Mary's Blogs

It’s taken me a while to get back to blogging so I guess I should say hello for now since I haven’t been back in a while. There are so many things that I wanna touch base on about my life so far. I guess lets start with what’s been happening daily.

I’m co-leading a biblestudy as an apprentice for the year. ^_^ Yay for God’s word. The joys I get while leading has to do with the times when my bible study is most involved. It makes me happy when I see them hangin’ out with one another; it makes me happy when they go to the events, and the most important thing…it makes me happy when I can see that they’re growing in love for God. My favorite thing about being an apprentice for the Castillian bible study in the dorms is being able to meet with my study members one on one and getting to know them personally and getting to know their current walk with Christ. My favorite incident so far is studying Joshua 1 with study member Yia and seeing how happy and filled with satisfaction she was after our final time with the Lord together. =) Here’s a picture for you all to look at. Kind of blurry. sorry.

The second thing right now is family. This year, for some reason when my older sister is home, it gives me more of a reason to come home. And now that I have a nephew, I want to come home even more. Papa texts me from time to time which makes me happy. Recently papa bought me a phone which I was extremely greatful about. I thanked him for it greatly. His reply is what made me most happy. The our texts back and forth was basically very mushy so I shall sum up by saying He loves me and I’m blessed to have a papa like him. I miss my family and I can’t wait till I finally go home again to have a reunion with everyone including my nephew. ^_^ Here’s an adorable picture of my nephew as well.
Isn’t that the most adorable little nephew you’ve ever seen? I know. He’ll grow up to be a little hottie some day.

Anyway, aside from family and friends, the one thing MOST important to me is my relationship with Christ. I’ve felt lately that the business of things made me not have as much personal time with my Father god. However, yesterday was THE MOST satisfying day spent with my Lord. I got to play my Viola in praise, I sang praise songs, I journaled telling Him about my weeks in school, I journaled about my scattered thoughts, I spent time with His word, and I got to end my time in prayer. It was filling and amazing. In the end of it all, the things that God revealed to me caused me to have a desperate desire to speak out to the mienh youth in Visalia and maybe more. It also got me really excited to go back on missions this summer with my team so that I could tell others about the Lord.

And of course the super cool blessing that God gave me today. I didn’t get to do my lab which was due this morning at 9. I woke up at 6:30am thinking I’d at least turn in half of my pre-lab. But for some reason there was an error and all my information was wiped out. I thought, “WOW. This sucks.” But one thing I said to myself was that this was NOT going to be something that brought me down and that in everything that happened that morning, I’d continue to rejoice in my Lord because I know that He already has it all figured out before everything happened. Knowing that He does, I shall continue to praise him. After coming to my computer and finally checking my email, I found out that there has been errors all week with the pre-labs and that I am actually able to turn in the pre-lab DURING lab this week. WOW was I truly blessed this morning. God truly granted me grace this morning and in the midst of it I am thankful to him that I was able to remain faithful in him. The thing I remember from yesterdays devotion to my Father is the direct quote from Jesus himself, “The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.” This is my motivation to do, say, and think only things that are pleasing to God because I know that He is always faithful no matter what and will never leave me. Only I can be naive enough not go to Him. I am not as completely faithful like Jesus was to God when He was on earth, but I CAN follow his steps as much possible. My cool realization is just knowing that God knew ahead of time that I was going to spend all day with him. Knowing this, He blessed me ahead of time with the errors on the smartsite. I thank God for his never-ending grace on my life.

All this is what I leave you all with for the month that I’ve had so far. With the blessings of the Lord on my side and his unfailing love and grace on my life, what can go wrong. Haha, well I guess there can be many thing that still worry me. But knowing that the Lord has everything under control gives me a great peace of mind. ^_^

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