Going to Revolve

Today we are going to Revolve in Oklahoma City with the girls youth group. It should be fun. I am excited about going. The only sad thing is that Nicole and Melanie are not going. Nicole has a basketball game and Melanie is going to Silver Ball at her school. We tried to talk them into going but it did not work. I still do not know who I am riding with or who I am rooming with. It should be interesting to find out how many girls are going.

I am really looking forward to hearing Chad Eastham speak. I bought one of his books with my birthday money. It is really good. It is called "Guys like Girls Who...". In it he talks about why guys like girls and that guys like girls who are themselves.
I am also really excited about seeing Hawk Nelson in concert! That will be awesome! Also Group 1 Crew, Krystal Meyers, and Natalie Grant are doing concerts.166 Some of the other speakers are Jenna Lucado (Max Lucado's daughter) and Danielle Kimmy (whom I have never heard of). I am so glad I get to go because I did not think I would be able to go becauase of money problems. But I talked to Robbie about it and there was a scholership available. I was happy about that. :) So now we just have to go meet everyone at church.

Revolve and B-day party

I am excited because next Friday I get to go to Revolve! It will definitely be fun. The bands that are going to be there are: Hawk Nelson, Krystal Meyers, Group 1 Crew, and Natalie Grant. The speakers are: Chad Eastham ( I have one of his books, it is really good), Jenna Lucado, and somebody that I can not remember their name. Our youth group is who we ( Courtney and I) are going with. I think that there are more ladies going than teenagers, I guess we need a lot of chaperons. Ha ha ha. I cannot wait!

Tomorrow is Nicole's surprise birthday party. Courtney and I are making a scrapbook type thing of our memories with her. It is probably the last creative project we will do together for a while. While we did not fight horribly, there were still some arguments. Lol. I hope she likes it. We put pictures from our girls day out a couple of Sundays ago. We also came up with nicknames for each other, I am anybody, Courtney is nobody, Melanie is somebody, and Nicole is everybody. We put in a poem type thing on the last page using our nicknames, I hope she laughs at it.

Chaos in my life

So we found out yesterday that Grandpa has Merca ( i think that's how it's spelled) which is a blood infection that is very hard to get over. He also has pneumonia and his lungs still have liquid in them. It will take another 24 hours to know whether or not the antibiotics are working.

This week is just complete chaos. We have had basketball and play practice almost every night. Tonight I have a bball game and then right after the game we have to book it to dress rehearsal for the dinner theater. We had to do the same thing on Tuesday only we missed half the game. I was not very happy. But Nicole and I talked to Liz because we both have games today and got her to move dress rehearsal to 7:30 instead of 7. And yesterday I just kind of broke down at church. I guess I needed to. I talked to Dyane and that helped some what, but mostly what I need to do is get things straightend out with God.

D-Now and Thoughts on Marriage

D-Now was really good this weekend. I learned a lot. The whole weekend was about purity, Joel was the speaker. He did a very good job I thought. It really made me think. On Friday night we washed each others feet. It was awesome! Robbie went around and washed every ones feet and then he gave us the opportunity to wash each other's feet. It was soo cool!

We had our church fall festival on Sunday so all the youth group worked it. That was our mission for the weekend. It was really cold. So Brittney and I were shivering because we were doing tattoos. Our hands were really cold from putting them in the water. But other than that it was a good weekend.

I got to see Courtney on Sunday. It's been fun having her live with us. I'm so glad she came. She is doing OK on the bball team. She just has to get in shape and she'll be awesome.

Lately everyone (well not everyone but quite a few people) have been teasingly telling me that in 5 or 10 years I'm going to marry this one guy. They are teasing me and being serious at the same time. But I don't think I will. Just because somebody finds you interesting doesn't mean that you have enough of a relationship to base the rest of your life together on. That's Disney movie thinking. Granted it would be hilarious if I wound up marrying him, but I don't think it's going to happen. I mean God may plan for me to marry someone else. I'm only 17 and while it would be nice to know who I'm going marry, God doesn't work like that. I think that if we knew in advance, we wouldn't grow into the people we need to be. If we already knew everything we were going to go through, there would be no point of living. If you think about it, life would be very boring. So God knew what He was doing when he made us to live in the present only.

So I think for now I'm just going to be friends with boys. There's no point in getting too emotionally involved at this age. It's just a waste of time and energy, that could be spent on better things. Like doing what God wants me to do. I need to focus on that right now.

Weekend

This weekend is crazy! There are so many things going on in our family. Courtney is moving here and my parents have to go pick her up in OKC tomorrow. Aunt Laura is going to Michigan until Monday so Uncle Steve needs Bobby's help with the kids this weekend. And I'm going to D-Now at our church this weekend. Bobby would be going too if Uncle Steve didn't need him. So it's crazy.
I almost wish I wasn't going to D-Now because I don't get to see Courtney until Sunday. But I'll survive. I know God wants me to go to D-Now, but I kind of wish I could go with my parents and pick up Courntey. I'll just have to trust God and know that He knows what he's doing.

To play or not to play...

that is the question. I'm not really sure if i should play volleyball or not. I'm very confused. I guess i need to listen more closely to what God is telling me. Because i need to know by tomorrow!

Youth tonight was really good. I always enjoy youth. I'm glad God has blessed us with FLF. I'm starting to actually have friends so that's nice. :) And we might be starting a girls Bible study soon. That would be awesome!

Mime

So this weekend I signed up to be a mime. It should be interesting. Our performances will be on October 4th and 5th. Which kind of stinks because the 4th is my birthday. So I'll just have to have my party that Sunday afternoon. I still have no clue where I'm going to have it. I can't think of any where I can have it that would fit all the people that I want to invite. Because I'm kind of tired of having it at the park. But I might have to have it there. Oh well.

Currently I'm trying to talk Bobby into praying about playing keyboard for the youth band, but he says he doesn't want to do it. I don't know why. It's not like God's going to punish him for praying about it. I just don't understand him. Or any boy for that matter. I guess I'll just leave him alone for now.

Youth

So youth was good. We didn't have worship because Robbie is working on the cafe which also doubles as the sound booth. So the sound system wasn't set up. Everyone messed around until about 8'o clock, when Robbie started his lesson. It was a really good one. It was on Philippians 4. He talked about how school is our mission field, since we are in school. I don't really know how to apply it to me because I really don't have anyone to witness to in my school. I mean I know I'm already saved and I'm pretty sure I don't have another personality. Pretty sure.
Afterwards Melanie and Jacob played against Robbie and Eric in ping pong. It was hilarious! They were smack talking and jumping up and down. You'd think it was the Olympics or something. We stayed so late our parents got worried about where we were. Once we told them they were fine. So all in all it was a pretty good night.