My Crazy "Vida"

Wow I haven’t written on here in forever….Ever since school got out its just been crazy. Ok I’d better pick up where I ended the last time. Well ok so it really, really stinks because we don’t get out of school until like the very end of June!!! So like they make graduating each grade extremely big where as in the states people don’t do really anything. So ALL of middle school, which were like 20 people, had to do a dance and it was not fun at all. We had to wear really short shorts and a vest and mine didn’t fit at all but yea it was interesting. During the last week of school the awesomest Muskogee peps I know came to Mexico for the second time. It was awesome. I had so much fun and God did great things that week. I can’t wait to see them again next year. So while they where there I got to play hooky a couple days which was AWESOME, but like I wasn’t missing anything because we had already finished all our work and were just watching movies and hanging out. The only reason we had to go was because the school district said we had to have so many days of school. Three days before school was out the awesomest people from Indiana came and had a great time I got to help them lay tile at this church and it was really cool. Once school got out I was only in Mexico for like 3 or 4 days then we where on our way to the USA! We drove to it took us like three days and 36 hours of driving and I was internally bored (LOL Monica)! When we got there we stayed in a house in the middle of no where that the amazing Chad and Janice let us barrow. It was such a blessing and so much fun. The house was really close to their two sandpits. One of them they use to get sand for concrete and the other one is just to have fun. We had a chance to go there a couple times and swim and we had a blast. I got to see tons of friends and family while I was there. We stopped by Tulsa for 3 days and I hung out with some of the girls that were in my class. I also got to see my Grandma Loretta and Grandpa Rodger in GB for a week and my Grandpa Gary and Grandma Treva in Lansing. It was so good to see everyone again. While I was in the US I got to go to the SALT YOUTH services in GB! I also got to go to the Antioch Conference in Kansas City with all the awesome people from GB. The conference was amazing. The presence of God was so there. We went to the mall and had tons of fun! I had the opportunity to speak at two churches. I spoke at the awesome Muskogee church. I stayed at Brandi’s house and we hung out and had an awesome time. After church that night we had a party at her house with all the people that came to Mexico. I also spoke to the youth group in GB, Kansas. They are awesome and it was really fun. I had so much fun in the states and it was great to hang out with all the awesome people. When we got back to Mexico, we saw how the church had grown so much. The last couple Sundays we have had to add basically all the chairs possible. School started about like 3 weeks ago and the first day I walked in to my classroom, which is like 7 feet from the gate to get in and totally separated from all the other middle school classrooms (yes I am in 9th grade which is of course usually highshool in the US but here 7th -9th grades are considered middle school or secondary), I looked at the lookers and notice there were only three the other two had the names of two other boy. This meant that I was the only girl in my class AHHHH!!! But school’s going good and the boys are pretty cool so its all good. Last weekend we started having two services because of growing so much I went really well and I’m really excited. God is doing amazing things in Mexico. I’m helping out a lot in children’s ministry and I am so enjoying it!

True Friends

TRUE FRIENDS, people say you're blessed to have one in a lifetime; I must be super blessed because I have a lot! I've lived in a lot of places, some places for only a year or so, but in every place I've found TRUE FRIENDS; people that like you and accept you for who you are, people you can be yourself around without being ashamed or feeling obligated to put on an act, you know that if you leave they will sincerely miss you and that if you ever come back everything will be just the same. They are like family and are really close to your heart and if they were ever gone you know they would take part of it with them. I just want to say thanks to all the TRUE FRIENDS out there, I hope you know who you are. You are very appreciated, by me and I'm sure by others also. You guys make the world a better place to live in and I love you guys sooooo much!

I BELIEVE

Random Life:)

