Hmm..wow. Okay, God is amazing. This weekend (thurs. though Sat.) was the senior beach retreat. I wasn't looking forward to it at first. I though man...I'm not going to have any fun. (don't ask me why) Well, I have to admit, I didn't really pray about it either. I hadn't been doing so well spiritually. Well, let me tell you, it was AWESOME! God was awesome too. He was so quiet at first it drove me crazy! But I'm glad because it gave me some much needed reflection time. God is soo good! This weekend was a great time for me. I was able to reconcile with God and have an awesome time on the beach! (though I did get REALLY sunburned.((even though I put sunscrean on!!)) ) wow, I did soo much walking on the beach.
On Thurs..we got to the building after 5 hours of driving. We ate lunch at Lexington BBQ! Ha! Lizzy and I are rebles! Go cheeseburgurs! Then we stopped for icecream at the peach pit. (the best icecream around!)
When we got to our building we unloaded and then had about 2 hrs to ourselves. We got there at around 5pm. We hit the beach! It was too late to swim or anything, but most of the guys played frisbee while a friend and I walked to the peir. We had so much fun! Truitt (our youth pastor) took us to this weird burger joint for dinner. It had so many different burgers! There was even a penut butter burger! Yuck! I had a bacon and cheese burger. The guy that waited on us was a major flirt. He was definitly a southern boy, accent and all! We went to the beach on Fri. I was really blessed Fri. morning. Sam (a girl) and I went out on the beach about 7 am to have a quiet time and ended up talking for 2 hours. That was neat because I din't know her that well and it was nice to get to know her better. The total number of us was 17. 9 girls, 3 guys, 5 leaders. We have the coolest leaders. Truitt that morning held a "meeting". He talked to us about church. normally that would be a boring topic, but he brought it to our attention about how we should know what we believe before college. Because if we go to try to find a church at college and really are not sure about what church "system" to follow, we might get mixed up with really weird church or even a cult. For example, lets say your southern Baptist (well you grew up that way) and you go off to college. Your looking for church that believes what you do. Well, there are sooo many church options now. If you believe that Jesus is the son of God and that he died for you sins and rose from the dead, that's good. But there are churches that claim to believe that ,but show it totaly different. They have a ton of rules and are extremely strict, or there are churches that are incredible loose and really don't care. Okay, what I'm trying to say isn't coming out right. Let my try again. You should dig deeper and truly find out what you believe because even though the chruch may claim one thing, they may lead you down a road you shouldn't be on. Wow, I can't just say something simple! Well, I gotta go. I'll write more later. Be blessed!