Home for the Holidays

just wanted to let everybody know that i'm home until next wed. i made it here safely and all that good stuff. the plane ride was lots and lots of fun. anyways so i got places to go and people to see so i'll talk to ya'll later.
love all
allison

HELLOOOOO??? (echo echo echo)

so nobody is posting or anything..... has everyone fallen off the face of the earth or is everybody caught up in wedding stuff???? just wanted to let everyone know that i AM COMING HOME ON SATURDAY!!! WOOOOHHOOOO i'm so excited to get to see people....... love all
allison

Where did everybody go???

i was just sort of wondering where everybody went..... people haven't been posting in a while..... or are alot of people doing wedding stuff or what's going on here???? anyways.....

love all
allison

a week

so i just thought i would let everybody know that this is probably going to be a really busy busy week..... seeing as it's the last week of our internship and all that good stuff....... anyways....... yeah i'm really just sort of killing time right now..... although i'm really not sure why..... so oh yeah i went to the prophetic rooms yesterday.... it was really good..... i really don't want to say on here what all they told me though.... all i will say is that it was really good...... i'm really excited about being able to see everybody for a little bit...... i really don't have anything to say right now.... so i guess i'll just go... love all lots and lots and lots.......

allison

OH YEAH AND DON'T FORGET THAT MORGAN AND DAVE ARE GETTING MARRIED ON SAT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!

The Big Day!!!

SO I JUST HAD TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT TODAY IS THE BIG DAY!!!!! WE ARE HAVING OUR BANQUET TODAY AT 9 PM!!!! IT'S GOING TO BE SOOOOO GREAT!!!! I'M SO EXCITED IF YOU COULDN'T TELL!!!!!

Meanings

so i just figured i would go ahead and put the meanings of the things i right about or at least what the abbreviations mean so here goes

FITN- Fire in the Night- this is what i'm doing
Nightwatch- is from midnight to 6
EGS- is Encounter God Service, we have these on MOST Fri. and Sat. nights
FCF- i'm really drawing a blank right now and i forget what this is, but we have it on Sun. nights
GBF- global Bridegroom Fast- first 3 days of every month except in Dec. we do 7, this makes 40 days a year

prayer room chatter-
sets- that's the two hours that each worship team plays
worship team makeup-
1)worship leader
2)assistant worship leader
3)antiphonal singers (responsive singers, they respond to whatever was sung or prayed on the prayer mic) oh and you have four or five of these
4)prayer leader
5)the assistant prayer leader
6)then you have all of the other band members to

this is by no means in the right order because i'm really not sure what that is..... but these are all of the people who are on stage..... i will explain more about these as i explain the different sets
four different kinds of sets-
worship with the word- in this one basically they do a few worship songs and then they sing something out of the Bible (like last night a group did Psalm 45: 10 through something) then they just develop it.
the process- one of the singers sings the passage, then the prayer leader highlights one of the parts by saying it on the mic, then the singers reply..... it's really neat you just sort of have to hear it.... it sounds really confusing i know but once you get used to it it's really good

devotional worship- the way Mike Bikle puts it this is basically like a concert. the people on stage get to really stretch and show their full musical abilities.... they pretty much do like worship with the word though..... this is a time where you can do homework or whatever

intercessary worship-this is when we pray and intercede for people, this is when people can go up and pray on the mic

prophetic worship- this is basically when you just worship, there's really not that many of these, but sometimes the intercession part turns into this



so that's really all that i can think of right now so if you have any questions feel free to ask. i don't mind explaining anything. so yeah i guess that's all....

love all
allison

Support?

so i just figured that since i can't get in touch with everybody i would go ahead and put my support letter on here for everybody to see.

Hey everybody,

Many of you know what i'm doing right now and others of you don't, so for those who know what i'm doing, here's more information, and for those who don't this is what i'm doing. Right now I'm doing an internship at the International House of Prayer (IHOP) in Kansas City, Missouri. The focus of IHOP is to be a place for people to come and partner with God in prayer and worship. IHOP first started in 1999, it is commited to 24/7 prayer and worship until Jesus comes back. We pray for many different things like revival in America, the ending of abortion, and whatever else is on our hearts. There are many things that happen during the night that aren't of God, but we want all of this to change, which is why we are doing this.
The internship that I am doing is called Fire in the Night, and this is what it is devoted to. Fire in the Night is broken down into two three month tracks. It is designed to help adults from 18-30 to develop and live lives of extravagent prayer, encountering the knowledge of God, and to pour out our lives in the great commission to the nations of the earth. (Math. 28)
In both tracks we are up from about 2pm to 6am, and we are in the prayer room from midnight to 6am. The first track focuses on intimacy and shows us how to encounter God by devotion and intercession. I have also been taking a few different classes that focus on different parts of this. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday we have services over at the Forerunner School of Ministry that are pretty much chruch services that are usually taught by Mike Bikle.
The second track focuses more on hands on ministry training, which includes the prophetic, praying for healing of the sick, deliverance, and teaching. The teaching in this track focuses more in the study of end times and what happens then. Another part also focuses on prophetic of God in the key hours of human history. This track also further helps intimacy in God, but it also helps us to become forerunners and prophetic voices in whatever we choose to do in life. After doing both of these tracks I will also have 15 credit hours to transfer over the the Forerunner School of Ministry if i decide to do that.
The reason I'm writing this letter is to ask you to prayerfully consider supporting me either through prayer, finances, or both. I will be finishing Track 1 of Fire in the Night on December 23rd and I would really like to go ahead and do Track 2 also. I think this would be a great opportunity to grow deeper with God. I am trying to raise $2300, which includes tuition plus gas and other essentials that i may need while up here. The tuition includes room, board, meals (18 a week), classes, and books for all 3 months. Would you please prayerfully consider supporting me as I look to fulfill God's purpose for this season of my life. I would also like to add that if you can't support me financially you can still support me through prayer. If you would like to support me financial then i will need that before December 21st.
Thanks you so much for you support this far and i look forward to continuing my journey with each one of you. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or if you would like more information. If you would like to keep up with what's going on with me i update my blog regularly. The address is www.theallisonblogspot.blogspot.com. I try to update it at least once a week and whenever something big is going on. Again if you would like to get more information just let me know and i will send it to you.
Thank you so much
I love you alot
Allison Clemmons

so there it is. if you would like to support me financially then you can just make it out to me and give it to mama. if you live far away and don't have their address you can email me at little_gyrl_2006@hotmail.com. and i will give it to you. also, once again, i just want to thank everybody for your support in prayer and finances.

a really quick update

so i just wanted to let everybody know what's going on right now here. we still have a little bit of snow on the ground. actually it's pretty much just ice now. anyways. so this week has been VERY busy. we have been doing a 7 day Global Bridegroom Fast. i think i'm going to do a post where i define all of these things so that i won't have to explain them every time. anyways. not right now though. anyways. so yeah GBF, at the beginning of every month we do a three day fast except in Dec. we do 7 so that it will be forty days. anyways so this means that we are in the prayer room alot more. oh and i have 2 weeks left before i get to see everybody. anyways so i guess that's it.

oh and i also wanted to let everybody know that i sent out an email asking people to do 2 things if they would like to support me financially. i don't think i got everybody and i also think that there are some people i don't have email addresses for so i thought that i would go ahead and tell people on here to.

so here goes.

so we only have two weeks left. one thing i need people to do if you won't to support me financially then i need you to make it out to me and give it to mama. also, i need to ask people to let me know how much you are going to support. since i am living off of support right now i need to know how much more i am going to have to raise before the end of this track. if you could do these two things that would help me out TREMENDOUSLY!!!!

also, i just want to thank you all very very much for your prayers and support.
love you all
allison

IT'S A RECORD

i have never had snow stay around for this long..... it snowed on thur. right.... well the snow is still here today..... it's sort of fun except for the fact that it like melts a little and then at night it goes down to like 10 degrees and so it freezes back.... this means LOTS AND LOTS of ice...... which is pretty hard to walk on when going back and forth from the apartments to IHOP.... not only that a friend of mine (an intern) Carrie.....

i will tell you the whole story i guess instead of starting in the middle.... so basically what happened was that... ok so they are like the furthest apartments from IHOP...... they actually have never been used before because this is the biggest track that they have ever had.... anyways so this guy went around to most if not all of the other apartments and put salt down and shoveled our sidewalks.... well i don't know if they didn' t do it there or what but anyways..... so on fri. and sat. we have EGS (encounter God services) and so they were headed there...... so she's walking to the car and slips on ice fall and not only sprains but also BREAKS her ankle....... so she had surgery yesterday morning on it and i'm really not sure what's going on now......

