May. 12, 2006 - "A Salute to America"
Wednesday was dress rehearsal for my choirs play. It went ok. I think it went to long. And after pictures when everyone was leaving alot of then esemble members were upset about something. Me being one of them. There were just alot of people that were some how getting on my nerves. I dotn normally let it bother me. But this time it did. Theres this one girl who can alwasy make me smile..and I can always make her smile. And I walked out of the dressing room...and shes like "Mindy make me feel better" and im like I cant. And I took off up the stairs...then my sister was missing...I think she had gone outside in the rain....and I went back downstairs to look for her...and then Stefani was going back up the stairs with me...and at the bottom of the stairs is a door...and I rain right into the handle of it...I fell down on the stairs crying. Whcihc I needed a cry. I was telling someone...I was really mad that night..and like I dont get mad I get upset but I was really mad. Anyways I felll onto the stairs crying. And Stefani was standing there and I dotn really think she knew what to do...I mean here I am lying on the stairs crying. She sat down and prayed with me. It made me feel a little better. I calmed down enuogh to drive home..and as soon as I got home and walked in the door my mom said hi and I started crying. I cried for the next 20 minutes I was home and then some in the car. But Im sick of it all and I dont like seeing people hurting. One of my friends said it best when she said... "I am emotionally drained" NAd i think right now I feel the same way as her. Theres the stress of finishing school cause graduations in a week and then the stress of the preformance then next night. Oh and then my arm was hurting really bad too. It was swollen and bruised.
Then the preformance was last night. I think it went well. There were a few mistakes. But over all it went well. I wasnt really upset at any one anymore...there was still one I am stil la little upset..but i thikn i need to work that one out. My 2nd grade techer was there last night! It was so funny. She came cause she read it in the paper and then when she got there she was reading the names and shes like I know her. It was funny. At the end she came up to me and gave me a hug.
Then afterwards...we were going to go to Dairy Guenn...but someone informed us that it closed at 9:45 and it was like 10. so we couldnt go...then we were trying ot find some place to go...everyone was saying Steak n Shake cause its a 24 hour place. Well then my mom decided that we werent going....whcihc hurt some..cuase it was my last performance wit hthese guys...even though we will be together half the summer....But someone said somehting..and it hurt me...deeply. And as soon as i walked out of the building I started crying. When we got home my mom dropped my dad and sister off and took me back to Steak n Shake. It was Suzie, Amanda, kyle, and Levi (who was there for a little while) sowe just talked and stuff. And it was fun. We left about 12:30 am. lol. It was great!
Anyways I have to go
Mindy
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May. 9, 2006 - Worship??
At Fusion we are doing this 2 weeks series on worship. It was really neat. See what my youth group has done...as most people do...is start referring to worship as music. But worship is really praising God and serving Him. There are many different ways to do that. So Sunday it was a little different when we walked into the Hangar (the high shcool building) There were no chairs....we had rugs on the floor. So everyone picked a rug lol....and sat on it. It was fun. By the end of Johns message though half the kids were lying on the floor. lol. Then after the message Mz. Kim came up and was like....we arent going to be singing today...because we want to worship God other ways. Mz Kim is an artist....so....we had a different look on things and we painted pictures. When we first got there are picture was taken with one of those cameras that spits the picture out lol....so we got our picture and was told to hold onto it. So we did. Then when we were painting our pictures we were told to glue our picture down on it somewhere. I drew a picture of the earth...and in the middle of the earth I drew a cross. In the 4 corners I drew hearts. I put my picture on the paper....and I wrtoe down... For God so loved the world He gave His one and only son....and then in each heart I wrote...for me. It actually turned out pretty neat. Then we hung all our paintings up on some yarn on the stage. I was looking at them all and they all expressed different things...how people were feeling. There were several that stuck out to me...one had some storm clouds at the top...and then some rain drops...and then she wrote 'I will praise You in the storms." It was neat cause this one girl has been going throug haot over the past few weeks....one of the biggest things is her grandfather was diagonoist with cancer...and shes taking it really hard.
Then there was one were it had a soldier....and im not really sure what it said...but it was neat. Some people jsut wrote bible verses...some just drew pictures. You could tell the ones who too ktime drawing it out...and some just blew it off. But it was really neat. Next week is the last week for it. Im excited about it.
Oh guess what?!?! Major change in Fusion and InFusion.....on June 4th Fusion is not meeting....then the next time it will meet is on a Wednesday night....the 14th. It will be so weird having Fusion on Wednesday nihgt....and InFizzle will pick up on Wednesday nights in the Summer and then when the new school year starts InFusion will be meeting on Sundays. Its a weird change...but this means that the Edge...College kids...can meet back every Sunday night.
Well thats just stuff I felt like sharing...
This Thursday is my choirs preformacne....May 11....Joyful Praise Homes chool Choir and Ensemble presents "A Salute To America" It jsut be intersting lol.
Well I have to go..
