Faith Camp

Last year in July I went to a camp, that changed my life. Here is the post that tells about what happened. I really don't think I would be what I am today without that camp. My life as a Christian before that was bad. I hated God, I was angry and hurt. But God touched my life, he turned my life upside down and put my heart on fire for him. Now my family is in missions, and its been almost a year since then. Wow, time goes by fast. I'm talking about this right now because I want to go back to that camp. Its an amazing place, where you can be put on fire and serve God and each other. Here is a link to the website. My family has been praying, it going to take a lot of money to send me and three of my siblings. Its going to take almost $3,000 to get us there. My family doesn't have that money. So I'm asking, if you fill God stirring in your heart to donate to us, please do. This is in God's hands, if he wants me and my siblings to go, he will send the money. If he doesn't, the money won't come.

May God Bless all of you,

Abi

Quick Post

This is just a quick post to say that SSME starts tomorrow! I'm so excited about it. :D All but two of the participants are here, they come tonight at 10:00 ish. This month is going to be so packed! But amazing. Its great to see the senior missionaries again, and meet a new little one. Next time I post I'll try to post pics. :D
Blessings,
Abi

Quotes

Rejoice!

This morning in our morning prayers there was a line that particularly stuck out to me. Here it is from Psalm 63: In the shadow of your wings I rejoice.

I guess it was just a reminder to me, God is always there for me and for you. He hides us in the shadow of his wings. And we should rejoice because of that fact. There was another line in Psalm 63 that says, For you love is better than life. Wow. That strikes hard. Better than life? Better than my parents? My siblings? My friends? Yes. God's love is bigger and better than all of those put together! God is amazing. Period. :D

So will you rejoice with me?

Abi

June

June is going to be a busy but fun filled month. Today our missionary partner Sid is going down to pick up some more missionaries!! I can't remember if I told y'all or not so I tell you again. This month we are having a group down and with them we are doing SSME. Its a month long school where you learn head on what missionary life is like. We are all very excited about it, there will be four missionaries who help to lead it, James among them. Then next week the participants will come and then it starts.

More updates soon!

Abi

Cute article that I found...

Date a girl who reads {Rosemary Urquico}
(I got the images from this blog)



Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.
Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.
She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.
She has to give it a shot somehow.
Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.
Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.
You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.
You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.
Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.

Happy Easter and Mothers day and oh Gosh

Sorry I didn't even stop by to say Happy Easter, thank God I'm Catholic and get to celebrate Easter for 50 days! And I didn't say Happy Mother's day either. Happy Mother's day. And today is my parents 17th wedding aniversary, but I didn't forget it. ;) Tonight my parents are going to a movie here at the cinnima. My dad keeps telling people they haven't gone to the movies just the two of them in almost 10 years. So that should be fun for them. Tomorrow myself and some of my siblings and our mission partner are going to a Vocations Fair. Basically you get to hang out with nuns and priests all day. I think it will be a lot of fun, even though I'm pretty sure I'm called to the married life. :) Anway there is a short update post!

May God Bless you.