the really bad part is that she had already wanted to go home..... she went home for thanksgiving and didn't want to come back pretty much...... anyways.... so one of her roomates talked to her yesterday and she said that she was staying but then she was also probably doped up on pains meds to seeing as she had just got out of surgery..... we actually tried to go and see her but she hadn't made it out of recovery yet so we couldn't.... anyways so i gotta go

love ya'll lots!!!!!
allison

It's HERE!!!!

so i just wanted to let everybody know that winter is here.... on tues. i was walking around with a t-shirt on..... on wed... there was ice and it started snowing.... the really funny thing is that it actually started snowing as i walked over to the cafeteria for breakfast (for me that was at like 2:30ish) i go in the cafeteria for like an hour and when i leave it's coming down really really hard and there's already like 1-2 inches on the ground maybe more... it was INSANE!!!! it snowed until about 12:30am or so.... WE GOT LIKE 8 INCHES OF SNOW...... it's so crazy..... i've never seen this much snow in my life.... although i froze my tail off and almost got frostbite on my legs trying to clean my truck off it's been GREAT.... and it's SOOOOOO pretty...... it actually might snow again this week.... i don't know though..... actually it might have been mon. that i was walking around in a t-shirt because the day before it snowed it was freezing rain.... which was quite painful to say the least.... yeah it was mon. that i was walking around with just a t-shirt on because tues. it was freezing rain and so they moved our great exchange class over to the multi purpose room......

anyways so i have to go now.....

love all
allison

This week

so everything is going good... i had a good thanksgiving... better than i thought it was going to be to tell ya the truth.... we went over to a core leaders' house and we had SOOOO much food... and it was really good to.... so basically what we did is they closed the kitchen down and we went to her house.... everybody made something.... i made cornbread..... except everybody thought that they were pancakes cuz i fried them instead of putting it in the oven...

everybody thought that it was really really good.... personally i knew that it was the wrong kind of cornmeal and it didn't taste like it was supposed because it was sweet.... anyways... that's all i have time for right now... we have a staff meeting today....

love all
Allison

long days/nights

so yeah i just thought i would let everybody know that i was just up for like 20 hours straight... for some this might not be a big deal... but for me it's a record.... why did you do this you might ask??? well i will tell you... so this week was thanksgiving right... well three of my roomates left and went home.... one came in at 9 this morning and i was the lucky one that she called yesterday to come and pick her up....

me being the person i am i guess and not being able to tell people no i told her i would be there.... so i left here at like 8 this morning and drove to the airport and picked her up.... we finally got back here and i went to bed for like 6 hours (which really wasn't enough) and so now i am here typing this up...

anyways... so i was actually going to go to bed and then get up and go but i decided that it would just be better to just s

prayers and other stuff

so i have come to realize (of course i could be wrong) that alot of the time when people (me included) thank other people for their prayers ...... i'm really not sure how to put this.... when many people thank others for their prayers alot of the time it's after that person has told them that they are praying for them...... to me it seems like alot of people just do it because that's what your supposed to do and in the back of their mind they are just sort of like whatever like it didn't really make a difference or whatever....

i just want to say that being here and spending many many hours in the prayer room i have come to really really aprreciate prayer.... for one because that's what i really love to do and for two i know that it takes time and energy for prayer..... so i say all of this to say that when i say thank you to people for your prayers i'm really really THANKING you for your prayers..... it really means alot to me when people tell me they are praying because i know what it takes.....

ok now that i have that out of the way...... (it was really on my heart to say or i guess write that and until i did i couldn't write anything else...... anyways...... so today is my first day off........ like i have NOTHING to do..... this is the only time that any of the tracks have any kind of break.... we have one because of THANKSGIVING..... so yeah anyways.... alot of people went home for Thanksgiving..... but me being the person i am i decided that i would stay here for thanksgiving..... i figured it would be easier as far as my sleeping and all that goes..... so anyways.... now i'm here for thanksgiving sort of feeling a little low because i've never been away from home on thanksgiving before....

anyways... we'll have fun though cuz i'm going over to one of our core leader's house and we are giong to have thanksgiving over there..... it will be fun...... i'm hoping anyways..... it won't be like home though.... oh well i'll be there for christmas so that's good..... plus i have a few special places that i won't to go this week to...... just a little extra stuff for thanksgiving.... a treat i guess you could say... anyways... so i guess that's all...

i hope everybody has a really good thanksgiving and don't forget to give thanks to the main one.... if you don't know who that is just think about easter and christmas (the birth and resurrection)...... anyways so that's really all this time....

love ya'll lots and lots


oh one more thought..... have you ever noticed how many times i start and stop on my blogs? that just sort of goes to show you how really random my mind goes and how fast...anyways but just think about how much love everybody is getting because i do that so many times.... (this was actually another thought that i just didn't want to put after i ended AGAIN....)



that's really really all this time
allison

errors

so i just read my other blog.... the one i did last night.... amd i realized that it has ALOT of mistakes in it.... hopefully people can figure it out though.....

so yeah anyways..... ummmmm i guess that's really all... oh one thing i didn't say last night... for anybody that wants to you can go on the IHOP website and you can get a live whatever from the prayer room.... (i think it's like $10 a month though) anyways so you can get a live feed or whatever from the prayer room so if you would like to see me all you have to do is get on their between midnight and 2am on Tues. or 4-6am on Fri. (that's my time by the way) and you can see me.... usually i'm pacing..... mainly because otherwise i'll get really bored, but also because it sort of helps me to keep going and keep praying for people....

we had a all night burn one fri night (which means that basically instead of having a intercession set the worship with the word and the another intercession set we had all intercession and we were praying for America..... there were lots of people :(...... i don't like lots of people..... they get in my space) anyways..... so yeah i paced for like 5 hours or something like that..... i was sort of tired by the time we got to the apartment and my legs were in lots of pain.... it was worth it though..... i had fun....

anyways guess that's all
love ya'll
allison

oh and i will explain the sets and things in further detail later....

A person of one thing

i think that God is truly showing me how to be a person of one thing..... ok so i'm going to be a bit personal here...... so many people around here are sort of pairing up...... (like guy girl kind of thing, even though they aren't supposed to be dating or anything like that..... anyways) so these people are like pairing up and all that good stuff..... well i am having sort of a problem with that.... not only because we are supposed to be focusing on God but also because it seems like i'm getting left out in the cold...... but it also seems as though God is preparing me for that day to come by helping me to get my attention focused on Him before that "special person" comes into my life...... of course i think part of my frustration i guess i could say is that i'm jealous...... and i'm sort of trying to work on this..... although it is really irritating..... anyways..... so as of thurs. i will have been here for 2 months and i will have i more month before i will be able to see all of my peoples again and at that time it will be DAVID AND MORGAN VERDERY!!!!!! WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!

oh and i almost forgot.... i will be flying home for Christmas and it will be my first time flying EVER!!! it's going to be SOOOOO much fun!!!! i'm really excited about that if you couldn't tell..... anyways so i told mama today that i am officially homesick..... one of my roomates started putting out Christmans decorations that other day and i started getting homesick...... one of my other roomates from Czech Republic wasn't very happy about it either because i think she was kind of getting a little homesick to..... she's been in the U.S. for like almost 5 years.... she will be leaving in the spring.....

anyways.... so today was/ is our Sabbath so we don't have anything that we have to do until 4.... we have to be in the prayer room.... but i'm in here now because i'm on the computer and this is the only place i can get on right now... i know i'm in the prayer room i should probably be reading my Bible or something like that but it's really ok..... i really like the prayer room... it's so much fun just to come in here and do this cuz instead of having just a CD in the background you have a band and real live music in front of you.... plus i can soak and write this at the same time.... it's all good....

there's actually alot of people that bring their computers in here...... i don't know what they do on them though.... i see people like typing stuff all the time so i don't know.... maybe they like rewrite all of their notes or something..... i don't know.....

so now i'm just sort of going on and on and on..... oh well...... i sent out my support letters the other day..... some i emailed and others i just mailed it the old fashioned way..... so anybody that doesn't get one please let me know...... i only had emails of a few people so mama gave me what she had.... so i hope i got everybody.....

oh yeah plus right now they are doing a worship with the word, which is basically that do a few worship songs and then whatever team is playing picks like a chapter out of the Bible and they sing it and then they antyphonalize (sp) which basically means that they sing it and then they all respond to it or like develop it or whatever.... it's really good.... but basically during this time we usually do like Unger's or something like that..... or at least that's what we are supposed to do, but i just can't seem to get into that so much....

basically what we are supposed to do with it is we are supposed to read it and then read the same passage out of the Bible and then put it in our own words...... it really doesn't work to well for me though because i usually end up getting my head in it and it becomes an assigment which means that i really don't get anything out of it......

so if anybody want to check out anything about IHOP go to www.ihop.org. this has everything that you would want to know.... if you want like promotional videos or whatever, which i might send to some of you anyways (this is a BIG MIGHT) then just let me know..... they are DVDs and then we also have like brochures and things like that if you would like something like that.... just let me know.... you can email me at little_gyrl_2006@hotmail.com and let me know what you would like.....

