The Bubbly blogger

So a couple of weeks ago, i went up to Trout Lake camp with my youth group for a retreat and Saturday morning something happened. I was sleeping on the top bunk and right below was a bench. Well my mattress was higher than most and so the railing beside didn't do much, so i rolled over and fell off the bed. I cut the top of my left eye on the edge of the bench. Well it hurt and i cried a little bit but then i went back to bed thinking i just had a headache. When i put my head on my pillow and my hand touched my forehead, i felt something coming out of it. So i woke up our leader in our room Ria thurston and she helped me to bathroom. That's when i looked in the mirror and saw my eye was cut open. Ria went to find my youth pastor and his wife and all of three of them got in thier van and drove to the ER in Brainierd which was 45 min away. My youth pastor wanted to get me there as soon as possible and ended up speeding and got pulled over by the police. He thankfully looked in...

So I'm applying for a scholarship at Crown, and its called Christian Leader Scholarship. Its all about how you are a leader in your church and at school and and how you can grow as a leader at Crown. So you fill out an application and have someone like a youth pastor or Christan worker at your church write a recommendation for you. Then they decide and if they think you can make a great leader at crown they invite to a special day where you automatically receive 1000 dollars and then you show up that day to try to increase your scholarship. The maximum award is full tuition paid. So i went on thursday and i had to write an essay and be interviewed. Man, it was intense and exhausting. I was so nervous becasue i communicate better than i can write but when time was up i had my essay finished and it was amazing how God spoke through me. So here it is Paul has the same view on true leadership as I do. In 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Paul says in order to be true Christian leaders, we need to...

Every Monday and Wednesday I have a step aerobics class at North Hennepin. Its actually a lot of fun. But yesterday as i was doing the steps, I felt like in a way I can compare step to my walk with God. When I was doing step I felt like I was just going through the motions. Step up with right foot, step down with left.. and so on. Sometime my walk with God can feel like that. get up , go to school, come home, go to work, do homework, then quiet time with God, then get up the next day and do the same thing all over again. I felt like i was just going through the motions. Then I remembered that song by Matthew West " Going through the motions" Cause just okay is not enough Help me fight through the nothingness of life I don't wanna go through the motions I don't wanna go one more day without Your all consuming passion inside of me God just reminded it doesn't have to be like that. Throughout the day we should always be thinking about him. Then my quiet time shoul...

So this is post is going to be short but I just thought I would share that I am hosting a girl from Colombia this week through my school. She got here yesterday and then today attended my classes. She is here until Sunday but so far its been fun. We went bowling yesterday and she won. I have been speaking in Spanish at home but then at school or sometimes in the car I will speak English because she is fluent in English also. Her name is Alejandra. The funny thing is that she loves the snow but hates the cold. Usually in Colombia its 70 degrees F. She also told me that McDonald delivers there. Just thought that was interesting but i have been learning some similarities and differences between Colombia and United States. But we want to go see a movie tomorrow but we don't know which one. Let me know of your suggestions.

Its been a couple of weeks since I blogged, sorry about that. But today I just wanted do a mini reflection of 2009 and then my hopes of 2010 and also share a few pictures from my last week of 2009. So this past year has been a rollercoaster for me. I have a loot of good memories but I also have some sad memories too. But God never said life would be easy and like this Bible study I'm doing says in order for us to thankful for the good days we have to experience the bad days. Through the bad days we learn to depend on God more. Anyways my family and i went out to Chilies on New Years Eve and while waiting for our food we went around the table and said a couple things that we liked in 2009. So i said my favorite thing I did was go to Wisconsin dells with my family. Even though it was only a 24 hour trip I really grew close to my family during that trip and had so much fun. And I hope one day to take my family there because it was a really great bonding time. So this past week my fam...

I just thought i would share a devotional that I received this morning about Christmas Eve. A Candle in the Darkness Twenty Years Later December 24, 2009 As people across the world tonight light Christmas candles at Christmas Eve services, my mind goes back to another Christmas 20 years ago in Romania, when the country was still in the grip of communist tyranny. The story begins with Laszlo Tokes, pastor of a fast-growing reformed church in the city of Timisoara. His powerful preaching had caught the attention of communist offici...

So 2 days and 8 hours until chirstmas. I love Christmas time. I love the songs ,the smell of the cookies in the oven, and the Christmas letters my family gets from friends. But most of all I love listening to the Christmas story on the morning of Christmas. Once everyone in my family wakes up, my dad reads the story out of the Bible. I hear the story of Jesus's birth every year but I learn something new every year and that's whats so cool about it. this year even before Christmas I learned some stuff. The big thing I learned was you cannot have the manger without the cross and vice versua. think about it: There would be no reason for us to celebrate Easter if Jesus wasn't born because there would no Christmas. And he was born knowing that he would die becasue he loved us so much. And so below I pasted the lyrics of one of my Christmas songs. When love came down by Point of Grace. So close your eyes and share the dream Let everyone on earth believe The Child was born, the st...