Risen!

Haven't posted for awhile, my apps (apologies). However, God has been blowing up my life and I want to just explode on this keyboard right now with just telling my stories of what has been happening lately. I guess I should start with an overview of my second semester, since first semester is pretty much in here. I'll start off with this list of things that I was able to accomplish with the hand of God holding my hand through it all.
Accomplishments:
got through anatomy with an A! praise god
getting through the every days with my roomate who was the complete opposite of me, being able to be calm thru the stress of sharing my space with her
finding joy in the midst of getting over mac at the beginning of the semester
getting healed from mac, a hard battle between my flesh and the spirit
learning how to be healed from God, which = an arduous process, might take surrendering every 5 min!! but seeing it get easier every day was the blessing
getting through 8 am classes every morning!
getting thorough and ending up finding joy in babsitting owen and lucy! there were times when I did not want to go or have the energy but every time i surrendered, God was holding my hand
finding the strength from God and God alone to see lindsay kissing mac and mac kissing lindsay right in front of me like it wasnot a big deal, and me being able to look past all of what the devil wanted me to think- the jealousy, anger, deceit, hurt, hate, anguish that i felt- but that love conquered all of those by ten hundred thousand fold!
getting healed from that ^^ -which was constant surrender and me beung humble before the King, my Abba, and remembering who Jesus is- praise God!
Lindsay apoligizing to me- sincerely and humbly- how our friendship was rekindled and she realy was so sorry- me forgiving her and us being able to have such a strong friendship -praise God!
me finding family in InterVarsity, legit family, they will do alot for me because of the Kingdom of God- praise God!
getting closer with people in inter varsity that i didnt think i would be close to, but because i surrendered God put more desire and love in my heart
getting blessed with malina, leighann, emily, and sage as my tight knit sisters- we care for each other so incredibly much and are living together next year! in basically a condo on campus dorms it will be a PALACE! talking about that will have to be a different post all together hehehe so excited to have a real homey home feeling up in sonoma. praise God!!
being an Apprentice for IV- getting to serve at large group and help out more with that! praise God!
still having my job as a babysitter for owen and lucy next year! praise God!
getting more classes than i even need! praise God for provision!
getting closer with my brother, mom, and dad even as we are all so busy- we are able to still have such amazing family time
learning how to adjust to college and transition lifestyle, time manage better, manage money better, not be so materialistic, and consumeristic! Go God soo good!
still be in good relationships with my friends from high school! praise god!
successfully finishing finals, packing, going on an all nighter, getting baptized (whole nother post on that one too) with kayla yayyy! and moving out my stuff into storage, moving out of my dorm and being able to keep my sanity ( for the most part) all  of this in one week. CRAZY! But God was faithful in holding my hand every step of the way!
being able to step out in various ways this semester whether teaching bible study for greek sorority girls, teaching bible study for my IV one, talking to so many random people about God, praying in all of those times, surrendering, receiving, accepting, I am so thankful. Praise God!

God, thank you for also letting Sage come and want to come to church with me! It is so amazing so see her heart be blossoming, please keep that fire going on in her heart this summer, even though she is not with her community at IV or us girls.
I feel so cleansed with the Holy Spirit! Ever since I got baptized, especially, I really do feel different on the inside. I feel literally like I am a new person, that there is this blossoming tree of life inside of me that is always there now. Like it is now like on fire all the time instead of like sometimes. I find myself just yearning for more than ever before from God. For the most part, I mean some mornings are better than others, but in the last week I have been so excited to jump into reading the bible in the morning. Last week, I was reading two chapters of Ecclesiastes every morning instead of my usual one chapter of Psalms. I have been exposed to so much love of God as well. Like I have learned, and it is an ongoing reminder for me, that God just wants me to love him and that doesnt look like doing a bunch of stuff. The actual act of doing something is MEANINGLESS (theme of ecc), only if your heart is in the right place and it is given to God does it mean anything. When we love Jesus and really truly love Him, our actions portray our heart, the rest is overflow.

I will start again with this last week, I could write for days on this last week, oh man holy moly me oh my. So on Sunday, I went to Rock Harbor in Costa Mesa with Malina and met her friend Gabby. Little did I know that we are now sisters in Christ, and I consider her my family. Gabby is so wise and has such a quiet humble yet confident spirit about her. She encouraged me that night so much as we talked about what God is doing in each of me malinas and gabby's life. I was informed about her mission to want to minister to "the hipster gen" in Huntington. She attends OCC and God has made her so unique for her mission. We talked about all of our friends who aren't walking with Jesus right now, and prayed for each of them. It was majical and the Holy Spirit moved each one of our hearts to pray alot. We talked about injustices, food, France (cuz Gabby went there, so sick!), music, coffee, boys (cuz we all need help on that subj!) haha. It was so blessed, and so great. This was all even before church started at the 9! Praise God! We were hanging out in the "Hanger" which is this awesome building that has all of the offices for RH, and also a Library with theological books, a sick prayer room with chalked out walls and you can write prayers, and they have some snazzy ikea decor, and pillows such a beautiful idea to have a prayer room. There is also a room with entertainment stuff for the youth like board games, couches, the Wii, foosball, and a freaking Kitchen where they cook food after the service to encourage community and meeting people! So rad! Rock Harbor really impressed me and I was so stoked to be there, it was changed for the better since about 8 months ago when I had been there last. Church was amazing: the worship, the sermon, the response was so good. So many people were just in tune with the spirit. After we got to talk more, pray more and after that night I really felt like Gabby and I had an inseperabl bond just from one night! How great is Gods love!