oh yeah and they are having a ONETHING conference here on Dec. 28-31..... if you would like more information about this then i am going to need your address..... i can let them know i they can send you a promo pack and it will give you alot of information about it...... if you want to do this though you HAVE to go ahead and get registered and find a hotel..... i think that the IHOP (those hotels that give discounts or whatever if you area IHOP related) are all full so you have to jump on it really quick..... there's like alot of people so the sooner you decide the better.....

i will be coming home on Dec. 23rd.... my flight actually gets to Atlanta at like 7:30pm i think.... anyways..... so i guess that's all...... love everybody lots and lots and lots

oh yeah and thank you all for the prayers and support..... it's really really appreciated and helpful..... i am learning alot if you couldn't tell.....

this is just so amazing... it's like i'm a different person every time i walk out of the doors..... i have so much fun just doing this.... it's so great.... that's why it was so hard when Ali died..... because i felt like i had failed once again.... i told so somebody the other day i was like yeah (oh and this was after i had already sort of blown upburn team, which i a little meeting thing that every apartment has at midnight whenever we come in for our six hours, about this whole thing) anyways....... press pause on this for a sec and i will tell you about the burn team thing and then i can tell you this better....

ok so we go in to our burn team this was on friday.... so when we first all get in there we or i guess i was talking about Misty's set (she leads a devotional set every friday night at 10 after EGS) and so i was telling them how good it was and everything..... and then my core leader (the one that's like over the people in our apartment, she like tells us what we need to do and stuff like that) so she starts talking about us standing on the lines (in the front of the prayer room there are blue lines that we stand on.... every night a different apartment has to go up there and we go up there from midnight to 2 on Tues. and 4-6 on Fri.) so she starts talking about that i this thing... i guess it was anger just like rose up in me and i got really upset..... like i was sitting there saying ...... you know how am i supposed to keep praying when i don't know if they are actually doing any good..... there are all of these people here praying for things and they don't happen and so i'm like how are the things that i am praying for going to happen? (while i have been here 3 people that we were praying for have died and everything else that we were praying for fell through the cracks..... it didn't work out)

anyways so now to continue with the other story.... we were sitting there and she said something and i was like yeah that's why it hit me so hard the other day.... because this is what i love doing.... it's what i'm good at.... cuz it seems like there's really not anything else i'm good at and this is also how i can help people.... i don't like just going up to people and you know..... so this is what i do..... and it works... or at least i hope it does anyways...... i could just do this like all the time....... it's so much fun......oh yeah and so she was like it's not the only thing that your good at.... she was like your breathing aren't you..... then when i said the second part she was like that's just cuz you've never experienced any other way... this sort of made me a little mad but i don't know why....... i guess cuz it seemed like she was just sort of doing away with this new conclusion that i had come up with and it just wasn't very good......oh well

ok so i think that's really all this time.... i just actually realized that this is like really sort of long... oh well...... this isn't half of what i have learned.... anyways... so i guess i will go this time

love everybody lots and lots and lots...
allison

oh yeah uncle tom (or aunt vicki) if you read this i haven't had a chance to call i've been thinking about ya'll but haven't really had a chance to call..... how is your knee?

love ya'll again
allison

Do-it-yourself-girl

ok so to continue my story....... so i go and finally get the right light after having a really really bad day before...... go back to the apartment and get it out it's the right one and everything. so i have to open the tailgate right? well normally this would be no big deal... but ya see like a year or two ago daddy backed into a tractor tire (i know i know you would think that he would see it and you would also think that he would remember that it's there seeing as he put it there but anyways) so the tailgate is all bent up which means that in order to open it you have to have a screw driver... well the one that i had wasn't cooperating so guess what.... i now on a set (it's like 6 and they were cheap cuz i couldn't find just one) of screw drivers.... so anyways get back to the apartment and open the tailgate (by the way at the point the wind is blowing nonstop and my hands feel like they are about to fall off because they are so cold) so now i take out all the screws pull that light out and then realize i don't know how to take the light out..... so thank goodness it was busted because all i had to do was look in where they were and see how to take them out..... it was great..... so i got everything out got the other light and put everything back in hoping that i had put all the lights back right because i forgot which one went where.... anyways so now i have a brand new tail light..... it looks sort of funny though cuz it's alot cleanere than the other one.... oh well....

so i think i told everybody on here about the twins that were born without brains (basically they had fluid in their brains) well Ali died thurs. at 2am. anyways so that was hard.... so i guess that's all.....

love everybody
allison

Where is everybody?

So i am beginning to wonder if everybody has left and didn't tell me or something...... IS ANYBODY OUT THERE??????

anyways...... so i figured i would update people on some things. i'm doing good, i've been really busy lately trying to do lots of different things like sending out support letters and fixing my tail light and all that good stuff. i actually had to go to the auto parts store like four different times because they gave me the wrong light. it turned out for the better thought because i actually got it for cheaper.... anyways i'll have to write more later i have some more to say... actually a good bit more...... but i have to go right now......

love everybody and i will talk to ya'll later
allison

Pray for your enemies cont.

ok so first... if you haven't read the one before this then you need to read it first because you will be missing out..... anyways so oh yeah i sort of messed that verse up that i used so just sort of disregard that i guess. i would fix it except that once again i don't have my bible with me......

anyways so to continue with the story.... so we got out and looked at it and the guy was like you don't have to call the police if you don't want to and it didn't even register that MY vehicle was the only one hurt...... so the driver guy was like ok so what do we do...... so the passenger dude told him to copy down his insurance information and give it to me so that guy went over and started doing that. then he brings it back over to my truck and the passenger dude takes it from him and starts doing it. so i called daddy and talked to him as i watched him write down the information. i didn't think about it at the time but i should have done that and i should have gotten his license plate numer and his license i think (or course all of that would have been taken care of if i had of called the police. but anyways) so he wrote all of that down got my name and cell phone number and gave me the information and then they left and i sat there continuing to talk to daddy. so we talked then i left and had to somewhere else turn around because there was a cement thing in the middle of the road and so then i realized that the place that i had decided to turn around wasn't exactly the best place to turn around.... it was a bad neighborhood and then i had to sit at the stop sign for like 5 minutes before i got out..... oh well though...

so skip forward a few hours..... i talked to my roomates and a few others about it and we decided that i needed to call the police and get an accident report whenever i got up the next day oh and i had also called the insurance company, but they were already closed. so i left a message and told them to call me back after 2 the next day. so at 10:30 (when i was sound asleep) the insurance company calls and i have to give them all of my information which means that i had to go outside.... so here's me walking outside in my pajamas and my NASCAR jacket to get the vin number and license plate number off of the truck......

so i give her the policy number and the first thing that she said was that didn't sound like one of their numbers. i gave her his name to and that way even if that wasn't one of their policy numbers then they could still find it....

oh yeah i forgot like the most important part.... although i forget if it was the night of the day the he hit me or the next one (oh a little background information is that we had GBF global bridegroom fast this week so we had to be in the prayer room from 8pm to 6am) so i go in the prayer room and i decide to pray for these 2 guys (this is where the praying for your enemies part comes in) so i start praying for them and i prayed for them for the first 2 hours of my time in the prayer room because that's the all staff intercession set that we do..... so then the next day when i found out that these guys had ripped me off i just had the overwhelming peace about things..... actually no it was the day that i found out that they ripped me off that i prayed for them and that's when i got the overwhelming peace about the whole thing...... before that i was upset but not because they had hit me and we are going to pay for it but because i trusted them enough or maybe i was just innocent enough and they took advantage of that..... that's what made me upset or mad or whatever........ so anyways i prayed for them and that's when i got the peace that it's all going to be ok....... so now i'm going to keep praying for them and if they decide that they want to make things right they have both my name and my cell number so they can talk to me if they want to....

this just goes to show you that praying for people that wrong you really does help.... i coulde have spent the whole time in the prayer room thinking about that and being upset about that but i chose to go the other way and i actually felt alot better than i would have otherwise..... so now i just have to find a place where i can go and get it fixed and i'll be doing good...... so i guess that's all

love everybody lots and lots
allison

Pray for your enemies

so i realized the other day that reading the Bible really is helping me out and i really am getting somethingout of it. so now i will tell you how i came to this conclusion. oh first i have to tell you that i have developed a new passion for reading the Bible. it's like i just can't put it down half the time. so in my time here i have read Math. like twice i've read Mark and i and almost done with Luke. PLUS i have read the Song Of Songs ALOT because i am doing a study on that one. at the beginning of our track they told us to pick something to study during our time here and this was the book that i chose. so i got the first part of Mike Bikle's Song of Songs study thing and i'm going through that. for a while there that's really all i was doing and so now it has sort of gotten a little boring, but none the less i must press on........ anyways so that's really not where i was wanting to go with this one but anyways...... now i will get back to my point.

