Please pray for my family right now.  Well, not *my* family (exactly) but my Dad and his family.  My Dad's youngest sister passed away on monday.  She had a cancer that's very rare, one they didn't have a clue what it was. (still don't think they do)  Kimo (or however you spell it.) didn't help; it might have slowed it down but they really couldn't tell.  Thankfully, she wasn't sick for very long and she was lucid up until she wen't into a coma.  She had two young kids.  Sammy who is 6 and Semina who is 3.  When my Aunt yvonne died, my Aunt Robin took off.  (she came back) And she was supposed to tell Sammy and Semina when she picked them up from school.  (The girls in the family are close, especially Robin and Yvonne)  Well, she didn't.  She couldn't handle it.  So the family sat down and kind of did it together and Sammy asked if they did everything they could to make her better and a few questions like that.  They're so little that Sammy barely understands what's going on and Semina probably doesn't.  So here's a list of specific prayer needs.

1.  Sammy and Semina and ajusting to living with their uncle and his family.  (he has kids the same age...he's not knew to them they're very close.  He's actually my Aunt's foster brother; don't ask.

2.  Aunt Robin.  She and Yvonne were extremely close and obviously she's not dealing with this well.

3.  My Dad.  He's not one to share his feelings so we have no clue how he's feeling.  So pray that he'll be able to deal with it or reach out to my mom.  We think he's probably hurt more by the fact HIS aunt had to call and tell them.  His immediate family didn't call til' after he already found out.  (they tend to leave the boys out of the loop like they don't exist.  In fact, when my Aunt went into a coma Aunt Karen called and told us...so Dad called grandma and she said Yvonna was fine and doing great.  Not even mentioning the coma part...)

4.  Grandma.  It must be hard for her to watch her youngest child die and knowing she has another that could quite possibly die at anytime.

5.  That somehow maybe the famiy could use this to reconcile.  Not fully, that'll never happen and quite frankly I don't think it should.  But a partial reconciliation would bring a lot of people together.  I also ask that you pray that some one wouldn't push the reconciliation bringing up a loooooot of stuff that will only serve to hurt and anger people and drive them further apart.

6.  I'm pretty sure that some people in the extended family are NOT saved whether they say they are or not.  My Aunt was and I know they will be talking about salvation a lot with Sammy and Semina and I pray that those who don't have a personal relationship with Christ will come to know Him through this whole ordeal.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it.

haha, I figured it was time for a small update.  However, this is the last one (at least for now) I'll be making on xanga.  I think I'll use another site instead.

Yesterday was my birthday!  It was great!

I JUST FOUND OUT I'M BEING MOVED TO THE EGYPT TEAM!!!!  I'm pretty sure it's a next step too!  YES!!!!!  and it's NOT soccer!  weeeeeee!!

And that is my update!

ok, let it be known I have been tagged!  Due to my slothfulness I have yet to play the game...but i promise within the next week (hopefully tonight!)  I'll do it!

p.s. - i was refering to the lazy part of the sloth and not the dirty part.  eww.  I'm not dirty.

Figured it was time for a small update...

