back in the saddle!

Well, rush is over and honestly we have such a tight pledge class, including my sister chaney! She's the coolest one ever. It was a better rush than I thought which was a blessing from the Lord. It's so easy to fall back into your old habits sometimes and i'll admit sometimes i did...but He is constantly changing me and for that I am forever thankful. School starts tomorrow which is pretty psycho but I'm kinda excited about having classes with my friends! that really never happens to us education majors. not a whole lot goin on at the moment, goin to church tonight (how i LOVE night church!!!!! just the shepherd and the body) and then a party between the Guernsey girls house and jack hoopa's house! so fun...and chaney's going-that's so funny to me! we go to the same school now, how i have waited to have another nall at school with me since kimbo left. chaney and i will be a scary pair...aggieland will never be the same:)

I'm in no rush for rush...and we'll leave it at that.

Well, 7:45 in the am i will be in sorority land singing songs that are really quite ridiculous when you think about it and having conversations with complete and total strangers all day...i really want these conversations to actually be meaningful b/c i'm pretty much sick and tired of fakeness...I think hanging with people all summer who are so far off from the truth has made me a whole lot less tolerant of fakeness and made me more concerned with what really matters. If anyone is actually reading this, feel free to pray against complaining and for contentment with where the Lord has placed me this week, aka in the sorority house. Still adapting to being home from China in a lot of spiritual ways that i'd rather not explain on my blog but you could pray for that if you like. I'm always in desperate need of prayer...and please don't think this is limited to me-i'd love to pray for you too! specifics are always helpful so let me know. I went to PG's dad's funeral today in A-town and bawled like a little kid. Seeing his love for his dad overflowing out of him blew me away. It also showed me how blessed I am to be friends with Paul. He is such a blessing to me and is always such a great encouragement. The six hours of roadtripping today were totally worth it to be there to support my brother. I'm still getting used to hangin out with large numbers of people. I think on the whole I prefer small numbers of peeps still b/c it's personal. Oh but by the way, I am beyond blessed. I heard somewhere last semester, I think from Butch, that you can tell a lot about a person's walk with the Lord by how thankful they are. pretty much word. I went to the LHBC lockin with the youth for a bit on Friday and it was so wonderful. I missed my kids here but now I terribly miss my China kids...Can't win em all. But I'm super excited about how the youth program is moving with the new youth guy here. Get really excited! Ok, yes I do know how scattered my blog is so you'll just have to deal with it:) have a fantastic night and I'll write more later this week from the rush perspective.

The Words to the Landon Carl and Kelly Nall original

This is our ever famous Asher cheer to the tune of I'm a Barbie Girl:
I'm an Asher boy
I'm an Asher girl
Revelation, we are God's creation
You can hang with us
Or ride the greyhound bus
We love Jesus, He has freed us

Come on Rodney, Let's go party!
Ah Ah Ah Yah!
Come on Rodney, Let's go party!
Ooh Oh Ooh Oh!
2X

We have Rosemary and Mahogany,
Rodney's mom and his dad.
The horses came to us
in this we have to trust
without Rodney
you'll be sorry!

Come on Rodney, Asher party!
Ah Ah Ah Yah!
Come on Rodney, Asher party!
Ooh Oh Ooh Oh!
Come on Rodney, Asher Party!
Ah Ah Ah Asher!
Run home Rodney! 5x
Rooster Crow by Casey Horgan...
Thanks and gig em!

Come on Rodney, Asher Party!

Well, I just got home from Impact and it was absolutely wonderful! Alpha Asher is so so sweet. I love being around those people. Landon and I made up a cheer that is probably the tip of my small amount of creative genius I possess but I think it's really fun. But at the moment i'm way too tired...so I'll get back to it more tomorrow. Rush stuff time tomorrow...we'll see how that goes!
"Do everything without complaining or arguing so that you may become blameless and pure children of God..." Phil. 2:14

Is summer really technically over for me?

Yep, i'm in CS now...having a great time of course with people i love! But the idea that i will not be going anywhere else this summer is very strange...or foreign to me...pardon that pun:) China stuff is still swimming around in my head everywhere. I know i'm going back, the question is when? Hopefully I'll be told that in due time...I'm still getting used to being able to talk about the Lord open and freely (and i love being able to do it!)...that's one freedom I never realized how amazing it is til going somewhere that doesn't have that. Another thing i keep getting used to is actually being able to talk to the people around me at the store, like the cashier or the waiter...i'm used to smiling a lot and saying shia shia and ni hao (thank you and hello for you non-Chinesers) so it's been very entertaining to talk to people who speak my language. Basically I keep finding changes i never realized which is very different from kamp where I feel like i can almost tell you what i've learned right off the bat. As Laura would say, I'm processing...that's right processing China...I'm pretty terrible at giving the two minute answer as to how China was...it really is the beginning of something for me and i don't know what but feel free to ask and i'll tell ya anytime...if anyone actually reads this (i'm ok with it either way). Chaney (my sister) is coming down on Saturday for Impact! So so tight! I'm very excited about it and about seeing people tomorrow. My hands are getting used to playing my guitar again and i've gotta cut these fingernails off soon b/c they affect my playing...i'm not really used to having them! Ok, enough ramblings...i'm peacing out for a bit. Later...

Well, I'm back in Dallas...me, Zhang Kai Li

Yep, that's my official Chinese name. One of my favorite Chinese kids and parents gave me their surname or their last name to us which actually goes first...Zhang pronounced Jung to me. And Kai Li means something like beautiful victory and it sounds like Kelly according to my friend Susan the Chinese teacher who named me. Well since i last talked on Saturday, I have since been to Beijing, Tokyo, LA, and finally Dallas. We left Sunday morning with 30 of our students waiting to say goodbye. In Beijing we stayed at this tight hotel called The 21st Century Hotel and ate at Subway. It was the most AMAZING TURKEY SANDWICH EVER! Then we took cabs to go shop a little which was hilarious. Then we had debriefing stuff and headed out at 4:30 in the am on Monday...oh yah sidnote i don't think i wrote about...my friend Summer and I caused major mischief Saturday night banging on our teams windows outside the school...a mission impossible effect basically...and our boys and girls that were left had a massive water war upstairs and water dripped down the stairs forever...so anyway we go to tokyo and then la and then dallas all techinically on monday due to time change. insanity. 30 hours later and still on monday, i was back at home/am back at home. I am absolutely in love with China and we'll see where it goes. Thank you so much for all of your support in everything. I'm so thankful. And now i can finally say this, your prayers were very much felt every single day and there have been some major seeds planted because of it. We've already got kids emailing us like crazy from there. Thanks. You people are constantly amazing me.