SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

There is a huge cause of STD's in the world and it comes from unprotected sex. So many teens, and adults have unprotected sex. Some say "Oh, its just this one time, what's it gonna hurt?" WRONG! I recently read statistics in the book "Battlecry for our Generation" by Ron Luce that says everyday 8,000 teens in America are being infected with some kind of sexually transmitted disease. How scary is it to know that everyday 8,000 teens alone are infected. Thats 56,000 teens a week contracting an STD. It continues to say that this year, nearly 3 MILLION teens will become infected. Another cause is unprotected foreplay. Just rubbing genitals against each other can cause you to catch a STD.

FAILED RELATIONSHIPS

There are several reasons for relationship failure. Some of those reasons being selfishness, sin, or frequent arguements. Because of a persons selfish desires, they seek out for solely their own pleasures; therefore the other persons desires are not met. Sin can also lead to failure of a relationship. Once a couple has sinned the Holy Spirit will eventually convict them; thus they will eventually end the relationship because they will realize that, that is not pleasing to God. In addition, frequent arguements can lead to a break-up because when a couple's arguements become frequent it is usually because they are not made for each other. Either because they are complete opposites, or they have different views on life, morals, values, etc.

STRESS

There are many reasons people can get stressed. Sometimes people get stressed because of work, school, friends, family, and relationships. Work can cause you to get stressed if you have a deadline coming up in two days and you haven't even started working on it yet. The consequence would be that you would most likely not be able to sleep well, nor would you be able to think clearly and precisely. The same can happen with school work. Friends, Friends can cause you to become stressed in different situations.

SOCCER!

So I started soccer last tuesday and our team is THE BOMB!!!!!!!! lol We won last week 2-0 and we won today 3-0. I started out the game with like a negative attitude cause as soon as I went in, I didn't know who to call out and the co-captain started yelling at me. Meanwhile she had been playin the whole time knowin that she could come out for me, but instead of doing the nice thing she starts yellin at me. I was like uhhh hold up! I was getting real mad you know and then I was like na she ain't worth it so I went to walk off and our real captian said she had came off for me. So I was like ok Thank YOU! The girls name is Kat.. mane she was just rude you know. But anyways I ain't gonna dwell on that cause in the end I played defense and I felt a lot more comfortable and I did really well. I saved the ball by head butting it in the other direction and the majority of the team was like "YEAH! SAVANNAH!!" lol That made me feel really good. I love soccer so much I just wish I was a little better at it but you know practice makes perfect so I guess I will have to start practicing on the weekends and stuff. But overall I had a lot of fun! :DDDDD

I'm soooooo tired

Man! I am so tired! Me and Terrance stayed up last night til 3:30 in the morning talkin about all kinds of stuff. What happened was, I took a nap on Sunday because I had nothing else to do so I fell asleep for like 2 hours and I couldn't go to sleep last night. We talked about the Bible and our friendship. Past relationships all kinds of stuff. I got lucky today though. My first class GNED was canceled so I came back up to the room and went to sleep for another hour! Then I got let out of my SPAN. class about 30 minutes early, then I had O.T., and then my last class CLST got out 30 minutes early too! So I went to get a massage by Kathleen at Hot Spa Salon off of Timberlake road. Normally I just relax and fall asleep but today we talked the whole time. She told me about her family, her daughter, and her past and present relationships; I told her about my family and my parents and stuff and how I was going to Bolivia. It was a nice time. Then tonight me and Terrance went to get some hot wings at Macados they were pretty good. 29 cents a piece, not bad at all our bill was like 8.15! and we had 20 wings. But anyways I'm really tired now so I'm gonna go to bed!

September 23rd

Today was a pretty relaxed day. I woke up at like 9 this morning, I had the room all to myself since thursday night because my roommate left for richmond this weekend. It was really nice to have the place to myself. Um.. I went to campus church this morning to continue the series of the book of Hosea. I really like Johnnie Moore, he is a good preacher. I met James and Terrance there and I was gonna sit there with them but I just felt like I had to go down on the floor this morning. I think I will sit there from now on. I feel like I can worship better there. Afterwards I went to lunch with Terrance and James. Then I went to the East Campus Clubhouse to watch football. I forgot that we could do that. I love watching football so that was fun. Also I played pool there with this guy Justin and his friend Mark who I spanked in pool lol I dunno how cause he's pretty good but I did. Then I came back to the room to take a nap, which i thought was gonna be like 20 minutes and it turned into a 2 hour nap! Hopefully I can go to sleep tonight! Well I'm gonna start on my oral presentation for spanish class on Wednesday!

