Serve H-Town

Rosa :)

 This feels so weird...I feel like by having a blog I'm saying "I'm important enough and interesting enough that people care what I have to say". I honestly don't care if people read this. I'm writing because I have a lot to say, and writing is my favorite way to say it. Lately I've been yearning for some kind of creative outlet. I literally feel as if my soul is getting claustrophobic, like its tyring to expand and breathe. Hopefully blogging will be a successful outlet.

 So this week was SERVE H-TOWN :) My all time favorite part of the whole week was the vaction bible school in the morning. Although the 1st grade girls were..adorable. I really enjoyed getting to hangout with the fourth grade girls. I wrote them their bible verse of the day on colored sticky notes and tried to make them as pretty as possible (that kind of stuff is really important to little girls). They younger girls couldn't really read, so instead they just had me draw them pictures lol. ( and I am by NO MEANS an artist). It's funny because I didn't really think my presence at vaction bible school would really make a difference, but I think it really did.

 My job during VBS was Snack Time leader. It's a pretty prestigious position. Anyway the first day we were giving the kids chocolate chip cookies...and I LOVE chocolate chip cookies. Probably my first favorite dessert. Sadly..not heartbreakingly...I gave up chocolate for lent. :'( I couldn't eat them. I was telling my fourth grade girls about how jealous I was that they were eating chocolate chip cookies and explaining why I couldn't eat them. I told them it was really hard but every time I got tempted I would tell myself 'If God gave up his son for me, I will give up chocolate for him'. The next day we served trail mix for snack time. You know the ones with chocolate chips in them...(also the only ones worth eating).

 Heres a snippet of the conversation:
Me: Did yall notice whats in the trail mix.
1st little girl: Aw you can't eat M&Ns can you miss !
Me: No :'(
2nd little girl:  You can eat the penuts.
Me: ...the M&Ns are the only part worth eating!
3rd little girl: I don't think I could give up chocolate.
4th little girl: I mean If God could give up his son for us, I can give up chocolate for him.


 :D SERIOUSLY. how adorable. She repeated the exact thing I said the day before, but as her own thought. My heart almost bursted through my chest. So not only that but the girls LOVED their sticky notes, which made me feel really good. Mostly because I want them to know how important God's word is, since it took me until recently to figure it out myself. During one of the snack times I got bored and snuck into the craft area to go hangout with Kristen. The fourth grade girls which I had earlier where in there making foam magnets with the bible verse of the day on it. I was looking through them and on all the girls magnets was a little cross in the corner, the same ones I had put on every sticky note I gave them. I wanted to cry. I realized I was making a difference, well better said...God was making a difference. However small it may seem. Nothing I was doing was in vain.

 The highlight of my whole week however was this morning. There was a little girl name Rosa. She had the biggest dimples. So shy, but soo cute. Yesterday she sat next to me during bible study but today she sat in my lap. I had been praying over here and another little girl during the week. I knew she didn't really speak english but she still tried to talk to me anyway. So while Mrs. Daisy was praying over everyone I heard her say (in spanish) Do you accept Jesus in your heart? and the little girl raised her hand. I felt soo blessed I got to hold her in my arms while she accepted Christ. I was the most amazing feeling knowing I was witnessing Christ move in someones heart.

 I deem SERVE HTOWN a success. I got to meet so many new people, and really connect with people I already knew. But also I got to be the hands and feet of God. Even though I was nervous and anxious God still used me. It was the prefect get-a-way from school. God really used SERVE HTOWN to remind me that even though I can get caught up and worried and stressed out over school, He is what is really important. "Everyone who is a child of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world-- our faith." 1 John 5:4  Those girls will be in my prayers, and I hope youll include them in yours too.

So my bible verse for today is one of my all time favorites.
"You will seek me, and you will find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you." Jeremiah 27: 13-14