WEDNESDAY!!!!
Soooooooo Brother Clevenger led song service during the day on Wednesday, hopefully he got his phone figured out so he can see this!!! LOL AnywayZ this is the sweet and DROP-DEAD-GORGOUS SCARLETT'S DAD...(Well don't actually drop dead, at least NOT in front of me...I might feel obligated to have to give you CPR and the whole throwing up in the mouth thang just ain't cool with me! I mean I'd do it for someone I REALLY LOVED buuuuut it would definatley take LOVE for me to do that!!! Besides, although I am yearly CPR certified, the chances of me saving a life through CPR are very slim… I’d be like you know what m, PRAYER IS S LOT MORE POWERFUL!!!)
TODAY WAS ODIN'S FAVORITE MESSAGE!!!
He calls it THE CREATURE MESSAGE and NO I do not think he got anything spiritual from it, he just loved the creatures, the water guns AND THE SILLY STRING!!!
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| I think this was MY FAVORITE CREATURE!!!! |
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| I KNOW SOME ACTUAL GUYS THAT ARE LIKE THIS BIRD!!! LOL I won't give them any blog shout-outs though...bahahahahahahahahahaaaa!!!! |
Okaaaaaaaaaaay sooooo don't everyone judge me, buuuuuuuuuut I ACTUALLY ASKED MY SISTER AND SISTER IN LAW at lunch that day IF IN REAL LIFE THESE ARE ACTUALLY REAL CREATURES??? They were liiiiiiiiike, MAAAAARRRRRRYYYYY!!!! How do you NOT know??? I'm liiiiiike weeeeeeeelllll, Bro. Perry is soooooooo smart I THOUGHT MAYBE they were really rare animals only smart people know about!!! Plus some of the geography was REAL, like Australia and one of the islands in Hawaii...YOU NEVERRR KNOW!!!
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| Of course the kid's favorite!!! LOL |
| Brother Perry shared some of his testimony in this message and that really cool to hear, it's so amaZing how God can just completely turn a life around. And he talked about being broken and how brokeness brings us to God and how he knows what it's like to not fit in or belong or feel wanted, but uses all that to bring us to Him. And it's EXTRA NEAT when you hear Brother Jason give his testimony of how his high school bestie, Brother Perry, won him and his wife to God!!! One of my favorite parts of Brother Jason's testimony is when he says he sees Brother Perry after his conversion and he's just like, WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FRIEND??? That's what God does!!!Coming from two completely different upbringings, buuuuuut still both desperately needed Jesus!!!! .  |
| This was soooooooooo cuuuuuute!!!! That little girl is just TOO ADORABLE for words!!! . I also learned in this message THAT: THE MOST IMPORTANT MOLECUE IS WATER!!! I have noooooooooooooooooooo clue what a molecule is, buuuuuuuuuuuuut I DO KNOW THAT, the most important one IS WATER!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! I actually had to write that down or else I NEVERRRR couldve sounded smart for you all!!! |
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| At The Italian Lady buuuuuuut I'm kinda done with this place for a while, I feel like their meatballs when downhill...As AN ITALIAN...I'm jus keepin it REAL!!! |
Today I was TOO TIRED to go for a hike, buuuuuuuuuuuut NOT TIRED ENOUGH for a nap...I don't take naps unless I LITERALLY just accidentally fall asleep, buuuuut even if i'm tired I'm usually NOT tired enough to ever fall asleep any time before bedtime!!!! I'm just NOT A NAPPER!!!!