.Mindy
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May. 1, 2006 - A war older then its warriors
Invisible Children came ot my church last night. Or rather the people working with them. I talked to one of the girls before it started. She said it was really bad over in Uganda. Thats were this movie took place. Im gonna explain some of it. Well I guess im gonna kind of explain the movie too. These 3 boys went to Uganda to find a story. No other reason then that. So they left....and at the begining all it was was 3 college age guys trying to work the video camera and trying to get a story. Some of it was really gross and some was just plain stupid. Lets see....they set an ant hill on fire and ended up setting on the the boys on fire....that was funny. The killed a snake by cutting it in half...that was just plai ngross cause they showed it to you. They also showed themselves pucking...which I dont think we needed to see. Anyway then they talked to these people over in Uganda trying to find a story. They went to this "city" and talked to some poepel there and while they were there the rebels came and killed 2 poeple...so all these poeple in this tribe were scared. They were al like we arent sleeping here tonight...were going to go find some where else to sleep. So the boys left the tribe and went some where else where they saw these kids walking carying like mats and blankets and stuff...they followed them seeing if that was their story and sure enough it was. THye found hundrens of kids sleeping in a bus parking lot....the parking lot was full of kids from the ages of 5 to 12...not one adult in sight except for one who was carrying a gun. It was so sad to see all these kids sleeping there and you wonder why they are. They went farther into their story and talked to a few boys. The boys were explaining why they did this every night. Se the rebels came and abducted kids from the ages of 5 to 12 because they were big enough to carry a gun, young enough to get into schools to get other kids, and young enough to brainwash them. These kids that were abducted were brainwashed into killing. Thats all they were taught to do was to kill. And if the kid cried at all because of the way they were being treated the rebels would kill them...infront of everyone there. Once these kids were abducted they would probably never have the chance to see their family again. Yet alone live. But these 3 boys found some kids who had been able to run away fro mthe rebels. And now they are being searched for by name. One of the little boys names is Jacob. It was sucha sad story. Jocob is young...hes probably about 10. He was so sweet. They were asking him questions. It turns out he has/had 2 other brother who were both abducted with him. one was able to escape with Jacob but the other wasnt. Also Jacobs best friend was with them. One of his brothers was killed in front of them....and Jacob has no idea where his best friend is. Wether he is dead or alive. We will probably never know. But as you got more into the story and everything.....it really changed your view point on it all. These 3 boys set out for a stroy....trying to make the most of what they could....then they found a very sad story. The tempature was 131 degrees at least one day when they were there....it rained on them....and these kids....they had nothing. Nothing. No food.....no blankets...and only the clothes on their back. Jacob...these poeple im not sure what he called them....they gave him the clothes he was wearing...they gave him the blanket he was using. They would climb trees to try to find a mango or something to eat. it was heartbreaking. I had tears in my eyes the whole time....but they contunied to talk to Jacob...and they were asking him questions....and little Jacob said he would rahter be dead then to live rihgt now. He doesnt want to live....but Jacob has so many dreams. He wants to come to the US to become a lawyer. Thats what Jacob wants to do with his life. But yet hes living in a horrible situation and doesnt want to live. They contunied to talk to Jacob and thye asked him about his one brother that had been killed. Jacob answered and then he started sobbing....it made me cry. Infact my eyes are watering up right now. It was so sad.
"My heart is beeping....beeping...beeping...." There are many ways to help support these kids. They are selling t shirts...braclets...dvds....and collecting donations. They are doing alot...and moving forward. They heard the calling. And now they are making the move. Invisible Children will be playing in the movies soon. We saw a rough cut of the movie. But when it ocmes out in theaters....you will find me there. It was such a powerful movie...you have no idea that this is really going on in the world until you see it. Even as a movie....it doesnt all seem real. But it is very much so real. And if they didnt explain everything in thier movie then i wouldnt have had any idea what was going on. But in Africa there are Invisible kids. Just like the kids here....but with so much less then we have here. The kids over there were rejoicing though. They showed footage of kids dancing and singing....praising God because they made it to the bus park with out being kidnapped.
I really dont know how else to explain it. If you have any question please feel free to ask me.
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May. 1, 2006 - Cinderella's Big Ball....A night to remember
Before you begin reading...I wrote this the toher day...I tried to fix all of it so it was like "todays and yesterdays" but i might have missed some so if it sid yesterday then it probably means thursday lol.
Prom 06 is over! My senior prom. Its so sad! Friday night was a blast! I had alot of fun. I hung out with some of my best friends all night! it was unbelievable and I will never forget it. I might forget some of the things that happened but I wont forget the night.
My day started at 1 o clock with a hair appointment. I got my hair down and it was soooooooo pretty. I loved it! Then I went over to my friends Maegans house to get ready over there. Stefani and Maegan were there doing their nails when i got there (i got my nails down the day before.) Then once they finished we sat on the rocking swing on their porch for awhile and talked. Then we did our makeup and got dressed. It was funny...we were all having to help eachother with our dresses so we wouldnt mess up our hair. Then one by one (or three by three) the other kids showed up to take pictures. In my group was me, Stefani, Maegan, Caylor, Elizabeth, Nicole, Lauren, Lydia, Andrew, and Zach (i think thats it...yeah thats it) After a bunch of pictures we went to Glendalough Manor (however you spell the name) and took more pictures. The place was great we had alot of room. There were also 2 weddings going on at the same time. One in the other ball room and one in the gardens. So we werent allowed in the gardens but that was ok.
We ate dinner once everyone was there. Then they had a senior recongnition and like only 3 of our 11 seniors showed up...and might I add that none were boys. So we told everyone what our plans were. It was cool. Then after dinner and dessert we danced. It was fun. We also had contest.....the boys played air gutair the 4 finalists were LEvi, Andrew, AJ, and this other kid...the other kid won. Then the girls had to act like princess (which was weird lol) but our theme for prom was Cinderella's Big Ball. So I understand why lol. Then we had 3 finalist.....Maegan, Suzie, and me. I ended up winning. hehe....which im not sure why...cause alot of people were alot better considering i laughed the WHOLE time...lol. I was busting our laughing cause it was so funny. We also had 4 people do their best cartoon character voice. It was funny. The 4 were Becca A., Caylor, AJ, and Chrissy. I think AJ and Caylor had the best voices lol.
Well after prom we went over to Elizabeths house to change. Then we went to the bowling alley. All of us went....cause its a tradition that everyone goes bowling after prom (yes we did have adults driving us) I bowled a 87 and tied for 3rd palce with Levi on our lane lol. We had 7 bowling on our lane. it was fun.
