Last week

In exactly one week I'll be in Auckland getting ready to fly out.

I am excited, planes used to be the one place I'd feel at home. But only this time i won't be going on another adventure with my family following God's call.

I am following God, but I am stepping out by myself this time.

It is good though.

I feel so excited to see everything that God will do during these 6 months!

At the same time, it is hard leaving. I'll be leaving my parents "umbrella", my boyfriend, my friends, and my church.

I'll be back, but it's always hard saying goodbye.

Thank you God for being with me during this time! I can feel you watching over me, and going before me =)
.

Farmer girl for a day

Lewis, my boyfriend, had been working at a dairy farm for the past couple months. They just came out of their extremely busy season of calving. I have been to the farm a couple times, and I had tried milking as well once. But I thought it would be really neat if I could walk in Lewis' shoes for a day (just to see how it really is-and mind you I really love being outdoors and working with animals)

So I did.

I woke up at 3:30am, got to the farm at 4:00am to move cows for feeding. Milking was at 6:30am and we worked with the cows and feeding the calves till breakfast 10:30am-11:00am. After that we worked on the farm, you know just doing things that farmers do :), till lunch at about 1ish. That was a 45mins, then it was back to work and milking till 6:15pm. After dinner, Lewis had to move more cows, but honestly I couldn't muster up any more strength.

I had a new deep apreaciation for all farmers, and espeacially Lewis.

But even though I was wasted, I had a really good day and I would do it again.

.

First of many

Sooo, last night went well.

It was so amazing being up there and talking (it seemed like to myself) for 25 mins. =)
A very interesting experience, I must say.

As a youth group we are in a series called 'Jesus Christ', so I looked at an aspect of Jesus that we, as Christ followers should follow. That was Jesus' relationship with his Father. They were ONE. And Jesus wanted us to be ONE with him and the Father.
I shared a bit of my journey to being close and looking into God's heart.

Overall I think it went well. It was my first time speaking, so I can already think of heaps of things I can improve on, but I definetly felt God's presence (helping me if nothing else).

So yea, I had a few of the girls share with me about how they could totally relate and they were able to let go of some things, surrender, and get on that journey of discovering God's heart....WHICH is, by the way, so encouraging and the reason why I spoke and the reason why I am a youth leader.

Enuf said

Thanks for your prayers!

.

Speaker

The nerves have started...the excitement is there...the message is coming together.

Yes, my first message ever :)
I knew the day would come when I would preach, but did I see it coming this fast?
Well, at the beginning of this year God placed a message on my heart for the youth of our
youth group. It's taken a few months, but I am now able to bring it forward to them.

So tomorrow night, I will be speaking to aprox 100 kids between the ages of 13-18.
Yikes! But I am very excited and hopefully prepared. ;)

Planner

I sometimes just really struggle understanding myself.

I am a planner. Like last night, I'll plan in my dreams and wake up exhausted.
But then other times I lack planning and double or even triple book myself into things.

lol What is up with that?
Can't i just decide already...am I organized or unorganized?

First entry

Wow!

First blog entry.

Funny that I am doing this even though I told mom I'd
never start anything like it :P

So here we go...keep updated with my life journey through this blog.

I'll try to keep it up to date :)