The big ol' 21!

My plans for my 21st bday!!!! And email I sent out! If you want to join in you need to send me a message before SUNDAY THE 2nd! This will go into detail about my plans and why i am doing it!!!

Hey guys!

I hope you all are doing great and staying warm for the cool weather. The last few weeks I have been thinking about plans for my birthday…. the big 21st! This year I really wanted to do something different for my birthday and I am still in the process of planning it. I do not have all of the final plans yet I just really wanted to give you all a heads up before the holidays. For my birthday this year I am planning something different, a drop in kind of thing. With it being over the holiday season I understand that you may not be able to come, or you may already have plans that night. I just wanted to be able to give you a chance to be involved in this special opportunity with me. I am planning just a drop in kind of gathering and if you are able to attend I hope that you will! The link below will take you to a facebook event that you should join if you can come. If you are not able to attend and still want to give to this great cause that I talk about below and just want to drop any materials off to me or even mail them to me just send me a private message and I will send you my address or we can work out something to meet up.

This year instead of gifts for me I wanted to ask everyone to join me in giving to The Meyer Center. The Meyer Center is a developmental center that offers developmental education and therapy services to preschool children with disabilities in the Upstate. I have been able to read about their program and they do some amazing things. They have a “wish list” of items that they need on a daily basis, that’s what I am asking you all to help me out with. I am asking you join me in donating to The Meyer Center. The items on the list are things that you could get at the dollar store. I believe that if we can all come together and do this we will be able to help out some great teachers, who are doing great things.

If you have any question I ask that you just ask me. If you can come RSVP as soon as possible to get updates about the drop in. The plan right now is late afternoon into the night Sunday January 2nd. If you can’t come and still want to support and make a difference with me send me a message and we can work out something! I hope you all are doing great and the holiday season is staring off great!

Facebook Event:

*SEND ME A FACEBOOK MESSAGE FOR THE LINK*

A little background on why I am doing this…

This past semester in my quite time I have been searching for God to teach me how to love people like he does. I have been asking God to truly teach me what it means to break my heart for the people around me and in all of this I have learned that one of those ways is serving others. With Christmas right around the corner I thought it would be a great idea to study the birth of Christ, and remind myself what Christmas is all about. I have learned that it is very easy to get into the commercialized Christmas and to forget about the real reason I celebrate Christmas. Getting to the point now sorry, One day I was reading in Luke about when Mary was told by the angel she was going to have a baby and that she was to name him Jesus. In the end what Mary’s response was it what I took from my time with God. “I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.(Luke1:38 NIV)..Her answer: “I am the Lord’s servant” …. This lesson taught me that I am the Lord’s servant and I am going to serve Him and his people….. This idea came from two of my friends who have done this their entire life(they are twins). I think this opportunity has come in the perfect time and I am ready to serve and join some of my closest friends and family in this! I hope that you will participate with me and know that you are making a difference!

Most importantly I hope that you will pray for the people who are taking part in this, that they will really see the big picture here and making a difference in someone else life!

Brandon

I remember...

I don't even know where to start right now its been a almost 4months since I have stop and just blogged. So much has happen within those 4months! I guess I am just going to try and talk about whatever I can remember...


School...well....I just had the worse semester of my life! It was everything I wanted it not to be, but the overall outcome of the semester was great! Being a new student is not fun at all! Having to have to get us to a new surrounding wasn't fun! I would have to say that it is all growing on me right now I am not in love with it right now but I am learning to enjoy every moment of it. I have learned that I have to overcome all the thoughts going on in my head and just go for things! On the academic side of school I would have to say I did well or as my transcript says I am in "Good Standing" hahah! I just hope it gets better from here. I have also decided to do a minor! What is it you ask, Environmental Geology... I love it, my lecture and lab teachers made my love this. I could tell that it was their passion and in seeing that I have made it mine, I really enjoy the information and all of the great stuff! Even though science is not my thing I have come to LOVE Environmental Geology! School on a more personal level... I have had sooo many umm what is the word that i am looking for "breakdowns" that is what we will call it.. Like I said this has been the worse semester of my life, and there have been some crazy not so good nights and looking back on them now I have learned from them! I am hoping to be a stronger person as it just gets harder.

Also i have learned some new things about myself and I wasn't going to blog about it but hey I am about to become an open book right now....Well this information to me isn't really new so to say, I guess I have always known school to be hard for me and I finally got some answers. This last semester i did some testing that lasted forever!!!!! 8:30am to 3pm with a 45min lunch break FOREVER! Well anyway, after taking these test and waiting a month for the results I went back to the psychologist to her my results and let me just say sitting there listening to the results made me want to just live under a rock. Most of the information was not new to me but some things were. If I had to put it all in my own words it would come to... I shouldn't be sitting in a classroom in college. Yea that is very harsh but that is what should have been said. Like i said those are my own words the psychologist didn't say them. My test scores were low in some areas that they shouldn't be and I am now fine with that. Some of the questions that were going through my head... What am i going to do with my life now, how am i going to make it to graduation, and many more. Then i just stopped and remember that i have gotten this far and there is no turning back now. I remember telling myself that I will not let these results form me into something that I am not. I will now us this as an example for people who may have these same results if not lower or around. I want to be an example now I want to be able to be that support of those who want to just give up I want to be so much more then those questions that were going on in my head.

There is not much more to talk about cause school has been my life these last months... I look back on these months and now that I have changed. I know for a fact that i am not the same person from move in day. I am trying new things and meeting people and over all God is showing me a lot in life. He is rocking my world and testing me just as I prayed and I remember blogging on the 23 of December and being lost and picking where to go to school I remember ending by writing "Out of all the praying and hoping and thinking, I am finding myself to come closer and closer to God. I am seeing God rock my world and all of the great things He has done for me. I see how great of a God I serve! Back to praying I go..." Even now God is rocking my world and I am seeking Him more and more. Over this semester in all of the craziness I have been able to spend time with God and really trying to find meaning to what does it really mean to love the people around you. I have spending my time asking Him what does it really mean to break your heart for the people around you. I truly don't know what it means but He is teaching me sooo much. One major thing He is teaching me is to serve the people around me to have a heart of thanksgiving.

Even though that didn't really sum up everything that happen in these last months. I know that it sums up most of it. I hope to be able to blog more this next semester even though i am taking on more class then the last semester!

Happy Holidays to everyone!

(I just wanted to end in some text of my old blogs, if you want more you can click on the text and read the blog)

"we have to go and befriend everyone"

"patience"

"to be continued"

"Come seek me first"

"its ok i can handle this"

"whats yet to come.."

"everything i have on my... and give it all up"

"white flag up and surrender"

"all of those what ifs"