Ourselves Will Get in Our Way of Ministry. (Standards)

It came to my attention today of something Christians and I myself will tend to do. We don't want to befriend a lost person, or people that do a lot of bad things. But if we do that, it'll give us the appearence of "being to good" for them. But as Chriatians, if we can control the enticing ideas of conforming to the world, we can shine and do what Jesus did. Be a friend to all and keep a safe distance from temptation.

My Book

Hey there!

I am no writer or a book reader, but I just happen to be writing a book. And just yesterday I started a second book. My first book is called "Surreality" (Sorry, I don't know haw to italicize on here.) and my other book is "The Advancing." These two books are unrelated. "Surreality" is a more serious book and Christian based. "The Advancing" is more, say...it kinda has a stupid plot. It's meant to be more funny and relate to daily frustrations. I won't put many spoilers on here. Sometime I'll put the plot on here.

Seriously Sincere,
Dani

Weir Mission Trip 2010 (Part 2) Favorite Moments & Quotes

Favorite Moments and Quotes:

Doing VBS with the people and kids in Scammon and in Parsons; Going to Starbucks; Stephen taking unexpected pictures of me, Ringing the bell, singing "Sadie Hawkins Dance" a hundred times, hanging out in the guys' bathroom while Brent cleaned the toilet (he wanted company

Everybody called me Danielle (except Stephen) until I wrote my nickname "Dani" on my name tag. Haha people don't usually call me that, but it's all right. I like the smell of the foam name tags.

Stephen suggested that we bring the foam noodles to VBS in Scammon. The kids beat us with them!

On the 2nd to the last day the kids gave us names. Haileighs was "hairdid?" I don't no ever body's. lol. The kids called Josh "Joshy Washy." haha. "There's a Josh at our school, and we call him Joshy Washy!"

One day, I was wearing my OBU/Super Summer shirt and somebody thought I was like a junior. I had no idea if they were talking about college or high school. Another time somebody thought that I was like a sophomore. My maturity level has gotten higher than 13! Haha

Stephen, Lindsay, and I were in Walmart. I was getting a new bag. We walk to that section, Stephen slowly followed behind texting. Turns out we lost him. We could see him over the racks.

Some of the annoying times was when Stephen took unexpected pictures of me, Brent talking about shows and singing in a real high pitched voice, and Blake being just...himself. But those were fun times.

Spills & Messes: Dr. Pepper busted. The van needed to be loaded for VBS. No body was around, so I picked up the cooler. I was 10 feet away from the van until I realized that I had a big red Kool-Aid stain on my hoodie. I got Alex to help me get it in the van. Oh, thing that irritated me, is that after all that, we replaced that cooler with a smaller one. One time I went to our VBS bin to get out the little foam sticky things, and the whole container spilled. Someone put it in there up side down. So we blame Josh, and then later Stephen. On the last day, Josh spilled the container of jewels and one of the kids knocked over the container of sequins and they went all over the ground.

Brent: "I don't get you Lindsay. You're so quiet. You probably mow so you don't have to talk to anybody.

Brent: "See, I don't get this. Lindsay can eat as much as I do and not put on weight."

Brent: I'm going to die! I'm going to die! (He's at the top of the bounce house slide with 4 other people.)

Me: Hey! How about some Dill Pringles!
Stephen: No! It's nothing but junk.
Me: Then how about the chex mix?
Lindsay: Chex is good.
Me: *Grabs the chex. The reaches for the Pringles. Lindsay pushes the cart so I can't get them.* (I was in the cart.)

(I'm grabbing my stuff to put in the car.)
Me: "Oh my gosh, there's a wasp on the inside"!
Brent: "Just smash it with your head.'
Me: "Brent, do something"!
Brent: *stares*
Me: "Ugh! Fine! I'll just go through the back door. Would mind getting it for me"?
Brent: *stares*

Stephen: "All right! A tornado! Sweet!"
Me: "Aren't you worried?!"
Stephen: "No. These are cool!"

Stephen: "Hey Dani, want some beer"?
Me: "No, I don't drink the light. I drink the hard stuff of whatever it's called."
Megan: "Haha. You don't care about the calories."
(On the prayer walk we went to somebody's house with lite beer. No I don't drink.)

Brent: "Hey Danielle..."
Me: "Oh my gosh Brent! I'm trying to pee! Get out"!
(I thought he actually came into the bathroom.)

Delbert: "And here the girls' showers will have this wood stand that comes down off the wall."
Stephen: "Will we have these"?
Delbert: "Yes."
Me: "Haha. So now you can shave!"
Stephen: "We can now shave!"
(On the last day of the Weir Mission Trip, Del took us to see the new guys/girls cabin. The showers were real nice....)

