In 5 years?

Yesterday I had the opportunity to have breakfast with my mom and a sweet friend, Ashley. She lives in Iowa now and I do not get to see her nearly enough. We laughed, we cried, it was good.

That evening I got to meet up with Emily! Praise the Lord! For once in our summer it seemed like it was going to work to see each other. And it did! We went out to Joy Yee Noodles and then walked around downtown Naperville. It is adorable. So many people were out and about. Emily and I had no idea where to start in our conversation since we went to living together to not seeing each other for 2 months. She went out of the country..and has been working like the crazy dedicated hard-core woman that she is etc. There was just a lot to cover! It was such a blessing to be with her. She was such a sweet remind of IWU.

We took so many pictures like this it may have gotten a bit embarrassing. I'm fine with it though. We also went to Red Mango and had some frozen yogurt. :)

I think in 5 years. Yes 5. Emily and I will look back on that night and the conversations we had and we will laugh because our predictions were either correct or are going to be so crazy wrong it will be hilarious. Only time will tell. Emily this note is to remind us that we were sitting outside Egg Harbor in Naperville talking future talk. Remember to come back to this post in 5 years. hahaha

On a different note. Today my main intern-man Tom rocked it in TREK. We watched the slideshow from Roseland. Then a few people shared their thoughts from the trip. My main two talking points were 1. The odds were not in my favor. 2. I am not an artist.  It was incredible to see how God taught me through those little trials. How he spoke to me in a small voice and told me to just relax and consider it pure joy. I also was tested in my faith when I had to design a mural. Yet God provided the people and the weather and the situations to make it possible. So awesome. Tom taught on Joel and it was just crazy how evident it was that God was speaking though Tom. If Tom read my blog he would probably kill me for writing this/and posting a picture. haha thats what you get.

 

Roseland

 Last week Tom was at Royal Family Kids Camp...that means we were down an intern for the week before all the mission trips left. So...it was busy. I was working crazy hours and was pretty darn busy. My parents were also at Royal Family so that led to me feeling less hugged. haha. Anyways...I have pictures on my phone like this:

So that I know how to have the copier set when I am creating booklets. After formatting, printing, copying, folding, cutting, stabling, binding, etc I will never take a booklet for granted again. 

Another one of my responsibilities this past week was to shop for food for the trip that I was going on to the South Side of Chicago (Roseland). Myself and 2 other girls spent $700 in 3 hours. Thankfully we made a pretty great team. 

That night I met with Susy (my life coach and mentor) finished writing a paper, and packed to leave the next day. 

I am not sure if I wrote about this or not but one of the tasks I was first assigned at my internship was to design a mural for the side of a thrift store. I have never learned how to do this in any of my classes so I just did my best. The board ended up loving it and it was approved. Then it was my task to implement how it would be accomplished. It was pretty funny how the Lord reminded me that I was not in control during the whole process. My original plan was to have team members come to the church and create stencils of each image and bring them downtown with us. That worked...until it was crazy windy. Thankfully there were people who were such skilled artist that they could sketch the images with chalk and other people could paint them in. *keep in mind that the trip to get the chalk and more paint was really epic* (2 white college girls running errands in the hood). The chalk was also the last box in the store. 

I was handed keys to the thrift store with the responsibility to run point at that site on Monday and Tuesday. Kinda a lot of responsibility. Monday night I woke up having terrible dreams about the mural and feeling like I was going to throw up....then I did. 7 times. It was awful. Thankfully Kelsey went above and beyond staying up with me and getting me everything I needed. Kelsey, Tom, Sterling and others really took care of me. I ended up going home Tuesday morning when Sterling was planning on going home to head to Mexico for a different trip. We think that it was heat exhaustion which makes a ton of sense. I am doing much better today. So again, God said "Ha..Paige..I've got this...not you." I was unable to be there for the last day working/finishing the mural. So that was funny/sad/I am always learning.

 

This song was on my heart a lot while I was sick. 

This was a crazy long update...and I still feel like there is more to say. But thats all for now!

Random updates

This is one of those blog posts where I just let my mind go crazy and do whatever it wants. And a lot of those times it is creating bullet points.

• My internship has been crazy. Lots of ups and downs...and I am learning a lot... ultimately learning that Jesus can do a much better job than I ever could. 
• I am tired a lot. I dont really know why..I am eating well..working out..and sleeping a good amount. 
• I got some serious sun this weekend and I like that... I just dont really like the being burned part. 
• Check this out
• I am so thankful that I have a God that is so much bigger than I am and who knows my heart.
• I feel so unequipped for so many things but I trust that God is faithful and has done a wonderful job equipping. 
• This week will fly by just like all the others have.
• I am so thankful for wonderful friends and especially ones that let me come enjoy their little piece of heaven on a lake.

• I read the hunger games in a day and half. I enjoyed it. I am a fan of seeing the movie and then reading so that I don't get angry when the movie casts people differently than I would have. 

• I went Kayaking and it started to really feel like summer.