Then after bowling I went to the Moores house. There were like 4 houses open to the kids who went to prom. So I went to Amandas with Lydia, Suzie, Stefani, and of course Amanda hehe. We were going to watch A Cinderella Story to finish our night but we didint after all. lol. Amanda, Stefani and I stayed up unitl like 5 oclock....it was great! and then stefani woke me up at like 7:15 lol. She asked me if i thought my hair was still up...and then asked about her hair...and im like im sleeping lol. It was funny. Then I fell back alseep....and stefani kept waking me up...i finally woke up at like 8:45. Then crawled into Mandys bed with Suzie...and woke her up by talking to Stefani...it was funny. See the group of girls at mandys house probably got to sleep in the latest (or could have) cause breakfast was over there.
At 10 everyone else came over to the house for breakfast. I told the people there I was sitting in the middle of the table and their like good for you mindy. lol (i mean like in the chair in the middle of one side...cause like their table seats...8) It was fun. After we ate we went to the bonus room and listened to amanda and levi sing their song they were going to sing on Sunday. It sounded good. Then some more girls showed up...and amanda stefani and I ran down the stairs and literally jumped int othe dining room and was like "good mornign girls" it was fun lol!
So like I said it was great and I wont forget it. Thats just the basics up there...i didnt really feel like explaing everything hehe. If you want to know anymore about my wonderful night feel free to ask me. I will be more then glad to answer lol.
Oh and when I left I took this kid home...see he was kind of stranded on the side of the road and looked so pathetic so i cared for him and took pity on him. Ok so not really but I did give Levi a ride to someones house. Then when i finally got home i crashed...i took a 4 hour nap...hehe. I was gonna go see Beauty and the Beast but I kind of slept through it.
Well thats all for now! hehe
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Apr. 26, 2006 - Jokes to Invisible Children
Wow alots been going on. Lets see....Its been like a week in the life of Mindy since I last posted. lol. Tonight I had InFusion. It was so much fun. Its supposed to start at 7....but we never do. So at like 7:30 Mr. Brad (one of the leaders) told the girls they had to share their jokes with everyone. See last week the girls were challenged to bring a joke for small group. But this week Mr. Brad told us to share it with the whole group. So we did. lol. I was busting out laughing. Mostly jsut becuse one of the other girls Bailey was. You know laughing contagouis (or however you spell it) so then we played the Mole game. It was fun...i was never the mole but I guess the mole twice. lol.
Then we talked about guy girl relationships. And what girls need to loo kfor in a guy and what guys need to look for in a girl. And like we had to sit and listen to both sides. And when it was the guys turn to read the scripture and the girls turn to listen one of the boys was reading his funny emphisizing words and stuff. And just to let everyone one know its late and my spelling is off on alot of these words but i dont care lol...you get the point.
Oh and someone earlier today made my day! I wont say who...or how....but oh my gosh I about died. lol. :) i guess in order for that to make since you have to know it. hehe...sorry!
Sunday was Super Fusion. It was great! Sitting in the sun for several hours...trying to avoid getting hit by baseballs and volleyballs while trying to carry on a conversation wit ha few people you havent talked to in a while. It was great! Everyone should come the next time we have on.
Oo!! This sunday poeple from The Invisible Children aur coming to our church. For anyone who has no idea what that is (like me a few days ago) Its a new movie coming out about a the children someplace (not exatly sure where) where theres a war going on and has been for like 20 years. and these kids are being forced to join the war. And so at night time they all go to the innercity and sleep. and we saw a trailer for it sunday...and that was like 2 minutes...and it almost made me cry. It was os sad. To think this is actually going on in the world we live in. Some things we take for granite living here in the US. Theres alot of stuff going on. Oh and like all these kids are sleeping in this one room. its like ALOT of kids and they are like laying on top of eachother just cause theres no room. It was sooooooo sad. So Sunday some poeple are coming and we get to watch liek this hour long thing about it. Anyone here...you uys should all come! Its supposed to be really good! If you want to know more about it or something just let me know!
Night!
Mindy
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Apr. 21, 2006 - hurting....
Ok so I gonna post a blog on Wednesday night....Cause it was funny...and fun....and well it was just hilarious. hehe. Put when I got home I got an email from someone....and it just made me upset. Like I was so upset I didnt really know what to do...so I went to bed. and cried. I just feel like one of my closest friends is using me. And that hurts! Weve been friends for a LONG Time....and i feel like shes using me. Well thats all Im gonna say on that.
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Apr. 21, 2006 - The life of a babysitter
So alots been going on....to much really. i was starting to get overwhelmed by it all. Graduations in a month now...and im not done with school....but thats my fault....so i have to do that. uck! Anyway....Ive been babysitting alot. Cause i need money and i love kids. hehe. Anyway someone asked me how many babysitting jobs I have. To answer your question i have alot...hehe....on Tuesday nights I babysit for a Community Group, which is a bible study for a group of adults. In that group I have 9 kids. The youngest 3 and the oldest 12. Then Wednesday mornings I have a babysitting job for a church bible study. I used to have 6 kids that cmae in (someone was always missing one week so i never really had more then 5) but this past wednesday I had 8 kids. But now I have 7 cause one was an older brother. Anyway on normal....the youngest is 9 months and the oldest 3. So I have my hands full there. Althoguh this past wednesday the oldest was 5. And he was very hyper...and rowdy. lol. Friday night I normal babysit for anohter community group. In that group there is about 15 kids....the youngest um...i think is 3...maybe 2...no wait hes 3 he just had a birthday...and the oldest is like 10...or something like that...if shes the oldest lol. Then once a month i babysit at my church for a leadership meeting...and just depending on where they put me is how many kids i have and what age...normally I have the older 1's younger 2's. But last time I had kindergarten and first graders lol. The I babysit for varouis familys. I have a normal 2 familys that call me. one has a 5 yearold girl and a 2 year old boy. and the other has a 5 year old byo, a 2 year old girl, and a 10 month old girl. But its fun...I think those are my normal jobs. I hope that answered your question. hehe.
Now i got sidetracked on what i was doing....um...oh yeah...our choir performance is coming up soon...Im excited for it to be here...but sad too....cause this will be my last performance with these guys. Its so sad. ive been in the choir since the 5th grade...now im graduating... 