Well, for those of you that haven't heard I was placed on a team going to germany to lead soccer camps.  Boot camp was...well, it was quite awful.  I loved the people I met there, but honestly, over all it wasn't my cup of tea.  Not because of MIT though, because of certain things involving my team.  If you want to know details, feel free to ask. Sorry to all the criswell people who asked and didn't really get a decent answer!  I didn't want to be like "it was absolutly horrible i almost cried on the airplane home because i was so happy i was going home!"  I think the only person who got partial details was Allison (thanks for the encouragement btw!)  And oh!  Chelsa!  I didn't get to see you!!!  Or did I and I just don't remember?  ...Anyways, as of this evening my parents aren't allowing me to go with this team.  This may sound horrible but I feel like rejoicing!  I knew God didn't want me on this team, I just didn't know how He was going to move me.  You know that verse about all things working together for good for those that love Him?  Yeah, totally fits here.  I received an email last night that mad eme do a double-take.  I printed it off to take upstairs for Penny to read but she was already asleep.  This morning my mom asks me to get up and says "I need to talk to you downstairs."  Not the best thing to be woken up by!  I was like OH NO!  What did I do or FORGET to do???  I come downstairs and she starts telling me about talking to Penny and needing to write something down (I really wasn't paying attention, I was waiting for my name or "...you...") and she said she grabbed a piece of "scratch paper" which wound up being the email I printed off...she said she, being the nosy mom (later i made the comment "yeah, I print off my emails so no one will read them *rolls eyes*), read it and was none to pleased!  YAY for Mommy!  She was highly upset with it and had already talked to Penny and David about it.  So, following chain of command (Wendy gets upset, Mom gets upset, Penny either says we have a right to be upset or not and if we do, we go to Dad for a final check before dealing with it...haha, at least on things involving authority over me.)  Dad reads it and says there's no way HE would go out of the country with that "idiot"...So, in a weird answer to prayer I'll be moved to another team because there's no way my parents are allowng me to go with that "idiot" (haha, i'm sorry, I just found that so funny.)  Now I just have to act like a "big girl" and email the boot camp director, rather intimidating if you ask me.  Especially since he knows I was having issues being placed on that team in the first place.  *sighs*  Oh well, with God on my side what's the worst that could happen? =)  Okie dokie, that's all I feel like typing for now...it at least gets you pretty updated on MIT progress.  If people want to read, or need to read the email so this post makes sense I'll post it later.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY! (Count that for tmrw...haha...I mean, Yeah, have a blessed less than half an hour for the rest of today...but you know what i'm trying to say...hahaha)

p.s. - Forgive me, for the past two days I have been losing my mind.  Today I couldn't figure out where in the world I had set my drink down!  Finally I find the bottle (it was a v-8splash) and it's empty!  I was like "you mean i was looking for it and I already drank it all?!?!?  that's butt!"  Yes, butt, get over it. =P =)  riiiiiiiiight I need to just be quiet, bed time.

OH!  One more thing...my favorite quote from this week - "What's 75 devided by 3? *thinks really hard* about..."   "*looks at mom like she's crazy*  umm, 25?!" hahaha.  It was ALMOST as good as when Penny looked out her window, started the car, and when she went to back out of the parking space screamed at her own reflection!!!  (yes, I know, i made fun of her the whole way home!!)  Granted it WAS night, but we were in the parking lot of the ice cream place right next to the movie theatre!!!!!  hahaha, there were LIGHTS people!  (tmrw I shall rat myself out and tell the Harry Potter story....oi, that was sad...)

*Yawns*  Ok, I'm going to write this but I'm extremely tired so bear with me.

I shouldn't have separated criswell students and everyone else in my disclaimers at the top of my post.  I knew I was going to use the party as an example, so I automatically separated them apart from everyone else.  However, this lead to many people feeling that it was soley pointed at them which wasn't the case, and for that I apologize.  I could  have handled that part better.  After I used the party as an example, everything went to talking about many groups and how society acts in general.  Also, in the disclaimer i said something along the lines of "if you read this and take offense, it's probably because you're guilty."  now that it's been pointed out to me by two different people, I can see how it can be taken for a meaning other than what I was origionally thinking.  Instead of sitting here trying to explain what I meant, how other people took it, ect. just consider this a retraction of that sentence.

So i'm leaving here in about 30 minutes so i've gotta make this quick...I'll be gone in NY for MIT boot camp until late sunday night.  I've already explain what that is so I won't spend time on the.  Please pray for the teams that will be formed, and all of the leaders that will be there...and that there be no injuries or fights and stuff...and that I'll have energy to make it through the rest of the week!

Jonathan - I'll try and call you from the airport in atlanta, and if i can't get a hold of you, i'll call when I get to NY...if i still can't get a hold of you I'll call monday morning. =)

Everyone have a BLESSED week!