Summer Has Begun!

Hello all! First of all, Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! and  I officially survived my first year of nursing school! Barely but surely! lol
These oranges didn't survive though :( lol  Yes I did draw on all of them! lol

I don't have anything to really blog about, so I decided I would share what some of my summer plans.

1. June
 Pacific Coast Camp!
 Since nursing school drained me physically, emotionally and spiritually, it's a great way to start off the summer. haha.

2. July

If you can't go to the party bring the party to you!.. I think it's how that saying goes?
We will be having some special visitors in the first week of July. Mary will be part of those visitors too, and we all know wherever Mary is the party is!

Mexico!
I will be going to Mexico to see my 95-yea-old great grandmother and will also be going to Puebla to visit the Wakefields :) I'm so excited! and a little nervous for some reason. lol.


3. August - TBA

4. September - A trip somewhere! lol.



Anyway, I am really excited that summer is here! I cannot believe I am done with year 1 of nursing school.
I will be starting off year 2 in the labor and delivery floor... pray for me y'all lol. 



Hope to see some of you guys tomorrow at PCC :)
     

It Should Be a God Thing!

Almost two months ago, a wise man of God gave me some words of wisdom about dating.

He started off his conversation by saying he had a great uncle who would talk a lot like most older people do (and then pointed at himself lol), and during one of his uncle's anniversary celebrations he kept speaking about his wife. But every couple of sentences he would interrupt himself and say "But marriage requires patience".

With this simple phrase, he began a short conversation that I have kept in mind ever since.

There were a couple of points he made, and I'm going to do my best to address the most important ones in a understandable matter- bare with me now!

Outside Influences
It's easy to get carried away with what outside influences say. "oh you guys have been together for ___ you should be __", or "oh he/she is  ___, you guys won't/will  work"..... get the picture?

And then here you are going crazy, wondering if you will or will not work with the person you are dating/courting/WHATEVER. Just because of a seed that was planted in your mind by someone's words.

Confirmation About Relationships
Then the point mentioned above interferes with what we see as "confirmation"..It's not uncommon to pray for confirmation about things. We may ask for a sign, a specific message during preaching, a verse from the bible ect. But how many times (and this was what this man of God said to me) do we see young people who looked for confirmation about their relationships in different places and are now divorced?

Confirmation about a relationship should come from God, no one else. It should be one of those things where you know it was God speaking to you. Not your friend, your mom or anyone else. It should be one of those moments where you know in the spirit, what God wants you to do, and nobody can tell you different. This takes time though!

Marrying Someone Is a Calling
Pretty self explanatory I think. Although he gave an example of this.. Let's say that the person you are called to be with has a specific trait that really bugs you. It's not something that you can't stand, but it's something you rather a person not have. But you're called to be with that person, so you have to suck it up. lol. He even said "you may get to a place where you go 'God really? You want me to be with THAT person?'"'.





So yeah... I think those where his main points. But honestly, what has stuck out the most for me has been the whole outside influences thing and how it should be a "God thing", where you know it's God!