Anna: "Ooo! I love this game! I'm so good!"
Me: "Here's a card."
Anna: "No, I don't need that."
*A card goes down* *SLAP!*
Haileigh: "Oh, Stephen has some competition now!"
Stephen: *sighs*

Stephen: "Ok, they're counting on you guys to do the music."
Me: "What?! I can't sing! I don't do karaoke! If you want to hear me sing than fine." *sings Fireflies by Owl City*
Stephen: *gives me a weird look*
Me: "Do we really have to do the music"?
Stephen: "No, I was just joking."

Me to camera dude: "Are you filming us or taking pictures"?
Cam dude: "Video. And don't worry. There's no volume. So I can't pick up your cuss words."
Stephen: "Haha. This places is bleep awesome"! (He didn't swear. He just said "bleep.")
Blake: "I bleeping love this place!"
(What happens here on the 2nd day, lasts the whole week. And thanks to Stephen, he has taught Blake so swear cleanly. Blake becomes even more annoying.) Haha

Megan: "Well I'm leaving now." *gets in car and leaves*
Stephen: "Where's Betty going"?
Me: "You mean Megan"?
Stephen: "Yeah."
Me. "Uh...She's going to work."

Brent: "So he was calling me jiggly man and asking me if I was Jewish, or if I was pregnant."
Me to Blake: "Dude that's fricken insulting"!
Josh: "Yeah that is insulting. Like you wouldn't say, 'You're so Asian." *looking at me*
Me: "Ugh"!

Delbert: "All right! I need some people with shovels to get in the dump truck and shovel out the sand."
Me: *looks at truck* "Are you sure this is safe"? *climbs*
Delbert: "Yup."
(I'm grasping onto the sides of the truck trying to stay on.)

Kate to Blake: "So which one of us do you want to go with?
Blake: "I want to go with you."
Kate: "I'm not staying any where, I'm just going back and forth. So where do you want to go? Do you want to go with Anna, Brent, and those guys?"
Blake: "No! I don't want to go with Brent!"
Kate: "Do you want to Josh and Dani?"
Blake: "I'll go with them."
Me: "No!!!! I don't want Blake! He'll be so annoying!"

Stephen. "Hahaha."
Me: "What"?
Josh: "He drew Dani with a mustache"!
Me: *I look.* "Stephen! Oh my gosh! Don't make fun of my facial hair"!


*I might add more later.

You can tell I had a good time. lol

Weir Mission Trip 2010 (Part 1)

What I learned:
I've learned a lot over the 5 days. Before the mission trip, I asked
God to teach me something new or just help me to realize things in my
life that I need to change.

Complaining:
I learned that I shouldn't just complain about things
that aren't even that bad. Like on the prayer walk, we met someone who
had back problems. All they had was a rotating fan to stay cool. They
didn't have any A/C nor did they have the strength to do much. And I
was. Complaining about the heat from walking from the van to the
house! I felt so stupid that I was being selfish and a whiner. So I
asked God to forgive me.

People Don't Always Listen to Me:

While we were packing up to go to Scammon. I asked if we needed extra napkins, since we didn't have any the past few times. Nobody says anything. So we end up needing napkins.

On the last day, Del tells Brent, Josh, and I to go put the water, gatorade, and pop in the cooler thing. I finished the water, but it took the TWO guys forever to stack the pop. I kept saying to stack them on their sides instead of upright. But nobody listened, and so came tumbling down the pop. But one thing is, I got some free Dr. Pepper because a can had busted.

The Need for More Contacts:
Here I learned that some people won't answer their phones, even when there's a tornado.

My Cell Phone Battery:

Here I learned that I shouldn't be worried when my battery reaches 80%. I should be worried when it reaches 16%.


Injuries: Wasp sting, Falling off a big sewer pipe backwards, Tripped many times, A bruise from the smashing my side, Sores, Cuts, Falling out of the bounce house, My back hurt
I didn't care. They were worth it!

Weir was awesome! I got to spend time with me greatest best friends. I got to work with children. I think I've mastered my parenting voice. :D I got to know my friends more. Especially Stephen, my associate pastor who is weird, funny, and awesome. We all got a lot of work done in 5 days. I've never worked that hard in my life before. There was probably less than thirty people there. Oh yeah, if Josh hadn't told me about the Weir Mission Trip, our three from FSBC Coffeyville, wouldn't have been there. Thank you, Josh! I miss doing the VBS. I miss Lydia, Hannah, and Isaac. My favs! lol. I defiantly came back with a tan, sores, muscles, and memories. God blessed me with another opportunity to serve.

See part 2 for my favorite quotes and moments.

*I might add more to my note later on.

Welcome!

Hey, I forgot to do an introduction blog. At the moment I have no "observant observers" (followers) on here. But when I do get some, I just want to say welcome! This is my blog. Here I'll write about typical things in life that makes you think. Sometimes, I'll just post news. I don't want to just use Twiiter and Facebook for that!

I have lots of posts coming up! Check out my blog weekly for new things!

Thanks!

Seriously Sincere,
Dani