so in Math i think either chapter 6 or 7 i forget which on and i don't have my Bible here with me right now. it talks about something like something about those that love you, pray for your enemies and bless those who persecute you. because you really don't get anything out of loving only those who love you or something like that. anyways in this post i want to focus on the part that says pray for your enemies.

anyways..... so the other day i was looking for this place called Aldi..... for those of who don't know supposedly it's like this really good place to shop. like it is really cheap and stuff like that. but they only sell like the off brand stuff and you have to bring your own bags and you pay like a quarter to use a buggy. anyways so i was looking for this place right and so i decided to turn around. so i go left at a traffic light and go turn around. then i decide that i'm going to go check out this shopping center thing that's on the other side of the street, which means that i have to go straight. so the light was green and so i go. well there was a jeep wrangler (those that have the roll bar and you can have the hard or soft or no top on them) anyways so he was turning right. so apparently he didn't think that i was going fast enough or something because as i was going in front of him he started pulling out. i really thought he was going to hit me in the door. but alas instead he hit me on the tail in and he busted my right tail light or at least the blinker part (which is half of it and that's bad enough) anyways he also put a few little dents in the side right beside the light and he left some paint on there to. anyways so we pull over into the parking lot of the shopping place that i was trying to look at and get out and get out and look at it. this is when i make my first big mistake so pay close attention to this part. so we get out and look and we're just sort of standing there looking at it and i say that this is only my second wreck and so i'm really not sure what to do and that i'm not from around here. so the guy driving was like well i've never been in a wreck before. so the passenger guy was like well you really don't have to call the police. i was like ok. i didn't even register that it was MY vehicle that was messed up not the other one.

ok so ya'll are probably going to get really mad but i will have to finish later because i have to go.......
love ya
allison

well...

so i was just sitting here so i figured that i would just put something on here right quick. anyways. so everything is still going good. my core leader told us about tedd haggard the other day. (if you don't know about him it's a really long story but the jist of it is that he got caught in some bad things and it's just not really good especially because he was a pastor in colorado springs.) so anyways um everybody's been praying really hard about that. among other things. just to let everybody know if you don't already. on election day in south dakota there is going to be a write in thing about abortion. basically this state has one abortion clinic and they fly isomebody in from another state i think that does the abortions. this state has about as many people as st. louis does. so anyways. if they pass this ban on abortion then there are 13 other states also looking at this issue and it could cause a ripple affect into these states. this means that these states could also ban abortion. this is a really really big thing that we are praying for right now. another thing is israel. i don't know enough about that to really say anything about it, but i am going to study and look at that more. anyways. we are doing our global bridegroom fast this mon. tues. and wed. so everybody really be praying. it's going to be fun, although i really don't like fasting at all but oh well. anyways. i'm probably going to start calling people for addresses in the next few days. it actually turns out that i can just email letters and stuff to people. this will save me money and all that good stuff because otherwise i would have to go to some place (i forget the name of it) and print stuff out. with doing emails i won't have to do quite as many. anyways.
love ya'll and i will write more at some other time
allison

well then

so i had this really good kinda long post that i was going to write and then i was trying to update my computer so i clicked on something and it restarted my computer and so i lost that whole thing. so basically i just wasted time. which is what i have been struggling with for the past week or so. i really like just hanging out with people and just kind of relaxing but the thing is when i do this i feel guilty because i feel like i can use that time to be in the prayer room. or doing something like going over the numerous notes and things that i have acquired from my classes and egses and all of that (egs is encountering God service, which is what i have tonight. so yeah. oh and the other thing that i said something about in the other blog that i wrote is that i am going to start using this to update people on things that we are praying for and what's going on with me and alot about what i am learning and things like that. so maybe this will help me process stuff a little better and maybe it can also help other people to. so everybody needs to check this whenever they can. also i'm going to start sending out support letters to raise money for my track 2 stuff. in order to do this i really need addresses. so if you could email me little_gyrl_2006@hotmail.com your address this would be great. even if you can't help me out send me your address so that i can send you a newsletter. even though i am doing this blog i will send out newsletters this way those who aren't exactly computer people can still find out what's going on. and for those of you who know people that aren't computer people if you could help me out by asking them for their addresses this would be wonderful especially since i don't have everybody's phone numbers. oh yeah i almost forgot about that part. i need those to so that i can call you and follow up with my letter. thank you so so much.

love everybody and next time i will do more if i have time.
allison

.......

so i didn't know what to call this so oh well..... anyways everything's going good..... God's really working on lots of things with me and with other people..... we had our apartment meeting today and we were just talking and then they got to me and one of the girls was like yeah she's changed alot...... i was like whoa..... she was like she's been through some stuff or something like that...... anyways..... we had inner healing wed. and thur. which was good but very very tiring... they actually let us go early from the prayer room so that we could go to sleep.... i don't know if anybody has heard of living waters, but that's what it was....... it's like a thirty week program that they put in two days...... anyways..... that's it for now....... oh and i will let everybody know i guess that i am thinking about staying for the second track and after that i don't really know..... this is pretty neat because i told God when i got here that if He wanted me to stay then He was really going to have to change my heart because i wasn't really wanting to..... and He did so yeah.... i will probably be sending out support letters to lots of the people who are reading this.... more info. about that later..... anyways guess that's all that i can do right now.....

love everybody lots and lots.....
allison

really really quick!!!

ok so...... everything's going good..... we finally started our classes this week and we are getting on our schedule..... now i must go eat love all!!!!
allison

hey

so i have like two seconds.... i am on the computer in the cafeteria so i have to be really short.... everything is going pretty good now.... the first days were tough but i actually got sleep last night.... it was good to be able to get some sleep....... if anybody would like to send me mail mama has my address so email or talk to her and she will give it to you.... MAIL IS DEFINITLY WELCOME!!!! everything can be sent by that address.... i will try to write more once i get the computer stuff worked out..... after this week everything will slow down alot so i may be able to put more on here.... guess that's it for now.... everybody please keep praying i need it alot..... thanks so much to those of you who have been fighting for me in the past couple of days.... it's been kind of hard....
love ya'll lots
allison (or IHOP chic)

WOOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just figured i would let everybody know that I AM LEAVING IN LIKE 1 HOUR!!!!!!! WOOOHOOOO then i get to go see morgan and eat and then keep going to tenn. to my hotel all in one day........ it's going to be GREAT!!!! ya'll keep on praying to ok....... it's a long drive up there......... once again thank you all for ALL of your support (in whatever way it was given money emotional whatever......) THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!
love ya'll buches i have to go and get ready and finish packing those last minute things......

LOVE YA'LL BUNCHES AND BUNCHES AND BUNCHES
Allison

LEAVING!!!

just to let everybody know i am leaving for IHOP tomorrow....

i need lots and lots of prayer for the rest of tonight and the next couple of days....

after losing that work and then after not being able to figure out what to do on another paper i haven't finished school.... that will work itself it.... so pray for me for that cuz i'm sort of stressed because of that..... now i'm taking a break from packing to write this soooooo....... i guess i should get back to packing.... oh yeah.... i don't have my address yet so i will get it to mama and she can give it to people...... so you all that are far away in different places i'm sure that you will know somebody that can give it to you!! I WILL BE EXPECTING LOTS OF MAIL!!!! (hint hint) and a few visiters wouldn't hurt if anyone feels up to it....... hehehehehehehe of course that's only if you would like to spend lots and lots of time in the prayer room and that sort of thing.... i was told that the only day i will have off will be on thurs.... (just to let ya'll know) anyways...

oh yeah if anyone does happen to come and see me..... i don't think you will actually be able to stay with me.... (there will already be 8 people in a 2 bed 2 bath apartment) so you will have to make other accomodations..... you will have to check in to it, but i think that if you mention something about IHOP you might get a discount...... anyways.......


almost forgot..... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOU SUPPORT!!!!! I HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH MONEY AND ALL OF THAT GOOD STUFF TO GO!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!


LOVE YA BUNCHES AND BUNCHES!!!!
ALLISON
(I THINK I CAN TAKE THE CAPS OFF NOW WHAT DO YA THINK?)

