with exactly one month left...

So today is July 11th...and on Aug 11th at about 7 am or so i will be on a flight back to minneapolis! its so crazy to think that i just have 4 short weeks left. and i have been here for 7 weeks already!

so to start this off i am just sitting here listening to jack johnson relaxing...this week has been a little crazy and different, especially this weekend. it wasnt planned but as of yesterday at about 4 my whole team left. they all went their seperate ways to spend time with their family members this weekend. and so i am here is this church by myself...which can be scary, especially last night...but i made it through!!! so i am pretty proud of myself for that!

well i am just gonna do highlights from the past week:

a. i got to shave heads! we sell YE shirts here on thursday night, and it is my job to sell them, and lots of them. so mark said if we sold 700 dollars worth that he would shave his beard. well one of the participants said that if we sold 1000 dollars he would shave his head, and then another one of the participants, with hair past his shoulders said that he would shave his head if we sold out of a certain shirt. well we did all three! so i went out and got clippers and we had a hair shaving celebration! it was super fun and hilarious! thanks to my dad i have had alot of practice with shaving heads...so i didnt cut anyone's ear off!!

b. we had some awesome people here this week. to of my favs were the taylors...these to guys named taylor were just so cool. and just simply fun to hang out with. we had some mean four square time!

c. foot washing. everything thursday night we do a foot washing during club. it is super emotional and just powerful. we wash the adult leader feet and then they wash their student's feet. well this week was just amazing. after the foot washing i had two youth from long island that wanted to wash my feet. and they prayed for me. and it was just so touching. they just told me about how much i had impacted them this week and how the stories i shared about my life during club just really helped them connect and really begin to find God again. well after that. three others came up and wanted to wash my feet. and prayed for me. then the taylors came over and prayed for me and said that i also helped them connect with God again because they had gone off track and then this amazing girl savanah as well came over and prayed for me. it was just so awesome. all of these youth just were so filled with God and it was such a sight to see. it also just really was a re-assurance for me, that what i am saying during my talks is getting through and God is just really speaking through me!

d. playing mau with the adult leaders. on wed night we had an after hours party with the adult leaders. we started out by playing spoons, and then played this card game called mau. the first rule of mau was that you arent allowed to talk about the rules. so it was a definately a learn as you go game. but it was so much fun. we ended up staying up till 2:30 am..but it was so worth it. then thurs night was also a 3:00 am night..but it was because it was just such a powerful night that people just wanted to talk about life and what God had for them. so it was just great.

e. i learned about P.U.S.H (pray until something happens) last sunday at church pastor Jason gave a sermon on prayer and talked about PUSH, but didnt say too much about it, but then we went to power of tower on wed night and pastor everette really talked about PUSH and how you just have to be in prayer 24/7 and something will happen because God always answers prayers. well then that night i bought a devo book because i wanted something that i could take time each day to really connect. and the next morning i opened the devo book to the date (July 9th) and it was a devo on PUSH..it was soooo crazy. and so God. this week i had really been struggling because i have just been dealing with random things that have been pulling me down, and sometimes i just give up and stop praying about things, but God just reminded me to PUSH Pray Until Something Happens, because he WILL answer!!

so that was the week in a nutshell. i am gonna post some pics in a bit. so you can see what has been going on. a prayer request for me would just be that our team keeps growing together and also that we can give these last few weeks as good if not better then we gave our first!

i love and miss you all and i hope that you are having beautiful days!