Game Ball

Last tuesday I got my first game ball! Our JV team had won the game and since I got the first run I got one of the game balls. I was so excited! That was a really good night. I was catching and one of the other teams players hit a foul ball and I caught it getting the girl out. This was the first foul ball I've ever caught! Usually when I try and catch them they drop right in front of my glove. I was so shocked. I'm really glad we have the coaches that we have.

Area Wide Youth Retreat

This past weekend I went to an area wide youth retreat at Indian Creek Youth Camp. It was so much fun! I'm the oldest in my youth group so it was really fun to be able to spend time around kids my age. We got put into teams. My teams name was the orange monkeys. We did games with our teams, had worship services, bible classes, and on Saturday night we had a bonfire and sung church songs around the fire in the rain. I really enjoyed all the Christian fellowship and made a lot of new friends.

Mpa

Mpa stands for music performance assessment. It's where you prepare pieces of music and then go play them for judges plus sight read a piece of  music that you have never seen before.  I'm in the symphonic band at Minor. We were the only band in Jefferson County to get all ones with distinctions. So glad to be a Minor tiger band member. A lot of hard work and determination paid off.

Breaking My Finger

I broke my finger this past Thursday. I was catching during our jv game and my finger got hit with the ball. The pain might have been terrible and the news might have been bad but nothing was worse then feeling like I let everyone down. 

Music

I'm like any other teenager. I love music! I love singing with songs on the radio or singing a long at church. Sometimes I get looked at strange just for how loudly I sing. But it shouldn't matter if I sing loud or soft a lot or not at all. I also am in band at school I have been in it since I was in 6th grade. Some express themselves through their clothes others through dance. I express myself through music and writing.

Never Give Up

We are reading a book in my English class right now called "Fault in Our Stars." It's about this girl who has cancer. It started in one area and spread to another. She fell in love with this boy who has bone cancer. They never give up on themselves or each other. They didn't let the fact that they had cancer stop them from living their lives. This is how we should all live our lives. Never letting anything get us down. Yeah we experience heart ache or loss sickness or pain but that doesn't mean we have to give up.

Gospel Meeting

Our gospel meeting started today. Our speaker is James Rogers. This morning his lesson was on Footprints of Jesus Where do they Lead? He is an amazing speaker. Please join us if you have the chance.