sleepy.

The last time I posted, we were sitting in the youth auditorium waiting for the rest of our team to pass the Code test. We ended up sitting in that room for a total of 6.5 hours! It was brutal, but our team finally did pass right before 10:30pm, so we were just glad to go home.

Saturday we had Adopt-a-Block, where we went to a not-so-fortunate community and served free breakfast, offered free lawn services, evangelized, and had a donation table from which people could take a few things they needed. It was pretty great, but hopefully more people start to gather over the next few weeks.

Weekend services rocked as usual, and then I had Monday off. Luckily, I had the chance to work with my mom and make some extra cash. I also had to go around to 10 businesses and tell them about the Silent Auction we have coming up to raise money for our missions trips. That night I chilled with my home sponsors and we had a really fun time! The 5 of us somehow ended up on the living room floor doing weird yoga positions, headstands, backbends and a bunch of other crazy things for about an hour. Definitely a first for me! :) I love that they're such goofs!

Yesterday we did a full body workout at the Y. We did swimming, arm weights, abs, cycling, and cardio on the elliptical. Then instead of school outreaches to promote Venue that we usually do on Tuesdays, we got to listen to Spencer (a 3rd year) talk about relationships, and it was really inspiring! As someone who has never really had any successful romantic relationships yet, I'm always really interested about how to go about relationships in a way pleasing to God, and Spencer really enlightened us with what he said. Then we had our second ever Venue service and it was completely amazing. We still had around 150 people attend, despite the usual decline in attendance after the exciting first service. God is really moving in the lives of college students and 20-somethings!!

Because two of my teammates failed their scripture memory test on Ephesians 3:16-21, my team along with the other two teams all had to walk around the church for CT at 5:30 this morning. After morning prayer we had Running Day. Today I'm pretty sure we only ran 1.5 miles, but we did indian sprints the whole way, meaning that we run in a single file line and the very last person in line sprints to the front as the whole group runs. When they reach the front, the person who is now the last person in line sprints to the front, and so on. It was SO HARD, but everyone finished! Then Spencer and Tori (cadre girl) had us do about 30 minutes of ab workouts inspired by P90X. Now is class time, so I'm finishing up some work for my online classes and then getting ready for Epic tonight!

I have to say as a side note that I'm pretty impressed at how much information and scripture I've crammed into my brain in just 4 weeks! I not only have The Code memorized, but also Ephesians 5:15-16, Jeremiah 29:11-13, Romans 8:35-39, Ephesians 3:16-21, and Matthew 16:24-28. And it's amazing how your knowledge of scripture comes in handy on a daily basis. Now I have 5 more passages in scripture to use in conversations with others, prayer and when I'm talking to myself to push myself harder.

So all is well and tomorrow I'm excited for Pastor Matt's class, ministry time and worship practice!