Life. In Anna's Perspective.

Hey guys, it's been a while, hasn't it?

Things are going well, I've been praying about the church and what to do there...so today we didn't actually go to the service, but we went to this Sunday School class that was really awesome - and we actually learned something for once. it was amazing. :) we're studying Judges - so much to learn in that book! About the services though, I still don't know what we're going to do...we're still trying to figure that out. Another thing with this is since we feel separated from the church, we're kind of getting separated from our friends at the church, which is really sad. I love the people there, but I guess subconciously it's like they're part of something that I don't agree with, so I guess the separation is probably partly my fault too. But it seems like they have their own little groups now and I don't quite belong to any of them anymore - I don't know if this is God's way of telling me that I need to leave, but then today we had an amazing time at the Sunday School. So, I don't know. Just pray for that please. I'm hanging out with Kathy on Tuesday, so hopefully we'll be able to have some quality time.

Other than that, just STUDYING. I'm taking a break right now, but i need to get back to studying soon. I have three tests tomorrow, and they're all beasts - the Greek one in particular. So hopefully I'll do alright on all of them - pray for me that I would be focused please. thanks! Love you guys, and miss you!

WOW i haven't updated in a long time!!

So, sorry for the above statement...i somehow forgot about this place...don't know why. weird.

Anyway, i have one week left of Summer B at UF, and it's been awesome!! my roommates are so cool, and we got done painting my room in the house. and next weekend, I move in!!! and then...i go home for a week or so, and then head back up for Fall semester. cannot WAIT for everybody to come back!!! and football season of course ;)

Let's see...i went to my cousin's wedding in Chicago a few weeks back - that was really cool. :)

and....i might possibly have the chance to go to Ethiopia next spring!! still a maybe though - not set in stone or anything.

oh! and me and my cousin Hope want to take a hiking trip in the Appalachians or to the west coast - so we're figuring that out.

other than that, just hanging out with friends, today we're cleaning the room in my house, and im doing laundry...later we're prob going to watch sweet home alabama with the roomies. YAY!

I MISS YOU PEOPLE!!!! emily, who is in rwanda - hope you're having yourself a flipping BLASTY BLAST, and britt in TN, you too missy, and let me know how your neighbor is! Abby in Venezuela, you are an awesomely awesome person and i miss your face!! dang...everybody's in different places. craziness. but anyway, hope everyone's doing well, love you guys!

May Madness.

So in May, i got out of college, met some europeans, my two best friends left on separate trips, but one is back now YAY, and hung out with people from high school. oh! and i might be going to a 3 doors down concert with em. :D yay! which i think we should TOTALLY do it. and then in june, i have like 2 weeks, and then i leave again for college, and i have 2 random roommates who are sisters - i hope it works out good. and then in august i move into my HOUSE!!!!!! :D and that's about all in my life right now. i went to gainesville this past weekend, hung out with people, it was fuuuunnn :)

some things to pray about this month:

Scott's grandpa just died yesterday :( they're going through a tough time, so just pray for them and for strength.

Daron - he's getting better, he has most of his thinking back praise the Lord, but he's still in a lot of pain.

My brother Kenny - that he wouldn't make stupid decisions in Italy.

But anyway, thanks guys!!! and yes. May. we have like 10 or 11 days left of it. so ENJOY it while you can.....MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

i don't really know.
but. i love you guys, and see ya latah!

the chicken and the chipmunk played hide and seek.

i took 2 tests today. LAST DAY OF CLASSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3 more tests tho haha ;)

but still.
im pretty freaking excited if i do say so myself. about the no class thing haha.

WHATCHU GUYS UP TOOOOOOOOOOOO???????????????

Some updates on life :)

So this week has been CRAZY.
Let's start it out on....Saturday. that sounds good.

Saturday:
My parents came for my birthday!!! And we went to Olive Garden, and then drove around Gainesville, drove to Paine's Prairie, stuff like that. Then they went back to their hotel, and I went to a puppy party at Kacey's....SOO cute. It's a golden retriever...
yay! and then Sunday, went to church with the family, went to Chili's with parents and friends, and then...did other stuff, and went to church again, THEN - the surprise party. AMAZING.
And...after that - on Monday - me and my friend Hanna led someone to Christ!!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!! that feeling, lemme tell you, is awesome. seriously. it was CRAZY.But just pray for him - his name is Quinn :)

And then Tuesday, another movie night and cake with candles, and more presents, and a mini shopping spree, and it was MY BIRTHDAY!!! and....yes.

Wednesday - 43:10, school, Choir, random stuff...
Thursday - school, Pride and Prejudice play, then Stats quiz...
and then Today - maybe scrapbooking, maybe a baseball game, maybe some swing dancing - not exactly sure yet. but some combination of those three sounds like fun. :D

Blood in my mouth beats blood on the ground

That's the song i was listening to. im not super crazily angry, i promise. ;) Well, i guess with me, you couldn't really tell, so the song kind of defines my anger resolution strategies?? i don't know. but anyway. im not angry right now lol. that's the point haha.

