. And i hope that i dont get in a room with people liek that again. well see. Ive been praying about it and i am willing for whatever happens cause i know its Gods plan but still...i dont want to be in a roo mwith poeple like that.

well i need to go ive got things to do before church tomorrow. and then ive got to pack tomorrow...so i wont be on again unitl after big stuf. soo ill talk to you all later!

love,

Mindy

May. 27, 2006 - UH OH! Its Taylor from Texas!

I dont have long..its like after midnight and im tired. But i just wanted to update you guys. Things here have calmed down alot! Theres not alot of drama with the choir kids anymore (which is good) but there has been some drama wit hchurch kids. Dont worry im not involved in it. But i tend to be the person people come to. Lwts see theres this one girl...Taylor. She moved here a few months ago from Texas and was expecting ot hate it here. Instead she loves it. But shes boy crazy...which tends to be a problem. Well really long story short....she had a boyfriend...they broke up..and now they are in a fight which is really hurting her. AND alot of poeple are taking the guys side of the story on this...because they have known him longer...then her side...which in my opinion is the right side. I dont know her that wel but I can tell you shes hurting. Shes written some things on another sight and i have replied to them...last week she wrote about what she thought about guys. So i gave her a little bit of tough love on it...and the next day at church she came running up to me and wrapped her arms around me and just thanked me. Then today she filled out a survey...and she was down while filling it out...so i emailed her telling her i was praying for her...and this email was long....i told her that she had to give her boxes over to God...which is what we were taught on the ACCESS trip if you want to know what im talking then read that...and i told her about a recent thing that happened to me where i had t odo that. she replied and thanked me for it...and went on and on..well i thought i would share that with you since i just read that. but now im off to bed. NIGHT!

May. 25, 2006 - Class of 2006!!

Well I graduated saturday!! Yea me!! It was so crazy! lol. Well ill start the day off for you. Saturday we had to be at the Hangar at 10 to finish setting up and run sound checks. Well at rehearsal I realized one of the chairs was wobbley so being me..i went into the back room to replace it and I tripped over something on the floor and landed flat on my stomach. it hurt sooooooo bad!! I got up and walked out of the room and went to my mom and I had a bruise already from the top of my rihgt arm to my wrist, and 2 big scratches on my right leg...well we put ice on it and it helped somewhat...then i got a phone call from Stefani. And she talked to me for awhile. She made me happy! Not that I wasnt happy to begin with lol. but she made me even more happy. lol. So poeple started showing up and it started getting confusing. Then pictures...oo we had group pictures...and one we threw our caps in the air and Caylors tassell flew off her cap and landed on top of the progector. So someone had to rush home to get antoher one for her...and so she didnt have a number on her tassell. Ok..well then more people showed up lol. I got gifts and as i got them i would open them...and then thank the person...well then...more and more people showed up and we got called back to line up...the ceromony was about to start! Once it started we all walked in...backwards...so i was the second person in...which was weird lol...but thats how we had to line up. Well then we said the Pledge...and then our guest speaker...Dan Cathy (yes the one from chick-fil-a) gave us a speach. He told us that we needed to be like Christ...he shared stories..and then he told the story about how when Jesus went and washed the feet of his disiples. And how we should live our life like that..and he gave us all a shoe shiner...and he showed us how to us it...and said that we need to go shine someones shoe, who needs encouragement and stuff, and then when your done give the person a hug. It was a neat demonstration and the brushes are cool. OK moving on...when Mr. Cathy was done we had the powerpoints. Some preformed live with theirs and others didnt ( I didnt) After lots and lots and lots of pictures it was time for the charge...Caylor gave the charge. She did a great job on it! I know she was nervous. lol. but she did good. Oh Caylor gave us all playdoh....and while she was talking some of us pulled it out..and well the guy 2 seats over from me made a mustache and put it on..it was green playdoh..i was laughing so hard I had tears running down my faces. After the charge we had the presentation of diplomias. Both our parents walked up and gave us ours as Mr. Steve and Mrs. Lynne read a short bio about us. Mrs. Lynne read mine! lol. After that we had a prayer for the graduates...we lined across the front of the stage..and then after the prayer we turned our tassell...and the Mr. Steve said "I present the Class of 2006!" and we all took our caps and threw them. It was great..then we walked off lol. As we were walkign down the row i saw some poepel that werent there before hand lol. They were the ones I stopped at first.I saw like ALOT of poeple im not even really sure who i saw. It might sound crazy but its true...like i remember my friends being there....but as far as adults go...it was hard keeping up with them. After everything was over and many pictures were taken i started cleaning up my table...and i looked under it were i had set my gifts...befroe the ceromony started there were like 3 gifts under there...awhen i got there afterwards there were ALOT more. I laughed about it. Im like my gifts grew! I opened them all there. They were great! I got alot of neat stuff! I do have to point out one gift i got casue it made me cry. i opened the gift from my middle school discipleship leader...and as many of you knwo I do want to run an orphanage when im older...well Mrs. Angie knows me a little to well its kind of scary lol....well in it was 2 little kid books...and there was a note on it..it said...these book are to be the first books in the libary in your orphanage. They are favorites of Amy, Brooke, and Christina....it made me cry...i loved them! Like I said I got alot of neat stuff and alot of stuff that made me cry. So thanks to everyone!! Afterwards my leg started hurting again...I looked at it when I changed cause its jsut above my knee...and its pink! I have a pink bruise with purple pokadots! Its ugly!! lol...but thats ok....its covered unless i wear shorts. ihad a great graduation and loved seeing my friends there! Thank you all for coming!! Well that was the adventure in Mindys life on Saturday. Im sad thats its over but excited about the future!

