Amazing God!

I haven't blogged is SO long! Well a lot has happened but the main thing I want to share is about what has been going on in the past few weeks of my life! It has been crazy, painful, and there have been tears but through all of those things I have grown so much closer to God! I already knew how amazing our God is, but I really think that it is when you are in hard positions and think you will not make it any further is when God shows up. He lets us know that he will always be there and sometimes lets admit we doubt him, but he isn't lying! He is so faithful and it is hard to feel or see sometimes but never doubt him! People might fail you but our God is always with you and I guess I just wanted to help ya'll remember this! I know my problems might seem small because I am young but our problems are all the same to God and he takes time to help us all! I hope this can help someone realize he is always with us no matte what! That's pretty much all! I hope everyone has a great week!

Amazingness

Sorry I have not posted in a while... Things have been crazy! Last night we went to see Dave Barnes and Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors in concert... It was amazing!! I loved every second of it!! Here is a picture of what we got to enjoy for about 2 1/2 hours:)

New TOMS

So today I went to Racquet & Jog with two of my best friends and we got customized TOMS:) I love them more than I can even explain!! haha:)

Crazyness

So this past week has been crazy! I only went to two days of school. Monday I went to the doctor for my kidney stone only to find out that I will have to have surgery this month which scares me but I know that God will be in control so that helps. Then Monday morning my dad got word that a VERY dear friend of ours that had been suffering from pancreatic cancer had passed away... This made the week very long and hard for my family. We loved her very much and we will miss her more than words can express. My prayer is that her family will stay strong and make it through this hard time and the hard times to come. To be honest with you, since school has started life has been hard and stressful(shocker)! I can't wait for the summer to get here!! On the bright side of all of this there are only 83 days left until Christmas which makes me smile:) The Browns have already started watching Christmas movies and listening to Christmas music! Anyways that is about all I have for now... Thanks for all of the prayers:)

-MLB

Great Friends:)

Today I hung out with some pretty GREAT people:) My friend Braden came to Bullard this weekend and so we got to hang out and it was SO much fun:) A GREAT way to end the weekend! Thats about all! Have a great week!

Weird feeling

So today we didn't have to go to school because some water pipe busted, we were all excited but then we found out that we have to make it up on monday:( Anyways I went to the doctor today because I have been having some back trouble... the doctor thought it was because of running cross country so I went and got several x-rays done and they couldn't see anything. Well today I went to get an ultra sound done and it turns out that I have a kidney stone! At first I wasn't worried about it because I wasn't really sure what it was! Well then I started looking it up on the internet and talking to people and come to find out it is going to be a very PAINFUL thing! I'm really scared! But then I realized that it isn't in my hands! God will take care of me, I mean it isn't like it is going to kill me or anything! So that is pretty much what is going on right now! I am ready to pass it and get it over with! I just want to ask that you pray for me that I wont have any trouble! That's about it:)

-MLB

Falling Behind.

So just to start off... I wasn't able to get on my blog when I went to Kazakhstan! Sorry if you were following when I was over there! Anyways then when I got home I was going to post stuff about my trip but it just isn't the same so I have not done that. Then school started and I forgot that I even had a blog haha... Anyways I am going to actually try to keep it up (not making any promises) but at least I'm going to try!! Anyways we have finished our first week of school which is crazy! I am a junior this year and that didn't hit me until the other day when we were at the pep-rally and we had to do our "yell" and they told the juniors to stand up... we all just looked at each other waiting for the JUNIORS to stand up and then we realized that WE were the JUNIORS! I can't believe it. Anyways school is okay I guess, I'm not the biggest fan of school so I am already ready for next summer! But I feel like this will be a pretty good year I just have to get back into the swing of things. Tonight me and Meagan and two other girls are sharing about our trips at church and it was cool because yesterday I was going through some pictures to figure out which ones to use and it brought back all of these GREAT memories that I had from my trip! Lately my mind has been back in Kazakhstan, everything that someone does reminds me of something or someone from my trip and I have just been struggling with wanting to be there and not here. I was reminded of a special verse that I found on my trip and it was just talking about how man can kill us, but God can condem us to hell for the rest of eternity... That is actually talking about being a coward and I realized that I just make myself think "well we are in America and there isn't anyone here for me to witness too!" or sometimes I get scared because I don't want the people to just tune me out when I am telling them about Christ. But this verse really made me think that you don't have to be overseas to be a witness... you can be a witness EVERYWHERE you go (even at school)! I guess the whole point of me writing this is that even though at first I had a bad attitude because I had to go back to school and I just knew that things wouldn't be the same as they were this summer in Kazakhstan, but then God got a hold of me and was like McKenzie you can be a witness at school in everything that you do and you don't just have to be overseas to tell people about me! Even though I'm still not to thrilled about the actual school part, at least I realized that I am called to me a witness if it is overseas in Kazakhstan or just in small old Bullard Texas! I hope ya'll get the same thing out of this that I did! Have a great week:)