Official Public Schooler....

Yes, it's official. I have joined the land of the scary teenagers. I am now going to public school for three classes. I am taking AP Lit, Theatre 3, and Web Design....

This will definitely be a good opportunity, but it will also be very scary. Especially AP Lit. My teacher is very, very anti-religion, he equates all religion as equal to the Greek and Roman Mythology.... It's definitely extremely hard to keep my mouth shut when he bad-mouths God, but... Urg.... Public School.... What a pain in the neck it is......

Keeping up my testimony is going to be my main goal this coming year. So, if any of you see me doing or saying something I shouldn't, please tell me.

Yeah.... I pray that I can affect this school in a positive way this year. And further God's kingdom....

Well, I've had enough being random for one day...
Peace out my friends!

Love in Christ,
The Undecided <><
John 3:16

Update

Well, Middle School camp was amazing. I could definitely see God moving in everything at camp. It was also kind of strange for me, being a counselor for the first time. Just the different things that counselors have to do and whatnot. And two of my girls got saved that week :D...

The week after Middle School Camp, my youth group had a missions team from Virginia come out to do evangelism type stuff at our church. They were definitely an interesting group of people. Some of them were quite possibly weirder than me... So, we did some car washing and hung some flyers up to advertise for our upcoming VBS. Which brings me to...

VBS was the week after the Virginia group came out. We had people from Oklahoma come out to help us. That was awesome.... I believe that we had about 120 kids that week. I'm not sure how many got saved though.... But it was a lot of fun. I got to help teach the kids all of the VBS songs. My favorite was the Tumbleweed song. Basically amazing :D...

The day after VBS was over we went to.... *Drum roll* Sonfest! It too, was amazing. I believe about 30ish kids came to know the Lord. AMAZING! I got to witness to about ten people. That was really cool. Another really cool thing was that our entire group hung out together basically the whole day at the amusement park. We only had like 6 kids, but it was still awesome :D...

And I will save the next exciting thing for my next post....

Consider yourselves updated.

<3 in Him,
The Undecided <><
James 1:19

Oh Camp, How I Love Thee!

So, for the past 2 weeks I have been at camp, which, by the way, is my most favoritest place in the entire world.

The first week was Leadership Camp. This was my first time at leadership camp, so the only thing I really expected was lots of hard word and blisters. Not only did Leadership Camp meet my expectations, it exceeded them in ways I never could have imagined. I got to know EVERYONE at camp. Within the first day or two I knew everyone by their first name, and, quite frankly, I loved every single person there.

The first day I saw a couple people there who I, in my stupid headedness, did not think really should have been there. I didn't really know them, and what I did know of them, in my opinion, was not very good. I couldn't believe that their pastors would send them to Leadership Camp! So, I looked at them through biased eyes. But, in the first day or two, they totally slapped me in the face with their actions.

Especially one person in particular. The first morning I was complaining to my friend, saying that I didn't think it was wisdom for that person to be in a leadership position. Then that afternoon, I was pulling something really heavy out of the shed at camp, and I almost dropped it. Then that person walked in and helped me get it down. And he did it without really having to think about it. Just like helping someone like me was a no-brainer. It was kinda like God was slapping me in the face, saying, "Don't judge this person based on what little bit you knew about them a year ago. I can do so much with a person in that amount of time." And you know what? I listened to God. I tried to keep that mind set with every person I encountered that week, and boy did they all surprise me.

Well, that was leadership camp. Now to move on to Teen Camp.

The first day, before heading up to camp, My family and some close friends of ours stopped at Discovery park! We ate food, and played hide and seek. Amazing, I know.
Then we actually drove up to camp and got stuck in traffic, aka we got stuck behind the massive herd of sheep in the middle of the road.

When we finally reached camp, the sign in person wasn't there. So, we unloaded luggage from our truck. Well, my dad unloaded, and he put my luggage with all the guys' luggage. Ha ha! That was quite interesting....

Well, as usual, camp was the most amazing thing ever!

I was put in, well I chose to be in, the craziest, loudest, most amazing cabin ever! I believe we were the loudest cabin at camp. I was one of the calmest people in the cabin! And for those of you who know me, you know that's a scary thought.

The teaching was amazing. John Miles is an awesome teacher. He said something I needed to hear in every single lesson. There are just too many things to name.

Thursday I did a skit with some of the people who went to Leadership Camp (The one I complained about the first day of Leadership Camp included. I swear, God was really telling me that I needed to not judge people, because they kept on surprising me). It was amazing! One of the most moving skits I have ever been involved in....

The whole week was completely full of love. I swear everyone loved everyone. People (including some of the guys) were yelling to their friends across camp, "I love you!" It was totally amazing! The whole experience was completely inexplicable! And the shock of coming off the mountain was incredible too. It seems that people don't express their love for each other enough. Which is something that I have decided we need to change.

Well, the last day was hard. I had to say goodbye to all of my old and new friends. But I am so thankful that we have a tool like Facebook. Now, I can keep in touch with so many of my awesome friends!

I think I have covered most of the highlights.

<3 The Undecided <><

A Letter to Inspiration

I was tagged in a note by a friend on Facebook a little while back, and I feel that this particular note is worth sharing with my faithful blog followers. All two of you :D. So here it is.


A Letter to Inspiration
By Theodore Oing


To my inspirations:

By the time you may read this, most of us will have graduated already. Within the next week or so, about half of us will be gone on trips all around the country, perhaps even the world. We've made it though, through this day of freedom and independence, and also of farewells. Mark the day: May 15th, 2010 is the day when our lives as we know it ends. But nothing truly ends, does it? They just start anew.

