Happy Halloween and End of October!!!!!

Hey guys!! MAN has this month flown by, at least for me!
Dude, so as you can tell, it's the end of the month, Halloween! Yay!!!
Costumes, candy, creepy decorations and movies galore.
So, my brothers and sisters went trick-or-treating. I decided not to at the last minute, just 'cause I'm a procrastinator and didn't feel like trying to throw together a costume in 5 minutes. So, I stayed home, chilled, and then they came back and, what do ya know, this year everybody decided to get the good kind of candy. (-_-) Yup. They got the GOOD stuff.
And by 'good stuff' I mean Snickers, Crunch's, Kit Kats, etc. The good kind of chocolate.
Haha oh well. Perk of being the oldest of some good kids, they gave me a small portion of their candy. :)
Okay, enough about Halloween. Tomorrow, me and my sister are gonna be in this concert where Phil Keaggy is playing, (if you don't know who this guy is, GOOGLE HIM RIGHT NOW) and it's gonna be awesome. I feel like God's really gonna do something awesome through the choir that we're in, and just work throughout the entire concert. :)
And hey, in case you didn't notice, IT'S THE END OF OCTOBER! Which means that there are only 2 more months in the year of 2013!
Let's take a minute and let that sink in....you good? Ready to keep going? Okay, good.
God's really done some amazing things this year. I've watched kids get the Holy Ghost, people getting baptized, people rededicating their lives to Christ, and felt Him move through me and change some things. It's absolutely awesome. He's not done yet, though! I really am excited about everything else He's gonna do in the remaining two months of 2013!!
God bless you guys, love you all and have a wonderful weekend!

Buh-bye 'till next time!
--Sonya :)

College Week 7ish :)

Hey guys!!!
Thursdays are very beautiful days. They're right before Fridays, right after Wednesdays, aaaaannnddd guh-REAT days to get a 94% on your first college exam. :)
Yup, this chick is one VERY happy girl right now, haha!!
Not to mention, there's a Church 'Refreshing' Conference that I'm going to tomorrow night, and right after that (IF she ever texts me back, grrr....) I'mma have a sleepover with one of my best friends, YAY!!!!
Okay, so, enough about me and my personal happiness. I know a lot of you have had a hard week. School ain't always so fun, the kids and even some of the teachers can be pretty immature, and life just plain stinks.
Keep your head up, 'kay? I don't know who all reads these posts, but I DO know that you're amazing, and that God has some amazing plans for you, and that you're worth so much more than you could ever have imagined. :) You're always gonna have someone who loves you, even if you don't feel it, and someone who's always there for you, even if you don't know it.
God's good. You are blessed. And if nobody else will say it, then I will. I'm glad you're alive. :)

God bless you all in Jesus Name, and have a great rest of the week! :)
--Sonya :) <3

College Week 6

Hey guys!!!
So, I am in a bit of a scary situation. It's called, 'Studying for My First Big Exam'. Yup. I'm taking it this Monday.
So, pray for me, haha. I'm gonna need it.
Okay, that aside, college has been going pretty great. Been kinda sick recently, but not too sick thank the Lord! God's been doing some great things, hallelujah!!!
I got to hang out with some great friends yesterday at a birthday party, and we got to catch up, talk about what God's doing in our churches and our lives, and just in general have a good time fellowshipping! Oh yeah, and we went go-karting. First time in my life, and now I am sooo addicted haha! Nothing like strapping a helmet on and going as fast as you possibly can. :D
I hope you guys have a great rest of your weekend!!!

God bless!!!
--Sonya :)

College Week 5

Sorry I forgot to post last week guys!! Literally been swamped with college work. That stuff is crazy, man!
Anyways, hey, IT'S OCTOBER!!!!! Leaves are falling off the trees, making a huge mess of the driveways, everything's turning different colors, it's finally getting into what I will now affectionately refer to as, "The Time of Sweaters, Hoodies, Tights, Warm Drinks and Pumpkins," and it's just a great time to be alive, you know?
You know when you're having a rough day, and then somebody says something to you or you read something and it just completely turns your day around? Great feeling, right? That happened to me today. There I was, just scrolling down my Facebook News Feed, and BAM! One of my friends had posted a picture of the inside of his garage, 'thanking' it for housing his car. And then he said something pretty awesome too: "Hey you, reading this. Yeah, you with the face. Have a great day. :) Just like my car lives in my garage, let God live in you."
I know, kinda a cheesy thing to turn my day around, and it wasn't directly pointed at me, but it still felt good that somebody had taken the time to consider everybody else around him and wish them a good day. So to all of you reading this, you're amazing and wonderful and awesome and have your own special talents, and I hope you have a great Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and so on. :)

God bless!!!
Love you guys!! <3
--Sonya :)