I'M FALLING AND I CAN'T GET UP (BUT DO I REALLY WANT TO)

ok this post is about two really different things that just so happen to have made an extremely really really big impact on my life and feel like i can finally share these with lots of people so here goes. so lots of people know that i have been through lots of stuff in the past years. i won't go into details cuz that's more than i want to do right now...... anyways....... so i've been through lots of stuff..... that was one falling experience for me..... falling because i fell away from lots of different things at that time..... to explain i will say..... it was hard.... to say the least..... but God and his various ways helped me through and picked me up........ the problem for a while was that i didn't know how to stand....... it seemed as though i had been flat on my face for so long that it was comfortable and i didn't want to do anything else..... it was sort of that poor pitiful me kinda thing...... i think that's where lots of people tend to get stuck sometimes...... you get to where you are comfortable in what spot... no matter how bad it is and you/ we just decide to stay there instead of deciding to get up and face the world......

now i have to use a little lesson that mr. jim taught on about the egyptians and the wilderness..... that's pretty much what this experience is...... that's what the egyptians did..... they wanted so bad to get out of egypt so so so bad..... then we they got out and realized that what they were going into was unknown and egypt was what they knew(no matter how bad it was) they wanted to go back....... it was like they were telling God we don't care what it's like on the other side...... we just want to be "safe"..... sometimes what people might think is "safe" is actually worse that what they could run into on a different path..... this is what we tend to do alot of the time..... we get start out in egypt and go to the wilderness, but once we get there we start to get scared because we don't know what's going to happen....... we can either choose to trust God that He will take care of us (side note: ummm why wouldn't He take care of exactly? i mean seeing as He's the one that created us in the first place....) we have to give everything up and follow Him..... let Him lead!!!!! if we(i) try to lead then i know i/we (mainly talking about myself at this point) will mess it up...... i figure ya know what i think that He knows a little better about what He's doing and what He wants me to do than i do...... so now i/we must decide what we are going to do.... i have finally decided myself that i don't like just sitting around in the wilderness and i don't want to go back to egypt so let me see where else could i go
hummmmmm let me think uh uh uh pick me pick me pick me

PICK ME PICK ME

ah yes you in the back there

WE COULD FOLLOW GOD THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND THEN INTO THE PROMISE LAND!!!!!


congratulations of have one a silver plasma TV (not really i just wanted to put that in there hehehe)


so what are we going to do? are we going to stay in egypt or are we going to follow God into the wilderness and allow Him to take care of us and lead us through to the promised land? remember though that there will be stuggles along the way.... the wilderness is just that...... a wilderness..... there are dangers everywhere.... but once again we have to trust in God and know that He is going to lead us through....... we might even kinda go in circles every once in a while, but as long as we get back on track and follow God then i think that we will be ok..... it's when we turn tail and run back to egypt that we are in trouble




ok the second part of this post about I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP (BUT DO I REALLY WANT TO) is that I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE AND HE IS THE BEST!!!!!!

if ya don't know what i'm talking about then i will give you some hints......

1) He's really really BIG!!!

need another one????



ok



2)HE'S AWESOME


another one???




3)HE'S THE LOVER OF OUR SOULS



keep going????




4)MAKER AND FRIEND



more??? ok





5)CREATER OF EVERYTHING



one more????




6)MINE AND YOURS!!!!!!!




figured it out yet?????



if not here's one more hint (and my favorite)



HE HAS GRACE AND MERCY AND HE LOVES US SOOOOOOOO MUCH MUCH MORE THAN WE CAN EVERY COMPREHEND!!!!!!



so here it is I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS BIGGER THAN ANYTHING OR ANYONE ON THIS EARTH......... HE'S THE MOST AWESOMEST THING IN THE WORLD(OR IN HEAVEN) ........ HE LOVES ME AND YOU NO MATTER WHAT...... HE MADE ME (THAT'S ONE OF THE REALLY REALLY AWESOMEST THINGS...) PLUS HE MADE EVERYTHING ELSE TO........ LAST BUT NOT LEAST HE IS MINE AND I AM HIS.....


give up?????? i have fallen for the One and Only

there's a verse in the Bible (Song of Songs 6:3) it says I AM MY BELOVED'S AND HE IS MINE!!!! this is like one of the best verses in the world!! love it!!


so why the title i've fallen and i can't get up (or do i really want to) for this part? because that is what i have done...... i have fallen for my King....... i want to worship Him and love Him because he loves me so much and He is showing me this daily....... if anyone out there wants to fall in love again just remeber something..... first i have to take a little rabbit trail..... the ONETHING conference that we went to has a saying it goes ONETHING I DESIRE IS TO SIT AT THE FEET OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE..... that's not exactly what it says but that's close enough..... anyways that is what you should remember....... the ONETHING that he desire of us is to love Him and to sit at His feet...... the question is Are we doing this and are we willing to do this????



so i guess that's all...

i'm leaving early wed. mornin so PLEASE be in prayer..... i don't have a computer to take and i don't know how much time i would have to get on it if i did so i won't be able to blog or anything but i will definitly try to write people.......


love ya all bunches and bunches!!!
me

HEY HEY HEY!!!!!!!!!!!

GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!

I LEAVE FOR IHOP IN 4 DAYS 20 HOURS AND 6 MINUTES (PROBLY NOT EXACTLY) but close to it anyways!!!

i just came to this realization and i had to take a break from school to share......


THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO HAS AND IS MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


LOVE YOU VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH
allison

WOOOHOOOO!!!

just to let everybody know I HAVE 8 DAYS TIL I LEAVE FOR IHOP KC (KANSAS CITY)!!!!!! i have made my reservations for my hotels on the way up there and all that stuff....... i'm leaving the 20th and i'll go up close to clarkesville tennessee and spend the night....... then i'll go to columbia missouri the next day..... then on the 22nd....... i will finish my journey to my dwelling for at least the next three months!!!!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!! if ya can't tell i'm a little excited. i actually just got on here to say that i won't be on here for the next few days (for anyone who looks at this)...... i have to finish school and i'm gonna be cutting it like super super close sooooo...... i have to put whatever time i have that i'm not worshiping reading the bible eating sleeping or working doing school............. got it? hope soooo and then after i leave i won't be able to get on here cuz i won't have a comp. or anything like that.... i might get lucky, though and get with somebody that does and then maybe they'll let me use their computer :) maybe.... if not then oh well...... i promise (for those who go to pathway) that i will write ya'll leters and get somebody to read them at church...... guess that's all
love ya'll lots and thank ya'll SOOOOOOO much!!!!!!!!
allison

i kinda also want to apologize for my previous blog..... i was sort of not in a bery good mood that day and i was just letting it all flow...... sorry please forgive me...... i apologize if i hurt anybody's feelings or anything like that...... i'm really sorry that wasn't my intent..... i was just venting ........ sorry....... really i really really am sorry.........................

the dumps

so today has not been a very good day.... it seems like everything that i touch gets messed up... it did start out pretty good though. it seems as though if my day starts out good it ends up bad and if it starts out bad it ends up good. that's what has happened the past two days. i guess i need to keep the FINISH WELL in mind.... anyways..... so i guess your wondering why my day has been so bad..... well it starts with everything going really really good..... i finished a lesson of writing which means i only have like 12 papers to write now...... yeah i know i'm working on it.... it's just getting really really frustrating when you try so hard and it just keeps getting pushed back in your face cuz you keep messing things up..... it really really stinks.... anyways so then i go to start one of my papers and i'm like hey i can go on and delete some of this stuff off my floppy disk so that i will have more room on there cuz i don't need it any more.... so that's what i did... well i went to open one of the things that i had saved because i was going to use it to do some of the writing that i was fixin to start on.... well i open it and most of what i had written wasn't there..... so i was like OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i looked and sure enough i had deleted what i needed... then i thought for a second and i was like oh no..... i hooked back up to the internet and went to my school page to where i turn my stuff in at and looked and sure enough I HAD TURNED IN THE WRONG ONE AND DELETED THE RIGHT ONE!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR if you couldn't tell i was a little upset.... so after searching the computer for like two hours and then finally calling Uncle Tom (thanks by the way) to see if there was any way to get it back i found nothing.... so now i am praying very hard for a miracle..... if i can't get that back i don't know what will happen.... I NEED IT BACK!!!!! anyways.... so after this i just like really really bumbed(sp) and down in the dumps (hence the title)....... then mama calls and she's like (yes mama i'm putting this in here to) well did ya talk to deanne about the money (money for IHOP) no i was a little busy chewing myself out for deleting the stuff before i was completly and totally finished and graduated and married with three kids.... (this is why i like holding on to stuff cuz if i don't this is what happens) back to the money deal..... so i go ask deanne and she tells me how much.... i can asure you that this added to my frustration irritation and everything else.... not necessarily at everybody else just in general because i don't nearly have enough.... and i probly shouldn't put this on here but oh well cuz i am..... this is just the kind of mood i'm in at this point.... oh and i forgot that as i sit here listening to this wonderful captivating CD that i have i also have to listen to this beat that is off tempo and very annoying because my speakers are apparently messed up.... probly because they are just tired but none the less it still adds to my dumpyness...... for me leaving in less than two weeks (1week and six days) i'm not doing so good...... although you wouldn't have guessed it the way i was talking last night about everything that's been going on lately.... so anyways.... instead of doing school right now and messing it up to i have succomb to typing this up for all the world to see near and far..... oh well..... some may think me ungrateful for what i have gotten as far as IHOP is concerned... i'm not ungrateful or unappreciative or whatever... i thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOO much.... it's just that it's getting really really close to time for me to leave and i'm having doubts because of it and those doubts are not good cuz i know that this is what i'm supposed to be doing.... i can't wait to get up there..... i am going to have so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much fun....... IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT JUST WAIT AND SEE!!!!!! so right now it seems as though God is going to perform a few miracles in order for me to go and that's going to be great to.... so i just previewed this post and it is really really long..... if many people don't read i understand especially since you may get a little mad.... oh well... just understand that i have been in a not so great mood today and give me a little grace (which is harder that law) hehe we figured that out last night at youth..... (thanks mr. T) SO i guess that's all
love ya'll
allison
thanks again to everybody that has helped out with prayers money thoughts or whatever....

