The Week After Break

     Our first night back after break, we met at the church to play dodgeball, family vs. family. I am proud to say that out of all the families in Masters, ours won! It was fun and a great way to finish off break. Go Healers!


     The next few days were pretty busy, and mainly consisted of me preparing for my sermon last Friday. It was my final presentation for verbal communications, and I spoke on Job and how he encountered hard times.


     When I was on stage, my teachers did everything they could to try and distract me, throwing me off on my speaking. They really pushed me this year, and wanted me to truly earn whatever grade I got. So as I'm speaking, this guy sets up 6 black fold up chairs behind me on stage, and as I'm going through a really serious part, he sprints up to them and throws himself into the chairs! He literally dove into them, and they went flying everywhere! Then a bunch of guys grabbed chairs and sat down right behind me on stage, talking and trying to distract me. If that weren't enough, our director and executive director Pastor Jordan and Jeanne Mayo stop by for a few minutes to see how I'm doing! I'm happy to say I didn't let any of these things effect me, and I managed to do really well. I realized how far I've come as a speaker this year: at the beginning I barely wanted to talk, and now I'm preaching from a pulpit! The class really helped me, and it proves to show that if you take a step of faith, God will meet you.
    
     On Sunday I was chosen to work a fundraiser with 9 other Masters students at the Georgia Dome. We were working the NFL Falcons vs. Eagles game, and I got to see the teams warm up from a behind the scenes point of view, it was really cool! Our job was to help fill the sky boxes with snacks and basic supplies, and so it was pretty easy and went really smoothly. However, when we went outside to leave, we realized our cars were towed! We had to wait there an extra 3 hours to get them out, and all of our stuff was in the cars so we were freezing in our white t shirts! Praise God, we managed to get them out and go home not too late.
    

     Today, Heather, Allie, and I went out on our day off to have some fun. We went to Stevi B's pizza buffet, and ate our hearts out. Then we went to Kudzu's, a really cute antique store, and did some Christmas shopping. I am really loving my time here, and I'm learning so much, it's incredible. God has already changed so many area's of my life, and I still have 5 months to go! I'm definitely going to miss this place, but I am ready for Christmas break- I will be home in 12 days! See you all soon!