Happy Birthday Jesus!

So it's Jesus' birthday (:
You should be celebrating! If you're not, go out and celebrate!

I was on a mission trip the past few days (tues-friday)...
It was amazing! unexplainable, but still explainable enough to tell you how incredible it was.
Tuesday night everyone hung out and prepared for the first day of work -- wednesday.  We had Adoration and confession, which was all in itself amazing!
Wednesday morning, we rose at 7am and had Mass at 7:30, breakfast and prepared for the long day ahead.  My team: Gina, Audra, Ellie, Eddie, Evan and myself went to the girl, Cassie's house.  We painted her room purple with black trim, we put zebra print comforter, rugs and curtains in her room and gave her a desk and shelf. We showed her love through our generosity. We got back to the church where we were staying and had dinner, prayed and slept.
Thursday morning we woke up at 7 and had Mass at 7:30, we then ate breakfast and were assigned to new teams and different projects... I was with Elyse, Gabe, Matt, JP, Michele Michaela, Augustine, Daniel... We went to the largest Catholic museum in the US. We cleaned - vacuumed, dusted the whole museum and some of us swept and mopped the soup kitchen. Myself and Michele were faster than the boys at sweeping and mopping. (: we finished at about 1:30 and walked back to the church center and proceeded to the Run the Race center where we decorated for the dinner party later that night for all of the Racer's and their families.  We put on skits for them and sang songs, we had santa there for the little kids...
Once everyone got back to the parish center, we were exhausted, we hung out had night prayer and got to bed.  Friday morning we awoke at 7:30, had breakfast, packed, morning prayer, then everyone who hadnt seen the museum went there and all of us who had, stayed at the parish center and cleaned up! at 10am everyone went home.

This was an overall amazing trip! So much happened, I am still trying to precess it all.
God is Good!



A side story within this trip... I was helping decorate one of the rooms in the Run the Race center and then i saw this kid walk in; a 17 year old boy, tall, tan skin and dark hair... I realized that it was a boy that i had once gone to kindergarten with -- Mark... I had seen him on the Cranks Creek trip (our usual youth group mission trip) two years ago and had thought of him the day before... It was funny that he was there because he was the first boy i liked, the boy i liked all throughout  middle school and could possibly still like him... Now, see here, throughout middle school and kindergarten, this wasn't just a crush i had on this handsome young boy, but it was the boy that i loved. So i remembered that we once liked each other and had once kissed each other, but i didnt know if he still remembered... so it was just kind of awkward. But now my mind is spinning, the possibilities and everything... Life is happening and i only wish i knew what would happen next.