This is a list me and my friend made of everything I did for my first time in MN last summer.

Hannah's Fisrt time list:
-going to Minnesota
-going to Wisconsin
-tubing
-swiming near (almost in) a waterfall
-gotten a leach on the leg
-hiked tettegouche
-saw split rock lighthouse
-swam in lake superior-a "great lake!"
-worked at a camp (camp lebanon)
-went in a paddleboat
-saw a loon
-caught a fish
-took a fish off the hook
-got a hook stuck in finger
-went to a twins game at the metrodome
-rode the MN lightrail
-went to the mall of America
-gagged over cleaning bathrooms
-grew an irishman-'seamus'
-had sweet and sour meat balls with pinapple and rice
-ate fruit with ice cream
-watched National Treasure
-made carepacks
-ate rhybarb
-had crepes

A night out with the girls from youth group...

Royal Servants Ireland team 2004.

Yup the Ireland trip was pretty much amazing...

God is our Romancer. amazing thought. The God who made the universe and knows every star in the sky is in love with me and wants me to be totally and completly in love with Him. He wrote a whole book of letters just for us. I don't know maybe it is just me but I love that thought. it is so humbling. And you know what? I am totally in love with God. He is amazing. Like I can't even put into words how in love I am. Each and every day all that happens is I just fall more in love. Yup and that is pretty much all I have to say.

Beautiful Soldier
She's a beautiful soldier who
wears knee boots instead
of combat boots and has
never set foot in a desert.
If you passed her on the street,
you'd probably think
she doesn't have a problem
in the world.

(i didn't write that i actully just read it and thought it sounded really cool and like most christian girls living on this place called earth)

Galatians 5:13 'For you brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.'

What I think this verse means is that we are free but but since we are free we should serve each other, and not serve each other because we have to but out of love. Serving each other because we love them.

Last summer I went on a mission trip with royal servants and I fell in love with that group. So this summer I went back except I just went to training camp and went to serve. I also went to camp Lebanon in Upsala MN.

At the camps I did the behind the scens things that keep the camp runing. I did odd jobs such as cleaning bathrooms, washing tarps and seting up and taking down tents. But my most important job was encourgment. At the royal servants training camp part of our 'job' was to encourge the students, staff and leaders who were going over seas. The team I was on was made up of alumni and the name of our team was Barnabas which means 'Son of encougment'. Some of the ways we encourged was that every night we did a prayer walk and we wrote letters to the team leaders.

Through out the hours spent cleaning bathrooms and days spent standing in the hot sun some of the things God taught me were...

That is it so important to keep encourging your brothers and sisters in there walk with Christ, Satan is constantly trying to bring us down in our walk with Christ even though we don't always see it we always need to be praying not only for ourselves but for those around us, And then through how utterly tired I got I was reminded that we need to give everday to God and rely on Him to give us the strenght we need to make it through each day.

Being at royal servant training camp and not on a team I was able to see the ways God worked in the big things like the teams getting the support money they needed to go over seas to the small things like we counted the passport holders and came up 6 short and then I was sorting through the blue bags and opened up a zipper pouch and there were 6 passport holders in it.

As you see I didn't go over seas this summer but that isn't the only place we are needed. God can use you right here in the USA to do work for Him and further His kingdom. You just need to be open to His calling and ready for the moments He gives you.

God has been more then faithful this summer. He helped me make it through every day when I felt like that last bit of strength was gone. And I just want to thank you all for the prayers and letters I got while I was gone. It is so engouging to know that you all support me and what I feel called to do.




On sunday evening a couple weeks ago me and some of the other high schoolers who went on mission trips this summer and camps all talked about what we did/learned over the summer. So that is what I said (well not like word for word seeing as I didn't read it or memorize it or anything like that).

-For Good- Wicked (the musical)

I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you

Because I knew you
I have been changed for good
And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the thing I've done you blame me for
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
And none of it seems to matter anymore

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better

Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good.

my girls that I did book time with. I miss all the girls so much, I can't wait till next school year!!!

the 3rd and 4th grade girls awana group i worked with over the last school year.

this is what happens when the youth from church go out to dessert together! haha

you know i love tea. i went to ireland and london and the british people got to me and i love tea! so right now i made my self a nice cup of tea. i used to only like it with milk and honey in it but then i decided the it wasn't as good for me then so now i drink it stright up (well sometimes i add milk and honey but not a lot).

ok so i'm in a random mood and just did a whole post about tea. yup good stuff. here i'll add a cool quote to the end!

'The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of there dreams' -Elenor Roosevelt

Give of your best to the Master
Give of the strength of your youth;
Throw your soul's fresh,
Growing ardor,
Into the battle for truth.
Jesus has set the example;
Dauntless was He,
Young and brave;
Give Him your loyal devotion,
Give Him the best that you have

~Howard Grose


Lately I've been feeling like i need to give God everything i possibly can. Like i'll admit sometimes i want to date. but i know that would be a part that woldn't be God's anymore...i need to give him my attractiveness and my beauty...i need to give Him my attention...that would be fulfiling my dreams but don't want to live my dreams i want to live Gods dreams for me. I just want to give God my all, in ever since of the word all, that is what i want to give Him. And ok you caught me i'm not right now, but i want to, i want God to have every little thing.

and those are my thoughts right now.

if you click on the picture it will show you a bigger one.

after the ball a bunch of us went to starbucks and then all of us girls took our pic with the guy working there!haha oh his name is Ben.

Me, Bizzy and Brittany having fun with the roses we got

some of us girls at the civil war ball. (i am the 6th in from the right)

taking a break from dancing at the civil war ball

ok so i am sick for the 3rd time in a row. yup this is life. i think i got sick this time from not enough sleep mixed with working to hard.
I went to a civil war ball last night!! it was so fun. Somehow I finished my dress before I had to leave! I was all with God's help I can tell you that I finished it. And then after the ball a bunch of us went to starbucks, the guy there Ben was great he was all into it all, So of course we had to take our picture with him.hahaha Then we went to one of my friends house and played games till me and bizzy left around like 1:30 but we didn't get to sleep till like 2:30. Yeah 7:30 came way to quick this morning.
Ok here are some of the main lines from our sermon this morning. (ok i know random but i really like it!)
'when God takes things away from us, we must not become bitter, but we must trust Him always'
'Faith assists works, works perfect faith'
'works perfect faith, that is, they bring faith to maturity, so that you must see works if there is true faith'

And then i love questions. like...
what does music have to have?
a. singer b. instruments c. composer d. sound
ok so first i thought sound but then i was like wait i don't know if i'm just weird but can't you have like the music of silence? So i decided that you have to have a composer. Because God is the composer of everything. ok i had more to say but i think this sickness is geting to me cuz my head hurts and i can't think of what else i was gonna say. hahaha

ok here is a question my pastor asked this morning and i am still thinking about it.
If someone came up to you and asked 'Are you a christian?' and then you said 'yes' and then they said 'ok prove it' what would you do?

me and my brother Robby at disneyland.

that is me and my sisters on the tea cups at disneyland!! and not just any tea cup but the pink one!! horray for us! heehee