Wow!! Tomorrow is the first day of the LAST week of 5-day clubs. One week left! This has been the fastest, best summer of my entire life so far! I can honestly say that I have never felt the joy of the Lord like this before! But even though I feel God’s joy and strength, the devil still finds a way to creep on in. today i have to admit i have started to feel slightly jealous of everyone with a partner. i have done a lot of weeks without a partner, and now, thinking of the last week i admit i have been wishing for a partner to make the last week fun and exciting. But i realized that this is where God wants me, this is where he wants all of us.

i know that God is going to be working this week, just like he has during all of the other weeks.

our summer is almost over, but the battle will not be over until the lord returns for us. stay strong this week. the devil will try to sneak in and take away the joy of the lord. it may be by sparking jealousy in your hearts, or it may be by causing you to be sick, maybe you won’t see any decisions in your clubs this week. but i know that i always have to remember and pray, God’s will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

praying for you all this week!

Prayer Requests:

That I will stay focused on the Lord and His work, and not let my mind wonder to the things that seem to make life fun and exciting. If God wants me to be teaching on my own this week, then that is what I will do. But I know it won’t be easy this week.

Thank you so so much to everyone who has prayed for me throughout the summer! Knowing that people are praying for me helps me so much! God is using your prayers!

Welp, first off i have to thank everyone who has been praying for me this summer, and especially this week! This week has just been FLYING by!

So, I’ll start off with Thursday of last week, that morning i awoke throwing up and feeling awful, however i still decided to go teach my clubs with Sarah Vatamaniuk (hope i spelt that correctly) and they did not go well for me. i felt sick the entire time and it was… rough.

so now lets jump to Monday of this week,which was not a good start for me. i woke up feeling very sick and was throwing up and just feeling awful. i immediately posted to the Facebook page that all of us workers are apart of, and asked for prayer. i ended up calling Nekaelly and asking her to teach my first club, she said yes and was absolutely amazing! i was so thankful for the extra hour to sleep! Nekaelly if your reading his, i want you to know how much that meant to me!!!

anyways, my clubs for that day ended up going well, however two out of my four clubs had no kids 🙁 but hey, God’s will be done, even if it makes no sense to me.

so Tuesday went well and then came wednesday. another morning of feeling awful and throwing up, however God totally gave me the strength to teach my clubs with exuberance.

again last night i felt sick, so i immediately took some meds and hit the sack and i felt great this morning! Thank you Jesus

So, not only have i not been feeling the greatest this week, but my whole family has been out of town. so it was a tougher week for me because i was missing them, feeling sick, and i was just exhausted from taking care of everything around the house.

But we serve an INCREDIBLE God, because yes, i have had my moments this week where i am just exhausted and feel like giving up, but when i would turn to God he gave me strength. there is no way on earth i would have made it through this week without the prayers of all of you and the amazing God that I serve!

My clubs have been going really well 🙂 my third club was cancelled because no kids showed up, and i expected the same with my fourth club. but on wednesday, the last chance for kids to come to the club before i cancel it, one little girl showed up. she is so sweet and im so happy she is coming! wasps were everywhere during that club so we had fun practicing the memory verses while running away from wasps! (there may have been a tad bit of screaming involved)

thank you again so much for praying for me and the other workers this week, and this summer. I know that each and every one of us needs that prayer! So thank you a million times over!!!

Prayer Requests

~ That kids will understand what I am talking about. Because I know God can give these kids understanding and soften their hearts.

~ That God would speak through me. I don’t want these kids to just here some cool stories, I want kids to be in awe of the great and amazing, Jesus Christ.

Hey 🙂 (This is about July 27-31 week)

My clubs all went well but on Monday and Tuesday after and before club i was just not feeling it. i was exhausted, i just felt like complaining, and i wasn’t happy. i realized on Wednesday that i had not been spending time with God. yes, i was doing devotions every morning, but i learned that that is not the same as spending time with God.

so on Wednesday i decided to spend time with God. i started waking up 2 1/2 hours early for my clubs the rest of the week so that i could wake up, get all my stuff ready, and then have lots of time to spend with god. even if it was just sitting on my bed in the stillness of the morning after reading my devotions.it really helped me to focus on God.

from Wednesday and after, my week was FANTASTIC!!!! i had renewed energy and joy. i loved my clubs and had a blast doing them. i came home each day happy, and i know that that was only because i made sure to spend time with God each morning.

i titled this entry a fool walks away because no matter how many times i learn this lesson, i keep on having to learn it again. when i spend time with God i have joy and the lords energy, when i don’t i feel weak and unhappy. yet after a little while i start to think that i can do it in my own strength and then God reminds me, “haha no you cant!”

i am a fool a lot of the time, and I’m so happy that god reminds me of that so i can get back on track with him 🙂

P.S my clubs all went amazing! God was along side me the whole time, helping me so much!! Again i had a HUGE club with 45 kids which is one of my biggest fears, but each time God takes away my fear and gives me peace. Thank the Lord!!

Prayer Requests

That I will continue to fight against the Devils temptations. Many days I start to forget how important teaching these clubs are and I start to let myself complain and get grumpy, but I need to decide each day who I will serve. I know that the Devil is trying to hinder me from telling all these people about Jesus Christ.