Going to church in a few min...but instead of getting ready lets post a blog

Guatemala! I lovelovelove Guatemala! I love everything about it. The people, children, colors, sounds, scents, tastes, even the air! It was amazing. These are some children from a village/town called Yepocappa where we spent 2 nights, and built a fence around a local school that is supported by P.A. much love! hasta manana ~Nikki

bored already

okay its 7:10 am and i'm already bored like what do i do with all this time? hmm.... this is so not cool. lalala i wish i was back in yepocappa right now just so i could walk outside the gates that protected the hotel and go an play with the kids. sigh...going to try to find something to do.

I'm Back!

Oh my goodness where do I start? I can't even begin to describe my trip it was phenomenal.I love my team so much I don't even have words to express. God brought all of us together from all different backgrounds and places. None of us really hung but spending 11 days together in Guatemala made us basically inseperable. Our team was praised for getting along and bonding so well together. It didn't matter who you were with because we were all having such a good time. Also I love the enthusiasm of our team which Bob joked about (but actually it was so true) "We tell you guys to get out of the car to walk up the hill and you all say OH BOY IM SO EXCITED WE GET TO WALK UP A HILL!" (as if its the most exciting thing in the world and not just walking up the hill...skipping)

Songs

Todo lo puedo en Cristo
Todo lo puedo en El
Todo lo puedo in Cristo
Todo lo puedo en El
Filipenses 4:13
Porque Cristo me fortalece
Filipenses 4:13
Porque Cristo me fortalece

Adentro Afuera Arriba Abajo
Que feliz estoy
Adentro Afuera Arriba Abajo
Que feliz estoy
Pues Cristo me salvo y mi corazon limpio
Adentro Afuera Arriba Abajo
Que feliz estoy

Oh negro negro fue
mi pobre corazon
la sangre carmesi
me limpia que bendicion
ahora blanco si estoy
a el la gloria le dare
en calles de oro yo se
con Cristo yo andere
en calles de oro yo se
con Cristo yo andere

Since im so not in a writing mood I'm gonna finish up
prayers
stephanie and her family
juan carlos and elizabeth
bob and shirley
panpan aka pedro
kevin
mercy
the woman on the prayer walk
everyone on my outreach team
the children of Guatemala

I should be in bed but instead I'm here.

I just love this picture. Okay so its almost 4 am and I'm not tired although I know I should go to sleep. Oh well whatever I can sleep when I'm dead. haha I'm in a really good mood right now. I'm so thankful to God for everything He has given me, and for the oppurtunity to go on Outreach. I really don't know what to expect anymore and have decided to try and to throw out all my preconcieved notions.

On another note I realised that I have to be more careful of what I wish for because I was just thinking of everything I have wanted over the past year and wished for and how nothing really turned out like I would have imagined. So I think if you do something and expect nothing out of it, and something amazing happens then you will be pleasantly surpirsed, whereas if you go into something having really high expectations you'll get crushed when nothing turns out like you had planned.

So when nothing is going like you had planned...I suppose your supposed to adjust and just go with the flow, but I find it really hard sometimes to just accept something the way it is. I find I'm always trying to change something, make it better. Sometimes this is good but other times its not. Life can be really good if you let go of making everything perfect. Perfection is a state of mind, and once you realise that your better off just trying your best not being perfect you can and will be much happier. You can find beauty in everything, in the good and the bad and the inbetween, if you try hard enough. Strive for the best but when you fall short, which you are bound to do since you are only human learn from your experiences.

Well I better actually try and sleep now. Nite everyone. Lovelove Nikki.

I love this song. Actually I love the girl in this music video shes so cute and I love her clothes lol. Enjoy!

Music Video Codes

7 more days!

Hey everyone! im just trying on things and trying to decide what to take with me to Guatemala but I simply have no clue, because if I could i'd take my whole wardrobe with me and that simply isn't possible. haha. oh well ;) this is going to be the best week ever and in one week today (oh my goodness 1 week) I will be in Guatemala. I'm just so excited! I can't wait to interact with the people there, nor can I wait to see the country itself in all its beauty and wonder. I do know that the places we go to wont be nice (like having marble floors or gorgeous ballrooms or anything like that haha) but I do know that if you look hard enough you can see the beauty in everything. I think that the amount of poverty that I will see will really hit me hard, but I know that it's going to make the trip even more amazing and phenomenal. I really love travelling and seeing different cultures and how people interact with each other, learn traditions other things, I love the colors of a country, the smells, and the tastes. Anyways I better go now. Talk to you later! xoxo love nikki