My LA Summary....(:

Me and Ashley at the observitory thing :D


This is going to be super hard for me to write out. But I'm going to try my hardest.



So here it goes...



Over all I've learned to never underestimate. Never underestimate your peers, your leaders, and your own ability and strength. This trip was the most challenging for me, more challenging for me than Kenya was. Cause in Kenya, yes you have to get used to the crap food, and the jetlag. But this trip to LA was more challenging simply because i had to be bold and outgoing. For anyone who really knows me, you'd know that those things aren't my strengths. I can be outgoing when i'm around people that i know, and am not afraid to make a fool of myself around. But to just randomly walk up to a homeless person and strike up a conversation with them was hard. When you're going to walk up to them all of these questions pop up into your head, they distract you. Like, What are you going to say? What if they don't speak english? What if they're closed off and ignore you? These questions were always in my mind, but i learned that they're hindering me. I learned that if i do go up and talk to them, and pray for them, then I'll actually make a difference. That's why i'm being distracted. Why would the devil waste his time messing with someone's mind if they weren't going to make a difference. One thing that Aaron Money always told me when i was in 7th grade was that 'If i'm not being attacked by the devil, then i'm not attacking him. And if i'm not attacking him, then there's a problem.' So when God showed me that the only thing keeping me from doing His will on that trip, and talking to people that He's destined for me to talk to, is doubt. And the reason i have this doubt is because I'm going to make a difference and be used by God. So it was an eye opener and an encouragement all in one.


While i was on this trip i also got the most compassion i ever thought possible. I didn't even know i could feel this MUCH compassion. I was always heart sick for people. Even driving in the van, my eyes would randomly start to water, just because i really felt God's heart for these people. One time when we were driving home from something- I think we were driving home from the burger place- I saw this little girl and her dad walking down the street. He was dressed casually, but the thing that caught my attention was that she was dressed in spandex leggings, a tight shirt, big earrings, make up!, and sandals with a heel on them. Immediately i thought 'Whoa, she's way too young to be wearing that! Why didn't her dad make her change?' Then God gave me a vision. In that vision it was the same girl walking down the same street. She was with an older man, but not her dad. She was wearing the same kind of clothes too. She had spandex with a tight shirt, big earrings, lots of make up, and heels. She looked like a prostitute. She was a prostitute. Her dad was never there for her, he never was a daddy to her. So she did what she wanted. She was never told right from wrong. Her father was never a father. She never got a dad's love. So she started to look for it in other things. In other men. That's why she ended up the way she did- a prostitute. She gives her love to others cause her dad never gave his love to her. Then i felt like my heart had broken into millions of pieces. I wanted to scoop that little girl that i saw walking down the sidewalk up into my arms and give her a hure hug! But i couldn't. I could feel in my spirit sorrow and pain. I felt what God felt. God kept on telling me that it's because her earthly dad never loved her the way he was supposed to is the reason she won't allow her Heavenly father's love into her life. He desires to scoop her up into His arms and give her a huge hug. But He can't either.


It hurt... I cried when i was sitting there in the van... I couldn't even imagine, then when God showed me, i didn't want to imagine it again. It hurt too bad... But that's how He feels about everyone...
There's a lot more. But I'll post more later :)