Fun at work

Who says you cant have fun at work? Not me. Today while i was making all my calls to youth pastors in detroit, i decided to turn part of my lunch into a little friend:) his name is orange king, and I made him out of my post it notes and tape. What is the most coolest thing you have made at work? Lol

On my mind

Today is my best friend and sister's birthday!!! She is the greatest, most giving, unselfish, considerate, thoughtful, creative girl I know! She has always been there for me and I know God blessed me with her for a reason. I look up to her so much and am excited to see how God is going to use her for His glory even more as she continues to seek for what He wants. Man, I wish I could be in MN for her today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIKKI!!!!



Also, I just was thinking this past week how precious my family is to me. Seriously I have not really comprehended how much they mean to me. My parents are the best parents that I know and they are so giving and sacrifice so much just for me and us kids. I am so grateful to have grown up in a larger family too... it has been my favorite part of growing up. I loved being the youngest and having 4 older brothers and a big sister. I love everyone so much and miss them a lot. I also have the awesome priveledge of calling all my in-laws my family too. I learn something new from each one of them and they are so loving to me. I love seeing our family seeking God, it is the most rewarding thing in the whole world. I would not trade that for anything money could ever buy. ... for real I can't explain my love for all my family. They are the best.



This Honor Academy experience has definitely been one that I wanted to give up on after the first week here, but I knew that that was not what God wanted for me. It is not that it is too physically draining, or emotionally draining, or healthyfood draining (although it is), it is more just because it has been a sacrifice for me in every area of my life including spiritually. The devil kept trying to tell me that I was wasting a year and to just go home and not commit, but I KNOW THAT I KNOW that that is not what God wants. I know that God wants me here. I know I am in His will right now and I know that this year is supposed to stretch me. I can already see how I have drastically grown in my thinking, in my walk with God, and just in other areas of my life. I have learned to really just put my trust in God. HE is the only way I am going to make it through here with excellence.


I also can see God moving in me through being the new ACA (despite it being my first semester here, and all the other ACA's are August interns). It is so cool to see how God placed me where I am for a reason. I know that I got placed in the room I am in because God wants me to pour into all of these girls' lives His love and other things as well. It is so wierd, because I can identify at least one thing in every girl that I used to struggle with that they currently are dealing with and may or may not even know it. I know God is stretching me through this experience as well, and I am humbled that he entrusted me to these girls' lives this year. Already I am seeing growth in our room, but I do know it is going to take perseverance and a press. Wow, I am really learning alot though. Basically, I do not even care if the girls think that I am too extreme, or too strict, or too anything, as long as they come out of this year knowing God more. That is truly all that matters. I want to see our whole room come to truly know who they are in God this year, and I know that in Jesus' name that is going to happen! Praise God!
Thank you God, I love you so much.

Lol i guess make that 5 times

Actually this is now the 5th time having the bus break down and I guess they are sending another bus for us. So close but yet so far away... Make that a total of 18 hours on the bus w 44 unshowered and sweaty interns Ha Ha gross

Roadtrip adventures...

Our 12 hour bus ride home from the mountain last night has turned into 15 hours so far... Lol our bus has broken down 3 times so far and now were back on the road and only 1 hour away:) Yay! What an exhausting trip, but worth it. I will explain more later. I now just cannot wait to get back to the Honor Academy to take a shower and sleep.

Acquire the Fire Houston

This weekend I got the priveledge of going to the Acquire the Fire event in Houston! (It was my first one) and boy oh boy it was so awesome! God is so incredible, but that does not even describe the gist of it. It was about a 6 hour drive and we got home around 4:00a.m. this morning. :) Summary: great weekend.

Unfortunately I also did 3 blogs from my phone thinking that you guys could see what I typed, but unfortunately for some wierd reason it cuts off like half of the text hmmm... maybe jake will figure out why that is, cuz he is so smart.

This morning at church the message was on the power of our words... I think that is always a good reminder, because I think the society as a whole places a lot less stress on how they are truly so powerful. What you speak has either life or death in it...

This last week has been really crazy, but God kept giving me the strength to keep going. I became the ACA (Assistant Core Advisor) for my dorm room, which basically means I am the leader person of our room and I do stuff for our core advisor. With that job comes many more responsibilities than I anticipated or even knew about, but Praise the Lord, I know God is going to use me for His glory in it all and to speak lots of truths into the girls' lives.

My mom and sister have sent me a package here, and let me tell you... it is pretty much like winning the lottery to receive a package here. (basically a wonderful experience) Thanks Mom and Dad, and Nicole and Jeff! I have definitely been making and eating and using all the stuff in there!!!

Next post I will try to do real pictures. Tonight is the Hopeline where kids call in all over the U.S. on Dawson MacCallister's radio program about problems and struggles they are dealing with. I am pretty excited about that, but I gotta go do my homework and try to finish it before training at 6 tonight!!! They really really keep us busy here... actually more than ever this semester than ever before in Teen Mania's history I have heard. Cool dude. Lata

Check out this cool boy!

Oh yea now thanks to my smarty pants awesome brother jake, i now can update this blog from my phone. How cool it that? Yea very cool. What can i say? He is a champi?n for Christ:) what can i say ? i guess it runs in the family...

From eating like a pauper to eating like a king... Well sort of

So... After already feeling guilty enough about all the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, tonight i had an opportunity to have a belgian waffle at the local coffee house thing here. It was pretty good, although NOTHING can beat my moms or sisters and jeffs waffles. ... Nothing. But i just wanted a slight taste of home:) i love and miss everyone and home cooked food... Although i am regretfully enjoying the pb and j...