Yesterday I had journalism. We didnt stop laughing through it. There was always something that had us laughing. Our class starts at 12...and at 12:45 we were done wit hthe lesson..the class ends at 1:30 so Mrs. Marty shared stories with us. It was sooooooooo funny. hehe.
Then we had yearbook. Thats fun....me and Mandy are working on the friend pages. We noticed that like all the pictures had at least one person that was in a different photo...we also realzed that there were only like 3 people that turned their photos in (well for friends) and we werwe 2 of them. hehe. So it was a mess. Then I was supposed to babysit during that class too. So I had Caleb, Brianna, and Chloe. It was interesting. Im just glad the baby didnt cry the whole time. Cause that would have been a mess. You know what was funny. ok I too kthe kids outside after class and they played on the playground then we went upstairs to get the snack bag, diaper bag, and the videos (important stuff hehe)...well as we were walking out of 208 Chloe started getting wiggley so i put her on the groud to crawl to her brother and sister...and I started walking by her...and she started crying... it was funny. hehe
Yeah...well that was fun. Oh and guess what?!?!? Im babysitting tonight for the hutchins community group and i dont have another babysitter...so if you read this....and your one of my friends....and would like to take pity on me...call me!!! hehe. Im gonna need help...there is absoulutly NO WAY I can do this on my own. hehe.
Oh wait...i thought of another babysitting job...theres another community group on friday nights...I am supposedto babysit for it when it starts back up...It should be interesting. Ill have to start picking which week i do which group...but im not sure what the ages are on that group and how many kids...but itll be fun.
PROM is a week away!! EEKS!!
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Apr. 13, 2006 - Life is crazy!!!!
Life is getting crazy!!! i think im starting to crack!! Theres been ALOT of drama going on.....to much for me. im not even sure where its all coming from! like I deal with drama at church then drama at choir....and its crazy!!
Well Prom is in 2 weeks now....and its getting kind of stressful....im not sure why it never has before. Ok so theres 2 houses for the girls to spend the night at afterwards...and I told 1 of them I would spend the night there....then my mom and I were talking and for different reasons she decided she didnt want me to spend the night there...so I told the other girl I was spending the night at her house....and I had to break the news to the other one today that I wasnt spending the night. I think shes mad at me now. Which makes me sad....
Well anyway. Theres this girl at my church...she is alot like me...and well she has this group of kids that she has been best friends with for awihle now...and well the other day they all went to Six Flags and didnt even invite her or one of the other girls...it was kind of weird to me....to think that some of the girls wouldnt even include these 2. it was weird...and the one girl was hurt...but Ive been in her position before and I know it hurts....but to have like alot of you closest friends not even tell yo uabout it when you asked....thats gotta hurt!
As you can probably tell im not in the best of mood right now....im not sure why....i just am....so im gonna go.
M
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Apr. 11, 2006 - Life....
Wednesday Ihad my "Girls night" I invited like 20 girls and you wanna know how many showed up....guess.....no its probably lower....ok so only 1 person showed up and she was 3 hows late.....it was funny. Thanks for coming Lydia! We watched American Idol....and half of Narnia...then went to bed....oh I showed her some pictures of some friends from when we were like 12....it was funny....Lydia laughed.
The next day i was supposed to babysit but they never called and it turns out im babysitting this ocming Friday for them...but it was funny.
Karen called me Thursday afternoon and we talked for like 30 minutes. She was calling ot apolgize and tell me that she could have come but she didnt know she could have....it was funny...and it was long story....
Friday morning I was up early to babysit. I had a the 2year old and 5 yearoold. it was fun. We played outside and then played Candyland for awhile...and we also watched Bob the Builder....
The Friday night I was at Westside to go help finish pricing stuff and the nI spent the night at Amandas house. We stayed up until after 3:30 watching our old choir preformances....everyone was so cute when they were younger. Mrs. Karen came into the room at 6:30 and told us we were leaving in 15 minutes...and Amanda and I were still in bed...we ended up being a little late....but so did everyone else.
The yard sale went ok....we didnt make as much as last time.....but we sold some things. Saturday night I babysat....and a 5 year old boy (just turned 5) and 2 year old girl and a 10month old baby girl. It was interesting thats for sure.
Sunday was church....it went well....oh i had the 2 year old from the night before in my nursery class....and thats the last time shes staying up as late as she did...casue she cried the whole time lol. I went into the changing room to change a kids diaper and the little girl cried....i felt so bad...
The youth pastor preached in the main service. and PJ one of the interns lead worship. It was cool. John preached a message he did for the high schoolers awhile back. It was about being disengaged and being fully engaged....it was good.
At church Chad Whittle (another intern) spoke. He did a good job....normally I cant stand Chad Whittle....but hes getting better...and not jsut on his preaching abilities but on hanging out with some kids that arent "popular"
Then last night (Monday) I babysat...oh yeah! hehe. I had 16 kindergartners and first graders....it was a blast. hehe
Well I have to go....I have to finish writing a paper thats due thursday.
Mindy
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Apr. 3, 2006 - frustrated
Hey yall!! Whats up??? 
ok so tonight I had run thrus which is practice for the band members who are ainging/playing on Sunday.
it used to be a big thing where all the high schoolers in our youth group could come and help out with props, drama, or the band....but now its just the band. Well anyway it was supposed to start at 6....so i got there....and the building was locked! im like no way....and so this girl Caleigh shows up and so we are talking and at like 6 15 no ones there
so we find the middle school pastor cause i knew he was there and he said he didnt know where they were...so Caleigh and I called around and we finally got ahold of mrs kim...the lady in charge of this and she said that jeremiah was supposed to have connected us to tell us that it had been cancelled. SO i drove 30 minutes into town for nothing....so i wasted gas!! EEK!!!
but anyway then Caleigh was trying to get ahold of her mom to come back and pick her up but she wasnt home yet so she couldnt....so i took caleigh home...and it was kind of out of my way but thats ok i was glad to help out...besides it gave me and Caleigh a chance to catch up on things. She is going to be playing Maria in their high school pruduction of "Sound of Music" which is cool!! I am so going to see it!! not just because of her but for severel reasons one...i know alot of poeple who are in it...and 2 thats like my favorite movie!! So it will be fun oh and its like one day after my choirs preformance...so that will be fun...both of them actually...hehe
mindy
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Apr. 3, 2006 - nothing exciting
Just thought I would update you on some things....not that there is alot going on...but here you go.
