Getting So Close...

Hey Everyone! I decided since I'm sitting at the computer listening to music, that I should update in the blogging world! So I finished my correspondence, everything except the final exam..and I'm hoping that will be soon, and that the college wont mind that I don't have my transcript! yikes! So I don't have as much stress right now, it's awesome, except I know I have soooo much to do before I leave in (**close your eyes here if you don't want to know how soon I'm leaving**) exactly two weeks today. I'm sewing curtains for my closet in my dorm room, the colours match the bedding n stuff! Yesterday, in the mail, I received contact information for my roommate! So I called her, but she wasn't home, but she called me back today. Her name is Carla, she's 19, seems really nice, and is really pretty from a picture she showed me. She is moving into our room before I move in, so she can get all settled and all that, we figured some other stuff out too. I'm super excited, I really can't wait to get down there (but then again, I really don't want to leave). I'm heading to visit my Great-Aunt for a couple days next week, then after that is when everyone normal starts school..then Casting Crowns!!!! But anyways, I'll be praying that the first week of school goes well for everyone, and getting reunited with school friends, and not for everyone to be all stressed out! And if you guys could just pray that I get everything ready for college stress free too, and not worry about money situations, that would be totally awesome!! I love you all so much!

Love always,
-Bree-

How Did It Get There?!

The other day I came across a little article that was interesting in a magazine called 'Discover - Science, Technology, and the Future'. Here is the article:

Earth's Inner Fort Knox
More than 99 percent of the Earth's gold is missing--it all sank to the center of the planet billions of years ago. In fact, says geologist Bernard Wood of Macquaire University in Australia, there's enough gold in Earth's core to coat its surface in 1.5 feet of the stuff. How did it get there?
Earth formed from a series of smaller planetesimals that crashed together over the course of 30 million to 40 million years. Wood deduced how much gold ought to be present in Earth's crust by comparing the crust's composition to that of meteorites similar to the planetesimals. He concluded that the crust was depleted of gold, platinum, and nickel and suggests that all these iron-loving elements were pulled into Earth's iron-rich core while its surface was still an ocean of molten magma.
In fact, if meteorites hadn't later deposited gold on Earth's surface millions of years after its core had fully formed and its crust had cooled, gold would be even more rare and expensive than it is today. Wood has calculated that 1.6 quadrillion tons of gold must lie in Earth's core. This may sound like a lot, but it is really only a tiny percentage of the core's overall mass--about one part per million. The core holds six times as much platinum, Wood notes, "but people get less excited about that than gold."
-Anne Wootton-

I think that.. God put most of the Earth's gold in its core because He began to see the humans He created becoming greedy and not giving to Him to store up heavenly treasures. He put it in the core so that humans can't get to it, in hope that we would have faith, and give everything we have to Him, instead of storing earthly treasures that will become nothing when we die or when Christ returns.

But hey, that's just what I think! Thanks to the bible study book we have been reading this summer, I have learned more about giving to the Lord to store heavenly treasures that we will receive when we come face-to-face with God. And that giving in general fills people with amazing joy!
Love always,
-Bree-

Yesterday...

So yesterday turned out to be a pretty awesome day in my eyes! It started off iffy, when I had Chrissy and Alyssa sleep over, and in the morning they were both heading for a crampy day! But they managed to get up and get to the church to prepare for the last day of the Kids Program. After that, I ended up going to the mall with a new friend of mine. I got to know more about him when we hung out, other than that I met him because he started coming out to bible study! This guy is so awesome; down to earth, funny, talented, and encouraging! Later on in the day, I received a surprising phone call from Nathan (considering I thought he'd be coming home on Friday or Saturday). So that was exciting, then while I was on the phone my Daddy stopped by, and I haven't seen him in awhile either!! Then as I was doddling around before Nate came over, I checked the mail...what did I find, but my previous correspondence unit marked and sent back to me, with a high percent on it! That made me extremely happy - and the encouragement I need to get my next unit complete and sent off. To finish off the night, I made dinner for Nathan, then he took me to FrostyBites for dessert, and then watched a movie at his house. It was a very good day, a very good day indeed! Thanks Dom for being an awesome personal shopper ;) lol, and for the good laughs too. Nate, it was awesome to see you, because though you weren't gone long, I really did miss you! lol Anywho, gotta get back to the work!

Love always,
-Bree-

Strength.Courage.Love.

Alright, so here I am back in blogging action! Thanks to all of your prayers; God really carried me through - no more distance, or self doubt here! I've been building on forming a routine (takes 21 days!) on reading regularly in my bible before I go to sleep and when I wake up in the morning. It's been really helping me in spending time with God and in prayer. I've also been asking for help opening up to my Mom, because though we have a really good relationship, I want to be able to talk to her about more than I actually do, and I know that she would like that too. I knew that if I got the courage or strength to open up and tell her things that I would usually turn to a best friend and tell instead, that it would be a good start for when I go away - our closeness would grow, even though we are apart. God started to open the doors and basically pushed me out telling me "Look, an awesome opportunity to open up - Take It!"

I had an amazing long weekend - I went to my camp with my brother on Friday morning (my Aunt and three little cousins were already there, my Mom and her boyfriend came down that night to spend the weekend). My brother and I slept in a tent outside of the camp, so that the kids wouldn't wake us up early in the morning, but I will point out that we did get up before 9:30-10:00 each morning, so the days at camp weren't a waste! It was fun to hang out with my little cousins, and my Aunt, since we only see them in the summer every year (they live in BC). The sound of chainsaws is still ringing in my head, since my Mom's boyfriend was having fun chopping up fallen trees, and clearing the yard all weekend. Our camp was the second worst hit by the storm on the lake, so I'm thankful for that, but the camp that was hit the worst is totally destroyed, so I've heard. Okay, so my Aunt has many insane ideas, and a couple actually get approved by majority and are put into action... So there's this huge tree that we have to cut down, which is really sad because it's the best tree on the property, but it is no longer standing straight, and it's causing a threat on it's leaning angle [see the above picture to view the approved idea]. We also took the annual 'cousin' pictures and a couple other fun family ones too [some of these I also posted in this blog]. Jeez, I tell yeah, my Aunt is crazy with pictures, she just snaps them away - you have no idea when the pictures are being taken, plus, on top of that she's telling us goofy things as she's taking them! It was a lot of fun. But I'm glad to be home, now I really just need to get to work on my correspondence (I'm almost done though).


Alright, so I told myself that since I lost count of how many days I am leaving in, I wasn't going to recount...but I did {32 days}, and it's getting stressful, exciting, and sad! I'm going to miss everyone so much!! But I know that since I'm getting a laptop, that I'll have Internet in my dorm room, so I'll have that communication, plus a phone (snail mail too, if you want to write me :) !!) so it won't be THAT bad. Wait! Who am I kidding! It's going to be horrible! Sheesh, Nate's been at his camp since Friday, and he is there for a week, and I'm missing him already! And Steph is gone, the girls in Cat Lake will be back soon, along with Elissa (wooo), Ariel just left again, and Kevin moved back home too, and I can't forget about Erin & Jason (I miss you guys!) But everyone that is still around, know that I love you too!

Anywho, that correspondence isn't going to get done this way, so I better be off, and I'll see you soon - praying for you.
Love always,
-Bree-