BOLIVIA!

This is going to be my new family. lol I am going to be living in Bolivia from Decemember to May next year!! I can't believe it. And I'm going to Argentina in January too. Excited would be an understatement. I just got all my living and traveling arangements made. The first two weeks I will be doing missionary work with my church. I will just be traveling a lot! Its really crazy the way God moves us and the people he places in our life at certain times. I know God has great plans for me while I am there and I hope I accomplish them all and really hear his voice. Bolivia is an amazing country and I just really hope that I am able to stay focused on my school work while I am there too. I will be enrolled in the DLP. I probably will be taking like 5 classes which is a lot. But I'm taking 7 now so I know I can do it!!!
I can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today

Ugh, well Today is going ok so far. I think I did really well on my revising my homework for ENGL I am learning a lot. I just got out of Youth class. Today I knew that we were going to be working in our groups so I was going to sit at the bottom of the class with my group, but as I was going to sit down Chrys summoned me to the top. lol I am trying to keep my distances with him because I know if I were not at this school he is a kind of guy I would interest myself in. Hes cute and has some-what of a fun personality, we have a lot of fun together when its just me and him. But he is too caught up in the world and doesn't really have a relationship with God at all..He was messing around in class so I grabbed his hand so he would stop. Which I don't think that was the best idea ever cause we ended up holding hands the majority of class :-/ I gotta stay focused and stop worrying about guys!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH lol

TOMORROW!!!

Tomorrow is a full month that I have been in college! I can't believe it! I have A's so far in all my classes which for me that is amazing!!! Today was kinda a "sucky" day... I woke up and was stressed because I had a test this morning and didn't get to study last night because I had a soccer game [WE WON!!], a Spanish Major meeting, dinner with Abby and friends and Hall meeting! So I had like no time to do anything so I did most of my homework on Monday... I feel like I have soo much homework this week! I really need to start exercising regularly like daily because I was WAYYYY out of shape! But I have like NO TIME. and I really want to spend more time during the day for devotions and quiet time with God. But it seems nearly impossible... Oh and my ticket for Bolivia went up like 200 dollars so that sucks. But I know the Lord wants me there so I have to make it happen... I really believe he will provide for the trip... Anyways um. So far my day went pretty well I am beginning to love my MWF classes! I hated them before haha but not anymore... I need to start studing more of my Old Test. because I love learning it but I don't remember all of it so I need to work on that!!

THIS IS ME!!!

Haha. I love these pictures. I think I have a very, diverce personality... I love to laugh and make people laugh. But I also know the time to be serious. I can be an intelictual and I can be a class clown. I think everyone though should have both sides to them because it helps you get a long with a variety of different people. I took these pictures in december to send to my boyfriend at the time who was away. Just to make him laugh. He thought they were hilarious. I love to have a good time. Growing up in grade school I was always the class clown and sometimes that could be a problem coming from the teachers point of view. I use to get "written up" all the time. I think in 6th grade I got about 20 detentions. which I thought was cool. haha. Growing up now I know that there is a time to be funny... and a time to be serious...

North Carolina: My Papa's

I went to NC this weekend to stay at my Papa's house. It was so beautiful there. The first night I was there though, It was challenging in my faith. The first night I was there everybody was drinking, My cousin, Grandpa, Grandma, and My papa's friend, Tim. I ended up staying up til 1:30 in the morning talking to my Papa about what I believe in and stuff. He kept asking me all these derogatory questions about my faith. But other than that I had a really good time. His house is BEAUTIFUL. It's three stories at the top of a mountain. The 2nd picture is the view from his porch!!! The 3rd picture is a picture of when me and my cousin went fishing at the pond down the road from my papa's house. My cousin caught this fish, I caught a bass but it broke free from the line before I could pick it up :[ Me and my cousin ended up bonding and got what I think was a lot closer than we have been in a long time. I miss the way it was when we were growing up. All of the family was so close and now they are so bitter. I wish we had more times like these where we all got to get together and stay together.