Um...oh Friday my choir friends and i had to set up for the yard sale we were having. It was fun...we laughed the whole time....there was alot of stuff there....and we folded clothes....ALOT of clothes!!! And then 3 of us went through a box of toys and seperated them. It toook us like an hour to go through the 2 boxs...it was fun. I broke a toy too. It was a little water gun and it dropped and broke in half.....i was laughing so hard i was crying. it was really funny.
Then after we were done I went over to Mels house cause she was having a "cook out" but only 1 person showed up on time....and then i showed up like 2 hours later. But I found out the girl that was there was accepted to go to ALL STATE!! So like that was cool.
Then Saturday morning I was up early to go work the yard sale. Well it went and we sold alot of stuff. Theres not much to share on that. But it was fun...most of it. oh..my friends did get like no sleep that night so they were all tired...hehe.
Then saturday night I babysat. I had 2 kids...a 2 year old boy and a 5 year old girl. It was fun....they were a little hyper....oh and i also watched the wiggles....that show scares me.....hehe.
Anyway yesterday was church....i worked in the nursery I had the expert walkers which is actually like the older ones and the younger twos. It was fun....i also got another babysitting job....i have like 4 jobs with in 48 hours....it should be fun! lol.
Church went well....then I went abck to church later for Fusion (youth) It was fun. melanie didnt stay cause she was leaving the next morning for FL so i asked Nikki and Karen if i could sit with them...and they were like sure...so i did....but then one of their friends got to sit on the couch so nikki and karen both moved to the couch so i sat by myself lol.
Oh and when my mom got home she brought an 8 year old home wit hher......i was like what is he doing here (not meanly)...and she said it was a family emergency and the little boy didnt want to go so my mom brought him home...and he spent the nihgt here and i get to take him home later....
Anyway see i told you nothing exciting going on right now...hehe.
Till next time,
Mindy
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Mar. 30, 2006 - Mindys better!
Ok so i just talked to a friend....and she made me feel much better!! she always does that though...lol. Even at competition i texted her one day and she made me smile....she always makes me smile....I love her to death!!
Anyway i was a little down earlier...and she signed onto aim....and she was like how are you...and im like ok i guess...and the next thing she said was....do yo uwanna talk about it? she didnt even ask if anythign was wrong lol....she knew somehting was wrong and jsut asked me if i wanted to talk about it. hehe. So i got like 2 sentences into it and she said "i know how you feel I feel the same way right now" and so like we talked about this subject me asking her questions and her aksing me questions....then like she told me to pray about it....which I am.....but then later on I told her I would be praying for her and she told me that she felt loved....hehe....agan she made me laugh.
oh and emailed someone else...shes a couple years older then me and I told her some of what was going on and she made me feel better and made me put things into a different perspective....which I think is waht i needed.
Anyway jsut thought I would tell you about them....and yes I wont mention thier names....not that im ashamed of it lol....i just...well i dont knwo im just not going ot mention who they are hehe....casue im in that mood right now cause the first person made me a little hyper lol....
Love love!
Mindy
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Mar. 30, 2006 - yet another one by Mindy
Once again I was amazed by kids! It seems like every time i turn around some little kid is amazing. As some of you know I help out with the kids choir on Thursday. Its the k-5 grade choir at my church. Most of these kids love to worship God. And it just puts a smile on my face. We turned out the lights in the room and had all the kids seperate from eachother and turned on the song "How Great is Our God" Most of the younger ones got restless....but 2 girls in paticualer really stuck out to me...one being a kindergartner Brooke....she was singing her heart out for the Lord...and she just amazed me....the other one was a 3rd grader Casey....both her parents lead worship and she is one of the sweetest girls....but she turned her back to everyone and was raising her hands to God just singing...it made my day!
Ok so like my life has been hectic and I feel like i have lost alot of my best friends....but i have gainded great friends in this stuff too. But like I used to be reall close to this one person and now we hardly talk....I mean I talk to her but its hardly more then just a hey....and it hurts me deeply....and i dont know what to do....ill just stop talking thats what ill do.
Mindy
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Mar. 29, 2006 - Melissa's blog...
Heres what Milssa from Living Proof wrote in her blog about my choir!!
Hello all! How is everyone? Awesome I hope! So the past 2 days have been the 2nd Annual Smoky Mountain Choral Competition. My chior that I have been hosting has been the Joyful Praise Ensemble from Noonan
I love you all
*Mitch
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Mar. 29, 2006 - Competition
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Mar. 28, 2006 - um....
So heres what i think on severel things....
1...i figured out i dont like being friends with the boy and the girl in a relationship...no offense to any of you...and im not talking about any of you. so dont get mad lol....but there was a couple that went to my church...i was good friends wit hboth of them...the only time i got to see them was wednsday night at church...well...the broke up and cant even stand to be around eachother. which is hard. so now neither one of them comes to church for fear that they will run into eachother. UGH!! oh and theres another guy at my church he has had at least 2 girlfriends this year and i liked them both but neither one comes cause he comes....so i told melanie that he should leave so the other girls could come back lol....that was mean huh? ok so i dont really want him to leave but i do wish the girls could come back.
ok so heres number 2.....i want to apologize to anyone i have hurt. i am sure i have hurt severel and they arent telling me....so if i have hurt you PLEASE come to me and tell me so i can fix it.
