From Forest to Highlands

A few friends and I have recently received a crash course on beekeeping and honey making with the opportunity of an occasional job!  It started out as a one time thing to help an older gentleman with his local honey business for a few hours one weekend, but turned into something more regular. It was such a cool experience extracting honey, cutting honeycombs, vacuuming bees and bottling/labeling/sealing honey! Sam, Heidi, Daniel and I were the lucky students who volunteered for the job. As it turned out only Sam (and possibly Heidi) got stung, which I thought was amazing considering the number of bees and us taking apart their nests!! This is the honey extractor. It scrapes off the excess honeycomb, then spins the honey out of the leftover combs. Some of the hives got brought inside where they were cut and packaged  by Heidi and I.  As the extractor ran, the honey was filtered and pumped into a storage tank, which we emptied out into these b...

Quick update: It's the end of week 5 here at Frontier School of the Bible! Time has absolutely flown by, and I've learned so much during the past few weeks. Many memories have been made, many friendships formed and many pics have been taken! Here are a few of my favorites... :) We played softball... ...drawn pictures on our dorm wipe-boards... ...watched football at the Meysenburg's house... ...visited the Zoo with our brother section (Which I already wrote about)... ...Had way too much fun trying on goofy masks... ...Ate traditional homemade Indian food at the Mathias' house... (They were missionaries in India for 12 years!!) ...took morning walks with Natasha (my favorite tall friend!)...   ...helped Mrs. Meysenburg pick tomatoes from her garden... (She is such a sweet, spunky and crazy lady! I love her so much!) ...Took pictures of Sam and Hunter wrestling.... then them teaching the Mathias kids ...

Open Letter to my sis and to girls everywhere enslaved to sin, the lusts of their flesh and worldliness. Dear Sis, I know you’ve heard the religious talk. You’ve heard how “Jesus died for you.” For a time, you tried to follow the 10 commandments and say all the right words, so you could be God’s girl, yet it just wasn’t enough. You soon fell away, feeling angry and discouraged. Forget all this striving and consider a new perspective that has nothing to do with your own works. I know you’re confused, you’re hurting, and you can’t seem to be good enough for God. You look around and see that you’ve done things you never even dreamed you were capable of… In your quest of desperation, you did anything to feel something, yet in the end you are left emptier than when you first started. You’ve spiraled down deep into a seemingly endless cycle of darkness and pain. The drugs numbed the pain, but only temporarily; allowing reality to strike back with a vengeance as soon as the high w...

Enjoyment and pleasure are dangerous things. When we leave our minds unguarded and seek after fun things that serve our own needs and enjoyments, our hearts are kept from being fully devoted to the Lord. We are satisfied with ourselves and feel comfortable with where we're at in life. Soon earthly and self-serving idols spring up and take over like an invisible wildfire... Getting caught up in the things of this world, we inevitably stray very far from where the Lord would have us be. I know this from personal experience... I want others to see the Uncreated One and give him the glory, instead of stumbling into serving mankind like I so easily tend to do! God is truly *the only one* who deserves our worship and affections. To live is Christ, to die is gain! What profit are our works if they are simply to glorify mankind and our own pleasures? All these things are passing away. None of it will last through eternity! Christ has not created us to live for ourselves, or...

Last Saturday brought about the 2018 Frontier Games. It was a fantastic weekend! We divided up into our brother-sister sections and played a variety of games. Our final team colors were Red, White and Blue. (I suppose we were feeling rather patriotic!)  All in all, we had a fine time.  We ladies decided to apply proper war paint before heading into battle, and some of us we're even crazy enough to brave the mud pit at the end of the evening! gf Several of our teachers thoroughly enjoyed watching us make fools of ourselves! ;) After dinner, we headed to the mud pit and finished up the rest of the games.  (which ended in a mud fight of course!) We had a bonus tug of war round to see if the little kids could pull Jopez into the water... and they actually won!! Then an all out war broke out and everyone started slinging...