Money

Money is a big issue is college because it can be very expensive. Not only do you have the burden of getting all the loans you need, but you also have to think of where you are going to live, the food you are going to eat, gas, and other misculanious expenses. I have been here for 3 weeks so far and I have spent around $1000 just on buying things for the room, going out to eat, and gas. I have taken out around 8,000 dollars in loans. Next year I plan to move off campus just for the fact that it will spare me from 500-800 dollars less than what I pay for on campus living, living on campus you have parking tickets, reps from room checks or from missing convo... all kinds of things. I have already gotten two parking tickets each costing me 30 dollars, all because I parked on the wrong side of P-1. I think it is unfair and just a way for the school to make more money off of us. Which is sad because there are a lot of people who could be going to a school for a lot cheaper than going to school here, but because we want a christ-centered school we have to pay thousands extra? Am I right when I say this is this wrong? I could go to ANY PUBLIC school in Florida for FREE. But instead I chose Liberty and I will spend half of my life paying it off.

Social Life

I think students consider social life a neccesity, and to a certain extent it is. However, when that becomes your main focus in college, then it becomes a problem. For me, it became a problem. Even though it is three weaks into the school year, God has already brought it to my attention that I need to focus on Him because that is what I came here for. I was hanging around the wrong group of people and when I started to witness to them, they took as like disrespect? So glory be to God that those people stopped hanging out with me because I'm sure that if I were to continue hanging out with them, I would be totally sidetracked. It's so important in college to realize what your priorities are. They are not your friends, your boyfriends, facebook, or money.... but your walk with God and your education. Hopefully most students did not just come here to make friends because that is not where God wants us. He wants us to solely depend on him. When you start worrying about what your friends think or how they are going to look at you when you raise your arms in church... that is when you know that you either need to just dump those friends or make news one.

Facebook

I think facebook is really annoying. I have a facebook account and a myspace but it really becomes addicting. I hate the fact that everytime I get on a computer the first thing I wanna do is check my facebook. Facebook consists of e-mails, compliments, and peoples heads getting big about it. Everybodies gotta post new pictures because they wanna see how many comments they get or see how many people will tell them how good they look. Facebook is also bad because you got all these stalkers looking people up tryna find out where you live and stuff. Thank goodness they got a way were you can't see peoples profile unless your friends with them. But sometimes you can still look at peoples stuff like if you are in the same network as them most of the time you can look at their profyle without being there friend. One other thing I hate about facebook is that it is just another way that people gossip about other people. Like Jenny says oh my gosh did you read what Suzie wrote about you on her wall?!? Its just rediculous.

My dad and family....

This is a picture of me and my dad this christmas. I really love my dad, But we haven't always had the greatest relationship. Growing up he was never around, I saw him once or twice a year. Not only that but when I would see him, him and his wife would treat me very unfairly teasing me about my weight and trying to get me to move in with them so they wouldn't have to pay child support. I used to hold a lot against him but since I have come to Christ I have realized that I need to forgive him and I have. I love my dad so much and I really wish that I could spend more time with him and my brothers and sisters. I feel like I am suppose to be there to influence them and give them guidance but I haven't been there for nearly any of their life to how can I play that role? I just hope that in the little time that I do get to see them, that I can reflect God and that they will be interested in the bibles I gave them last month. I really hope that one day they can come to me and tell me all about their salvation experience with a passion like me...

Sex and Relationships...

