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Wow - it’s been
a long time since I’ve updated. So much has happened since then, so now it’s an
intimidating task. But I’ll take a stab at it, maybe an abridged version? A
reader’s digest version of my life? Hehe…. :)
School started
at the UIC pharmacy school last week.
But I’m not there… :) I got in
earlier this spring and decided to go. I was really excited for a little while,
but then I found myself wishing I could stay in columbus or wishing I could move to one of the
new cities too. and I just wasn’t that peaceful about going to pharmacy school
yet. I wouldn’t admit it though, and other saints kept asking me if I was sure
if that’s what I wanted to do, and I always responded, of course…but then one
weekend I was in a meeting, and felt the Lord asking me, are you willing to
give this up for me? From there I fellowshipped with a lot of different saints
and talked to the Lord, and then one day just decided to stay here in columbus. So anyways, here I am, writing this
from good old columbus, ohio…
So for the rest
of the summer, let’s see…we changed our college meeting pretty drastically last
spring quarter. Started a band, I had to learn something about amps and mics,
pa systems, and pickups. Hehe…i think I could possible be technologically
challenged…but anyways, we’re building off that this year and starting a
college meeting on Sunday morning. We’re hoping to meet and help lots of nominal
Christians and especially freshman who are just getting to osu, and hopefully
can start out their college career by beginning a relationship with the Lord! :)
But back to the
summer, we went on the Grand
Canyon advance
in June. It was super fun, we camped on the way out through Colorado and Arizona (it was so beautiful!). we had a
conference in Arizona that was amazing. The saints were so
warm and happy that we were there. And we had a girl, Laura, who started out
the trip kinda thinking all the Christian stuff was weird. And by the time we
were in Arizona, she ended up praying with Liz to
receive the Lord. :)
And then there
was mountaintop, and then the college training, and then the gospel odyssey,
and then I went to California with the mom and Daniel to visit my
grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins. And now I’m back in columbus. And I could talk about all those, except
this is already super long, and if I were you, I probably would have stopped
reading it awhile ago…hehehe…it was awesome though. during the gospel odyssey,
I prayed with a girl for her to receive the Lord!!!!! It was so awesome. The college training was really encouraging
too. I felt, and still feel, so unqualified to be serving the Lord. I mess
things up, or just don’t do enough, or just (and the list goes on…) but David
messed things up a lot! But he had a heart that was after God’s heart, and that
made all the difference. It’s really easy for me to just start doing things
just cause it seems like a good idea, and then kinda checking with the Lord
later. So whether things work or not, many times that’s up to the Lord, but I
need to be always seeking His heart. And of course I’ve already jumped ahead of
the Lord many times since then, but my prayer is that He would slow me down
then once again and just ask Him what is on His heart. :) many of the people around me, including
my brother, were just charged afterwards. Lives were changed – it was
sooooooooo cool seeing people around me making decisions to turn their life
over to the Lord. My dear old roommate mary always said that being a Christian
was a romantic life. i think that after this past 4 or 5 months I’m finally
beginning to understand what she meant. :) and now this post it totally out-of-control and way too
long. I think I might have just published a short story. Hahaha. But now, at
least, my xanga is officially updated. :)
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