College Week 3

Hey guys!! I know I'm a little late with this post, but I was swamped with work on Tuesday and Wednesday. This college stuff, man, it really IS that hard sometimes, haha.
So, right now, I'm doing this college course called "Comparative Worldviews", where it shows you different worldviews from a Christian perspective. It's really interesting, but also extremely heartbreaking.
See, right now I'm going through the Naturalist section of this course. When I realized that people really believe that there is no purpose to life, that everything is just an accident, it breaks my heart. People really believe that they're just natural accidents, which basically leads to them thinking one of two things: "I'm just a piece of trash, so what's the point of me living?" or, "I'm gonna do whatever I want, whenever I want, because there's no point, no ultimate purpose to life, and you only live once so might as well live it up."
There are the in-between thinkers, but those two are basically the main ones.
Oh yeah, and during all of this, wanna know another one of my college assignments I'm supposed to do? Memorize Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, "I Have a Dream". Yeah, those two don't exactly mix well together. You go from literally being all energized and ready to make a difference to depressed because you're learning about people who think there's no meaning to life.
Well, enough of my ranting/complaining/pity party. I'm glad to know today that God does have a plan for everything and everyone, He wants us to lay our burdens down at His feet and allow Him to come in and take us to higher places, and lead other people to Him. He loves me, He loves you, and there ain't nothing you can ever do that will change that simple fact. :)
Have a great rest of the week, guys. God bless ya, in Jesus' Name!!!

Sayonara, until next week!

--Sonya :) <3

Hey guys. So, I dunno about you, but I think that it is gorgeous outside! Like, for real. It is COLD.
I think it's safe to say that Fall is basically here. :)
So that brings me to the question... What does fall mean to you?
For me, Fall means hoodies, beautiful colors, hot chocolate, cuddling up in warm blankets outside, no more bugs, lying out on the roof and staring up at the night sky, tights, boots, bonfires, colds, girls actually wearing clothes... ya know, that kind of stuff. ;D
Honestly, Fall is my favorite season, besides Winter. Yup, I'm weird, haha, but it's true. I love cold, it means I get to wear my favorite hoodie, tights, boots, skirt and get to curl up with a cup of hot chocolate and read a book or just enjoy the nice cold Autumn day. :)
So what does Fall mean to you? You get to start school? Football games? The other random reasons I just listed? Have an excuse to cuddle? Too much homework and all-nighters and coffee? Pumpkin spice lattes?
Whatever your reason or reasons are, take them and enjoy every moment.
This is actually what I thought about after a super hot summer when I realized that it was finally feeling like Fall:
Hebrews 11:1, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
We've all got faith. We know Fall's gonna come, whether we want it to or not. We got faith it's gonna come, and if it doesn't come when we expect it to, we freak, either in a good way or a bad. We prepare for it, because we got faith that it's gonna happen.
Well, I got faith that God's gonna do some epic things this year. So, I'm gonna do something about it. I'm gonna prepare for it. 'Cause faith without works is dead, so if I've got real faith, then I've gotta do something about it. If you got faith, then you gotta do something about it.
So those of you wishing it was already June/end of May/whenever school lets out for you, instead of having faith that you're gonna have a horrible school year, or just year in general, have faith that you're gonna have a great one. You're the only one who can make that choice, that no matter what hits you, you won't let it get you down. You have to make an effort to have a good day/season/year. You can't rely on everybody around you to try to make your day a good one. Do it yourself. :)
Anyways, random update on college, it's going pretty good! Came back from a youth missions trip with a cold and close to no sleep, but it was totally worth it and taking off a day from my college work. :D

So, God bless you guys. And have a great Fall!!!

Sayonara!!
--Sonya :3

First week of school status: Alive and still kickin'!!

Hey guys. Well, it's been a week since school started. And...I have survived my first week of college courses!!!
........*chirp chirp, chirp chirp*..........
Now, now, don't get all emotional on me. There are plenty of other kids who've just had their first week of college too. (-_-) Anyways, it's been going okay, other than one day when I literally wanted to shoot something because I was getting frustrated at the Phonetic Number List. Don't ask, I still don't understand why. Something about being able to know that the phonetic word for 24 is Nero doesn't seem like a very important thing I'd use in life. (o.0)
So, all humor and school aside, I think we should all take a moment to remember what happened 12 years ago today. I don't remember much about that day, only that I was confused. My mom was freaking out, talking to my dad on the phone, and they wouldn't tell us anything. But now that I know, I just wanna ask you guys to do one thing, if you don't do anything else I ask, then just do this: Send a prayer up for the families that lost someone. If you know someone who lost somebody, then go up to them and tell them that you love them and you're praying for them.
Have a good day, guys. And hey, it's hump day!!! Two more days until the weekend!! :)

God bless you!

--Sonya :) <3