If you’re dating someone just to reap the sexual benefits of the relationship; there are multiple reasons as to why that relationship will not work out. One reason is that, it derives from selfish motives. If I go into a relationship just because I can’t wait to touch or have sexual intimacy with that person, than I am only concerned with my own feelings or pleasures in the relationship. In example, a couple is hanging out in a movie theater, the guy reaches over and tries to grab his girlfriend’s breast. He is thinking “Score! I get to see what a boob feels like!” and she is thinking “Oh my goodness, I can’t believe he just touched me there! How dare he!?” and hopefully out respect for herself the girl will speak up. The second reason is, by a result of this action it now causes confrontation. It is going to most likely cause a argument over the fact that he has disrespected her by putting his hands where they are not suppose to be. Which could lead to a break-up, or I have another scenario. Let’s say she doesn’t say anything because she wants him to “like her”, so she stays quiet. The next time they hang out in her room watching a movie and he decides ok, she let me touch her breast the other day, let’s see how far I can go now! So he proceeds to take off her shorts… by this point we would hope as Christians, that she would stand up for herself and say “No! Stop!”. Thus causing her parents to come in and enforcing them to break up. These are just a few of the small reasons why having sexual intimacy as a goal can lead to destruction of a relationship.

Roz

This is my friend Roz. This was the first Football game of the year, we had a lot of fun. Before the game we hung out of the Hancock Lawn and listened to local students at Liberty perform. One of the performers was a rap group that performed at the Block Party. I really like them but I dunno what their names are. We also had dinner to-go because they had the LU dining truck there. It was really good, we had BBQ pulled pork sandwiches. Back home those sandwiches are really popular. As we sat down at the game we started to hear the band play and my friend Roz has a really fun personality so she started to dance.

Terrance

This is my friend Terrance. We have been hanging out the past 2 weeks. We get a long really well we have so much stuff in common so its really easy to be around him. I will admit I kind of have a crush on him. But I am going to keep my promise to myself this semester about being single and just let things play out this semester. When Clayton King was here he said that when you first meet the person you think. I could never be with this person forever, then cut it off from there because it will never work. I felt like that when I met Terrance like I would never like him like that. But I find that I do now. I can rely on him for pretty much anything, He has a good heart, a great heart and he wants to live a good life walking with God. But He is a business major and I'm headed for missions so I just don't see it working out for the long run, but he is a great guy!

Campus Church

I really loved campus church today. I repented in church this morning, repented of how I had been seeking acceptance from friends instead of seeking God. As soon as I repented and cried I felt like my heart was going to explode because I had this overwhelming sense of Thankfulness for having such a wonderful Saviour. God has taken me so far, from where I was to where I am. I would have never thought I would be attending a Christian University in Virginia! If you would have even asked me that a year ago I would have laughed at you! But thanks be to God who has completely turned my world around. I am hungry for God and His Word. I am glad I'm at such a wonderful University where I can embrace Christ. I called some people back home today and I will be planning on going to Bolivia this Christmas. Which, I'm sooooooooooo excited about! I can't wait. and I found out one of my elder friends Crystal is getting married and moving to Bolivia this October so that was amazing. I hope that God really blesses their marriage. I can't wait for the serimony this December and putting my spanish studies to the test. :D

Peaks of Otter

So Saturday Me and My friend Terrance went to the Peaks of Otter which I knew were mountains but I thought you could just drive to the top. But you have to hike. However, I didn't have any sneakers on I had sandals and we were like 45 minutes away from school so I was pretty upset about that. But we still went to breakfast on the lake. It was really pretty there even at the bottom of the mountains. So I told our waitress about my shoes and she told us that was ok because they had a bus that takes you to a lower peak and its really nice. So we took the bus and this was one of the pics I took. It was really beautiful there but there was a lot of bugs! I was kinda creeped out but I would still recommend it as a place to go...

Football players....

This HAS to be one of the funniest pictures I have ever taken. In my junior year of highschool I was a manager for the football team. Lets just say I experienced some good times, some weird times, and some bad times. This being one of the weird ones. We were in the first aid room before our first game, ever. [the school had just opened] and in order to get pumped up the guys would dance, sing, jump around, and .... blow gloves up on their face? lol I had so much fun getting close with the guys we had some really funny times together. But it's interesting the things we do to try to get our adrenaline going before a game..

When I was in 5th grade...

