4 days...4 days and we are out of here. Out of comfort zones, out of the familiar, and on to THE PHILIPPINES!!!!! I cannot tell you how exciting it is right now. I hope you all have a great summer. I know it is going to be an amazing one for each of you in so many different ways. I look forward to when we will get to exchange stories! I love each of you with all my heart. PEACE OUT...see you in August!!!!!!!

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i was looking back at some old posts and found this:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." -Edmund Burke

TALK ABOUT BEING HIT WITH 5,000 POUNDS OF BRICKS

I'm not sure what this sudden tugging of the heart is, but it has seriously consumed my mind:  I want to do mission work. Anything. I don't care if I go to Brazil or Africa or the North Pole...I want to get out and make a difference.  Don't get me wrong...I love it here and I love you all and I love our journies together.  I think a lot of it has to do with my missions class.  My professor is constantly giving statistics and rates and percentages that deal with anything from poverty to the unemployment rate to the unreached. There are still SO MANY PEOPLE who have not even heard the Word of God proclaimed. Can you believe that?! People do not know who God is and what the Bible is and how they shold be living their lievs.  There are not a lot of missionaries in the places that need it most--parts of Africa...Asia. It breaks my heart to the point where I would love nothing more than to pack up and leave. And go. And just be there trying to help and make a difference.  If there is one thing that I regret about high school it is that I never went on more mission trips. It KILLS me. I see what other people have acomplished by going to desolate places and I think to myself..."What have you been doing this whole time, Emily?!" Again..I'm not saying that I need to leave the country to do some good or radically try to change my future so my mind is at ease. I know there is so much that people can accomplish here. But OMG compared to people around us, Americans have it SO GOOD. In this same class (which is probably provoking much of this highly emotion talk--sorry guys), we are told that some people do not even make $1,000 dollars A YEAR. Um, most teenagers who are hard workers can make that in a summer if they really want to. Basically what I'm trying to say is that something heavy is setting on my heart. Do I keep this major? Should I switch my major to Bi-Vo Missions with an emphasis in music? Am I being completely stupid? All I know is that there is so much more trouble in this universe than we can even imagine.  I sometimes feel like I am in a bubble. I just want to help. And I want to do it ASAP STAT...lol. I want to love all the little children who don't know what it's like...I want to give what I can to the poor...I want to stop being so selfish--acting like I have it sooooo hard. I don't. And thank God I've realized that.

When God hears big pleas, He answers them in big ways.."To get through the fire, you have to go through the heat." Philippines...here we come.

o......my....goodness.....

XANGA...WHAT THE CRAP IS UP?!?!?! um actually i don't know if anyone reads these things anymore...it was about this time last year that I got a Xanga so i thought hey..why not update this flippin thing every once in a while!

um okay i'm going back to bed.

so much has been going on..i'm learning so much and God is so big and amazing guys...if my eyes weren't half shut, i would write more about that. just know that He loves you more than i could ever begin to explain.

OK-LA-HOOOOOOOOO is done! and it was good! everyone is so talented. real fun good times lots o memories.

PHILIPPINES!!!!!!!! Oh boy...it's coming closer and closer!!! I simply cannot wait.

Alright I'm not making sense...UMMMMM Meta-Crew, T-Town, ISU Kids: Know that I love and miss you all more than ever! Let me know how you're doing...I hope you all are okay!

peace out...SUCKAAAAAAAAAAAS

HEY EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Up by my subscriptions you will see a Xanga-Site called "Team_Philippines" Subscribe to that sucker if you want to be able to see how the team will be doing over there this summer!!! It will be exciting! Thanks for all your prayers and everything!

it's been 293 since I have joined xanga..thus it is time for a celebration:

THINGS THAT I LOVE

-DDR
-Aaron Keyes
-Hillsong
-Chili's with lots of food
-Photo shoots
-ONE LOVE
-Smashing glass bottles in dumpsters
-The Philippines
-The word "CRAP"
-Dance parties
-"Hook" the movie
-Lighting things on fire
-Things off of the free shelf on my floor (I basically shop there)
-Trying on clothes without being in a dressing room
-Sharing cheesecake
-My new text books (I such a tard)
-Speaking of tards..leotards
-Coffee...mmmmmhmmm yup
-Will Ferell
-Leaving voice mail messages...and voice memos..it is BEYONH BRILLIANT
-Williow Tree Angels
-Shiny Silver Purses
-Neat shoes
-Thrift stores
-Soy Milk
-Chapstick
-Italian food..Pictures of Italy...pretty much I love Italy and all of its contents
-Stealing parking signs

K bye!!!!!!!!