A Year with God

A Year with God by R.P Nettlehorst

I picked up this pretty hefty book and thought to myself that there was no way I was going to finish it in the near future. Though, I haven't finished it yet this is a devotional like no other. The layout of this book is very nice and simple and easy. The table of contents have topics for any emotion you are feeling and you can simply go to that section of the book and read the devotionals for that topic. The devotions themselves are nice. I really enjoy the fact that there is no specific date in which a certain devotion must be read in. That means you can start this book whenever and if you perhaps miss a day of reading you don't have to scramble to get back up to date. It's a go at your own pace sort of devotional. Each devotional is only a page long, it starts out with a Bible verse and then a short excerpt from the author. I would highly recommend this devotional for someone who is looking for a light devotional, or something to do in a hurry or perhaps someone who is new to the faith. The devotions seem to be quite easy and good for someone who perhaps have never gone through a devotional before and it also works for someone who has gone through many. I highly recommend A Year with God for anyone.

You should be proud!

I decided that blogspot does not have any good templates. So I went elsewhere for mine. And I edited it. I have yet to figure out how to get rid of some of the stuff on the left and right of the blog. But alas! One day i'll figure it out. Or i'll ask Alicia who makes her own templates...

Anyway! It's time for bed. A real update is coming soon!

I should have gone to culinary school...

I fear that I may have messed up my entire life.

I don't think I should be an El. Ed major.

Nor do I think I should be a CFS major.

I should have gone to culinary school and been a chef/baker or something like that.

Here is my reasoning:

I like to cook. I like to eat. I cook when i'm stressed. I cook when i'm not stressed. I enjoy cooking for other people. In fact, I love it. I have cooked all my life (basically).

Dang it!

It's fall

Well hello there...

It's fall time. Or as my cute little brother says "it's autumn Mindy, not fall!" He must have just learned that in school and now insists that autumn is the correct terminology.

It's been a long time since i've updated. The gist of what has happened is that camp of course has ended. The day after it ended I moved back to St. Cloud for school. I moved into my apartment, which is completely awesome by the way, and classes have started. I'm on week 5...well actually since it's technically friday, i'm ending week 5. Crazy! It doesn't feel like it has been that long, but I guess it has. I also got a job! I work at Aria Communications. I basically am a telemarketer but it's a little more different that what you'd expect. Basically, I call on behalf of different non-profit organizations and schools and make telephone calls for them asking for support for whatever they stand for. I just got trained into UMAA, which is the University of Minnesota Alumni Association. I get to call alumni and ask them to support the U. And if they do they can get a cool tshirt and a card which allows them to get discounts to a million different places like target and sears and barnes and nobles and basically anywhere you want to go. 0_0. I guess it's kinda cool. But yes, that is basically what I do. I had orientation both monday and wednesday and today (friday) is my final day of orientation and a test. I have to call 3 different supervisors and pretend they are alumni and try to get them to give support. Hopefully I pass it.

Anyway, having a job is making my schedule a little bit crazy right now. I will be working Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and every other weekend. But tuesday and wednesday I have Bible Study and thursdays I have CRU. So I literally have no open days anymore, except for the 2 weekends a month that I don't work. Hopefully this doesn't present any challenges for my homework...

Homework sucks by the way. I have really lame classes this semester. My HURL and Philosophy class drives me insane. They are so dumb and requires an intense amount of reading crap that I already basically know. Which doesn't make me feel very bad when and if I don't read it...

Well, I just wanted to give a quick update on my life. It's almost 1 am and I have class at 10. And I'm watching the food network (a new favorite tv show...) and I should really just sleep. :P

Update!

Hello!

Last week at camp I counseled 10 6-8th grade girls. You can read about it on my other blog, onamissionwithgod@blogspot.com.

Yesterday I spent the day in St. Cloud going job hunting. Basically I walked around the mall and got applications to stores I wouldn't mind working at and shopped a little...

I went to church this morning and at the last minute was asked to sing on praise team. It was pretty exciting. And now...i'm mentally preparing myself to counsel yet again. This time for senior high week. Hopefully I make it through. :)

New Blog

I now have a blog dedicated to camp. If you wish to read it/follow here's the address: onamissionwithgod@blogspot.com

At Camp!

It's been super hard to update my blog while at camp! So my apologies!

Up until this week, I've only had one break a day and it was at 9 pm and a little bit pointless, as there's nothing to do at 9pm, except shower and sleep. Oh, and make rice in my rice cooker for days where all I consumed were cheese sandwiches. Good times, good times.

This week however, breaks for program staff have been incorporated. I get an hour break from 9-10 ( I get to skip morning chapel!) and from 3-4 pm (missing part of camper free time.) So that's good and exciting. I feel lots better today than I have been feeling. It's hard to go from 7am to 9pm. I slept during my first break today and did laundry, sit around, did dishes and got a slushie for my last break. It's currently 4:36 and i'm not on break but the computer I was working on quit working and no one is in the office and it looks like it's going to storm outside so i'm taking advantage of this blogging opportunity!

This week at camp we have 7-9th graders. They are crazy. Last year this was my week from Hell. Actually, I had a cabin from hell. And unfortunately for whoever their counselor now, they are all back and 4 out of the 5 hellish campers are in the same cabin. But they are being surprisingly nice to me...now. Last year a girl in the cabin next to ours took my campers shoes and threw them in the woods and also put a herd of goats in my cabin...that girl, is in the cabin with my campers from last year. Oh man. I can't even imagine the drama going on in that cabin right now.

Anyway, people are coming to the office. Maybe during tomorrows break i'll set up a new blog specifically for camp and blog about non-camp related things in this one so it doesn't become too camp-crazy! But for now, adios!

P.S. News Alert. Funnel clouds possibly in Hinckley? Dear God no. I do not wish to file into a bathroom and put two mattresses over my head, I really do not want to. :(