Soooo, today is Sunday, and i have to study this whoooollllleeeee week. Because - guess what??? i have 3...yes. 3 ------ tests this week. UGH. BUT, this weekend im going home to see the labelle besties, which i'm SUPER excited about!! im going to miss one of my besties up here's birthday though. sadness. :( but that's ok. because i'll see her when i get back!!!! Oh!! and my parents are coming up to Gainesville next weekend for my birthday - so im excited about that :) and.....what else is new? not too much, one of my friends is getting a new puppy, so im gonna go visit her when she gets it yay!
I have to talk to an advisor soon about double majoring - adding classics on. i still don't know if i want to do it - but i need to talk to somebody either way.
And that's about it! im listening to music and studying for pompeii archaeology - hopefully i'll get a good grade on that test - i need it to get a B in the class. ahhhh.
Some prayer requests for me:
Ivan Ruiz is in Tampa in the hospital right now - he needs a heart transplant!!!! :( :( Just pray that he gets a good heart, and that his body doesn't reject it or anything. And pray for strength for him and his family.
My prayer and Bible study time has been getting kind of dry lately :( I haven't played the piano for worship either lately, which helps me a lot....so i think i'll play some tonight. but just pray that i get better at doing my devo and just motivating myself to live for God each and every day. I have good worship time, but my prayer has been off. i don't know.
Im getting over my feelings for kyle more, but now our friendship is dwindling and it's mostly my fault. i've kind of been avoiding him, because of everything and partly something he said on the phone the other night. it was weird. but anyway, i feel like we shouldn't just let our friendship go down the drain. that would suck. so just pray for that.
And....I HAVE THREEEEEEE TESTS THIS WEEK!!!! ahhhh!!! and one of them i have a C in the class, and another class i got a D on the first test (HOW the heck do you get a D in stats. come on now.) So, just pray that i focus and get my lazy butt in gear and actually study and work on everything...and just pray for my stress level. because i know im really laid back but...when things actually start to stress me out, i get REALLY stressed out.
Thanks guys!! I hope you all are doing great, and i love you guys very much!

New Orleans

Saturday
So, Saturday we left for New Orleans!!! It was AMAZING, but i'll start from the beginning. So, we left on Saturday around 8 in the morning, and listened to some amazing music on the way up...and yea. It took us a looooonng time to get there - but it was FUN. :D Then, that night, we went to Bourbon Street to witness and give out tracts. And we ate at this really good Gumbo place - i had a po boy - super good!! It was a very interesting experience - i saw things i've only seen in movies haha. But i was kinda disappointed in myself - I felt God tugging at me to go talk to this guy sitting on some steps outside a store on Bourbon street, but i didn't. And i don't know what could've happened if i would have actually listened. :(
After that, we got begneys at Cafe Du Monde (Amaazing) and then went back to the hotel and slept.
- Sunday
We got up, got all our stuff, and went to breakfast, and Kyle and James met us there (they drove up separately since kyle had to work). after that, we went to the Seminary College where we put all our stuff in the dorm rooms where we were staying through tues...and then went to the Seafaring Center. THere, we met some seafarers, and then started doing construction with James and Dave (SUPER cool guy) and Terrel. it was fuuunN!!! i got up on scaffolding and stuff. i felt tough ;) After that, we got lunch, and then dinner, and then went to the college, where we had a worship service and met other college students from Georgia and Tennessee. But...some of the guys started being jerks and talking smack about the other football teams, so that kind of alienated them from us. :( The girls and terrel talked to them for a while though. They were nice, just a lot quieter than our group lol :)
- Monday
Some of us went to paint, and some of us went to the Seafaring Center - I went to the Seafaring Center. This place was soooo cool - we got to use their kitchen and bake whatever we wanted, play games, do construction (funny story about that lol) and hang out. We met some seafarers, and they were all super nice! We sorted things, baked things....random stuff.
Then, we went and had dinner, hten went back to the center to hang out with more seafarers, and got to talk to some very interesting people. :)
Tuesday - We went back to the seafaring center/painting, and it was cooool - Anthony kept tracking dirt in lol - drove me and geny crayz because we were mopping haha. And then we went to the basketball court.
This was one of the most awesome times of the whole trip. seriously - i think did the most for God there than anywhere else (except for maybe painting). It was in an alright neighborhood (well, we thought at the time) and it was right next to the police station. We went and steve and kyle and terrel went out first to see if we could play basketball with the guys there ( all thug looking guys you know) and they said sure. So we all go over there, there's 2 little boys playing, and we play with them, and then we girls go prayer walking for a little bit, meet these two guys - David and Aber. They were intoxicated and more...but they really appreciated us coming out and just praying for them. It was cool. And then, we went back to the bball court, and just hung out with the guys. They were sooooo nice!!!! we had a blast with them - we were just telling them what we wanted to do with our lives, what tv shows we liked, what we liked to do...and then we started singing and then terrel and one of the guys started rapping. It was super cool!!
And then - Kyle and Dave were talking to this guy the whole time. HE ACCEPTED CHRIST!!!! :D PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pray for him though. i can't really mention his name either. He's in an EXTREMELY hard situation right now...probably one of the worst i've ever heard of in my life. He could be killed at any time. And pray for all the guys there - they're his boys, and they're all in hard situations that i couldn't even imagine being in. They don't know Christ though. If i would have known all these things i heard later, i would have been extremely scared to go to that basketball court. but God was with us the whole way, and it turned out soooo amazing. Just pray though. Pray like you've never prayed before for this guy. Seriously. Thanks.
Wednesday - we left New Orleans, and came home. And now i have to unpack lol. So that was the gist of the trip - there's a lot more stories of things that happened, but you'll just have to ask me. :)