"Aeternum vale, nemo nisi mors." It's Latin, and the literal translation means "farewell forever, till death do us part." I was going to save the in depth explanation for when the book I've been writing would've been finished, but due to a recent intervention the night before graduation, I decided that this was the best time.

Graduation day may very well be the day where most of us will say good-bye to the people we've grown up with, because a great deal of us will inevitably spread out across the country, whether it's in the deserts of the West Coast, or maybe the frigid areas between the South and the North. Some of us, of course, won't be moving around and choose to stay, but either way, we'll inevitably say our good-byes.

This day may also mark the day where none of us will see each other again, after all, we're about to start a new life, reborn into the real world where the world's problems are now our problems. For me, I'll be saying good-bye to both people I've known for years, and others that I've regrettably have only begun to know. Yes, there are things like Facebook and cell phones that bridge the gap so that it's never truly 'farewell forever,' but call me old fashioned, but nothing compares to this feeling of being with the person face to face. Now it's the issue of the next phrase that creates a paradox, "till death do us part."

How is it that we can all say "farewell forever," and then follow up with "till death do us part." Let me ask this, how are we able to feel the presence of someone who has died? The simple answer is that it is essentially, undeniably, the supernatural feeling of love. As it is said in Latin, omnia vincit amor: love conquers all.

Love conquers adversity.

Love conquers hate.

Love conquers death.

The meaning is then changed from "farewell forever, till death do us part," to "farewell until love doesn't exist." You see, all of us aren't truly connected by presence, nor are we truly connected by technology; we're connected by the soul, and the essence of the soul is love. Without this feeling, we could never hope for peace, only for war, and without the feeling, the greatest acts committed by the world's heroes could never have been achieved. This is, essentially, the explanation that I've derived so far.

So, now we're about to enter the new life, probably saying our last good-byes to the people we've come to know as we leave for our new life, and perhaps we'll still be connected in a way because of our love for the people, now what? We live again. Maybe you're going to go to study at a place with 60,000 people, or maybe you're like me, who chose to study in a place with less than 3,000 people, either way. Whichever one you may choose, you're going to meet new people and start new relationships.

I urge all of you now, however, to do what you love in hopes of obtaining happiness. Success in life is not determined by the number of acts that you've achieved, nor is it based on the popularity gained; success in life is based on how happy you feel living life. Whether you want to study life, math, engineering, art, religion, history--whatever, do what you love, and wake up each day smiling. Sure, we'll hit trenches that'll take us over the edge at times, but keep the people you love close as well so they can pull you out of those dark times.

Now, I want to take the rest of the time I have to thank all of you who have helped me out physically, mentally, and spiritually. It's been great, especially the last few days. I never truly realized everything that I've been missing and the extraordinary people that I've only begun to know. For everyone that may read this, keep in touch so we could see what we'll turn into in the near future. I know I'm not the best at saying good-bye, or even giving out my last words of possible inspiration, but I want to congratulate all of you for making it this far, whether you are an alumni or about to be, and I wish all of you the best of luck with whatever the world may throw at you. Carpe diem, the world is ours.

Reflections of a Teenaged Drama Geek

I was recently looking back on my acting "career", and I noticed how much smaller my personal bubble has gotten. In my first play with the La Verkin Community Theatre there was a guy who was the co-director, his name was Zack. One of the practices I was supposed to get mad and be in someone else's face, but I wasn't doing it right. So, being the wonderful co-director that he was, Zack was trying to show me how to do it. He told me to get in his face, which totally freaked me out. This guy, who I barely knew, was asking me to get within inches of his face. So, I refused. He asked me why, and I plainly told him that I had a bubble. He ended up having someone else get in his face to demonstrate what I was supposed to be doing. I am now currently in the production of Robin Hood with the LCT, Zack is playing the part of Robin Hood. The very first day he was there I had a few parts where I had to be in his face. I boldly got in his face, and I think I scared him the first time... Oops... It's amazing how acting on the stage for 3-4 years can seriously shrink your bubble.
And that is the end of my reflection.

Curiosity Killed the Ears

OK, so, being the curious person that I am, I looked up Justin Bieber. I had been hearing a lot of people talking about him, been seeing his face on everything from Flair on Facebook to Magazines. He's a 17? yr. old kid who looks/sounds like a 12 yr. old. I watched 2 of his videos on Youtube and decided I don't like him or his music. Seriously, the only thing he seems capable of writing songs about is girls..... I feel bad for him... And the way the poor girls are portrayed in his videos and songs is just plain stupid! One line from one of his songs called Baby was, and I quote, "I'll buy you anything". Ha! Like any girl worth your time can be bought! It's so sad what society has said is "right" and "good"! There is so much more to life than money and members of the opposite gender! Grr..... So, basically what I got out of all that was Justin Bieber needs Jesus and someone to tell him about Jesus.... Well, enough of my ramblings for one day.
<3 The Undecided

Ramblings of an Obnoxious 16 Yr Old Girl

OK, so today I realized that I haven't touched a computer for about a month... (For non-I-have-to reasons) I can't actually remember the last time I've gone that long without a computer. Yeah, I do have Internet on my phone, but it's not the same as actually BEING on the computer. Just little (or not so little) stuff like the million and five (My new favorite number by the way) requests in my Facebook request... Inbox?... Not to mention the fact that half of those requests have expired. I totally don't get that... For those of us who can't be on the computer everyday, it's a little hard to accept all the stinkin' requests before they stinkin' expire!
I think that's all I have to ramble about.... I think.... Wait! Nope, that's it.
Post later (I hope!)
The Undecided