Summer trips anyone?

So, I have been very slack on posting. You may know people who start off strong and eventually just fizzle away from doing something, but that's so NOT me! I start something and I do it when I feel like I have time or just need to get away and do something on my own. Now, I have some time to spend reflecting on how awesome everything has been since I started this blog.

My summer started off slow and kind of icky because the 1st week I had a bad sinus infection. After that, it picked up. :) I went on a mission trip to Puerto Rico. It was AMAZING! God worked in so many different ways. We went with the World Changers organization. The main goal of the week was to build a house and our relationship with God. I believe, without a doubt, both happened! There was a total of about 210 people (including the 40ish people we brought with us). We were split up into multiple work crews and assigned a work site. This was my crew.

They were such a blessing. I had two guys from my church on my crew, I could not have pick a better two guys to be on it! As we built the house, we bonded with the other members of our crew and most of us are connected on Facebook! Our youth group I know has been on fire for God ever since this trip. We all had an amazing experience going to a mission trip where we were very far away from our little town in North Carolina!

Not only did we go to Puerto Rico, our youth also went to Caswell.

This is a Baptist camp in North Carolina. It was an old army fort, Fort Caswell. They have a lot of the structure still standing, we actually were staying in the barracks with the same bunk beds! Multiple churches come from all over the state and worship our awesome God! It is a very chill camp where we hang out, have bible studies (in small groups where we are scattered into different groups, similarly to the Puerto Rico trip, and in large groups where the main speaker of the week would talk to us), and we would just worship and fellowship with other Christians. It was so great! My friend and I spent alot of our

free time in our favorite tree! I'm the lower one in this picture. We had such an amazing time and have been on the typical "spiritual high" as most people are after such a great camp experience, but our youth group has a group goal of keeping it going and staying close.

These are our main trips of the summer, but we have so many awesome activities so that we can hang out with each other and just stay close. I love my youth group and could not ask for a better one. They are all so amazing.

Love always and forever,

Hannah Joy