For once in my life, i am so content with where i am.
let me tell you why.
this past weekend we had our very first "encounter leaders retreat" up in squamish. So, the whole week before i was getting super pumped cuz well, everyone that i know and Love were coming up with me. i knew that going into this i wanted my life to be changed. SO anyways i head up there with the best crew ever. Taelor and Alex, and Melissa and then Becca and Nicky, so u know that this is gonna be a gongshow. So we're driving up listening to Cd's that i labeled "Legit 1, Legit 2 and Legit 3" and to say the least, they were actually legit. We're having a party in the car on the way up. It was swell. Then i get a text from Gabbi saying that we have the best room ever. 3 of my best friends. Gabbi, Nicky,Taelor and myself. Can u say GONGSHOW. Like holy, can this day get any better.
So anyways we finally get there, and its beautiful. breathtaking to say the least. We check in and walk into our room and boom. A king sized bed, 2 TV's a whole kitchen a laundry machine and dryer, a dishwasher a balcony and even a table. It was stocked with everything u could potentially want in your own house. I could literally live there. Then i got so excited. This in my head was gonna be the best day ever. So we go up the elevator to meet up with the rest of our crew, and it was sweet. had a meeting then chilled. Then everyone wanted to grab some food so we all decided on sushi. Jesse threw me his car keys and told me to drive up to sushi, cuz he wanted to go in edmonds buggy. I dont have a license people. but my head was saying no and my mouth was saying yes, so alas. driving in jesse's car up the street. gongshow. haha
OH YEAH the best part ever... NOT. a rumor started that both me and sylvain were dating eachother. woot. best rumor ever.
So we are at sushi and sylvain is sitting beside me and people are just fueling that rumor. its getting me angry, but alas whatever. then we head to the store and buy stuff to make chocolate chip cookies, and ice cream. The guys are jealous and its gonna be great.
then we just chill for a bit and head up to the conference room for whats gonna be an epic night of worship and a sweet word from Koby. When i say epic, its an understatement of the awesomeness that it was. I got to see everyone be vunerable. Even the grade 12's stepped it up. I got to see Matt (nicky's bro) step it up and give God his all in worship. mind blowing. I got to see Braeden and brendyn and sylvain and Becca just feel how much God loves them. It was so cool to just be in that room with 25 of the raddest people i know. Then Koby had his msg time and at the end he got some leaders to pray with us about everything and anything. Thats where i decided that it was time to just give it to God. I went up to Jenna and just told her that i wanted to forgive my dad and just move on. Then she told me something that just blew me away. I personally know that i am called to be a pastor. I know my heart is in ministry, so Jenna told me that she was praying for me during worship and God told her that i would be in ministry. BOOM. REASSURANCE. right then and there i was broken in an awesome way. so i get prayed for and life goes on, and i turn around and see becca WEEPING. i have never seen her in that state before, but i knew i needed to pray for her so i did, and in that moment i felt like her life just changed. it was so awesome.
hmmm then after that we went and worked out in their gym, as a joke, and everyone went swimming and it was fun. Then taelor and i decided to go back and bake cookies, and turns out we had the most hilarious party ever in our room by ourselves. You people would have peed urselves if u saw us dancing haha. we threw in everything from the lawnmower to the sprinkler. SO FUN. then i figured out that i have no idea how to bake, so i just wung it. it was swell. those cookies were awesome and all the boys had one haha. then the real party happened. every girl came into our room and we just chilled. so funny. Nicky then baked 2 HUGE cookies and we put icecream on them and ate it.BEST EVER. just imagine, one giant cookie and 10 girls.
then people decided to go to bed which left the dudes playing man hunt outside and the girls chillin in my room for a bit. Then once nicky cleaned she peaced to go stargaze and brendyn and Jesse came to have some ice cream and we watched Sister Act 2 for a bit then they peaced and me gabs and taelor watched it for another bit and gabs decided to go to bed, so i went and hung out with paul and just chatted for a while. then as i was going to bed a get a msg from sylvain saying he's outside my door, and yea i had to go say night. it was swell haha.
then the next morning we all woke up and me and taelor and alex snuck out to grab some starbucks. It was a good time. Then we had another meeting and yeah from then on it was home time. we checked out, said peace to some peeps, me jesse matt and joel went in one car, braeden brendyn and jonny in another, yaisa and edmond in his buggy, joe raelene and melissa in the last car and we headed down to vancouver. it was fun times we got lost for like an hour but in the end the food was pretty worth it. then we split from matt braeden jonny raelene joe and melissa, and the rest of us went to h&m. it was awesome. then edmond had to peace so me yaisa jesse joel and brendyn hit up metrotown. SO FUN. shopped for a really long time, had some awesome times in the arcade, it was an overall awesome day.
so anyways the next day we had 5 night. legit the best night ever.
but now back to why i am so content where i am. I finally found a peace with my life, i have the best friends in the whole world. Ive seen everyone open up and accept Jesus for all he's gonna do in their lives, ive felt a stirring in my heart for ministry, ive grown closer to people i wouldnt have before, and overall, i am more in love with Jesus than ever before.
oh and i got a secret bf. ;) haha