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT
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| Pre-service prayer, the Holy Ghost fell!!! |
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| Somewhere in this crowd there's a little girl receiving the Holy Ghost!!! |
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| Brother Foster leading song service |
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| Little Brother Foster, I zoomed in for all you girls that have dreams of one day being a FOSTER CHILD...BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! |
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| Go MALIA!!! SING IT GIRRRRRL!!!! |
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Esther Garrett one of my NEW FAVORITE PEOPLE FOR TWO REASONS!!! 1. She killed a bug on my shoe during altar call!!! Literally just stabbed it to death like Jael, buuuuut with a wood chip instead of a nail!!! AHAHAHAA! . 2. The Last night she was in the church goofing of with me and some other girls after church and we were waiting for the slide show, and she asked my age and I said, I'm ALMOST 40! And she said, NO, buuuut HOW OLD ARE YOU??? I said, i'm 39 and I'll be 40 on July 18th AND she said, are you sure??? Cuz you seem more like 27!!! I was liiiiiiiiiiiike THAAAAAAAAAAANK YOU!!! |
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| Sister Wilson singing!!! Let me tell you all something, this sista can SAAAAAAAAANG!!! And she's also REALLY AWESOME AT TUG OF WAR TOO!!! WOMAN WON!!! OH YEAH!!! |
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| Loved this message!!! "Bring me another vessel!" |
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| God is looking for another vessel to fill and another and another and another!!!! |
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| And we need to go get the vessels and bring them for God to fill!!! |
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| MADE IT!!! Even without hiking, just really GOOOOOOD CHURCH!!! WOOT, WOOT!!! |
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| AND ANOTHER VESSEL IS FILLED!!! |
THURSDAY
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Okaaaaaaaaaaaay this was actually my favorite message that Bro. Perry preached, buuuuuut the first message about being dry and doing what you really need to do to get that water was the one I NEEDED THE MOST!!!
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| So Brother Perry had a really smart and itelectual, scientific, smart people title, buuuuuuut I can't remember it, soooooooooooo I RENAMED IT for the not-so-smart people, THE HOLY GHOST WAVE!!! |
Brother Perry said (Still paraphrasing peeps) that there's a wave that happens in an arena or stadium called The Mexican Wave! You know where one row at a time gets up and waves and sits back down and it moves to the row behind them and then the row behind them until it spreads to the other side and then it starts all over again...
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| AND HE HAD US DO IT... |
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| We were PRETTY BAD AT IT BUUUUUUUUT.... |
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| IT WAS A BLAST!!! |
ANNNNNND I LOVED HIS POINT!!! He said that the movement that one person started, moved to the other side of the room, without that person ever moving from their spot where they were! And how our walk with God will create waves that affect people around us. And how through prayer we can make waves and reach someone somewhere without ever moving physically from where we are. I'm just thinking about souls that are lost and backslidden that I physically have NO WAY OF REACHING THEM, buuuuuuuut I can still make waves in their lives with my prayer!!!
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And He talked about with the Romeros from our church, (Still paraprasing LOL) that Sister Everleen, from her own testimony, has said that she really didn't like him and when he came to visit them, she kinda thought he was nutz, buuuuuut the one thing she couldn't deny is that when they came, PEACE CAME and when they left, THE PEACE LEFT WITH THEM!!!
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And that got me to thinking that we really just never even know how just our presence is affecting people!!! Sometimes there's people that are sooooooooo annoying you think it's easier to stay CLEAR OF THEM!!!! Buuuuuuut what if your presence in their lives is their only chance of TRULY SEEING JESUS???
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Annnnnnd we did lunch at Annies Bistro Again...
