Church Youth Retreat!!
Monday, June 20, 2011
Wow! So I'm going to go in order, kind of. ;) For the first time in my whole life I was away from my parents for more than just one day! I saw them the day I left and did not see them till four days later! As expected I did get home sick... On the first day, when dinner was being served, my brother came very closely to passing out(basically passing out)! When I tried to talk to him there was such a blank look on his face, completely unresponsive, and was extremely white! Not the best way to start out a fun filled week. :P Of course, since my mom wasn't around and I was in 'control', I cried my eyes out! Once I started crying I couldn't stop! Although he got better, after eating more than any of them had ever seen someone eat, he took it easy. The adults were so nice to him! Shockingly they even went to the store and bought him bananas and things like that so he can eat between meals. After having such a shock over my brother I didn't start to enjoy myself till the following evening. We had church three times a day! :D In the morning it was a devotional from other pastors, afternoon was a testimony, and evening was an actual sermon from the book of Ruth. Avidly enjoying every minute of it! Learning so much about the Word of God was amazing! I took tons of notes! :) At times you could almost feel the spiritual battle! Our building, in which we were having church, was struck by lightning, the field was struck by lightning, the worship team had continuous electrical problems, and so on...but we continued to praise and worship God! Also part of what we did were games!! We had a flour war, which was totally fun, and you would go around throwing flour on people! When everyone was tired one of the adults decided to try to get us to continue to throw flour by telling the girls that the guys said they should stay in the kitchen and make something with that flour...it was on! lol I had a blast! As everyone had finished throwing flour on each other, I had managed to stay away from getting a lot of flour on me...when all of the sudden one of the adults pours flour on my head!!! Yeah.... lol Other than that we also had a bonfire every night and one night had a 'dancing battle'! Since I cannot dance I just watched. They kept us so active! I'm surprised I didn't lose any weight, but I do think I gained some muscle! Another thing we had a was high ropes! One of my fears is heights! Although I went through the entire course, shaking like a leaf, and am glad that I conquered my fears. :) Actually a lot of the girls didn't do it. Last thing I shall tell you :( : Over and over again people would ask my brother and I if we were dating...it was a bit awkward.. :P Basically everyone that didn't know us pretty well thought we were together. Also they thought he was older than me! Ugh *rolls eyes* This was a great experience for us and we were able to get closer to our new church family! Tremendously blessed to be able to go on the retreat and hopefully I'll be going next year! :D
Picture time!!!
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