Hey guys...I'm pretty bored so I'm just gonna write randomly. So did you guys seen the finale of American Idol!?!? I was so surprised that David Cook won...everyone thought David Archuleta was gonna win and all the judges predicted it. I think they sabotaged him:( Well I think they we're both great and would buy both of their albums. Oh I'm sooooooo extremely happy about going to the states this summer. I can't wait to see all my friends and family! I think we're gonna be there for 6 weeks or something like that. school's been really, really fun lately. Today we barley had any classes. They switched up our schedule all weird. We had PE in the morning and we usually have it in the afternoon and then the rest of our classes were all messed up. It was really fun. Oh and then the last 3 hours we watched LITTLE RASCALS (Porky Rocks) and I fell asleep 'cause I was soooooooo cold so I laid down on my desk to keep warm and I ended up falling asleep for like an hour and a half. I've been playing a lot of volleyball lately. It's my new favorite sport. I'm getting pretty good and it is a ton of fun. I like diving down and hitting the ball. I really want to play when we go to the States in like a year and a half. My friend and I play together in between classes almost everyday. We are volleyball freaks! LOL:) Me and my friends like to ride around in Haley's (a friend from school ) golf cart. The problem is now it is kinda broken so, therefore, we don't use it very much anymore. I'm very, very close to my parents and my 'lil sis. Just being away from most of our family and everything that used to be familiar makes us just get really, really close. My mom and I hang out and go drink coffee and set on the beach and talk. I tell them everything. One thing that's really awesome about being here is the new family you get. I have so many people that are just like family and that really care about me. Its so cool. The Norvell's are so awesome. I'm at their house all the time! I can tell them anything also. They are really cool. Brianna (their daughter who is in 6th grade) is like my sister. We hang out all the time. She's really cool to be around. The Castro's are awesome people too. They are really fun to hang out with. and their three year old daughter is so cute. Monica and Danielle are like my sisters/aunts. I hang out with them all the time. They always come over and just watch TV or whatever at my house. It's tons of fun. I've also met some really neat friends at church! Vicky is also a missionary kid here and she goes to our church. She speaks German, English, Spanish, Hebrew and some french. She has lived in a whole bunch of places. Noemi and Raquel are twins and they also go to our church. Their mom is a good friend of my mom. My dad takes all those peps to church every Sunday, plus Vicky's sister Lucy and her friends. On Saturdays some of the people from our church go out to a little community in Mazatlan and do a children's service there. The kids are so sweet and receptive. I love going out there. Its so cool to think that I am doing what I have always wanted to do all my life! I'm able to go out and minister to kids. Its soooo awesome. We have started a youth group at my church. It's sooo good...every week it's even more awesome. I've been able to take some friends from school to it.It's been a really cool experience. I'm really ready for school to be out. We get out later than the States, but we start later also...so it all ends up evening out but it stinks to still be in school and everyone in the States are out. I'm trying to think of things to talk about............ Last Saturday I went with my youth group to a really awesome service at a different church. There were so many teens there. The church could probably hold like 250 people and IT WAS TOTALLY FULL. There we're kids from other cities there. It was amazing. This week my dad is in this town called Culiacan. He preached at a church there last Sunday and this week he has been working in the bathrooms at a church there. Its cool how he's going into other towns to minister. :)Brianna just got a dog from her friend who's dog had puppies. Right after the puppies' were born the mother got ran over by a car. Bri brought her new ten day old puppy over to my house today. Her name is Nicole, she's a blond and is extremely small and cute, you can hold her in your hand! We have a Chihuahua named Emma:) We got her from Vicky's neighbor(my friend from church remember). She is so cute and energetic. When she first came home she was really lazy but now she has changed a lot. The food here in Mexico rocks. There is a restaurant called Q Cotoros that sells the best taco's in the world. There are some candies here called Dulci Gomas and some called Panditas and they're both very, very good. Today I tried some that are supposed to taste like Coca-Cola and they remind me kinda of Bottle Caps except gumies. They taste interesting. Right now it is 8:56 and I'm pretty tired. I don't wanna go to bed, though:P LOL I can't think of anything else to right 'cause yea I'm not inspired anymore. Well... I better go before you get bored:) I'll talk to you guys later!!!

You have an extra $1,000,000 to give away; you cannot spend it on yourself. What would you do with the money?

Hmmm thats hard.... Well to start I'd give some to my church. I'd like to buy school supplies and tons of stuff for kids in Africa and I would take a missions trip there to give it to them. I'd help some churches around the world. And give some to a whole bunch of organizations. I think this would be really cool because I could bless a lot of people. Hey leave comments and let me know what your answer would be.

A Day In My Life

Hey guys! I'm going to describe a typical Tuesday in my life.

I wake up at 5 or 5:30 depending on what I feel like. I take a shower, put my school uniform on, do my hair and read my devotional. I hang out in my room until about 6:30. Then I go out and eat breakfast. Around 6:45 I leave my house and am on my way to school. When I get there I go to my class room and set down my stuff. After that I usually play volleyball until class starts. My first class is Literature then Math, then Spanish. I then have a 10 minute break during which I usually play volleyball. Next my classes are Civics (which is like values), and Math. After these two I have lunch. Our LUNCH area is a lot different then most schools in the states and during this time most kids just eat snacks since the actual lunch meal is after school. It is outdoors and like we basically have recess and lunch combined. We have like 4 picnic tables and some benches. After that, I have sports, Physics and Computers. By then it is 2:30 and school is over. After school I have volleyball until 3:30. After volleyball I go home and change and eat some lunch. For the rest of the afternoon I hang out and do my homework. At about 7 we watch TV and at 9 we watch American Idol. At about 9:45 I start getting ready for bed and at 10 I'm in bed.

Update

Hey guys, School just started and I had a really long break so it was really nice to be able to hang out with my family and friends. I went to ski retreat with the Assemblies of God church in Great Bend and I had such a blast. It was so much fun. I went with my family and friends to the pool twice and if I don't say so myself I'm rather tan:). My family and I also went to a little town which was called San Ignacio and did some exploring. After exploring San Ignacio we went to a different town to eat lunch at a restaurant that had a parrot. My little sister really liked seeing it talk. Me and Brianna also hung out a bunch and we had a lot of fun. I really enjoy relaxing and just having a break from all the school work and homework.

How Cute

Carne

Umbrella (Christ mix)