Oh Iowa...

IOWA FACTS.

State Abbreviation - IA
State Capital - Des Moines
Largest City - Des Moines
Area - 56,276 square miles
Population - 2,926,324
Name for Residents - Iowans
Major Industries - agriculture, food manufacturing, insurance

Iowa, where you never really know what is going to happen here. All small towns and nothing much to do. It's almost a perfect place for me. I LOVE the small towns, don't get me wrong there. It's just I want to have something that I can actually do and not have to drive 2 hours to do it.

Go out into the world and Make disciples of all nations...

I want to TRAVEL! I want to get out of this small town and finally live! To get out of the everyday life and experience something totally new!

I just have a heart to travel. I want to be able to serve God with my traveling, with education. I want to go out in the world and help the young generations. I want to show them God's endless love.

I want to follow God's great commission. To go out into the world and make disciples of all nations. I pray that God allows me to go into this world and spread is word.

Summer Reading...

This summer is being devoted to
1) summer class
2) working on the farm
3) READING!!!

So far I'm on my second book, I know I had a slow start. But I am catching up FAST!!!

Book one: "Water For Elephants"
A WONDERFUL book! two thumbs WAY up from this reader! The author allows the reader to just become a part of the book. I just could not put the book down!

Book two: "The Help"
I'm a little half way through this book. And again, nothing bad at all to say about it! Again, just can not put the book down once I start.

TEST!

I'm taking a summer class, and it's all online. Every week we have two test to take that are due by midnight the next Sunday. So I was trying to be the good student and finish the test a day early, and it looked like it was only 30 questions (about the same length as the first test). And the after question 30 there was not a NEXT button. So I thought I finished the test, and then I went to go look at my scores...What did I find out? I failed, not just it was a close pass, but completely failed. So I look over the test and I find out that there are 60 questions!!! what the HECK! So I e-mailed the professor, so hopefully he'll understand and either...

1) he lets me take the test over again
or
2) he scores the test of what I finished.
I just NEED an 'A' in this class! I can NOT afford to fail a single test!

Wish...

I wish I was better at things.
I wish I was able to just jump in.
Why do I get scared?
Why do I just run?

Sometimes I wish I had a different personality. I'm able to talk to almost anyone, anyone but the people I really want to talk too. I do not know what it is! I get all tongue tied, dried mouth, mind running, butterflies in the stomach, totally silent. there is just something wrong with me. I'm never able to be myself, and I WISH I could change that.......I WISH!

Home

They say "home is where the heart is." I find this hard to believe sometimes. I LOVE being home with my family. I love my family. But, sometimes my heart is still left in Kansas. I love being in Kansas. I love the people, the city, the STATE! So if home is where the heart is, can home be in more than one place? can I have more than one home?

LOGOS

Life has logos.
 Life puts labels on things.

What am i labeled with?
 What does the world see me as?

I hope that they see Christ. That they see a light beaming out of me.
 I want to be the salt to the world. to make a bland world have flavor.
  To be fisher of men, and bring them to Christ

I don't want the labels of the world.
 I want the labels that God has given.
  I want to be in HIS army.
   I am HIS and HE is mine.

Someday HE will return,
 and I will be in HIS Kingdom!