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| I got a Huckleberry Lemonade and YOU KNOW I GOT THAT GRILLED CHEESE AGAIN!!! I told Sister Everleen, I'm NOT EVEN EXAGERATING, it's THE BEST THING I'VE HER EATEN IN MY LIFE!!! and she said, I think your exaggerating sis!!!! I'm like, NOOOOOOOO....LIIIIIIKE LITERALLY!!! . AND I told my sis the same thing and she said, EVEN BETTER THAN SOMETHING YOU'VE COOKED???? I was liiiiiiiiiiike OH SNAP, I can't say ANNIE'S COOKING IS BETTER!!!! Sooooooooooooo i was liiiiiiiiiiiiike, weeeeeeeeeeeelllll THE BEST THING I'VE NEVERRRR COOKED!!! My sister was liiiiiike, yeah cuz i'm gonna have to say that grilled cheese was really good, BUT your chicken strips are better!!! I was liiiiiiiiiiike AWWWWW!!! Thaaaaaaank you!! Also, my Italian bomb chicken, my green chili pork, my lasagna, my chicken salad, my Mississippi roast, my BBQ PORK, My Alfredo, my chocolate cake, my chocolate chip cookies...MY....OMW...MARY STOOOOOOPPPPP...People are gonna thing your BRAGGING GIRRRRRL...ANNNNNNND WE ALL KNOW YOUR like the girl version of MOSES!!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! |
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FUN TIME!!! |
| We headed back to the campgrounds after lunch to watch the FUNNNN!!! |
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| Now ANYTHING that is men VS WOMAN is my FAVORITE!!!! It just makes EVERY GAME FUNNER when it's male VS FEMALE!! And let me tell you all something, US LADIES WHIPPED THE MEN IN TUG OF WAR and it wasn't even hard!!! LIIIIIIIIIIIIKE literally I wasn't even pulling!!! And then men were TOTAL SOAR LOSERS!!! Some were saying it was just because they were being chivalrous, BUUUUUUUUUUT if that were the case, REAL CHIVALRY WOULD NOT POINT OUT THEY WERE BEING CHIVILAROUS!!! Annnnnd THE EVEN SORER SORE LOSERS were saying it's because ALL THE WOMAN WERE BIG!!!!!! Now I may be big, buuuuuuuuut all the others were sooooo NOT EVEN!!!! And FURTHERMORE, I jumped in and started pulling for the little girls when I wasn't supposed to be, AND THE LITTLE BOYS WERE LITERALLY DRAGGING ME OVER so much so that I jumped out because I didn't want to crush the little girls!!! SOOOOOO WHAT NOW MEN??? ARE THE LITTLE BOYS STONGER??? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! |
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| I wanted to join the water fight sooooooooo bad buuuut my sister said i couldn't get in the car 🚗 WET!!! BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT ODIN DID!!! I was liiiiiiiiike SO YOU FAVOR HIM OVER ME??? Juuuuuuuust because he’s YOUR SON??? Hahahaha She said she knows me, and I would've gotten WAAAAAY MORE WET AND WAY MORE MESSY!!! Which is TRUE BUUUUUUUUT....STILL!!! LOL |
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| My girls Lucy and Bella in which I totally miss being I. My Sunday School class… don’t grow up…. I never did make it into the adult Sunday school class… I stayed in the teen class til my early 20’s aaaaaand THEN, I just moved back to kids class as a teacher!!! Lol 😆 liiiiiike Bishop knew, this one’s as adulthish as she’s everrr gonna be…bahahahahaaa |
🎤 🎶 SINGSPIRATION 🎵
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| The choir sang AND THE HOLY GHOST FELL!!!! |
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| Another vessel filled!!! |
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| I had to take pics and pray with this kid because I grew up with his dad in the youth group, and I haven’t seen them in years but it was soooooo awesome to see and pray with his son receiving the gift 🎁 of THE HOLY GHOST!!! |
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| Odin!!! |
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| All the kids who got The Holy Ghost!!! |
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| Landry Alexander getting an award for messiest camper… it’s only cuz I wasn’t a camper!!!🤣🤣🤣 buuuuuuuut it was a proud moment for me… I was liiiiiike you go girrrrrl!!! She’s also one of the sweetest little girls everrrrr!!! |
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| Campers of the year!!! |
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| All the kids that got the Holy Ghost!!!! |
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| And a shout out to the FOREVERRR AMAAAAAZING AND SWEET Sister Ward!!!! I love this beautiful lady!! I stay completely clear of helping with anything musical, buuuuuuut I sure do enjoy the end result of it! I was gonna say she’s the best choir director everrrr l, buuuuuuut we have Sister Bishop and Denae sooooo I don’t wanna lie buuuuuuut… I was gonna second best, buuuuuuut I can hear Denae in my head telling me it’s NOT A COMPETITION… sooooo yeah I’ll just say she’s AWESOME, AMAZING, SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL!!! Love Sister Ward!!! 🥰 |
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| And Odin over bubbled the bathtub!!! |
And another amazing Jr camp
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| Stole another few pics from the camp photographer… who by the way is siiiiiiiiiingle…. Buuuuuuut not really looking… unless you just happen to make her change her mind… haha… LISA-BELL GOMEZ, she’ll be at Antioch- young men |
Who’s ready for ANTIOCH??? Hope my voice has recovered by then!!! Somewhere between being sick, talking to everyone, worshipping and screaming and yelling smack during tug of war.. my voice has not quite recovered!!! Buuuuuuut I’m sooooo ready for another conference!!!
The first Antioch Conference is officially my
LAST CONFERENCE IN MY 30’s!!!
♥Mary Frances :)
