Redeem the Time!!

I know Mission always tells us to redeem the time and I feel like I am finnaly starting to get how important time is. This week was overwhelming, I say this because we started the 12 days of prayer also on top of the prayer we had school work and busy schedules. But I remembered Pastor Tim saying "Redeem the time" and that made me think that i need to better organize myself so I started with school first and knocked out most of my homework in one day. And I started to realize that if you get everything planned out on your schedule you really do have time to do everything and I realized that because I got everything accomplished that I needed to do. I know that I will start taking time more seriously because once it is gone you can't get it back.

Helping the Community

So for my ministry hours I did what I normally do in the summer at my house and that is rake leaves and pick up trash.
A. I went around too several peoples houses in my neighborhood and raked there leaves and picked up the trash in the yard, I mostly did it for the old people. The reason why I chose to do this is because I always use to help my grandma rake leaves and I find it really enjoyable.
B. I did this Job for an hour for four days i did about two houses in an hour but i enjoyed it.
C. When I think about it there was only one person who asked what I was doing and I told him that im just serving the community I live in and that made him smile and i enjoyed that.
D. This type of ministry can be carried through the church because anybody can do it and it is a very good ministry opportunity.

Bodyshop

This week was so crammed full of events that it was hard to get anything squeezed in there, But I made time for my bodyshop.
 I first began running around our neighborhood and I did that for about an hour which was a very good workout because it will get me ready for the trail that we have to do at the end of Mission.
Another bodyshop that I have done was playing basketball with Ricky, David, and Clarence. And i will say that it was a very good workout because I love Basketball. The last and final workout I did was I worked out in the gym downstairs.
The health benefits of my workouts was too gain more muscle in my legs and get more endurancein my body so I can do more sports and not run out of breathe easily.

God is answering a prayer

So the one thing that i learned about me this week is that God is answering a prayer in my life. I am really bad with respecting the authority over me and I always get attitudes with my leaders so I have been praying to God that he would help me with my problem of respecting leadership.
So this weekend we went to Rochester New York to help at an event called Winterfest and the whole ride up i was praying that God would help me have a positive and good attitude. So we get to Winterfest and it seemed like everything was going wrong and it seemed like the communication was not that good but I remember the prayer I sent to God and throughout Winterfest I didn't get an attitude with any leader and it was awesome I loveed it. I had a really god time at Winterfest and God was in that place. And I just thank God for answering my prayer, and I hope he continues to help me.

Working as a team

So this week for my bodyshop i played an hour of basketball with the guys, and it was a very ghood workout because I love sports and you are getting excercise while doing it. My other two hours consisted of working out and swimming at the htel which was very good.

The health benefits of my workouts are very good because I worked on my endurence and to work on my arms and leg strength.

My team was not as good as the other team but we worked as a team and won three games in a row.

Finding myself!!!!

So I  never was the biggest kid growing up or the smartest so I wasn't really the most liked person in school. So i would never try to make friends and I would always fight people and get into trouble because I hated who I was. I wanted to be popular and the one that everyone liked. So I figured that I would try to be somebody I wasn't. So I bought the clothes that made me look important, But that didn't work, I threw the parties but for some reason that still didn't work. Since all that didn't work I just went back to what I did best and that was fighting all the people who made fun of me. That brought me joy and happiness for a little bit but it started to get boring. Then one day a man named Stephen Diggs invited me to his youth group and I liked it because the people there excepted me for who I was and actually talked to me. I kept attending this youth group and while I was attending I started to realize a change in me. I was so concerned with who i was trying to be instead of who I was. And at Mission I started doing it again  and I realized that trying to fit in won't get you anywhere. So i just talked to God and asked him to make me into the man he wants me too be instead of what the world wants me too be.

The Fitness

So this week for my body shop I did a list of activities, One of the first things I did was I lifted weights downstairs in my basement along with push ups and sit ups. I did that for about an hour every other night so that was about 4 hours of lifting weights and other exercises. on Sunday I went to the Gym with Robert, while at the gym I work on my legs and my abs mostly doing exercises such as leg press and ab crunches. Robert and I were at the gym for an hour and a half.

The health benefits of the work outs that I did helped me gain more muscle in my legs and abs. the reason why I wanted to work on my legs is because I play basketball and your legs are very important for basketball. The health benefits for lighting weights and push ups was to gain more muscle in my arms and get them stronger.

workout

This weekend was crazy I didn't have alot of time to do a workout but I did swim for a little bit on the time i did have and it was really enjoyable. The benefits for swimming is that when you are swimming even though it is relaxing you are working your arm muscles, leg muscles and so many other others and it is just a fun thing to do in your spare time.

Winterfest

So this weekend was one of the best experiences of my life, I have always went to winterfest but never worked winterfest. They had me working the inflatables upstairs and honestly I loved it. I learned something that weekend, That I am really good with little kids. I know most of the times I say im not but this weekend it confirmed that I really am good with kids. I was playing dodgeball with them for like hours upon end, even though i was drained of all energy I never stopped playing with the kids because thats all theyy wanted was for somebody to play with them and talk to. But I had a really fun time and I hope I can do it again next year.