really really short post....

update for everybody on IHOP stuff..... my last day of work is the 14th and i'm leaving the 20th. anybody who is helping me out financially i'm going to need it before i leave. thank you thank you thank you
love ya
allison

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So i don't know how many of you know but me and Mrs. Rita and Morgan and David and Doug and Dean and Erich and Jennifer and someone else who i forgot what her name was (sorry) oh and Mr. Tyler went one day to, we all went to a Onething conference in Atlanta. Me and Mrs. Rita left thurs. and got back at 1 am yesterday (sun.). I just want to say that this was absolutely AWESOME!!!!!!!!! there is just no other way to describe it except maybe A WONDERFUL, EXCITING, ABSOLUTE AMAZING, AND JUST- I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO EXPLAIN IT!!!!!!!! it was GREAT!!!!!! God came in such a powerful way that it was unmistakable. it was amazing to see the many different people and kinds of people that God has called to Him........ these people were amazing... the people that were speaking and singing were amazing because God was just on them in SUCH a powerful way........ I just have to say that IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE PEOPLE SO PASSIONATE ABOUT GOD they have such a calling on their lives...... this just makes me that much more clear of going to fire in the night........ i know, without a doubt, that this is what i'm supposed to do with my life in the near future....... after this i'm really not sure what i'm going to do, but i do have a feeling that it will have something to do with spreading the news of the MOST HIGH AND WONDERFUL GOD!!!!!! this is absolutely AMAZING to me!!!!!! i have to say that if any of you ever get a chance to go to an IHOP YOU SHOULD!!!!!! even if you just get a chance to go to the prayer room because it is SOOOOOOO GREAT!!!!!!! AND I GET TO DO THIS FOR 3 MONTHS!!!!!!! what more could i ask for!!!!!

love ya'll
allison
(i couldn't decide what color)

ummmm

Well i really don't have much to write accept maybe that i have like less that a month to go to missouri and i am going to have a BLAST!!! oh yeah... and sorry haven't posted in a while i been trying to get done with school. and all the stuff. yeah so that's really what i should be doing right now but i find it slightly hard at the library. so anyways. oh yeah and we are leaving tomorrow to go to atlanta to a conference at IHOP there... by the way when i say IHOP i mean the international house of prayer NOT pancakes. anyways so i'm still really needing some help with this to cuz i still don't have enough mulla. i know it will come though. i think it's something faith or blind faith. yeah that's what it's called. oh and i'm kinda having to have that with a vehicle to cuz yeah ummm haven't got one of those either. although, i have found a few that i liked very much that were in good condition and had good gas mileage...... the problem..........
THEY WERE IN THE WRONG STATE.......... one was in texas and one was in illinois...... oh well.... i'm praying that God will give me a vehicle that i can afford and that runs good and all that jazz..... sooooo........i like doing the dots thing mayber i'll just do a few more........................anyways... i guess that's all.... i haven't really decided if i am leaving on the 19 of Sept. or the 20th..... if i leave the 20th i only have to pay for a hotel room for two nights but if i leave on the 19th i can stop and see alot more things..... for those wondering i would like to see places like nashville....... i've never been there before and it would be nice if i could walk around and look at the buildings and all the stuff they have there. so i guess that's all......
love ya
allison

Update on IHOP

"I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jeruselem; The shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do no keep silent..." Isaiah 62:6

So i have gotten more information on IHOP:
I have to be there between 2 and 430 on Sept. 22nd.
Here is a description of what i will be doing:
FITN Track I (intimacy) is a prerequisite for those who want to participate in Track II. Track I provides training in encountering the Lord in devotion and intercession. Much time is devoted to cultivating intimacy with the Lord, and growing in the knowledge of God. It also provides training in the foundational principles of the bridal paradigm and the beauty of Jesus.

Again i am asking you all to help me with this because i can't do it on my on. I have nailed down a figure of $3,000. I am saving all of the money that i can in order to buy me a vehicle. So if ya'll could help me out that would be really really great. If you want to look at it more the IHOP website is www.ihop.org.
Thanks so much and i love you all.
Allison

ATTENTION ATTENTION!!!!

I have an update on IHOP!!!!! I HAVE OFFICIALLY BEEN ACCEPTED TO IHOP!!! WOOHOOO!!! So yeah i've been accepted. It was quite excting actually. A lady called that could barely talk. I answered the phone and she asked if i was me and i said yeah. Then she told me that i had been accepted. I was like oh. Thank you so much. She said that they would send me an email with more details and stuff. I was speachless. I just said thank you so much!! Anyways. So now is where all of you come in because this is about the only way i know how to let some of you know so here goes. In order to go i have to have money. The problem is that i don't have any. So this is where ya'll come in because i am really depending on everyone to help me out financially. If you could do this it would be greatly greatly greatly greatly greatly greatly appreciated. (I hope that's enough greatlys but here's one more for good measure.) greatly. I just want to thank all of you so much for believing in me and standing by me. So thank you so much.
love ya'll so so so much
allison

fun fun fun sore sore sore

We had an AMAZING time this weeked. (It was actually Sun. thru Teus. but we declared it a weekend cuz it was the right length for one.) Anyways. So God did some really good stuff. We got very little sleep and swam ALOT!! I think most everybody got burnt and only two people got sick. AND I WASN"T ONE OF THEN WOOOHOOOO!!! Oh i went tubing AND DIDN"T FALL OFF!! (Thanks Mr. TV) Although, i only went once and that was enough for me. We had the boat Teus. and it was lots of fun, but i'm glad we didn't have it the rest of the time cuz we were able to spend some time together that we wouldn't of been able to if it had of been there. Even Aunt Vicki got on the tube. It was great. Anyways. I will let other people tell stories of all the Godly stuff that happened to them but i will say that it was really really really good to see what was going on with other people/ waht God was doing with other people. It was great. Anyways guess that's all.
love all
allison

the reason for the title is because we had lots and lots and lots of fun but i am sore, burnt, and tired. Of course if we had lots of fun that stuff really doesn't matter much. Anyways. Cuz, if you hadn't got the hint yet, we did have lots and lots and lots of fun. hehe Oh i also forgot that they got out the knee board when Erich got there and i think most everybody did that. Except for a few smart ones. Like we and some others. I think that's all now.
love all again.
allison

leaving (not on a jet plane; in a car)

So we are leaving today after church to go to the wonderful place called the shack. I know I know. To those of you who haven't been there your like "the shack how can that be so wonderful? It doesn't sound to great." WELL to tell ya the truth never really understood where "shack" came from. It's basically a trailer with two bedrooms (with ac) and then a really BIG screened in porch with a few beds a few chairs and the floor. (And the tables if you adventurous; Mr. Tyler, yeah i remember you sleeping on the table hehehe) Anyways. The major thing is that it's at the lake. Swim all day worship. Learn. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BLAST!!!! WOOOHOOOO!!
Anyways i can't believe that i'm writing this right now but i really wanted to write something before i left and i didn't have time to yesterday, Anyways love all will definietly have stories when i get back and i will post them.
love all
allison

Yeah ummmm

I should really aplogize for the previous blog. I was kinda hoping that it didn't post it but oh well. I was kinda in a bad mood/ being attacked pretty bad and it all kinda hit me at once. Anyways. So any who haven't heard before you hear something alot worse than it actually was. I had a wreck yesterday. (Adding to my bad day/ attacking). I was really nervous cuz i've never been in a wreck before. So what happened? Well i rearended somebody. They had stopped for a construction thing and apparently i wasn't paying attention because i thought they had finished and i didn't see any signs or anything. So i looked back at the road and saw brake lights. So i put on my brakes really really heard and slid into him. The even worse part is that it wasn't my car because you see my truck doesn't have a transmittion in it so it's not running. So now i have officially screwed up all vehicles that i would have been able to take to Missouri. So right now i'm praying for a miracle. It didn't mess the blazer up to bad. It pushed the bumper up into the air conditioner that wasn't working anyway. So that wasn't so bad BUT IT'S NOT MY VEHICLE!!! That's the worst part. Anyways. that's all.

