A New Direction...Fort Wilderness

This summer I had another major life stone pop up! I went to Fort Wilderness as volunteer summer staff and served there for three weeks. It wasn't that long a period of time, but it was enough to leave a lasting impression, and if possible I will be going back again next year, and the next, and the next.

The job doesn't pay, so suddenly all the other things I was planning on doing are getting kind of distant, and I'm not sure how all of this is going to turn out. But this opportunity just opened up right up out of the blue last spring, and I really feel like this is were God wants me. I think this is just going to be one of those times in my life were I have to let my relationship with God grow and really work on trusting him and following him more.

A place that I can really relate this in my life is my driving. I'll be getting my license this coming year so I have been working on driving with my dad a lot. One of the places that I have trouble is learning to look way down the road at the things that aren't so clear, and just trusting the things that are up close to take care of themselves. I know I have trust issues, especially with God, because I can't see Him, so this will also really be a growing experience for me in that way.

The Fort Wilderness experience is one that is hard to describe. It's a Christian camp that holds week long camps all through the summer. The majority of the help is volunteer staff that comes from all over and they stay in the dorms and the camp. You get to know so many cool people, the staff in your room mostly, but other staff and campers as well.

The joy of serving and working for a such a good cause is also one of the most rewarding things I have ever done. Getting up every morning and working my socks off all day with a whole group of people who really love what they do is an incomparable experience and one that I will most likely never get enough of!

You can be sure to hear more about this because year after year, if God wills, I will be going back to Fort Wilderness!

A New Avenue

Something new and different has just jumped into my life! I swear I didn't expect it, didn't ask for this to happen. But all of a sudden here it is. Have you ever had that thing that you've always wanted dropped right down in front of your nose, and all of a sudden it's so huge you just don't know what to do? Well, welcome to my life right now!

My mom talked to this lady who runs a horse program at a camp in Three Lakes. They take volunteers at the camp all through the summer. We're looking into details and applying now. My dad really thinks that I should go, but I'm just not sure what I want to do right now.

Pray that I'll figure it out and that God will guide me in the way he wants me to go!

The application is also very complex and deep. Pray I'll get through that and do well!

Going to Florida!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is nothing that I have ever done that the excitement could compare to this. My reasons?

# 1: I get to see Nina! I have missed her so much since she moved away! Mostly just because it was Nina, and she is such a great person that it is hard not to miss her. And also because she was Anna Maria's sister, and she really helped me out with that a lot. She is just a such a great person!

# 2: I get to meet the baby, I have no words for how excited and happy this makes me!

# 3: I'm going to Florida! How many fourteen year old girls can say that they've gone to Florida all on their own to see a friend?! How cool is that?

I don't even really know what I want to do, what it's gonna be like, or how I'll spend my time. But there is one thing I know for sure. It's gonna be awesome! And I'll never forget this one!

No time to blink

It's a funny thing life when your growing up. You get to this certain age and it's all work, school, and movies. And it just flies by so fast! I can't believe that my summer of work is almost over and that I will be starting school again soon. It just all flew by, and I don't even really know were it went.

I also can't believe that suddenly I'm doing my last year of math, that I will be sixteen in a little less than two years, how did this all happen so fast! I just don't get it! Life is sweeping by like a whirlwind, and though I don't feel that I'm missing it, I do feel as if it will all be gone if I sleep to much, or close my eyes for too long, or put my mind to anything that seems trivial. The only problem is, so many thing that are necessary by the standards of those above me seem so trivial. So there goes those few moments of life, lost in trivialities.

But that's just growing up I guess.

Steering the Ship

One of my very close friends, who recently moved to Florida with her husband, had her baby. My mom has gone down twice now, and she is there now. Running the house alone, not a job I was really prepared for, expectations over my head, never doing anything right, working my socks off, and I'm constantly behind. On top of that I'm still working! How much can you do?

But the amazing thing of it is. I find great satisfaction in the fact that even now, thrown into this head on, I can still swim. I'm not sinking, I'm staying on top. And I can do this! It's an amazing and exhilarating experience, realizing that the fourteen years that I have been working weren't for nothing, I have been trying to be all that I can be, and I have succeeded! I can run a home, and it is one of the hardest, most rewarding, and most exciting things I have ever done!

Got a Job!

I am now working at Pub n' Prime, best and busiest resturaunt in town. Their food is great, their reputations sours, the people are nice, and they are almost always busy. My job doesn't REALLY have anything to do with these things however, because guess what I do?

Clean, I clean everything, everything and anything they can think of. They name it I clean it. I also do kitchen prep, laundry, flowers and many other odd jobs when the ocasion calls for it.

I have been working there for a whole week now, and then got a vacation, which I really needed, already! The job is pretty hard with lots of hourse on your feet and it just drains me!

My summer schedule has also been thrown down the drain, since nothing is really working the way I had planned. When summer gets started, what with my two jobs, I will be working seven days a week. On top of all that, I also have to do math, history and science, throughout the summer. I also have family, comitments to friends, and horses to take care of. My life is going to be CRAZY!

Then, as if that wasn't enough, guess what's up now? I am SICK, really sick. A bad basic cold with nausia, exhaustion and LORD knows what else thrown in! Hopefully my life gets simpler in a few weeks!

Missing Them!

Most of you probably know, but Nina and Tanner moved to Naples about a month and a half ago.

This post isn't long, just wanted to say that I really miss them. Nina's called me twice now, and we had some nice talks, and she thinks they may be coming up sometime in September.

The really bad part of this however, is that they most likely will not be returning for the baby. I will miss it, and that makes me very sad. However if they come back in Sept. sometime, it will be a little bigger, and very cute! Can't wait to see that little kid!

Anyway! Missing you guys a bunch! Love ya!