The start of 2010!

This year is new year, like every year! I didn't take a class this interim but instead went to Israel! It was an amazing trip and I would LOVE to go back someday! It's so much information that for me it didn't really hit me spiritually until I got back. When I read the bible, it totally takes on a new perspective. While there though We went around the Sea of Galilee and got to go on a boat ride. It's crazy to think that the same sea we were on, Jesus walked on and did his ministry on. We also traveled along the Jordon River and stopped at Jericho. We also went Bethlehem and Jerusalem and many other places as well. There is so much to see in Jerusalem. The landscape in this small country is incredible! Within 5 minutes you can be at the lowest point on earth, above water but below sea level, and then go way about sea level in the hills/mountains. From desert to beautiful green grass and trees. It just shows how incredible God is and how amazing His creation is!

After I got back I had 3 days to rest and catch back up and then I started my internship at Avera Health. This has been a very challenging internship for me. I'm not one to sit in one place starring at a computer all day. I like to interact with people and this job is something I don't ever want to do again. It's hard to keep a mind set that I am helping others. It's difficult for me to see how I am glorifying God in what I do. I've really had to work hard at having a positive attitude. I was doing much better at the beginning of the internship but now that I'm well over half-way, it's very difficult to keep a positive attitude. I just have to keep looking to the Lord in order to continue and get through it. I have definitely learned what I don't want to do someday.

February then began. Classes started so now I have to balance that with my internship and I started mentoring again and bible studies, duties, student senate meetings, friends, boyfriend, and the list goes on and on. It's been a difficult task to balance it all but I just try and take one day at a time. February was a very crazy month but exciting too!! the 12th through the 15th, so Valentine's Day weekend, I went to Alexandria, MN for a youth retreat! It was an amazing retreat and really showed me how much I want to minister to high schoolers, especially girls. It was great to lead this girls and talk to them about finding their identity in Christ and not in what this world is trying to tell them to be. I didn't want to go at first but I'm so glad I did and I had my friends to support me! God is truly amazing!

Also this month Jamie and I planned a double date for our men!! It was a lot of fun and let's just say we're pretty creative! We had them do a scavenger hunt! What could be more fun! We had a dinner for them, had a dance off... haha.. we watched a movie, hung out, and had great fun! The next day we helped with the Remedy Drive concert! So much fun! We ate dinner with them and chilled with them and then partied it up at their concert that night! It was a very exhausting weekend but a lot of fun!!

Well I've caught up for a couple of months of what God's doing in my life!! As crazy and challenging some of this time has been, I wouldn't ask for it any other way. I can always learn something from it all, no matter what, and God is with me through it all!!