Prayer Requests 2

Here are more :)
1. For The Mexico team, there trip was just cancelled. Please pray for clarity and peace with all of the students as they seek Gods will and desires in the midst of a hard situation. They are all really bummed, but also very understanding that this is all part of God's plan!

2. For Harvest 08 I will be a counselor and need much prayer!

3. For me to really cling to and trust God

4. For patience and strength as God opens and closes doors we know only he can

45 For me to really seek the Lords will as far as the air force and college go. Also that I won't let any one discouraged me with these desires.

Praise Reports From last prayer request blog :)

1. God brought our Hungary team home and as you can imagine I was ever so grateful to see Jbear ( I screamed for like 10 minutes :)

2. My family is all healthy now and everyone is doing amazing

3. Gods really helped me throughout the difficulties of letting my friends go and he has given me peace and amazing other friends to support me!

4. SUMMER SCHOOL IS OVERRRRRRRRRR

5. I know I hadn't mentioned this before but I was really blessed this week by a surprise phone call from my old youth pastor and surprise visit from my former youth leader :)

Thanks Guys Luv Ya
<3 Shrub

Penske Now Hates My Church

So my youth group took a camping trip to mammoth this past week. I will go on record to say I WAS NOT ON THIS TRIP. No showers, no electricity, no cell reception, and no bed for a week has never been used in the same sentence as SHRUB! Anyways, because this was strictly my church and no other church they had to take a lot of supplies! Normally we go to an pre organized camp but this summer was different! So they RENT this awesome penske truck and take it up to camp. I don't have much to say because well I sincerely don't know how to describe this so I will let the pics say it all.

Peace Out Boy and Girl Scouts <3

This is what a penske truck looks like and this is what ours looked like monday morning :)

This is what it looks like when it returns to my church Sunday morning at 3! I will have you know all but 3 people (my yps father in law, my yps son, and a highschool student) came home saturdy night at 7 :)!

ANY COMMENTS? PLEASE I WANT TO HEAR IT :)

A Crazy Day and A New Cell Phone??

Yup that's right a new cell phone! How did this happen you ask? I HAVE NO CLUE, WHATSOEVER! So here's the deal, I was at chuck e cheese all day and when I came home I had a dead cell phone. So as any "normal" person would I plugged it into the charger (not having any idea my phone was gonna CRASH!) No, this is not Aaron's 9Th birthday party re-incarnated! Zach was no where around and to be completely honest I kept my distance from the phone! So I took it off the charger (for some dumb reason, I still don't know the answer to) and walla I almost burst into tears. All my colors on my screen had completely bled and it was a horrid mix of horidness! I stared at my scream for a few minutes wondering if Sam's (yeah my cell phones name is Sam) life had just ended? So I turned it off and re-booted it and nope nothing happened. Than I started screaming and crying. It took me an hour to get it all straightened out! So after all that "LOVELY" drama, I will be receiving a new phone within 2 or 3 days. It took me another good hour to text all of my pictures to my email. Than we hit the annoying part when my phone comes, I have to transfer all 150 of my contacts. *Sigh* Oh well through all that drama, I am very happy :) :)!
Thanks For Listening To My Sob Story!!!
God Bless and I Love Ya All <3

Happy Birthday

Happy 22nd Birthday Aunt Lisha, I Love You and Hope You Have A Fantastic Day!
Love Your Favorite Shrub!

Shrubs Stuff

Here are my not so fun facts as well cause that pretty much describes MEEE

I ate wendys today and i couldnt taste it :(

I went to school :) but didnt meet anyone i was supposed to :(

Joe hasnt texted me all day :(

and im slowly runnnin out of things to say and this is completely pointless but thats okay cuz im feeling like writing something completely pointless.................kay ill go watch tv now..........aight?????? oh ya btw that big sale chicks is having isnt worth it according to clay and i got a super cool argyle sweater today :) :) im gonna go now cause i have no clue of anything i just said :) i am on math overload cuz i stayed up late last night doing it and did more today. i will come back and write something with so much more meaning behind it after i get my life together from the tv :) :)

STUFF

(NOT SO FUN) FUN FACTS:

A guy at PCHS sneezed on me.

I showered multiple times to make sure his snot was no longer on my person.

We ate too much yogurtland today.

The elleptical machine at the gym is FREAKIN HARD.

I haven't seen Ariana in two weeks and it's making me super sad.

Kirsten made me snort like eleven times today.

DID I MENTION A DUDE AT PCHS SNEEZED ON ME?!?

A Quiz :)

Favorite Band: Thats difficult but i think HN and Needtobreathe
Food: Mexican
Drink: Starbucks Carmel Frapp
Dessert: Strawberry Amerreto Pastries
Movie Line: Yeah Im A Normal Person, I Put My Pants On One Leg At A Time.
Hang Out: Church and The Verpootens
Song: Right Now Its Head On Collision
Resturant: Yummy Places? Itsa Pizza?
Movie: All CCBC Movies
Pastime: Txting while reading a good book while listening to rock music.
Book: mixed bags or left behind
Sport: Swimming
Day of the Week: Sundays and Thursdays
Memory: My Favorite Right Now would be When i finally got Nick Departee to wave at me
Instrument: My Mic
Month: September
Website: Gmail allll they wayyyy
Activity: Running to bring my adrenaline down!
Color: Red and Black
Holiday: Christmas

Contentment

Hey Everyone I just wanted to share a few things with you! Gods been doing some amazing things in my life and I am ever so happy to have everything i do. Its funny how when things get ruff and go in the wrong direction you really start to appreciate your existence. This has been a very difficult summer with many different scrapes here and there. I finally realized the other day that contentment is a beautiful thing! Things have been hard for me for the past 4 or 5 months and I have learned the true meaning behind contentment. Being content never held much meaning to me in the past. However, lately contentment has become so much more than just a word to me. It has become the one thing I want people to see in my life. Gods shown me that although I will not get everything materialistic that I want in this world, having spiritual contentment is far more important and fulfilling. He's helped me to realize all of the wonderful treasures and things I have in him. Being content with who I am and what I have has been a slow and not so easy process. It has been painful, learning the key points to contentment. I have learned the key point is being close to God and his people. I feel so alive and content any time I am hanging with my christian friends, serving God, hanging at church, or spending time with Jesus. Anyways, I felt very compelled to share all that with you and I hope you were somewhat encouraged by it. God Bless and I Luv Ya All <3
This is an important song to me that God gave me through these times (he has a way with music and me i think he knows it captures my heart),
"Call my name, say it now. I want you to never doubt, The love I have for you is so alive"
Call my name by Third Day