ATL (:

This past Monday-Wednesday Alexis, Emily R and I went to Atlanta (by ourselves!). We stayed with her aunt and uncle for the few days that we were there and it was tons of fun!
Monday we left from Alexis' house at six am (whoa) and along the way we went to the very first CHICK-FIL-A!!! It was awesome, we dined in (: Then around one we arrived at six flags and rode pretty much all the rides worth riding and then left around six.
Tuesday, we woke up and went to Warped Tour at eleven, and stayed until six. It was great, except I don't think I've ever heard so much language :o Makes me appreciate that my parents raised me in church and raised me to love God with everything I have, because that was not an atmosphere that I would've wanted to live in! That night we tried to go swimming but it was about to storm and really really cold so we came in, ate a delish key lime pie and talked, then went to bed around twelve.
Then Wednesday we were going to hang out around downtown but we realized we needed to be back at five so we left for Jacksonville around ten am (:
That's pretty much it. Except....
I shall share something I learned from my quiet time. Actually, it was on the way back and I read my Bible a lot of that drive because.....it was the best thing to do for a six hour drive lol.

I've decided that I am going to read through my Bible from start to finish and I was reading in Numbers at the time and out of the many verses I will talk about one that I really liked.

Numbers 12:8 says,
"With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles;
he sees the form of the LORD.
Why then were you not afraid
to speak against my servant Moses?"

I will bet that almost, if not every, Christian has been scared to witness to someone because of some reason or another. I am for sure, I guess because I am scared of a little rejection, or what I will look like when it's over. But right here I believe that God was showing me this to remind me that He is on my side, yes, my Creator and Saviour is with me at all times, so instead of me being afraid of a mere human, shouldn't they be afraid that I have God on my side?
So pretty much what I got out of this in a nutshell is that I shouldn't be scared of witnessing because God is with me and he is ruler over all and if something bad would happen, he will be there to comfort and/or defeat it (:

Summer Tour!

So, as you all probably know, Tour was FANTASTIC! I am really glad I decided to go.
I am overwhelmed with all the stuff I could talk about to you, about how I roomed with Alexis and Emily R in a basement to ourselves (that was amazing), or the freaky door to door inviting haha.
But for starters, one thing that has stuck with me is the saying "You are representing Christ, so have a good behavoir and attitude!"
I usually only hear that on church trips, so my attitude is "Oh hey, I'm with my church inviting people to come hear us worship Christ, I have to act my best for Jesus!" but then I was like "Wait, why do I only have to do this on church trips?"
So I know I'm really really slow but I realized that whenever and wherever I go, I call myself I Christian, and I need to represent Jesus and not disrespect His name. So now instead of just going around saying "Oh yeah, I'me saved" I actually try to think about my descisions and do what Jesus wants.

More to come.

"Swing low, sweet chariot...

...Comin' for to carry me home"

That song has a nice tune (:

Anyways, this past week has been a blast! In most ways at least. I think the only bad part was waking up at atleast seven every morning. Mornings are...yuck, at least the waking up part, other than that they're fine :D

VBS (Vacation Bible School) was going on at my church. Why did I sign up for Recreation when you have to be outside from 9-12? Cause it's flipping awesome! That's why. It was very hot, but so worth it. I signed up for 3rd grade recreation, so technically I wasn't outside every single minute but for the most part I was. I would go up stairs, get a group of about thirty kids and go down outside and hang out with them. So yeah, I was outside for the most part (:

The kids are SO cute! I know there was like, a TON of kids there, but it was cool to hang with them outside and just randomly start talking to a kid, they're easy to talk to, just go up and say "Having fun?" and then they take over haha. Some of them were......well, I can't say, haha. For the most part though they were all well behaved.

The day would start out where we could take the kids to the Playhouse Theater and they would sing, do the pledges, and some other stuff. Then we would take them to the big assembly room for that grade and they would be split up to go to either Bible Lesson, Crafts or Recreation. Then I would go with the kids as already said and just hang.

It's really cool to see what they have to say and how they act, they're so innocent and just want to have fun. I enjoyed it greatly! Next week is looking pretty....un-busy compared to this week but I am so glad that I can sleep in tomorrow. Maybe until like, ten? Awesome!

Besides this week, summer has been pretty good! I have hung out with friends, been to the beach quite a lot, well, like, maybe ten times from when summer started, or almost that much, I don't know exactly. Anna has been gone for like, a week or two now, it's pretty sad. The house is SO quiet, sort of. I mean, it's still loud but not in the way Anna can only make it :) Jessica just left today, that's another bummer :/ But she's only gone for a month, unlike Anna who's gone until AUGUST D: I think I might die.

I hit Jessica's car mirror. Her right one. With my bike. It broke, and she didn't notice until on her way to the airport. I was going to tell her, but then I thought it might be better not to worry her about that before she left, and then I could buy her a new one, but oh well.

I need a job, at Chick-Fil-A at the Town's Center. That would be the best thing ever!

Well I have a dog sitting job this week until tomorrow, so I have to go check up on him and put him away for the night. Tomorrow, sleep in, chores, and Towns Center/Star Trek, awesome!