Love ya!

Mindy

May. 19, 2006 - IM GRADUATING TOMRROW!!!!

I GRADUATE TOMORROW!!! AHH!!!!

Wow school has gone by fast! Im 16 and graduating high school tomorrow! Im excited yet scared! It will be different.

Lets see...whats been going on?? um...Wednesday we had choir...well the kids practiced for the Braves game. Cause our choir was singing there. However I couldnt go to the game so i sat and listened. They sounded good. The little kids were so funny they made me and Stefani laugh so hard! it really was funny. Um...then we had our choir party...then we practiced for SonPower. im excited about it. We get to have a little day camp..kind of like a VBS. itll be fun..we get to do stories, music, crafts, snacks, and games. Itll be fun.

Wednesday night I went to church...we had 242. Where all are smallgroups come together and meet as one. Kind of like regular Fusion but not quite. Anyways....I asked some kids to sign my yearbook page thingy...and so they did..well me being who i am did not read them there. Oh I also wrote some notes to some of the kids...and well theres this one girl...Lindsey. i met her on the Katrina trip in Dec. She is such a sweet heart. Well to give you a little bit of how we met and stuff...we did work together on the Katrina trip both days actually....she stayed at the school the next day with us. And well on the bus ride home Abigail Hobbs came up and wishpered something to John Orr. and he went to the middle of the bus...and all we saw from where we were sitting was John sitting next to someone...well I couldnt figure out who it was...and so I stood up and looked back and there were 3 people i nthe seats...one had her head donw and she was crying...this just happened to be Lindsey. Long story short she got a phone call saying that her brother had been hit by a car and had passed away. It tore Lindsey up. She jsut cried. well I wrote her a note....and in it I told her that I was praying for her and if she ever needed anythig nto call me...and i wrote down my number. Well later that night after I had gone to sleep she called me...and i didnt hear it...so she left a message on my phone. And she just said thanks...and went on and on. Well then a couple weeks ago...my mom took me and my family to Brusters...and guess who works there?? None other then Lindsey Findley. And we happened to go to her window without realizing it was her. My mom pulled out her coupons and money and Lindsey told her she wouldnt accept it. And my moms like what? and Lindsey said you guys are my friends I dont want your money. Im like no she didnt. but she did. Well then...a week or so after that we went back to Brusters...and happened to get Lindsey's window...again. So we told her what we wanted...and I gave her my money and coupon and she wouldnt take it. Im like Lindsey no...and shes like yes mindy...and im like lindsey you did this last time let me pay...and do you knwo whta she said to me?? She said..and I qoute.."I cant hear you Mindy" im like Lindsey! it was funny. but she wouldtn take it she closed the window on me. it was funny. Well now back to wednesday...I wrote her a note and i stuck $5 in it. and I was on one side of the room and she read it and she came running up to me...she shoved it back and me saying "i dotn want it" and im like I dont want it either Lindsey...lol...we went back and forth..then Karen came up to say hi to lindsey (cause i was jsut talkign to karen) and before karen could say anything I told her to tell lindsey to take it..and karen looks at me and says "take what" im like tell her to take it..and lindseys like i dotn want it...and karen starts i non my side. it was great! lol. So needless to say lindsey lost that battle.

