Its been a long time since i have last updated this. so well I just got back from Camp O. It was pretty sweet. The theme for th week was Secret Agent Training. I got there on Sunday, i shared a cabin with Katherine(my neighbor) and some girls from her school, Alexis, Maggie, Kayla, Kelly, and Olivia. I felt really sick Sunday night, but i managed to tough it out. On Monday, since i felt to sick to go on the hike, i went to the different activates. Archery, Horseback riding, swimming and boating. Monday evening we had our unit campfire. I met lots of new friends and we sang some silly songs and some new cheers as well. Tuesday was an amazing day as well. It was my bro's 22 b-day. I did the same activates that i did on Monday, while the other half of my unit went hiking. Then came time for the Tuesday Night Games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its pretty much a HUGE game of hide and go seek. u have the walkers, their job is to walk around the camp grounds and deliver chips to certain destinations without being ambushed by the hardcore hiders( that was my job). The hardcore hiders go out and hide in the woods and try to ambush the walkers to get their chips. Then there are the slashes which do both of the  jobs. My group ambushed everyone! And Goupil won! it was fantabulous! Then on Wednesday i went swimming, then i went to rifely then to council(where i earned my spiritual arrowhead). In the afternoon i went back to Archery. The it came time for the overnight! we packed up our sleeping bags and walked to Morgan's Field. We made foil burgers. They are sooooo delicious!!!! I had 2 and i didn't get sick at all!!!! I hung out with the girls in cabin 5 ( Jessie Lee, Jessie Nelson, Kelly,) After we ate everyone sat by the fire and we sang Amazing Grace and then dicussed our skit for Friday night and we made up a new cheer for our unit. Thursday i went to woodsmen ship, swimming, and riflery. then in the evening was the Lodge Ceremony which  it all about the history  of the camp( like who the units are named for). Then came D-Day(Friday domination day) Went boating in the morning. Then i went to carnival where there was a gigantic water war! I was soaked by the end! After carnival we got into positions for Marathon( a huge relay race across the camp grounds.) My job was the ruler race, where i had to run with a ruler in between my legs without dropping it. Goupil was in the lead until the row boat because the oars broke off the boat, we ended up coming in 4th on the beach and then one of the units was disqualified so we ended up getting 3ed. After Marathon was Tug-of-War. Goupil dominated it by winning every single challenge and then in the finale we beat the boys and came in 1st for the entire camp! After going back to our cabins and showi9ng we got ready for the theme inspection and dinner. We dressed mismatched, and we were the only unit. it was soooo funny! After dinner was the Closing campfire where all the units do a skit. My unit did a remake of Ferglicious called Purplicious. We ended up coming in 2nd. The first place unit was one of the guys units who sang a song about sloppy Joes it was GREAT! My favorite skit was when one of the guy units did the 5 things they wont miss about camp. Everyone was cracking up! Finally came Saturday, today, we packed up all of our stuff and headed to breakfast where we learned that Goupil won the Golden Arrowhead( a very important competition), i said good bye to my new friends and left. once i got home i took a nice long shower and it felt great. I miss camp, but im glad to be back home


P.S. I promised Chad that i would post these few videos.

I never knew how powerful music could be. Well ok i did, but i didn't know how powerful. music speaks to us in many different ways. Sometimes you hear the lyrics of a song and you just fall in love with it because its funny or sad or it has a good beat. Other times the lyrics tell stories that we can relate to, because we or someone we know has been in a similar situation. Other times songs hold memories because you were with your best friend the first time you heard it and now shes moved away so it links you. Or maybe you like someone and in your relationship it becomes "your song". But God also speaks to us through music. Well at least to me. I'm not talking about lyrics that are about Him necessarily. It's a little different for me. I listen to all types of music, i like some rap, but not a lot, i like country christaian, jazz, classical, pop. (a lot of different stuff) well this past week God has been using the songs i love to send me a message. It tarted about a week ago with a song called "unanswered prayers" and from then i just kept hearing song. i heard My wish and Life is a highway" a lot. and for those who don't know, every time i hear those songs it reminds me of Taylor.Then when Josh let us listen to the play soundtrack Life is a highway was one of them. it wasnt a coincidence. Saturday i got asked out by this guy, and he dumped me on Tuesday because he considedered me as "just a friend". well Wednesday when i woke up the first song i heard was "Independence Day" so i decided to try something. that night i turned on the radio and just flipped through stations, everytime i stopped on a station the song that was on had a message for me. I turned it on and i just had an instant feeling in my heart about what God was telling me, So i wrote down the song and its message to me. I did that for an hour and was amazed at what i wrote down. then for like the next hour ater that i just talked to Him and i learned so much about my life. When i was diagnosed with Crohn's i was angry with Him, how could He let me be sick, but now after joining youth and expanding my faith i realize that he wasnt punishing me, it was all part of His plan, and maybe i got sick so that i would have the determination to become a doctor and help kids who are sick, like me.Then my relationship with Taylor. at first i though maybe i must've done something right,, but now i realize that isn't the case. Being with Taylor, i started becoming active in youth, so that we could spend more time together, but now even though we aren't I'm still active. A few times i regreted my relationship saying i shouldn't have done this or it shouldn't have gone on this  long, but if it hadnt happened the  way it did, i might have never gone to Dare2share, and then i wouldn't have told my friends about what Jesus did for us, and my one friend wouldn't have been saved. You know there's that saying "God works in mysterious ways" well i never doubted that, its just i never saw how that related to my life. but now things are getting clearer. I don't know God's purpose for me and i wont until I'm with Him, but I'm beginning to understand how He communicates with me.that one reason why I'm so thrilled to be involved with youth group. because i never really thought i belonged anywhere, but with help from the youth leaders and everyone else, i'm kinda beginning to see how it all fits together