What I learned. . .

This past week I learned a lot in my times of prayer.  It was not difficult to organize my prayer day, actually people were very willing to volunteer their time.  The struggle came during my 24 hours of prayer.  As soon as it started, I was notified that my bank account was overdrawn, due to something completely out of my hands.  I was immediately stressed which then caused other things to go wrong.  In the matter of only 15 minutes, I was completely stressed, worried, and hopeless.   I wondered why God was letting all of this hit me at once, then I realized. . .

What if the attacks of the enemy are constantly coming at me, but because God knows I cannot handle them at that moment He holds the attacks back from me.  Because I was trying to do work for the kingdom my faith was built up and God gave me renewed strength to handle whatever may have come my way.  This was proof to me this week that even though the enemy tries to bring us down, God always turns it around for good.

Feed My Sheep

For my personal ministry hours this week I helped serve at Feed My Sheep.  Feed My Sheep is such a great place to serve because all the volunteers have such great attitudes and willing to go the extra mile.  At my time there I prepared chicken, chopped garlic, and did a bunch of other odd jobs.  I was particularly excited about preparing the chicken because that is something I have never done before.  Clarence showed me how to cut and slice it and I think that I did a pretty good job. 

After we were done preparing the food, we were able to greet and serve the people.  I love this time of fellowship.   Because Feed My Sheep is a place that I have been to multiple times I have been able to build relationships with the people.   They will tell me these crazy stories and I will encourage them that there is always hope and let them know that they are in my prayers.

All together I was there a little over 4 hours.  Between the preparing, the fellowship serving, and clean-up I had a great time and was able to spread a little bit of encouragement throughout the day.

Body Shop. . .

This week in body shop was like most others.  Because it is so cold outside I have chosen to stay inside and concentrate on specific muscle groups that I need improvement.  Once again, I worked on abs, legs, arms, and cardio.

For my first hour, I did strictly arms, legs and abs.  I did 10 minutes of stretching before and after and about 10 minutes each of arms, legs, and abs.

My second hour of body shop I started out with more stretching so that I could get warmed up.  Then I got my muscles warmed up with some cardio.  Next, I moved onto abs and switched between abs and legs.  I ended my body shop with a quick cool down.

What I learned. . .

I have learned that no matter how much I don’t feel like doing something I should do it anyways.  This weekend was exhausting.  We had early mornings and late nights.  Normally I would be okay with this except that on top of working Winterfest I had to complete body shop hours, bible reading, memorizing James, memorizing peoples passions and why, and the most stressful I had soooo much homework.  I feel like I used my time as wisely as I could.  When we had breaks I read, when we went back to the hotel I either did homework, or worked out.  If I fell asleep I did it while doing homework.  Why didn’t I do this before Winterfest weekend well because Tuesday the only day that I had before we left I had other obligations like completing late work from the week before. 

The moral of this weekend is that I need to get the most important things done first so that the little things that I miss are not as bad. When it seems impossible to get everything done it may be, but I should still try my hardest.

Body Shop. . .

Winterfest weeks are always the most difficult time to document body shop hours.  This time around instead of working on homework I decided to go to the gym that was at the hotel.  For half an hour I did a combination of the elliptical, the bike, crunches, and weights for my arms.  The elliptical and bike strengthened my legs and got my heart rate up and the crunches and weights toned my abs and arms.  For the next 30 minutes I swam laps around the pool.  I had forgotten what a workout swimming was.  I thought this was going to be a cool down, but it actually got my heart rate going faster than before.

My second body shop was only 30 minutes due to the lack of time we had this weekend.  I once again went to the gym in the hotel.  This time I did ½ mile on the elliptical, ½ mile on the treadmill, and 1 mile on the bike.  After this my legs were a bit tired so I decided to work on my arms yet again.  This workout was short but very intense.

After returning from Winterfest I woke up early in the morning and did a half hour of legs, abs, and cardio.  After being so tired from the previous days this took all the energy that I had.   It was very difficult but I guess it will be rewarding in the long run.

After all of this I still had 1 hr. to complete so I did it all again.  All of this including, cardio for 10 min., legs for 10 min., arms for 10 min,  abs for 10 min., and a 10 min. cool down.  I have found that after doing all of these things over and over that I am becoming better at them.  I think it may be time to move to something a bit harder.

Learning Again and Again

Once again this is not something new that I have learned but something that I have relearned again and again.  You would think that I would get the point after being tested sooo many times, but no I am still working on it.  What is IT you may ask?  IT is Procrastination.  Again and again I think that I have way more time than I actually do.  It is not so much that I wait till the last minute to do things but that I am forced to squeeze everything in at the last minute.  I don’t feel like I waste my time early on in the week I am actually quite busy.  It is just that I don’t squish all things required of me in at the beginning, I wait till the end.  I realized that all this does is stress me out way more than I need to be.  It makes doing all the things that I do a hassle and I don’t enjoy them. 


Sooo I have decided that I am going to plan every second of everyday.  I cannot waste one part of my day.  Every moment is critical when it comes to meeting the requirements of the week.  Starting now I am going to become more organized.  I am going to balance my week out so I am no longer overwhelmed.