The Last First Day

My last first day of high school was great. I am blessed to go to a school which seeks to glorify God in assisting parents to train their children both mentally and spiritually. They do it in a way which gives all families an opportunity for their children to receive a Christian education. I have thrived in this atmosphere for three years. I have learned to know and seek God under godly mentors and teachers who have invested their very lives in my own. I am so thankful, thankful to my God, my family, my brothers and sisters in the Lord, and my mentors and teachers. God is so good! Glory to His name alone!

Last Day Before School Starts!

My last day of Summer Break has been laid back. Sewed up my skirt after letting out the side and bottom hem. Yes, I'm getting fat, but taller too. I guess they weigh (ha, ha) each other out. Maybe not. Anyway, I tried to call the veterinarian clinic and got the wrong number. The guy wanted to know who I was calling. I told him, but he didn't understand until a few seconds later because I guess I have never learned to say veterinarian correctly. I say vetanarian. That's what I get for growing up here. Although it is quite humorous and makes for a great story.

Below are pictures of my dog. He got groomed today. It is all his fault I got the wrong number.

Lightning- Before

Lightning- After

Back to School Tomorrow

My last day of Summer Break has been laid back. Sewed up my skirt after letting out the side and bottom hem. Yes, I'm getting fat, but taller too. I guess they weigh (ha, ha) each other out. Maybe not. Anyway, I tried to call the veterinarian clinic and got the wrong number. The guy wanted to know who I was calling. I told him, but he didn't understand until a few seconds later because I guess I have never learned to say veterinarian correctly. I say vetanarian. That's what I get for growing up here. Although it is quite humorous and makes for a great story.

Lavame!!!

I haven't posted a picture in a long time. This one has a great story behind it! I happened during the most awesome mission trip ever. Well, I've only been on one, so I don't have anything to compare it to.

School starts in three days:( I guess most people in my position(a Senior!) would be excited, but I'm having a hard time getting excited. As Mr.Y says,"You should be excited about serving the Lord everyday." This leads to being excited about your whole day in general. Everything I do I should do for the Lord. This leads me to see God's meaning in even the "smallest" things like crossing my T's and dotting my I's. His meaning is His glory. I want Him to be glorified so I should be excited!

Ok, Ok!

I give up on this whole counting how many days of Summer vacation I've had. What's been going on since I posted last? My family went on our annual vacation. We pin balled to three different cities over the course of nine days. It was lots of fun. I got to spend some real quality time with my family, swim, play a little volleyball, a little softball, totally kill myself trying to do a flip off a diving board four times, see fish and otters and lots of other creative acts of God, and walk a lot! I was ready for a vacation after we got back, but no! Church camp started the next day so I got to do laundry and pack all the items that weren't already packed. I had missed the meetings for the older campers so I didn't find out I was a counselor for sure until they said," Everyone in Tess's cabin...".

Camp went well. I didn't think anyone got saved until I came back from Faith and someone that had visited one of the campers said he prayed to receive the Lord as His Savior. Well, I pray that he was sincere. There was a lot of messages that were helpful to me. B talked about "The Race". There are three positions here. 1) You have never started. 2) Your on it, but you are being slowed or stopped by an/ obstacle(s). 3) Your running the race full speed ahead. I also have somewhat of an accountability partner now. I think this was the greatest blessing to me.

Camp was at a different location this year. There are a few ups and downs though. The Ups: bathrooms in the cabins, beautiful scenery, campfire, hayless hay ride, pontoon boat ride, flat land to play games. The Downs: more people in the cabins(having to keep up and connect with 10 people), no volleyball tournament, less pool time, no crafts, no milk(except with cereal one morning) or juice at breakfast, snacks cost extra, paying almost 2x as much as last year. I can't think of anything else right now.

Since then, I've been hanging out at home waiting for school to start): I also started babysitting last week. It has been fun. I'm still young enough to remember my babysitters. I can remember the fun things and the not so fun things. I've tried to come up with things that would be fun. One day we played balloon volleyball. Another time we played with the water hose and had a water balloon fight.

My future has been a popular subject lately. If I'm supposed to go to college, now would be a good time to figure where. I want to be a missionary, but if I ever have to come home I need to have a way to support myself. I just don't know would best fit my personality, abilities, interests, and so on. I don't want to make the wrong decision. That doesn't seem like a valid fear. If there is anyone out there reading this, please pray that seek the Lord with all my heart. Once I have my relationship with Him, nothing will I fear. Perfect love casts out all fear. His love is perfect. My love? Definitely not perfect.