well i enjoyed a great weekend in the LBK, visitng my adopted parents, spending quality time with good friends and most importantly…the reason that i visited: working a youth event, at first baptist, called 3D.
originally, i was assigned to senior high girls, however upon arrival, i was redirected to 7th graders, yikes! i had prepared for older students but sometimes you just have to man up, show some flexibiltity, and just get it done.
we had some interesting break-out sessions. my girls were absolutley adorable, creative, hilarious, and 100%, out of control. mistake number one was feeding them candy, however their clever little minds decided to mix ALL the candy into one giant bowl, to create a banana taffy family, using nerds and sweet tarts as faces. they were the banana family; zerubbabel, ma’am, bobby (a girl, with a ‘y’) and bark (the banana family dog).
we talked about driving golf carts into lakes, boys (i talked to a ‘zach’ on the phone), people at their school who had fat wads of cash, and many other shenanagians. we did have a a few awesome moments, going deeper, talking about their favorite fruits of the spirit, and which aspect of the trinity was the most attractive to them. pretty cool.
i always try to learn something and walk away differently, from these events. i think a lot of my weekend was connecting to some important people…the trooks, the williams’, pearl merchant, and seeing dave and brandon…but also just being still. that was huge. i think i’m learning to appreciate and understand quiet and solitude in my old age, ha ha.
here are a couple of two, non-iphoned pictures.
wes and meredith trook! they are so cute. i loved spending the weekend with them.
brandon and i on our way to church, sunday morning. rocking out the big sunglasses.
more pictures coming soon from discover hope.
hooray!
thanks for cupcaking.
We just loved having you here! Come back in 2 weeks!
2 weeks? well, OK! hahaha. i’m going to see you sooooooooooon! get ready for a sweet 7:30am ride to georgetown! hahahaha.