The Rope and Trinidad

WOW!!!! It has been a long time!!!! I can not believe all that has happened since the last time I blogged!!

Well first off I can't really remember what all was in my last blog so I'm just gonna talk about what I know I haven't blogged about. First off, can I just say Trinidad. Yea. Trinidad brings back so many words I don't think I could type fast enough. I went up to birmingham the night before we flew out of Birmingham for the fact that we had to be at the airport at 6:30. Stayed with a really cool chick, Christy, one of my Nana's friends. She reminds me of Christy from the Christy Miller Collection. Flew out of Birmingham and had a pretty long lay over in Houston. We ate at a nice restaurant and that is where the fun began. Our leader told us about what all would happen when we got to Trinidad and went through customs. The biggest thing is we weren't allowed to say we were Christians or on a mission trip. That kind of freaked me out. I think by the time we landed I was fully prepared to lose my life for Christ. I've never had the feeling of complete and total surrender until that time. It was amazing!!!!

We got to the church and the best week of my life began. I'm not going to go into full details because that would just take entirely to long. If you want the full version contact me. I'd be happy to give it. But the coolest part to me was this group called the Old Testament Boys. They were a group of, I think, 6 boys from Hindu families. The families trust the church enough to allow them to go to service and Sunday School. The group did a drama during the Christmas Banquet on Saturday night. The Pastor told us about them and that none of them were saved before they performed. Well during the drama, I can't remember which song, but they bowed down on their knees. I cried. To see boys who aren't even saved kneel down to a God their families didn't believe or worship was truly overwhelming. And can I just say by the end of the youth camp I know of at least 2 that were saved. Glory to God!

We also had one girl in our group, Coleen, who came the first day. She was really cool and brought 4 of her friends the second day. Coleen and 3 of her friends got saved. I'm not sure if all the people who got saved understood what they were doing but to see them taking the initiative was the best, chilling feeling EVER!!!!

The whole trip was perfect and I am pretty sure I would have stayed if they would have asked me.

We got back from Trinidad and I came home to Violet, our old dog. Mom got her back and I think it was one of the best decisions she's ever made. The week was full of friends and family. Christmas turned out being pretty great. And then we, Mom, Jay, and I, went on our youth groups ski trip. It was pretty fun!!! I roomed with Kendra and two girls from Grandview, Jacy and Janie. Pretty sure I loved our nightly room talks and bible studies more than I liked skiing. This was also the first trip I had to go get ski patrol on. Talk about freak out, plus the fact is was my best friends sister who is like my little sister.

The only thing about the ski trip was by the time we got back I was so tired I slept straight into 2011. Kind of sad because there were two parties I could have gone to. However, the thirteen hours of sleep I got were the best!!!! I came back to Troy the following Sunday and classes started and life got back into it's old, boring routine. My schedule this semester rocks!! It excited me greatly!!!

This past Monday my cousin Koren was born!! Best moment of my life and she is so ADORABLE!!! I can't wait to go home this weekend and eat her cute little face!!!

Tonight was actually what sparked this blog. We had the first meeting of The Rope tonight. It was... AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Worship was so cool and reminded me of Trinidad. We sang Marvelous Light, Our God, and Forever Reign!! Then Anna spoke about the Passion Conference that she signed at. She talked about the Name of Jesus and how we carry it. It got me thinking. Do I really Carry Jesus' name like I should. I mean compared to some people on Campus I carry it like I am God, and that's normally my thought process. That's not how it's suppose to be. I'm not suppose to compare myself to anything but God's word, I have no excuse for ever thinking I'm doing a good job of being a "Christian" because there is always room to be better. I love The Rope and all that God is doing with it!!

Wow, it may just be me but that was a lot!! Time for me to head back to my place and hit the hay for another full day of classes and sorority stuff.

--The Trinie