3...I want to give a BIG thanks to a friend who called earlier. They made my day!!! The person jsut asked if i was doing ok with everything that was going on. i made me feel good to knwo someone was thinking about me. So thanks!! 
I think that about covers it...
oh no wait... i do have something else to share....well actually 2 more so here it goes...1 goes back to the other day when i posted that blog about the girl and seeing how she felt with one of her best friends dating the guy she liked....well i got a reply back from her.....and she said that she was ok with it cause once she found out the 2 of them liekd eachother she stopped having feelings for him. but she also told me that the 2 people dating broke up a couple weeks ago...i wonder why she told me and not the other girl....hmm...
then the 2 one...with out sharing to much info....see i know this girl who likes a guy....and the guy likess her....which the 2 of them are like 2 of my closest friends....well i know this other girl...whos one of my closest friends and she lieks him too...and shes sad now cause she doesnt think there will ever be a future between her and the boy. which is sad but i dont really see her future with him in it either....anyway i jsut thought id say that.....and that might have to much info already so im gonna have to leave it at that lol.
Much love!!!!
Mindy
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Mar. 28, 2006 - Competition
Well I just got back from competition the other day. It was a fun, sad, emotional, exciting trip. We had alot of fun but there were also alot of tears!
Wednesday we all headed up to TN for the Great Smokey Mountain Choral Competition. It laughed the whole ride there. We stopped like 3 or 4 times. We alos stopped at the Mayfield dairy and ate icecream. hehe.
We then made it to the condos and found out who was rooming with eachother. In my room it was my, Mandy, Stefani, Susie, Caylor, and MJ. Well we had some problems with our roomies...which proved to be a mess!! We sang at Liberty Baptist that night. That went well.
Well after dinner and we were back in our rooms half the people left for Walmart...Mandy and I were the only ones from our room that stayed. But that gave me and mandy a chance to talk about stuff.
So once everyone got back and we figured out the rooming arragements....mandy and i ended up with double beds to ourselves lol.
Thursday we went to the Governers Palace to practice our songs. We met our Living proof team members....we had 3 girls 2 boys...Melissa, Elizabeth, Jenna, Chandis, and Curtis. we practiced our songs then went back to our rooms. Ate lunch blah blah blah.....
Well then when we went back we sang our songs in front our the judges. We sang In-a That Day and The People Who Walk In Darkness. We did well on them! Alot better then I expected. Then it was time for the soloist.....ok so I think all of us were a little nervous....not realy knowing what to expect. Well we all did well on our songs....
Oh ive got to tell you about Jessica..HAHA! Ok see last year we had this girl on our team and she told us she would be there this year. So we were all looking for her. So we asked Melissa if there was a girl named jessica on the team. She said no and there was only one named Jessica last year and she left before we came....and so we were all like ok...but her name was jessica. lol...so mandy said she saw her and so Melissa kept saying names and none of them sounded familer. So later we saw her and Mandy and I ran to Melissa and told her she was out there. So we explained what she looked like again and melissas like "Oh you mean Cassie!" and we were like embarassed it was funny so Mandy and I kept teasing eachother about Jessica whos real name is Cassie. but just thought id tell yo uthat funny story.
so later that night Living Proof put on some of their show for us which was cool. Then Pastor Randy Rebold spoke. He also anouced the top 14 soloist which I am proud to say that 2 of the boys from my choir made it! levi and andrew both made it!! YEA!!
Well then the next day we got to hear the top 14 and they narrowed it down to the top 7...neither one made it but thas ok.....but i noticed what they did....they had 10 girls and 4 boys...they cut each one in half so where they had 2 boys and 5 girls....but Levi and Andrew gave it a shot and got far! im proud of you both!
Friday night we had a command preformance...each choir sang a song...we sang In-a That Day. it went well. Then we all sang the 2 songs we had been practicing. Liberty won first agian this year! Good Job Liberty!!
Saturday we went Ice Skating! It ws fun!! I hadnt been ice skating in like 4 years! I only fell once and that was on my left hip...it hurt but not to bad...lol.
Well thats about all I have time for but ill write more later.
Mindy
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Mar. 21, 2006 - This ones not as long...hehe
I am sorry that last blog was so long...i just got to typing and then clicked finish....i was talking to someone about it last night and i told her that i appualed anyone who reads it all at once...hehe.
Anyway i didnt quite finish. see we were also talking about disractions in life and whats keeping us from God. i think i mentioned the box of disractions in the last blog somewhere. anyway during our sessions whenever it would be the quietest or have our full attention this cardnial would fly into the window. all the windows were closed and so it would bang up against it. And it became a disraction. so you had to choose wether you payed attention to the bird or what was going on and focas on God. it became a symbol of our distractions here at home. It was neat.
There was something else but I dont remember what it was. So if I think of it I will write it later.
Yesterday my Auntie Em came over here and brought my cousin brittany with her. At first I wasnt sure what to think about that cause the last time i saw Brittany was when i was like 8 and she was a snob. So when they got here it was a little awkward. but we went out to eat and you could def. tell we all became relaxed and stuff. It gave us a chance to catch up on stuff that we had missed out on. She is only 5 months younger then me to the day actually lol. But it was neat shes pretty cool. 
Oh you know what....i was thinking (which is always bad) and one of my friends dates this one guy ok...well call them....hmm...lets see....the girl will be...Sara, and the boy will be Bill. cause that sounds like fun hehe....anyway so Sara and Bill go out....they only have been for a couple months...and things are good between them. Well one of Saras closest friends....um...Gracie (not her real name either) liked Bill before bill and Sara went out. Well so in Dec Gracie told me she liked Bill....and she was mad at him cause he wasnt emailing her back....or something like that.....well then....Bill and Sara went out....and i was jsut wondering how gracie really feels about that. You know what i mean? like no offense to anyone but if i liked someone and my best friends knew that and then went out with the guy i liked...i would feel a little hurt. I dont know anyway i emailed Gracie asking how she felt about it. So well see if i get a reply although i wont write it down most likely....but i just thought i would share that cuase im not really sure why...and no its not any of my choir friends so dont think im talkig nabout you. 
