My Favorite People

This semester has come to a close. It was actually a very rewarding one. I learned a ton in my financial accounting class. I met some really great people, one of them of whom I am still going to keep in touch with. My accounting professor is a Christian and so I hope to keep her as a mentor/advisor in the next years, because she is an excellent accountant and is working towards her masters. I will never forget her because she was the only teacher in my entire life who ever told me that I was smart. Funny, right?!


My sister, niece, and nephew are coming this week for the Christmas holiday. I'm so excited! I haven't seen my nephew in months. I enjoy it when my entire family gets to be together for Christmas and this year it will be perfect having everyone home. I bought my Dad's gift today. For some reason, he's my favorite to shop for. I went to Dick's sporting goods and spent a half hour trying to decide what he'd really want out of everything. That store is really great.


I've come up with some really great ideas for my Junior Highers' this next year. I think 2007 is going to be a truly rewarding year. I'm so excited to see what God will do. I'm feeling led to teach the "Foundations of Faith" again since I haven't taught that since 2005. I think it's important to know what we believe and why we believe it. The last time I taught the foundations of faith, the class really liked it a lot and some of them got baptized and some started seeking out the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues because of what they learned. I just hope that the ciriculum will go as well with this set of jr. highers as it did with the previous group. Every year the jr. highers win my heart. I'm so proud of them and watching them grow in the Lord is such a priviledge for me. I don't take a moment for granted when I am with them. There is something about this particular year that has deepened my passion for jr. high. I've had some of the strongest teenagers ever this year. Yet, it breaks my heart to see what they've had to endure to gain this inner strength. It broke my heart the day I heard one of the teen's dad died. I sit in that class and look at the faces of teens who either have one parent or no parents at all. Sometimes it takes everything in me not to cry when one of them talks about losing their mom or dad. I never tire of the sudden hugs from them and I never get tired of telling them how much I love them. I remember one day one of my former jr. higher's saying that I am like a mom to her sister (who is in my class now) who lost her mom not long ago. I looked at this precious young lady and I had to hold back the tears. I didn't know what to say. This year God has taught me to love. To truly love. To live in compassion. To teach in both love and compassion. My life has been so affected by them that I would do anything and everything for them. I truly enjoy hanging out with them and making them popcorn as we watch movies at my house or making them hot chocolate and cookies after we've played hide and seek out in the yard. They are like family. But, most of all, I love to share with them what God gives me. I get so excited to share with them a revelation or anything new that God speaks. I always want them to be the first to hear. It must be because whatever God shares with me is the closest things to my heart and all I want to do with the jr. highers is give them my heart. My prayers for them are always that they would have God's best. They are some of my favorite people.