Change is good~

Change is good.

This coming Sunday will be the leaders' last time serving in Youth Ministry. I'm feeling a mix of emotions; a little sad that I won't be able to be directly involved in empowering the students, especially my 7th &8th girls, yet so excited to finally be involved in New Life Community. I'm quite excited to see what God has in store for me as I move down to NLC; God has called me to change directions and to go to NLC, so there's gotta be something in store for me. Actually, I'm in the process of asking for confirmation.

My heart starts beating and feeling a rush of joy, excitement, and adrenaline every time I think about this calling of mine. Is this my calling?

Let's be productive!

I'm already 3 weeks into summer vacation and I've done some fun things here and there, but I'm not very satisfied. And I decided, this past weekend, to not take summer school this year... because I don't think I'll ever have a free summer after this, or so I heard. Starting yesterday, I began scheduling out my days; some days aren't very interesting, but that's okay. I'm just looking forward to pilates (btw my first class was yesterday & it was so fun!), kickboxing, hiking, running, and swimming. Then there's Senior Trip that I'm following, NIKO, Six Flags, beach, jet skiing, and hopefully a road trip! Now, all I need is an excellent summer weather!! Where are you, summer?!

Adventure

Last night I got home at around 12:30am, went on AIM for the first time in ages and got a "hi" from Alina... then somehow we ended up searching for hiking trails. I found East Canyon/Rice Canyon, which is about 15 minutes away and people had some good things to say about this trail so we decided to hike up this mountain the next morning.

So, today 8:45am, I arrived at Alina's house and we made sandwiches to eat at the top.. like a reward our bodies? Hahaha. I got directions from Mapquest- BAD MISTAKE- a 15 minute drive ended up as a 60 minute drive! Goodness, I followed The Old Road to its dead end. I never expected us to have an adventure even before the hike... God is good to us! Anyways, arrived at our destination and had another adventure trying to find the entrance to our trail. Really, is it just us or the place? I think..... it's us. ):

Hike was a-maaaaaaaa-zing. Trail was great.. though we got a little confused due to lack of signs! We met a snake along the way, freaked out, didn't know what to do(?), and got help from Alina's Boy Scout brother. We're too funny.

Then came along another great adventure or rather trouble? We were supposed to make a round trip if we wanted to finish at the same area as we started, but we didn't know that at all and we continued down the trail.... it spit us out onto a random street over a fwy and there was absolutely nothing there- not even space on the side to walk down the street. We almost hitch-hiked... woohoo.

I didn't plan on going on this hike to spend some time thinking things out, praying, seeking, and worshiping, as soon as I started the hike I was reminded of Niko and I took the opportunity to spend a valuable time throughout the hike. Read Psalm 147 and Exodus 3-4, sang a bunch of songs outloud to myself and Alina (she had no choice) like a maniac. Entire hike was about 3 1/2 hours long and the whole adventure on the deserted road was about 1 1/2 hours.

I can do this again any day... won't make the same mistakes I made today, though.

God was definitely behind all this!