A wonderful Thanksgiving and a Wonderful Band.

So I recently got back from my annual Thanksgiving camping trip, lets just say it was a well needed brake. We have been going camping for Thanksgiving for as long as I can remember. It is so peaceful out there it seems as if everything that you would worry about just seems to be put on hold out there. And of course it is one of the times a year when we all are able to get together and spend some quality time with one another.

So after I got home on Saturday, I was able to look forward to the concert that was being put on at our church by a few of the guys from Spur58. Everytime I have heard them play they bless me in so many ways. There is this one song of theirs that I absolutely love that they have played everytime I have heard them play. It just touches me in so many ways, and of course this song is one that they never had the chance to record as a band. The song is called “Found” and the lyrics of this song are truly amazing. This is a line from the chorus…” You’ve taken my brokeness and made me whole once again and all of my life is found in you. Oh God of beauty and grace, you are my resting place and all of my life is found in you.” This is so moving to me because it shows that no matter how much you have messed up, God is always going to be there for me.

On another note… My CB comes home in 19 days! It’s been a huge change not having her here these past 5 months. I have missed being able to talk to her whenever I wanted to. She’ll be here for a few weeks and then has to go back to Germany. But at least she’ll be here for a little while. It will be good to be able to catch up in person and to be able to get big CB hugs!

I can say that I have almost successfully finished my first semester of college. I take finals next week so hopefully those will go well. I have really only had one minor mishap with philosophy so I decided to drop the course, which is probably better for me in the long run.

School Has officially taken over my life…

So I realize that I’m probably not the best blogger that keeps everybody up to date on everything that goes on, but I blame that on school. Over the past two weeks I have done more studying and homework than I ever had in my life and for the most part it has paid off. I guess I would rather do more work than make up the days we missed from Ike, but I mean seriously it has to stop sometime. I feel all I do is homework. And Im up to at least midnight every night doing it all. So I’m hoping things will maybe start to slow down. The good news is that Thanksgiving is almost here and I haven’t had a real Thanksgiving break since before High school due to basketball. I’m super excited that this year I’ll finally get to enjoy camping for almost the whole week, without having to rush to get back to practice. It’s going to be amazing I love camping!

That Amazing place and a few other things that have gone on lately

So I realized that I never blogged about one of my youth trips from over the summer and I can’t believe I haven’t because it was absolutely amazing.

So there is place called Camp Eagle, and it has my heart. I miss this place daily. It was just such an amazing place to be. You were reminded constantly of God’s beautiful creations everywhere you turned. I met some amazing people who were counselors there. Above all, that week I truly heard God speaking to me for the first time. And I finally understand where I am supposed to serve him at, and sure enough he put a huge desire on my heart to be a camp counselor at Camp Eagle. So I talked to a few people that worked there before we left, and then as soon as I got home I sent in an application for next summer (they start going through applications in like September). So for about a month and a half I didnt hear anything back on like if they got my application or not. Well on Tuesday I checked my email and there was a message from Camp Eagle. It wasn’t anything too exciting yet, but it was exciting enough for me. The email basically said that they were just making sure my application was for next summer and they said they would be in contact with me in the next few weeks. This is something that has been on my heart ever since I got home from camp and its just exciting to see where God is going to take me here in these next few months.

My two favorite ladies walking in God’s beautiful creations.

This is Courtney and she was one of our conselors. She was an amzing person!

Now on to some other things that have been going on…

I had the amazing opportunity to go to both the Generation one boys and girls summer camps. Generation one is a non profit organization  which is based down in the third ward down in Houston. One of the main people running generation one also happens to be a very good friend of mine, Kenzie. I have been blessed so much by this girl in the past month it is unbelievable. It was an amazing opportunity to be able to be a part of this camp. It was just neat to get these kids out the tough situations that they might come from and just be able to spread the word of God to them, and conditionally love them for 72 hours. These kids had a huge impact on my life.

And to the last thing for now.

I can say that I have officially made it through my first two weeks of college successfully. It is really a big difference than high school, although the boys are still the same, but  I absolutely love it. I have 2 classes with my cousin which is pretty neat, and I have two classes with one of my best friends which is pretty amazing. And on top of that I get to dance everyday which is amazing. I never really realized how much I missed ballet. As of right now I’m still unsure on a major but I have narrowed it down to two options. Either I will major in dance and minor in education, or vice versa.

Oh the curveballs life will throw at you…

Sometimes you know you need to be strong for those around you, but also sometimes you need people around you to be strong for you. These past 24 hours have been extremely hard for me. I hardly ever let things get me down, but I guess I really wouldn’t know how this would effect me until I was standing in the airport yesterday telling her bye. I guess it is just going to take some time getting used to thats all.

 

Where does the time seem to go?

This is going to be a sort of long post to catch everyone up since I haven’t written in a while so bare with me for a little bit.

