Well in 2 days I'm going back to school. I'm really excited for it! This summer has been awesome. When I look back and see all the things I have done this summer, I'm amazed. Its been great, and its been life changing. I have been at home for almost 2 weeks now, and its been great. I have really done a whole lot of nothing, which hasn't happened in a VERY long time, so its been super nice. Its been nice just to hangout with my siblings. My mom and I hung out a few days, just us, and that was awesome. Its been a great past two weeks. Since I haven't really been doing a whole lot these past few weeks I have had quite some time just to think about life. To think about my summer, my life, my friends and family. And in conclusion I have came up with my top 5 favorite moments this summer. I want to share them with you.
1.) My summer started off with staying at IWU for may term. I got to stay with my church family, and it was seriously so awesome! I feel like I have really gotten close to them, and they have changed my life for the better. So that was def. a highlight of my summer.
2.) Another one of my favorite days this summer was at the beginning of Aug. It was the weekend and I got to go up north to my grandparents house and see all of my cousins on my mom side. It doesn't happen very often, so it was great! We went out on the boat, we got to go tubing, took pictures, and best of all sang karaoke. It was a great couple of hours, and I always cherish my time with each and every one of them.
3.) Up in Mackinac I went to a bible study called Crossroads. It was mainly college students, but every once in a while we would all get together and have bonfires and stuff. One of the first weeks I was on the island we had a bonfire, and it was so awesome. It was awesome to just gather together as christians and share testimonies and sing songs. There was even food. It was legit, and its a great memory for me.
4.) Another one of my favorite memories was a wedding that my family and I went to earlier on this month. I didn't know a single soul there, but it was so fun. It was fun to do something as a family. As everyone gets older I see us rarely doing things as a family, so it was just so great. We laughed a lot that night. Tyler, Grant, Brooke and I all slept in bunk beds that night. I even got to hear Brooke and Grant fight the whole night. It was great though. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed being together as a family.
5.) Springhill was probably the biggest highlight of my summer. I met so many amazing people, and its just an awesome place. I had some amazing campers that even changed my life. My favorite moment though was with this one girl. She came from a horrible home, and just didn't have a good life at all. You could tell she was so broken. She wanted and needed love. She didn't know Jesus, and she didn't want to know him either. By the middle of the week though I saw a huge change in her. We talked and she told me things she was never able to tell anyone. She accepted Jesus, and I saw her praying at night. I saw her reading her bible. I saw a complete transformation. And the best thing is, is that I still talk to her, and she's still going strong. I had a lot of awesome things like that happen at camp. I can tell you nothing is better then watching a child accept Christ. Its literally the best thing ever.
Also one afternoon on my break my friend Mallory and I played "Truth or Truth", and if you know me well, you know that I love to play that game. So yeah, it was great. I also had a really, I think life changing moment, when I got to talk to one of my friends one night under the stars without anyone. It was after a really bad week at camp, and I was just going through some things and she just really knew what to say, and yeah it was really awesome for me.
So yeah. I had a LEGIT summer! It was awesome! I don't think I can express that enough. I can't thank anyone enough who was apart of my summer. You made it great. All of you did. Something else this summer taught me was to give back to others. I'm so excited to get back to school because I want to do so much. There are sooooo many hurting people in Marion and I just have a lot of plans to love on them. Love can go such a long way, I learned that this summer too.
Well I'm sure everyone is done hearing me ramble. So yeah, I think I'm gonna go.
Peace