Wow i jsut kind of went out on you there..but oh well. ok now...john asked the seniors if they wanted to say anythign..w.ell i didnt go up. caue i couldnt have said anythign better then the kids that had gone up. then he opened it up to the other kids there...and it was all so encouraging to hear. It was great. I still haev not read my yearbook as of this point...well as soon as I got home i read it. And i cried! Tears were running down my face. I was talkig nto Stefani yesterday about it. and im like I now i haev an influence in other peopels lives...i know that. but i dont hear it alot..especially form my church friends. And so to see the words written down...it made me cry. One of the girls said "I have looked up to you over the past years. Im here for you if you ever need me. I love you" and she went on and on. Then one wrote how i have a great positive impact on her life. then one wrote how i was so awesome even though she had only known me for a little while...and those 3 really stuck out to me. They all made me cry..but those 3 it took my forever to read.

I told 2 of them over aim that the ymade me cry. and their like "What?!?" and im like it was a good cry. By what you wrote in my yearbook. One of the msaid "well maybe i shouldnt have written in ti." im like no...you did and it made me fee la whole lot better. and hey both said "what i wrote is true though" and then the ywent on and on. and they mde me cry again.

Ok so yesterday was the last day of co op. We watched our newscast we filmed in journalism. It was sooo funny. We laughed the whole time. We were so stupid lol. Yes i did say that. and hopefully you know what i mean by it. I got a "Best Actress Award" lol. it was funny. Its hanging on my wall lol.

Well I just htouh i would share all that with you. lol. I have more i would write but 2 reasons why im not...1 i have to get off to go finsih with grad stuff...and 2...and i dont want to share some of the stuff wit hall of you lol. Not that i dont trust you...but i havent told very many poeple about 2 things i wanted to write about...so im just not going to...and its probably going to bug you too...hehe...but oh well.

Love,

Mindy

May. 15, 2006 - Its coming!!!

Lets see yesterday was Mothers Day...so to all you Mothers that read this...Happy Mothers Day!!

Not to much has been going on....its less then one week till my graduation!! Im excited...yet a little scared. lol. I was talking to this girl yesterday (im ont sure of her name lol lathough i should) and she was like are you ready to graduate...and i said yeah but no...and shes like i understand that one..thats how it was when i graduated. and then she went on and one..and it was funny. Then like Melanie didnt show up for Fusion...which was a bummer but she wasnt feeling good...so i asked Karen if i could sit with her and of course she said yes but then like none of her friends showed up either. Which i think kind of made her feel funny. So Karen and I sat together and then this other girl Mereidth came up and sat with us. Again we were on the floor....on rugs...its fun lol. Chad Whittle gave us the message on worship. It was good...it got a little confusing and he didnt hit any of his points on the outline we got. so we had to do alot of listening lol. Anyway then Gregg came up and told us to all grab one of the sheets of paper in the baskets and then pass the baskets...and so we did....then he told us to write down and offering in it. Like what we want to give to God. Some took time to think about it and to write it down and others wrote something quick down..anyways after we did that we made a line...went one set of doors and then threw our offering into the fire that was outside. It was neat then i made it back to my rug and Meredith started crying...she was having some friend problems..cause i heard about them fro mthe other friend....anyways that was a mess. Then after Fusion Karen was sitting outside on the edge of the porch thingy...and i went up to her and asked her if she was ok...cause she didnt look ok...and she said she was and everyhitng...and then she asked me what was wrong with me lol...i told her some stuff that has happened in the past week...and shes like "Mindy you have alot going on..."and im like yeah and i dont know why! lol...anyways Karen always makes me feel better...so then later after i got home i was talking to Amanda, Levi, and Karen on aim...and Karen and I kind of picked up with our conversation....and she was like Mindy you need t otalk to this perso nbefore it gets worse...and i was like i know i do but im trying to avoid it...and well thats enough of that...so there you go...

5 more days till graduation!!!!