I leave tomorrow for the Great Smokey Mountain Choral Competition. I will be gone thru Sunday.It should be fun! i am looking forward to it. It was a blast last year and will be fun this year. oh and i am also entering the solo competition....YIKES! Well see what happenes lol.
Anyway I should go I still have a lot to do.
Mindy
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Mar. 20, 2006 - changed in 48 hours
Ok as I was saying before I was going ot TN for and retreat. It was the best weekend of my life....and i am dead serious to. Ill explain some of it...and some of it mihgt not be so clear.....but if you have any question feel free to ask them. I will be more then glad to share the answer.
I started off really wanting to go...then thursday i got scared a little because I would be spending the weekend with John my youth pastor...and I told one of my friends I dotn want to go....even though i did want to go.
So i get to the church thursday afternoon and im excited again...I saw who was going and im like this will be a good group of kids going....we got on the bus and the way there everyone had out their ipods and cell phones and stuff. Well we got there aroud like 8 o clock pm....we were told to unload the bus and get everyhting off it...then we started to get off and they told us nevermind to get back on...then we turned everyone around and then they told us to get off again....we laughed about it....we then unloaded al the stuff on to the ground, dirt, rocks, whatever you want to call it. then we went into a building for dinner. So that was the mess hall....it had alot of tables....as the kids started to sit down Ms. Denise told us we had to sit with our tribes and then called out everyone who was in our tribe. 3 girl group 2 boy groups. in my tribe was me, melanie, hannah lumme, amanda (something), ashley ray, nikki wright, abby gray, and rebekah hendriks.It was a good group of girls. Ok well we ate and we laughed the whole time over stupid stuff that was going on at our table. Well then ms. denise told us we had to come up with a tribe name, and tribe sound, and a 1 minute skit of how our tribe got the name. well we couldnt come up with anything....we did figure out that our sound needed to be laughter...so ms denise helped us out and we became the hyenas...hehe. Our skit was about a hunter (hannah0 hunting buffalos (me and ahsley) and missed...then she aimed agian and hit a person (nikki) and the hyenas (melanie, abby, rebekah and amanda) came out and laughed.....it was funny and we felt stupid and becuase ms denise loved us so much she mad us go first. wasnt that nice? lol.
We had a seesion and during it mr. dave made us go outside (its like 10 oclock at night in the woods) and stand around the bonfire.....then turn around so our backs we to everything, thne he told us to walk....so we walked and the only way we could get off our path was if we ran into an obstical. we had to wal ktil we heard the whistle blow....then we had to stop and wait for the other wishtle before we could go back inside.....it was neat htough. after our session we were able to go to the bonfire and hang out. At the end PJ one of the interns lead worship songs around the camp fire...it was neat. Then it was bed time. In my room it was me, mel, and ms denise...our other roomie left us and went across the hall. we had 2 bunks so 4 beds in each room down the girls hall....we had 8 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, 2 of which were boys but the boy were not alowwed dow nthe hall unless it was shower time for them....then we werent allowwed doen the hall. but anyway....the next morning we have to be in the main room by 6 30....we were then told to go outside with our prayer partner and pray with them then do our quiet time. Melanie was my prayer partner. In some ways i wished i had a different prayer partner but i am glad it was mel.
during our quiet time we read Matthew 14: 22-33. that was our passage for the weekend....thats where jesus walked on water....well as we were reading it we were asked to pray to God and listen for the answer to your prayer. So as i was sitting there outside in the middle of no where jsut watching Gods beauty i got an answer. the answer was "Everyhitng will be ok...it will all work out" And as many of you know I have been struggling with alto of stuff lately...and one of the biggest was John...well the answer kept coming and i accepted it...we then went inside for a session. They told us stories and we read from Matthew 14 again .Well Ms. denise told a story of her past life....and her struggles. She said that we all have boxes and she puts all her stuff in those boxes. She said that she does the whole thing where she gives god one box but keeps one to herslef. and she has been throug halot and has had to give many boxes to God. Well she said that she was giving a box to God but still had ahold of one side...so they were playing tug-o-war over the box...well she is finally to the point where she is haning on with one hand and that hand is slipping. anyway that really stuck out to me...cause like i realized that i had boxes and was doing the same thing.
Well after taht we had a time of silence and solitude....another quiet time....but we had 2 hours this time. so i went to the lake prayed with my partner then broke off and read my bible and prayed. Then after an hour or so i was ready to walk...well melanie came up to me and was like you wanna wal ktogether then ryan collins comes up and he starts walking with us. We were just walking not talking and John and mr. dave came up to us...who were laughing and stuff....and John was like give me the owrds of silence and solitude...whats silence mean...and no one talked...hes like what solitude mean...im like being alone. and hes like yeah you cant do that when your listening to Ryan talk...i was soooooooo mad...so we all went our seperate ways and i told God how i was feeling...and just the whole thing from that mornign kept coming back "its all gonna be ok" so then i wrote some encouragement cards after i had cooled down....and in most of them i wrote something liek 'if you ever need me dont hesitate to come to me....it doesnt matter the size of them problem...just come" welll later i gave them all out and stuff and it was fun. well backing up...when i was done writing some of them some boys came up and is all like" were going cannoeing....im like ok...well that started everyone on it and it became noisy. So i went insdie to mrs kim and was like "mrs kim john got on to me mel and ryan for walking together earlier, we went talking just walking, and theres some kids out there in cannoes laughing and being really loud." well she told me to go find john....im like ugg....so i go and find him and hes on his way to stop them...so i didnt say anythign to him. well then we went inside for another session....oh wait before silence and aolitude we did get to eat breakfast lol.
Anyways....we had a session...again reading from Matthew 14. And then after that we went to lunch.
