Say won't you Say

Fun Surprises and Mysteries Revealed

So Friday night all we were told was to get all dressed up and meet downstairs at 7:00 to go to the surprise dinner thing. We all split up into cars and head to the unknown location, still all dressed up mind you. I happend to be in the car with the guy who helped coordinate this event so we were the firsts to arrive and I look as we are pulling into the parking lot and we definitely were having our semi formal dinner at Chuck E. Cheese. Its was hilarious seeing nearly 60 college students all dressed up eating and playing at Chuck E.Cheese! So fun!

Saturday was my first day of work and it was a long day, but went really well. I got to interact with a lot of locals and I worked with my new friend here on project Dawn. Saturday night we went to the Church that we are going to be attending as a project and it was so great!! Its a really young and contemporary up and coming church here in Orange County. It reminded me so much of my church from home. After church we went to the Calfornia treasure known as In and Out, a local hamburger place that absolutely met all of my expectations and more!

Sundays are outreach days for us, so at 1:00 we split up into 2's and went out with surveys to do beach eveangelism. I went with a girl here Danielle and we have one really great encounter that was really encouraging, and a little bit of rejection, but all in all it was a very fruitful time I felt. Then that night at 5:30 we had to have a dinner packed and ready to go for our Date with Jesus night. It was one of the best times I've ever had with the Lord! They told us we couldnt come back to our apartments until 8:00 so we could go anywhere but we had to be alone and we had to be spending the whole time with the Lord in whatever way we wanted. So I started at the Park done by the beach, but on the grassy part. I read and Journaled and prayed and before i knew it it was 7:00! It was such an intimate amazing time of talking and listening to the Lord. Then I went and grabbed a cup of coffee because It was getting very windy and very cold! So I decided to move the remainder of my date to the Balboa Peir which goes out into the Ocean, with my coffee, all bundled up, and i was listening to Praise music on my mp3 player, while watching the sunset! It was SO ROMANTIC! Seriously, I will never ever forget that night and it really made me see how romantic God is and how He longs for us to have sweet times alone with him like that all the time! I was completely in Awe of the Lord for that whole last hour. just watching the sun go down into the Ocean and the waves were huge and crashing into the shore, It was one of the most beautiful, memorable things I've ever done!
I'll write back soon from Sunny California!--A

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 11:02 PM