COMMENTS!!!

So now i'm just kinda gonna have a pity party complaining fussing session. Did you know that there is a COMMENTS section? Ya know what it's for? COMMENTS!! If you will look at my comments on my blogs you will see VERY few. So could ya do me a flavor and COMMENT?! Please. Now i know that your gonna be like well now i HAVE to comment. cuz now i've guilted you into it. then you'll think that i'm thinking that your just doing it cuz i said for ya to. well whatever. i'm done for today.

WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!

So i know i said before that i was official done with sociology, but now i am OFFICIALLY OFFICIALLY done. I got my grade the other day and i made a 88. Not to bad if i do say so myself. I'm almost done with English to. I have two more tests (actually only like one cuz i'm almost done with the other one) and ALOT of writing to do.
Anyways so i hope everybody's doing good. So i guess everything's going good here. I don't know if i'm going to get that promotion or not. We'll see. If not then oh well i guess, although i would kinda like to get it even though i will only be there for a little while before i leave (hopefully). Oh update on that is that i haven't heard anything. I going to write another letter to them if i haven't heard anything by the end of the week to see if they've gotten it or not.
Anyways. We're going to the shack next week to so ya'll be praying for us. So i guess that's all. Not really in a mood for writing. Oh well...
Nothing's really great right now except for the fact that we are going next week. Yesterday at work it seemed that it was the day for people that weren't having such a good day to come through my line cuz i had several people that weren't in such a great mood. It was busier than it has been recently though so that was good.
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Oh if i haven't Marti(y) is officially moved. :( (i did it like that cuz i never remember what it is) Anyways. So i guess that's it. nuthin more to say on here

To Move Or Not to Move? THAT is the qurstion.

The story.
So Dylan has pretty much been wining all afternoon. That's it. I pick him up he wines i put him down he wines more. I do nothing and he screams. SOOOO. What do you do? Welllll. I took him and put him in the high chair and gave him something to eat (cherios and crackers) and he's satisfied. So i pull the high chair in the living room so we could watch a movie. (Dreamer, one of the best movies EVER!!!) So i'm just sitting there eating my popcorn and watching the movie and look over and this is what i find...






It was soooo funny i just had to put it on here. Anyways. That's all i have time for.
Love ya'll all.
allison

Our Trip!!!! (a little late) March 18-20

OK. So these are the first pics of our trip. For those of you who saw the other ones first so sorry. It took me a few days to actually be able to them on here. These are the pictures of when we are leaving and stuff. Sorry i couldn't get more pics. I didn't think about putting the pics that were already on the camera on a disc so we ran out of space on the camera. That was ok though cuz then we would only take pics that we really wanted. Then the battery ended up dieing. Anyways. Hope you enjoy even though they are a little late.




OK. So this is the very first pic. Me and Morgan in the back seat of the truck in the driveway at the Verdery's house.



On the road again. Actually not really cuz we're just leaving the Verdery's. HERE WE GO!!!


These two pics are when we are at the gas station in Thompson. Summer decided that she wanted to wash the windsheild so me and Morgan decided to take advantage of the moment and take pics to document.


As you can see Summer is doing it a little weird. Instead of going across like most people do she is starting at the top and going down. It was so funny.



I LOVE THIS PICTURE!!!!!! Summer took this one right after we were leaving the gas station in Thompson. We were pulling out and Morgan said that she wanted to read something. She said that it was the prayer at the end of the Captivating book. If you haven't read this book or this prayer you really should. I'll put some of it on here after i finish this. Anyways. So she started reading this prayer and this picture just captures some of Morgan's passion as she reads it. I think we were probably all in tears by the time she finished reading. It was great.


Here's that prayer (Or part of it cuz it's really long):

A little background first. So this book is called "Captivating Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul". It's by Stacy and John Elderidge. He's written many different books like "The Sacred Romance" and several others. If you don't have or haven't read this book you really really should. You can get it and the guidbook thingy at The Christian Bookstore or you can go to their website. I'm not exactly sure what the address of that is though. Anyways. So here goes:

It's called "A Daily Prayer For Freedom"

"My dear Lord Jesus, I come to you now to be restored in you- to renew my place in you, my allegiance to you, and to receive from you all the grace and mercy I so desperately need this day. I honor you as my sovereign Lord, and I surrender every aspect of my life totally and completely to you. I give you my body as a living sacrifice; I give my heart, soul, mind, abd strength; and i give you my spirit as well. I cover myself with your blood- my spirit, my soul, and my body. And i ask your Holy Spirit to restore my union with you, seal me in you, and guide me in this time of prayer."

This is just the first paragraph of this prayer. It's like three and a half pages long, but it's a great prayer. I also want to reiterate that i DID NOT write this. This is by Stacy and John Elderidge. I don not want to take create for something that God did through them. Again you really really should get this book!!!!

love to everybody

Our trip March 18-20 (cont.)

So these two are both pics of our campsite. I put both of them on here because on one you can see the campsite more and on the other you can see the WONDERFUL view that we had. It was great to wake up and see that.


I bet your wondering why in the world we took a pic of our hair. Well here's the story to this one. Both me and Mrs. Rita had gotten our hair cut right? So mine was to short to put up in a ponytail. Soooo. Being the smart person that i am i decided that the next best thing would be PIGTAILS. So that's what i did. Then Mrs. Rita did it to. It was funny.



This was just one of those posing pics i guess. It looks really good to. Don't you agree?



Ok. So these two are Summer and Morgan (as you can see) standing in front of the camper after we got it set up JUST US FOUR!!!!! It was great.
I have one to of me standing in front of it, but the funny thing about when you edit pics is that if you don't save it under something else then it will erase your original pic. That said. I took my pic that i had i front of the camper and cropped it to fit into my profile pic and i didn't save it right. SOOO i don't have one to put on here. OH WELL.



This is one that i cropped down to. I like this one alot. It looks really good. Even though my glasses are crooked. Of course i will probably be the only one that would notice that to until now that i have pointed it out.



This is a really good one to. I think this may of just been a moment.


Remeber our pigtails? Well Morgan decided she would do us up one and put her hair in pigtails and BRAID. Sorry my hair's NOT LONG EHOUGH. Huh imagine that. Just kidding. We were just having lots of fun.

Our trip!! March 18-20(cont.)

OK. So i know i'm doing this a little backwards and everything, but i was uploading pics while i was doing school and now i'm finished with school and need to go help mama soooooo. I will finish and edit this tomorrow.



I love this pic. This is the boardwalk we were walking down to go out to a place that we could see the swamp pretty good at. It's like a pathway to heaven or something. I just love it.


This one was a really good pic to. These turtles were just sitting on this log. The were all evenly spaced out and everything it was great.


So this pic is when me and Summer were just laying on the place at the end of the boardwalk. It was kinda like a deck except that you didn't have railings or anything. There was just trees and stuff and swamp all aroung. The trees were so close i'm sure if David had of been there he would have jumped out there and started climbing one. Of course he really wouldn't of had to jump cuz the were right there.


This one's funny. Me and Summer were laying on this thing right and we just decided to take a pic of our feet so we did. He look we're walking on the sky. WOOHOO!!!


This one's funny to. We were just taking pics and decided to make a funny face. Summer's looks better than mine but whatever. We were just messing around.

This started because Mrs. Rita was laying down and the Morgan laid her head on Mrs. Rita's stomach. Mrs. Rita started laughing which made Morgan start laughing because her head was bouncing. So then me and Summer just decided to go over and lay down with them. Well we were laying there and somebody said something about if somebody came up or something. Well some people came up. So we got a little boy (probably 11 or 12) to take a pic of us. It was so funny.


This was the first of two alligators that we saw. This one was just swimming around up where the boats and stuff were and the other one was just floating in the water when we were canoeing. He was floating because he was dead. IMAGINE THAT!!!


This is a pic that i took the first night i think. Summer's playing in the fire. Later this night or maybe the next night Morgan had a brilliant idea. (hehe yeah you know where i'm going with this one don't you Morgan.) Anyways. So she had here feet on the side (the metal part) of the fire. She had on her fake Burkenstocks (sp). We started smelling something and Morgan realized that it was melting her shoes. Well instead of taking them off of the thing SHE PUT THEM BACK!!!!! So they kept melting. Then if that wasn't bad enough. She started touching one of the logs that had been on fire earlier. (It had died down ALOT. It was pretty much just embers.) This lead them melting even more. The next morning we looked at them and they looked kinda funny. I think she still had those shoes to. Don't you Morgan?


This was the same night. Summer was still playing in the fire. Morgan was cold. It WAS pretty cold. Especially when we went canoeing!!!