After lunch we had some team building time and had a rope course. John broke it up girls and guys...the girls did the low ropes and the boys did the high rpes first. well we did this number thing where we had to get the numbers 1-30 by touching each one in order....but the trick was all these numbers were in this big box on the ground and you had to jump to get them....but you had to work as a team....so everyone was workign together..w.e had 2 teams and we were trying to bet eachothers score...but if 2 people we in the box at the same time, or if you touched more then one number, or if you skipped a number, or if you touched 2 numbers in a row then you were disqualified...my team won! yeah our best score was 52 seconds...lol...
then we did this maze thingy... you were standing on ropes and had to get to fro mthe begining to the end....but there were obstacles in the way...like trees, and you had to go around them....and the ropes werent real sturdy and if you fell then the first person would have to go to the end....it was fun...the average time is like 25 minutes and we took over 30 HAHA! it was fun though....then our last one on the low ropes was a wall....it was between 10 and 12 feet tall...and we had to get everyone over the wall.....only 2 poeple could be at the top to help pull up but once you went over the wall you could help lift people to the top....so the last person had to jump...it was FUN! we took over 30 minutes for that 2. then we went to the high ropes...they had a rock wall, a zip line, and a swing.
The rock was fun...me and karen went up together we both made it about half way before we fell....i ended up on my back it was funny. then we tried it again....we made it up about half way again. then we went to he swing....the swing was 60 feet high and the only thing keeping you up was the harness and the cord....so it was kindof freaky....everyone stood up there for like 30 minutes before they jumped....once yo uwere tied up you would jump left into thin air....it was creepy. the hardest thing was waiting for the cord to catch...you were falling...you feel about 30 feet before the cord caught....oo and as we were up there amanda the girl in my tribe was hurt....so once i got down i like ran over to her...she feel down 5 stairs on the ladder getting off the zip line. They said it wasnt broken but she needed to stay off of it....so mrs tracy brought her car up and 4 members of my tribe left to go back to the cabin. So then after they left mrs kim, karen and i went to sip line which was 1000 feet in the air...and it was a hike!! We had to climb up the mountian to get there....we were out of breath! lol.
well we went and it was a thrill. I had alot of fun on the rope courses....it was good team building time.
Then we got back and had like 45 minutes so girls had showers for 20 thne the boys....well i also found out since amanda was hurt and couldnt go down to dinner they were bringing her food....and 3 other meals for some of us to stay with her....well that would only be 4 meals and 5 were staying....so we were going to split the meals so none of us had to go down to the mess hall.
Then we hada session...and we were taught the 7 I AMs of Jesus from John..and it was funny we learned a story to remember them all....and if your one of my friends at home ask me to show you it and i will....its got hand motions...its funny....anyway im gonna tell the story....
In the middle of the ocean is a HUGE loaf of bread. And on this loaf of bread is a light house....on the bottom of the light house is a door. Out of the door comes a shepherd and hes rolling a HUGE stone down a path and on this path is a vine. The END!
Here they are....he is the bread of life, the light, the gate or door, the good shepherd, the ressurection of life, the way the truth and the life, and he is the vine...and there you have it the 7 I AMs of Jesus.
Well after that session was dinner...i decided i was going to go down to the mess hall and get my own meal but il bring it back up. So i did....it was chicken and kind of gross...
After dinner we had another session....and it was great. Then after that we had a bonfire again. well amanda wanted to go to bed so melanie was helping her to bed and i started cleaning up the trail of water from amandas ice pack lol....well amanda took 2 steps and is sobbing...i made her sit down and i put her foot on my leg...mrs karen looked at it and then we carried her to bed.....after giving her medice and her saying she was going ot bed mel and I cleaned up the ice mess....which made it all the way to the front row and the the back row...lol.
The bonfire was great PJ hung out with us and was asking us qustions....then we sang songs....it was great...then we went to bed....
We got up and had to be in the room agian by 6 30 we had cumunion...John said that if your not right wit hGod you need to fix it before you go and take comunion. He also said that if someone in this room has done you wrong then you need to fix it with them...well i new then i needed to go to john....i didnt want ot and i tried to fight it off..but i couldnt....the voice of God was telling me i had to tal kto him...so i was like ok on the count of 3 ill get up...1...2...3...andi didnt move...lol...i kept saying on of those verses from the passage from matthew...'take courage! it is I! dont be afraid!" i had to keep telling myslef that....well as i was about to get up melanie did...and im like ok shell deal wit hit first then i will...well when she was done she was crying and im like ok i cant do this! well i got up and before i started talking i was crying...sobbing actually....and i talked to joh nand i wont get into that here...but everything is all ok now...which is great!
Then i took communion....ok so you have now heard 2 of the times God has spoken to me on this trip...he spoke to me 3 times....the 3rd time was actually friday night and i thought it was my own voice so i kept pushing it aside...well it kept saying "go pray wit hkaren" and i didnt want to...i mean i did but i dont like praying aloud....well so saturday mornig comes and i still havent....so after i finish breakfast im like ok its now or never....so i go and i pull her outside...and we talk for a minute and im like ok is there anythign you want me to pray about...and she said "mindy i had been wanting to talk to you but didnt knwo when i had the opputunity too....."and she went into how she felt empty....and well i pryaed for her and she prayed for me too...i told her somewhat of everything that was happening with Joh nand how i had peace now....but i didnt go into detail on it...but whe nshe prayed she made me cry she said "Thank you for bringing mindy into my life and blessing me...thank you for all of her encouragement' and it made me cry...i had had an emotional weekend and it was truly amazing!
then I pulled abby outside and she said to pray for her parents....she is the oldest of 5 kids...at age 15 and the youngest is 3. and her parents...her mom and step dad...are having a hard time right now..
but i felt so great after the trip...and i am still realy high from it...and like i know everthign will be ok now..
i wish i could share more right now....but i have to go....but i will write more later on it....cause there is domehtings i didnt get to say...and besides the blog is already to long lol.
Till next time,
Mindy
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