My mom, her friend, her daughter and I all lived in a 3 bedroom apartment. My mom worked a lot so most of the time when I would come home from school I would be by myself. But, One day I asked my friend Lauren to come over because I had some fire works I wanted to "play with". So she came over to hang out and we were just talking for a little bit, and then I said " Hey, I have these fireworks! They are so much fun, we should play with them!?". My friend was a little skiddish because she was told playing with fireworks was bad, but I told her they were perfectly safe. I played with them all the time, and after all they were just sparkelers. So, For whatever reason I thought because they were so safe I could light them up INSIDE the house. So I lite one and was fine and I'm pretty sure I put it out with cold water and threw it in the garbage... But when it came to Lauren, I handed it to her and she got scared so she dropped it on my moms carpet!!! It immediately went out but it left a black burn mark on the floor. I was so scared of getting in trouble, even though I was not saved at the time... I remember getting on my knees and saying God if you don't let my mom find out I PROMISE I will never be bad again! But of course she found out. I was so mad at my friend, haha.

My friends

These are just some pictures of me and my friends when we have hung out. I really miss them. we use to have so much fun together!! My friend Bethany, She's the black and puerto rican one, she lives in philly now. Which isn't that far from me but my friend Amanda... She's still in Florida. Which I feel bad for her really cause shes still back home at FGCU, but everyone left her. I went to VA, Bethany went to Philly and her boyfriend DJ went to Orlando, which is like 3 hours away. On top of that, She broke her foot at dance try-outs the other day and she doesn't have insurance so she can't afford to get a cast. But she made the team!! lol I just hope they are both ok and adjusting well to everything. Christmas vaca will come sooner than I think..

My MOM

For mother's day this year I decided to go all out for my mom because of all the wonderful things she has done for me throughout my life. I really love my mom to death, i dunno what i would do without her, she is definitely my best friend. I bought her a card and a flower or a bouqet of flowers for everyday of the week because i don't feel like i should just say thank you one day out of the year. there is so many things i have to be thankful for because of her and nothing i could do could ever re-pay her for all she has done for me. It's hard being away from her, especially 14 hours away... but i mean i have to get use to it eventually. I just love my mom :D

One of my favorite movies is..

Evan Almighty. I really liked it. At first when I heard it came out I thought it would be like making fun of christians because I had seen bruce almighty and it really had nothing to do with Christ or God really at all other than to make people laugh. But Evan Almighty was totally different it actually had morality to it. My favorite part of the movie was when God was talking to Evan's wife because she was upset her husband had gone crazy...and God sits down with her and says let me ask you something? When you pray for patience, do you wait for God to zap you with patience or do you realize the opportunities he gives you to be patient? That really hit home for me because I struggle with patience all the time and I'm like Lord please just gives me patience!! But most of the time when He gives me opportunities to be patient, I get even more angry...which is sad. So I am going to try to work on that. :D But this movie definitly makes you think about biblical principles..

BUSCH GARDENS- Williamsburg, VA

I would highly recommend the busch gardens in Williamsburg, VA. I went there in May with my ex-Fiance, his brother and his Fiance. We had a blast we just went on all the roller coasters there. It wasn't packed at all so it was really nice we didn't have to wait in hardly any lines.. I really wanted to go on the griffin but we didn't get to because they had to shut it down temporarily for whatever reason. But we still got to go on other ones. I remember we went on this one, where you sit in a seat but your feet are dangling and Darren was screaming like a girl the whole time, haha, it was hilarious. I had a really good time there.

Afraid

There are a few things that I'm afraid of this semester. One of them is guys. Not that i am literally afraid of guys, but I am afraid that I will find a guy that I think is really cute or something and get sidetracked with God and school. I have a tendency of doing that... I really want to stay focused this semester. I came to this school to grow in my faith and to learn. Now that I am here, I want to have fun and meet new people. I know thats normal for a college student but I'm just saying like I wish that I could be so passionate about God and school that it would surpass my passion for guys. I been praying about it and stuff. But like Thursday I didn't do any homework when I should have read a little bit because my roomie was doin my hair..and then Last night, Friday, I was gonna take a nap and then wake up and do my work but when I woke up I had like 3 missed calls and then I ended up goin to sonic and hangin out with my friend Terrance, and then My friend Chrys called me and I hung out with him after. I just really hope God will help me change my heart.