Peanut buttery uh ohs...

So here at the HA, if you dont want to eat the main course, they have the option of peanut butter and jelly... That would not be so bad if i did not already get into the bad habit of eating them for dinner or a sweet dessert... Yea. Not good. So now i am averaging one a day and i dont know what to do. Here is a picture of my friends tasty goodness because i already ate mine. I think i need to stop lol

Hijacked and Proud of it

For those of you that are oblivious to the cool picture below, I
hijacked Sarah's blog trying to prove a point.

But while I'm here, let me just say: Sarah, you are a very special
person. So special in fact that this is the only blog I've ever wanted
to hijack. Well, I wanted to hijack Obama's, but that's another story.

Later-

Proof

Sarah, this is proof that I told you the correct info. It is legit, yo.

My new Ministry Placement

Acquire the Fire....
This is my new Ministry Placement while I am here at the Honor Academy. I am calling to recruit youth pastors for the detroit area. We make about 75 calls/day on average :) fun stuff!

My mailing info....

Here is my addresses for those of you that have been asking:

For mail:
Sarah Schlegel
PO Box 2010 CPO# 976
Garden Valley, TX, 75771-2010

For Packages:
Sarah Schlegel
22392 FM 16W
Garden Valley, TX, 75771

I would love to hear from ya! oh and I can text and email too! sunhun07@yahoo.com cell: 763-744-6355

craziness...

Life at the H.A. has gone by quick this week. (hopefully that pattern continues...) I am already looking forward to coming back home to MN, and also going to AK for peaches and veggies and gardening and family!
It has been pretty hectic here, but on the down times we have fun. Here are some more pictures. I am starting to get home sick:)
This was at the intern verses the staff football game...
This was a lunch that me and dani, nancy and liz made cuz caf food that day was not healthy. We made hummus on toast with tuna and stuff :)
Here I took this shot while being in the middle of the group of interns walking back to our dorms after a symposium day... the back view
the front view walking back to our dorms
This morning (saturday) I took my free time to make a nice juice blend of carrots, cucumbers, celery, apple, and an orange lol it tasted really good!

lovely day...

Today was a lovely day and a much more eventful day than sitting in sessions and taking tests all day :) After corporate exercise this morning, Dani and I decided that we did not want the frozen french toast being served in the cafeteria, so we cut up some apples, banana's and grapefruit to make a mini fruit salad in our dorm room... we then decided we would make it fun and make a little table too haha it was pretty nice (and healthier too)

After that, we had worship, then got to do a fun ground ropes course! But before I left for the ropes course, Dani and I chopped up some veggie's for our split pea soup we were making in the crock pot for dinner tonight instead of the cafeteria food :) When we got back from the ropes and lunch, our room was pleasantly filled with great smells haha and people thought we were crazy.
My friend Nancy nicknamed me "Greens" for the Greens powdered drink I drink minimum of 3x's/day lol and now alot of people are asking me about health... it is pretty fun! I just got done with a session and headed over to the G.E. center to update this thing again, but this time with a few pictures! Dani is behind me just working away...:) And after here, we are heading back to our dorm for our tasty split pea soup lol and then going to service/session tonight!
It has been a fun day :)

The Secret Killer: Complacency

Last night I heard my favorite teaching thus far. Ron Luce spoke on complacency in Christians today, and it was so convicting and also the annointing of God just completely fell on me to be more compelled to not allow complacency in my life even more. Jesus tells us to die daily, take up our cross and follow Him. Following God takes action and means to follow HIs teachings. If He is TRULY the Lord of our lives, then He would be our master. Lord= Master. (lol one time my brother nate talked about this to me too and it has just stuck with me). If God is our master, then we OBEY His word. No one who has ever changed the world has lived a life of complacency. We are not called to be in GOd's Army and live complacent lives. We are supposed to be different. Held to higher standards for sure. I have noticed that when one truly falls in love with Jesus, they fall out of love with the world and want no part of the world.
God is a HOLY God (I think this statement has become way too casual...) and the only way He can abide in us is if we do not grieve Him. Therefore, our minds and thoughts need to be like a sanctuary so He can dwell there. Basically our flesh needs to be put to death. Wow. It is not like I have never heard this before, it is just that in the process of just becoming more broken for God and wanting Him more than anything else, I am now seeing how I lived a complacent life. We are called to a standard and too often we sacrifice God's presence and annointing in our lives just for the temporary satisfaction and convenience of this world. It is really sad when we think about it. Are we really gonna let the devil win? How are we supposed to expect to see the world change if we can't even change ourselves? This life is not about us...Just some thoughts I have been thinking and that I cannot let go out of my head...
Anyways, THe H.A. is going very well, I am growing so much spiritually and it has definitely een a push to keep going on such little sleep and so much exercise, but God is continually giving me the strength to push myself 100% in it all. All I want to do is live for God with all of my heart.
I will try to add picts once orange block is over and I have time... so the 24th of January basically...
Here is my addresses for those of you that have been asking:
For mail: Sarah Schlegel
PO Box 2010 CPO# 976
Garden Valley, TX, 75771-2010

For Packages: Sarah Schlegel
22392 FM 16W
Garden Valley, TX, 75771
I would love to hear from ya! oh and I can text on the weekends now and after orange block, so we can keep in touch that way too! e-mail: sunhun07@yahoo.com cell: 763-744-6355

Here is a lil map of the H.A. and I tried to write as much as I could on it, but it is a little confusing (thanks to google maps and jake for keeping me up with the times;) haha