This was after we got back from canoeing i beleive. Summer and Morgan were both really tired so they took a nap and me and Mrs. Rita sat at the fire.





This was the end of our trip. Like i said i know it's a little late. I just got the chance to put these up though. Better late than never. Anyways we had lots of fun and didn't get lost canoeing and the only really funny story I have to tell about that wasn't even our fault. So here goes...
So there were these boy scouts that came up to the place where we were eating. They had been out of their canoes for a while and everything. (We were sitting on a dock eating.) Anyways. So we saw this raccoon swimming in the water near some trees. He got out of the water and went over to the boy's canoes. Apparently he didn't like the looks of ours or something. So he went over and got in the boat. AND THEY WERE JUST STANDING THERE. Taking pics and stuff. So the raccoom decided that he like something of their's and so he took off with it. I think they got it back though.

cont. from prev.

And here we go. This is on the way to Myrtle. I drove most of the way there, the only place i didn't drive in was Columbia. Other than that me and daddy were driving. Then on the way back Alicia drove most of the way cuz i was sick. My ears were hurting really really badly and i was super tired.



The guard of the citadel! Or the napping crew? hmmmm



So this is me and Dylan looking at the water.




Daddy and Alicia dug holes and made tunnels for the water to come up and go through.



We had Dylan's portable playpen thing with us, but he really didn't like sleeping in itbecause it was cold and he wasn't used to it so Alicia would put him in the bed with her. One night he got on the edge of her bed and started banging his head on the floor because he couldn't get his breathe. See he was actually sick before we went to the beach then when we got ther he ended up getting worse. So anyways he had a red mark on his head the next day. It was kinda funny, but kinda sad.



This was when we went to the indoor pool. He liked this water alot cuz it wasn't cold. It was actually quite warm in the pool and in the place where it was.











We actually saw some dolphins to. They were close to the shore so we could see them better. Usually i don't get to see them cuz the are really far away and i don't have my glasses on. This time they were close and i had my glasses on. We also walked a long ways down the beach to the pier to get ice cream. It had to of been like 3 or 4 miles one way. When we went out on the pier we saw a huge sting ray. Then somebody up there caught a baby one. It was great. Even though we got kinda tired we had lots of fun.

Pics of the Beach

BEST FRIENDS FOREVER. Or maybe TV buddies? Not really sure. Oh and this was before we left.


Ok. So this is my dog Buddy sleeping on Dylan's pillow thingy. (I forget what you call it.)Isn't he so cute?



And this one is Dylan in his highchair thing that can hook on the side of the picnic table. This is when we were at the beach. I think it was the first night.


So this was Dylan's first time at the beach. His mommy was showing him the water. He kinda cried when she put him in it though cuz it was so cold.


This was one night when we were there and were going to go somewhere and Dylan was ready to go in his cute little had and tank top onesy thingy. He was super cute.




So. My computer decided that it liked the idea of uploading some of my pics tonight. So here they are. Some may have noticed that these are of the beach. Well i tried to upload these and more before but my computer didn't like that idea. So i did now. Anyways so these are mostly from our vacation trip. However, this is nowhere near all of them, but this is all my computer wanted me to upload right now. So i will try to upload more later.
muchas love to all
allison

SOOOOOO!!!!

So nothing to exciting happened today. Same old same old. Then i go to get my check and my boss has it. So i'm like oh great what now? Usually if your check isn't in the place where there supposed to be you have to sign something, which means you did something wrong. NOT GOOD. Anyways. So i go tell Mrs. White i need to get my check so i can go eat. I go in and sit down and she starts in on a whole bunch of stuff i've done wrong. woohoo. So before this somebody else told me that for the next few weeks she has to call somebody over there every time she has to key the price of something in. So i'm like ok whatever. So she talked to me about some other stuff. It was fine whatever. She gave me my check. Now the exciting part. I say, "oh and i was going to talk to you and let you know that whenever a bookkeeper (the person up at the front behind that counter that has to run around and do alot of different things and all that) position comes open i'll be happy to take it" or something to that aggect anyways. Her response was that she had already talked to Mr. Crandal and that it was already in the works. She said that they would start me off on the service center and then move me up to bookeeper. So anyways. Then i told her that i will probably be leaving in Sept. for 3 months. (have to update on that in a second let me finish this story first) Whe was like ok. Basically i just told her that i wanted to go ahead and let them know now so i didn't just come up and say i'm leaving in two weeks or whatever. So i may or may not get the job. It would be really great if i did cuz it would be something new and i would be able to kinda get out of my comfort zone a little more.

Now to update on IHOP. I sent my stuff off yesterday. As in i went to the post office and dropped it in the mail. So i'm thinking it should get there either tomorrow or the beginning of next week. Whenever they get it they are supposed to give me a call and set up a phone conference with me and then i will find out within thirty that's 3-0 days if i got in or not. So there ya go. Guess that's it.
love ya'll muches
me

laddie dah

So nothing much exciting today. Just working on some school waiting for my teacher to send me a message back. yeah. exciting. Oh i made a 94 on my last big test. So now i am only waiting for my grade for the whole class and then i will be officially and completely done with that class. YAY!!!! so that's all for my exciting life. tune in next time and maybe it will be better. I just figured i'd make it a little more interesting. Ya know what? This thing doesn't have much stuff you can do with your posts like weird stuff like the different kinds of writing and stuff. Oh well.

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

I AM DONE WITH ALL OF MY TESTS AND AM WAITING FOR A GRADE IN SOCIOLOGY!!!!! I AM FINALLY DONE. ONLY 1 MORE CLASS. THAT IS UNO, AND WHATEVER ELSE ONE PEOPLE ONLY ONL Y ONLY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ok now i can take the caps off. So if you couldn't tell i'm a little excited about only having 1 class left. Anyways. So this is no insightful blog or anything (not that most of them have been or that any of them are for that matter, but whatever) just sharing my joy. WOOHOO!!! Just had to let that out right quick. So anyways. I am officially almost done with my application for IHOP. (If you missed that look at one of the other posts on here.) I will be putting the the final touches on my testimony tomorow probly and i will send it in ASAP!! Everyone keep me in your prayers cuz if/when i get in they will have to do a phone conference and a whole bunch of stuff. So anyways. I'm also going camping all by myself in a little while. As soon as i finish my last class so i have got to get that done. Anyways. Guess that's all for now. See ya'll/ write ya'll later.
love
me

Taken for Granted

So i'm listening to this song "Angels in Waiting" and i'm realizing how much we take for granted. Just the little things. Like sunsets every morning or just being able to wake up and get out of bed every morning.
Or for that matter how much I complain about stuff when i should be grateful that i get to experience things good or bad. For instance, when my big two is hurting and i let that ruin my day, when i should be grateful that i'm able to feel that. We should be grateful and remember the times when we are able to feel the sand beneith our feet at the beach or whatever.
If only we could remeber things that make us happy maybe that would help us to pick ourselves up and keep going. Don't get me wrong. There are times that i just want to get in bed and pull the covers over my head and dare anyone to bother me. I'm talking to myself to, if fact i'm pretty much looking in the mirror telling this to myself. It's just a thought.
also, don't you think that if we were to really follow God that our problems wouldn't seem quite so overwhelming and we wouldn't want to get in the bed and pull the covers over our heads. This kind of makes me think about my relationship with God. Ya know?
I wonder how much we really take God for granted. We go and do whatever we want and then come and say. "PLease forgive me i know i did wrong." WELL IF WE KNOW WE DID WRONG THEN WHY DID WE DO IT TO BEGIN WITH!! Or was that just one of those moments where we wanted to do it so we juct did it? Do we even think about what we're doing half the time or do we do it? In answer to my own question/statement a second ago, we do it because sometimes we just don't think about it and do it and then sometimes we don't realize what we've done until it's to late.
This is where our friends and people around us come in. These people are the ones who are supposed to help keep us in line. So this means that if we surround ourselves with friends that are not on the same wave length as us then we've got a problem because they can't understand which means that they can't help you. Understand?
So this blog has gone from one thing to another and i'm kind of rambling but whatever. I'm not trying to say that i know alot about any of these subljects it's just what happened to be on my mind when i pulled my blogspot. If it offends anyone then i'm not sorry, but hopefully you'll see where i'm coming from. I love everyone very much. i guess that's all for now folks. Come back next time. (I haven't done that in a while so i figured i'd do it this time.)





OH I ALMOST FORGOT. I'M ALMOST FINISHED WITH ONE OF MY CLASSES!!!!!!!! I HAVE 1 AND A HALF TESTS TO DO AND I WILL BE FINISHED. AND I'M ALMOST HALF WAY DONE WITH MY OTHER CLASS!!!! THEN I WILL HAVE FINISHED MY SENIOR YEAR!!!!! YOU JUST DON'T KNOW HOW RELEIVED I AM!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!