Thanksgiving Day Yum!!

My new buddy

You know how kids can make you smile even if there is nothing to smile about? Well my buddy Jeremiah Krantz always makes me smile. I came to church tonight so broken in my spirit. I cried all the way to Oroville.I didn't even have the strength to stand up straight. I was all hunched..it was pitiful. I walked in the church and there was my buddy. He drew me this great pic of the Mad Hatter who is a character in Lego Batman. I didn't necesarily feel better but my heart got a little lighter knowing there are some things to smile about. My buddy and the Mad Hatter.If you don't know about this cool dude you probably should read up on him. He wears these cool hats that have a mind controlling power to them. Sooo awesome! So thanks be to God for sending me this sweet kid who has a heart of gold.

Saturday in Sac

Mom,Kevin and I drove to Sac on Saturday to spend a couple hours with Sarah and Jessica. We ate at the Hard Rock Cafe(which was incredibly gross) and walked around. You can see I wasn't in that great of a smiling mood. I was feeling a bit somber. Kev had to push mom up the hill because she couldn't do it.

Mission Service Friday Night

Our foreign mission service was so awesome!!! The props were beyond what I had expected and the service was powerful. Sis Amy Howell sparked something inside of me that I hope just grows and grows. She has traveled all over the world(literally). It was hard to not be a little jealous :) I prayed through over it though haahaha. Then Sis Dodd rocked on the drums. I have never even seen a guy play as well as she did. Everything was just amazing and I cannot wait until next years service. You see the collages on the wall?? Well, Amy,Sis Krantz and Sis Angela and I all did them. I had a ton of fun and it was nice getting to know them a little more.

Just some random stuff

So I have been doing this women's Bible study on the favor of God. I just finished it today and am so happy I decided to do it. Sometimes I struggle with what/where to read in the Bible so doing this Bible study was such a blessing. God has been extraordinarily good to me. One of these days I'm going to write a complete testimony and share it with y'all. 2 more days until mission service!! Pretty soon i'll be counting down the hours lol. Kev and I went to the Krantz' to work on the collages again. Kev spent much of the time playing with the boys but he had a great time. We finished the collages around 11:45 (i think) and then sat and talked with the Krantz'. Everytime I spend time with them I leave incredibly thankful. Sometimes I don't think either of them realize how much of a blessing they actually are. To think that only a few short months ago my Tuesday nights were probably spent partying and there I was at my Pastor and His wife's house having more fun than I ever had partying. Weird huh?!

2 Cor 2:14

Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

Pugalicious

Lamentations 3:22-23

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Aren't these passages beautiful?! Everytime I read them my spirit feels so lifted up and thankful for His mercy. My testimony is proof that God is SO good and His compassion fails not.

Missions Service coming up!

I am super excited about our mission service next Friday. Amy and I were at the Krantz' house last night working on some collages. I have to say that for working it was a lot of fun. Saturday we will go at it again and hopefully finish most of it. Tonight I have decided to not do anything but stay at home and relax. I kept trying to make plans but then decided against them. I really want to use the time alone for me. I need to catch up on my journaling and some other things that I havent been doing lately. I'm so glad God is my refuge and my strength...without Him where would I be.Ha! Actually I know where I'd be...I was there at one point in my life...thank you Jesus for second chances!

Another lovely day (cough cough)

So yes we had a missionary tonight in service. He is from Pakistan and it was so awesome. Of course I'm partial to missionaries anyhow because I'm so incredibly interested in every aspect of their lives. I had a 24hr heart monitor put on today....I haven't been feeling well lately...please pray for me that everything will be okay. My group for my communications class must plan our symposium that we are presenting next month. We have to do it on a global issue that will continue to affect 7 generations. I really want to do it on domestic violence. We really need to start teaching kids about this as early on as elementary school. It's becoming such a big part of society and many people just aren't very schooled on the whole issue. Coming from a history of domestic violence in my family I know that some people in those situations just don't know how to leave and if they did where would they go? What would they do? It just breaks my heart that there are people out there living in such a dire situation yet they do not have enough strength to leave. I want to be their voice...

Monday Borefest

School today pretty much rocked. My communications class is so much fun and it feels like you're only in class for 20min not the 1hr and 20min that you actually are. A few days ago Bro Krantz emailed us and asked us to pray for the Sunday service and to bring a shovel. I felt really strange walking into church with a dirty shovel and thought for sure I was going to be the only one.Well most everyone brought theirs even though we still had no idea why. Bro Krantz got up and preached like nobody's business. Not kidding. Our shovels were our own object lessons. Our shovels were being used to dig out all the I can'ts. The reasons why we can't live for God. He had us who felt the need to go down to the altar and bring our shovels with us. I left that service changed. God has really been doing a work in me. It has seemed like every single service I have been in the past couple weeks have been directed at me. I'm sure many others may feel the same way but I can't help but feel thankful and blessed that I have a God who cares enough for me and my salvation that He speaks to me time and time again. I cannot wait to see what God has in store for my future. I know that I can/will do great things for God and His kingdom.

WCC

WCC

West Coast Wed-Thurs

Wednesday night service was so awesome! A message was preached on keeping the flag. Basically just carrying on the standards of God. It was incredible for the first night of WCC. Thursday morning there were two preachers. The first preached on obeying your pastor with the lines he draws. Then Bro Noe Trevino preached specifically to the young people. He preached on how when we are younger our parents are in charge of us therefore in charge of the arrows and where they point. Then when we get older we are in charge of where our arrows point. Do we want them to point straight(to God)? It was just so awesome! All 3 messages really touched me.

First unofficial day of West Coast Conference

Ever since I've been attending West Coast(previously PSR a way long time ago) we have gone up a day early. You don't want to get caught in the rush of hundreds of pentecostals trying to check in at the same time. No thanks! I was supposed to drive to Fresno the entire way but that didn't really work out. I was extremely carsick until we got out of Sacramento. I took Dramamine and felt a ton better. About an hour into my driving time I starting falling asleep at the wheel. My eyes were open but I was dozing!! Good thing my mom was asleep because she would have freaked out.hahaa Kevin sure was scared. I actually woke my mom up and had her take over because the Dramamine must have kicked in and caused the overexcessive drowsiness.

Kev and I look so drugged in this pic. We had just gotten in Fresno and were exhausted.

NoBama for Prez

Yes, I know he won. We found out for sure while we were visiting our friends,Jodi and Max in Fresno. Jodi and I were pretty upset. I just hope he didn't just sign his death warrant. He has 2 little girls and a wife. I'll certainly be praying for his family while he's in office. I was for sure voting for McCain but life sure is uncertain. Too bad.

Church Tonight

Tonight us good folks of First Pentecostal in Oroville had super awesome church. I mean,it was really good. I got such a touch from God. I still have a ways to go but thank God for tonight. Bro Krantz basically preached about shaking us up. How a lot of us saints sit through service after service unmoved. We leave the same way we came in. It was quite informative and touching. Bro Krantz and I talked after service about some personal stuff that I certainly won't blog about. I will say however that I have never felt so blessed for such a great man of God in my life. I've never had anyone tell me they were going to step in and be a father figure in my life. Especially not my Pastor. I almost started bawling but I saved that for the car ride home :) So, here I am at midnight sitting on my couch with this overwelming sense of gratitude and love for my Pastor and his absolutely wonderful,fabulous,gorgeous wife. I'm pretty sure I'm right where I'm supposed to be.