Graduation

It seems just like yesterday I was walking into my first day of kindergarten at Teague Elementary, now fast forward thirteen years and I have finally graduated. At first I was somewhat scared to embark on this brand new journey of something where I have no idea where life is going to take me, but now after looking at it I’m excited to see what God has in store for me in the next four years. I plan to find out who I am really supposed to be and I find that super exciting. Yeah it’s going to be wierd not walking in to the same school that I have been in the past four years, and yeah its going to be wierd not to be around all the same people, but I am really excited. I’m ready for the change.

Last Recital at Cindy K’s Dance Studio

For the past 16 years I have dance at Cindy K’s dance studio. Some of the memories are good, and some not so good. Well as of June 14 I danced on the stage one last time as a Cindy K’s dancer. As many times as I have said I wanted to switch studios and how I wasn’t happy there, that place actually helped mold me into the person I have become today. I couldn’t even begin to imagine my life without that studio, but now it is time to move on in life. So even though I won’t be dancing at the studio, I still plan on dancing, its a huge part of my life and I plan on doing it until I am physically unable to do so.

My CB moves to Germany in 24 days.

Hopefully she doesn’t mind me writing about her. I love you Cb!

It seems just like yesterday when I first heard Cb tell me “I’ll be moving to Germany come the first part of August, but don’t worry we still have plenty of time left.” Well that time is slowly winding down, and yes we have had some good times and I’m sure there will be a few more before she leaves but it all seemed to happen too fast. I am extremely happy for her because I know this is something she has always wanted to do, but there is a selfish part of me that doesn’t want to let her go. I tell myself that I will be fine and everytime I think I can handle the thought of her leaving, I end up thinking of all she has done for me and end up crying. But I know that now our time is being dwindled down to days so I’m just going to have to suck it up and make the best of it. And just believe one of the things CB has been telling me recently, “Friends in Christ, are forever friends!” Its just going to be wierd not to see her every week, and to not be able to talk to her in person, just through emails and the internet. But I’m sure I’ll be able to deal with it.

I love you CB! I’m going to miss you a lot but you best be sure we are going to make the best out of these 24 days!

Wow… Is all I can say at the moment

So I walk into the church today for a meeting with Alex Debaylo for his kroo, and Mike Malcames and a group of people were just standing there seeming like they were just waiting for me. So I wave and continue to walk and mike is like Kandace can we pray for you. And Jen has been telling me about these prayers since she got back from Honduras. So I was a little iffy at first, but I called Jen and she assured me it would be ok so I went through with it… and all I can say is wow… Words cant even explain how I feel right now. I feel like something is already changing inside of me. I dont know how to even say how i feel…Just Amazing…

The People Who get Me Through The Day :)

So in the past two years I have really met some amazing people who I don’t know what I would do with out them. These people are there for me know matter what, through thick and thin, and the mean to world to me.

So this is my best friend Jenny. This girl is probably the best friend I have ever had. We are always there for each other no matter what. She is my 3 am friend as I am hers. I really don’t know what I would do with out her. We talk about everything together, and are basically attached at the hip. We help get each other through the day.

On to another person who can always brighten my day. From the beginning I knew that Cb would become a huge part of my life. She always knows what to say in any situation. God has definitely put her in my life  for a reason.  She is  one of the most amazing people that I have ever met. She has become more than just a friend, she has become part of my family. And in about 3 months I am sad to say that she will be moving to Germany to do some mission work. It is probably going to be one of the hardest things to do to say goodbye to her. But we still have three months left so we’ll just have to make the most of it. God has really used her in my life and I know that he is also going to use her in the kids in Germany’s lives to. It;’s going to be hard because our only mean of communication will be over the internet, but we’ll find a way to get through it. She is such an inspiration to me and I can only one day hope to become half of the person she is. There are hardly any words to explain how much I am going to miss her, but I am thankful for the times we have shared.

So really June and I have known of each other for a while, but really became close around February. June’s daughter Caroline was in my mom’s preschool  class  about six years  ago, so we would always wave or smile when we would see each other, but other than that we really didn’t know anything about each other.  Well in January the good Lord knew what he was doing when he called June Culver into Student Ministry. She truly has an amazing story to tell. She is also another person who I can talk to about absolutely anything, and she always seems to have the right words to say. I don’t really open up to many people right away, but for some reason it didn’t take me long to start opening up to her. She is an amazing women and even though I’m about to be out of student ministry after august, I know that it will probably only bring us closer!

I have many others who can brighten my day, it’s just these are the three that really probably know me inside and out, and I am so blessed to  have them in my life, and I love each and everyone of them from the bottom of my heart!

Tonight=emotional but great

So tonight at our New Life Service, Betsy, Our worship leader, talked about the object of worship, and it was amazing.

Usually I never really like to express my true emotions in front of a whole group of people, but there is just something that worship does to me that just makes me pour out all my emotions at one time. Whether they are tears of joy, sadness, anger, or forgiveness, they always just seem to come out. Tonight was amazing because for the first time in a few weeks, I was really able to connect with God, and it felt as if he was telling me everything was going to be ok.

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