The continuation....

Is that how you spell continuation?? it looks funky but the lil spell check thing says its right. oh well



K so right now I am sitting like right by the window stealing internet from some house near by cuz my internet is still screwed up. Where's Christopher when you need him??

I just got back from church. 24/7 was being introduced to G-Life which is their jr high ministry here and so the three teams did their intro skits that we made up and then just hung out with the jr highers. I've decided I totally love G-Life. Their pastor lady is freakin awesome! She is so flippin hilarious I about pee my pants. I would rather listen to her preach than the college and young adults pastor guy that we listen to sunday nights (is that bad??) anyway it was kinda funny/ironic cuz she preached on purity.

Not the usual save sex for marriage kidna purity but like keeping your heart pure in general. Something I honestly hadn't thought a whole lot about and she told this story about this jr high kid a few years back that had been told by his parents that he is not aloud to have a girlfriend. He says ok.

Ya so then he meets this girl at G-Life and they "fall in love" (of course) so he decides to make her his girlfriend anyway. (of course) and they come up with this sneaky way to communicate by as soon as she emails him she will call his house and then hang up and then he knows to run to the computer and check his email and then reply and delete it really quick. (through all of this I'm having hardcore flashbacks and going omg I totally did that) so needless to say this plan didn't work for very long and they eventually get caught and he gets all mad and is talking to the jr high youth pastor lady (oh her name is Amber btw) so he's all mad and saying how unfair it is and they don't understand and he loves her and all this and she says to him.

"I'm not denying that you have feelings for her, I'm sure you do and I'm sure they are real. But do you love God?"

and he's this great kid and is totally in love with God and he's all like "yes of course I do."

and she says "do you believe that everything in the bible is true and we should do everything it tells us?"

and he's all like "ya of course"

and she goes "well did you know that the bible says you gotta honor your parents?"

and he says "well ya but..."

she cuts him off, "ya there's no buts. Sorry kid if you really believe that the bible is God's word and that we need to do everything it says you can't have but's. And I know that honoring your parents sucks sometimes, but you know what if you honor them, and by doing so you're honoring God, then he will bless you for that."

She went on with saying that so often with God we will tell Him that we give Him everything and we wanna serve Him but....we wanna hold onto this....

God you can have everything....but this...



I was on the edge of my seat the whole sermon. She said a lot more but I didn't have paper to take notes with so that was all from my shaky not reliable memory. But anyway that really hit me hard and I wished so so much that I had heard that when I was in jr high. I'm sure I had heard it but not in that way. Not in the loving way. So ya I'm really excited about their jr high ministry I think it's gonna be awesome.



I had this thought. If we could get jr high kids saved and really living for God while their still in jr high, think how much easier the sr high youth pastors are gonna have it. Why not get them saved and discipled before they get too screwed up? Wouldn't that be easier? That way they won't hafta go through and do a lot of the things that we all had to.

I don't know I just had that thought the other day on one of our long hikes where I didn't have anything to do but walk and think and try to not fall on my face.



Anyway...I really hope I can retain all the information that I have in my brain right now and everything I'm learning until this is all over so I can write it all down cuz there is so much I don't want to forget that I just don't have time to write or type. But for right now that is all I have time for.



Thanks for reading, sorry I ramble a lot.

Peace.


P.S.

Dude ok you would not believe what I had to go through to post this stupid blog! As I hit the publish post button my internet dies...(of course) luckily blogger is wonderful and saves drafts every like 2 seconds or I would be very angry...anyway so I go searching for internet and finally find a connection at the days inn motel. So I am sitting in my car in the days inn parking lot using their internet...is that sad?...don't answer that.

On another note I discovered a secret that I am going to share with you but only because I am a very nice person and I love you. (that and all of like 1 person reads this) You can go to starbucks and buy a venti iced whatever for like 7 bucks....or you can buy a tall hot whatever you drink (in my case the white moca with extra expresso) and then ask for a venti cup of ice and pour the hot drink into the cup of ice and what do you know...you pour it in and its exactly enough. So you get the venti size for the tall price. ITS A BARGAIN! I feel so sneaky like I cheated the system or something I love it.

Ok ok that is all I promise I'm done, now I must download a whole buttload of music.
Goodbye