Agape Love

    Week five was all about discipleship and what that word truly means.  Our speaker, Jeremy, went deep into the word to show us what God has called us to do.  Jeremy had us "clear our mechanisms" every day so that we could start lectures with a fresh new look with out any preconceived notions.

    My track focus outreach switched to Mondays and we went to a family that has eight kids- five girls and three boys- and also have a granddaughter that they have guardianship of right now.  The dad who is only 46 has been a police officer for his entire life, but they have just discovered that he has the beginning stages of Alzheimers.  Now the mom is having to take care of all nine children and take her husband to doctors appointments 2-3 times a week.  We come over for 3 hours in the evening to clean, cook, and watch the kids so that she is able to run some errands.  This usually consists of her picking up two from daycare and bringing them back to the house, taking one to dance, picking up Stew from the brain doctor, running to the grocery store, picking up the one from dance, and then picking up one from school.   I dont know how she does it, but she does and not just on Mondays, but every day of the week her life is like that.

    For small groups this week we went to Starbucks and then went to a thrift store.  At the thrift store our leaders gave each of us a name of someone within our small group and we had a $1 budget to buy  a gift for the person that we got.  It was a little difficult to pick out a preesnt for someone you've only known for a month and find something for only $1, but the challenge was also fun.  We all wrote an encouraging note to go along with our gift and were given instructions to give the gift to your person whenever you felt they needed it.

    On Saturday about 16 of us decided we wanted to go thrifting for clothes.  I think it takes long when it's just my mom and I shopping...  I had no idea how long it would take for 16 girls to go shopping!:). I mean we are talking about 16 very different females with very differnet types of style, at a thrift store, who all feel the need to try on every article of clothing...  Just imagine.  It was actually really fun though and we all found things that would be good for outreach.

Erika (the one in the middle) is my crazy roommate (;

Aloe water is disgusting btw

Erika doesn't smile in pictures (probably because she's from Canada lol)