Wow, what a weekend. If you have been wondering where I have been this weekend, well let me tell you. I have been at Cocoa Beach for a Student Venture Conference and the theme of this conference was Pure Juice. I left on Friday after school and did not come back til about 1 this afternoon. It was an awsome time to be with friends and teens from all over Florida. There was probably something like 300 high school and some college students there. We stayed at the Hilton hotel right on the beach. Though it was only 3 days long it was a jamed packed 3 days.

We arive around 6pm on Friday. My roommates and I find our room and quickly settle in before the first session started. The band 10th Avenue North was leading the worship for the whole conference. As we walked into the meeting room the music was loud and crazy. I have been to one other conference much like this one and it was ok. But this time God was really preparing my heart a week in advance. After an out of this world worship time there were some really funny skits. Then the speaker for the conference came up to speak to us. The speaker just so happens to be Chris Wilard, the father of one of the kids I went to gradeschool with. Well he talks about what is pure and knowing about Christ and how we should trust him. But since I already accepted Christ into my life he also talked about recomitting to God. It was a moving speech. The band came up and we had some more worship. Then we were dismissed. It was around 10:00 when we finally got out of there. There was a little Coffee House thing, I just had a cookie since I don't like coffee to much. At about 11:30 I met with my roommate and another girls room in what was called a Chat room. In this we talked about the session and we prayed for each other. When we finally got back to the room it was a little after 12:30. By the time I got to bed it was almost 1 in the morning.

Saturday morning we all woke up at 8:00 and got ready for the morning sessions. When we arrived on Friday we got name tags and on these were different coloured stars. My tag had a red star. We went in to the main meeting room again and had worship. Then we split up acording to the colour star on your tag. I was with Danielle, Will and Andrew in the red group. Our session ran late and so I did not have much time for Quiet time but I did get to walk on the beach for a few minutes. The next session was by area of Florida and colour of star. The hotel provided lunch. The next session was not til 3:30. Danielle and Me got ready and went down to the beach. We met Will and Andrew and then walked down to the water. The water was Ice cold. But we braved it washing up against our legs. Andrew of course forgot his swim shorts so we had fun trying to get him wet. We chased after Will and made him get completly wet. Then we buried Andrew in the sand. The hotel had a heated pool so after pulling a prank on Will we all jumped into the pool, even Andrew. We had some chicken fights and talked. But all the fun had to stop when it was time for the next meeting. We showered off and headed out. This time the session was a girls only. In the session we talked about finding your identity in Christ and not in things of the world. By the time that got out it was dinner time. Danielle, Danielle, Monique, and I had a deep conversation about Guys(not absetion but deep thoughted kind of stuff) and things. The guys were late getting back from there Guys only talk. After dinner we had some free time before the main session that night. So all 4 of us girls went to the Hotel store and bought 3 pints of ice cream. When we got back up to the room we put two of the cartons of ice cream in Ice. We hoped they would not melt. With the sugar of the ice cream and some sweets in our blood we hoped to be awake for the meeting. The worship was great as always. They played a few songs I did not know but I learned quickly. This time Mr.Wilard talked about relationships. It was relationships with Christian friends, opposite sex and parents. That talk really hit home. I promised to change some areas in my life to fit more into God's plans for my life. Afterward there was a talent show and Will juggled in it. It was the same rutine as the last night except we got to bed about 1:30.

All was going well as we slept. Then out of the blue this noise. What was it? I woke me up. IT WAS THE PHONE!!!!! Who on earth would be calling us at, Wait what time was it? I pushed myself up to see the clock and Danielle answered it. It was Will and Andrew playing a prank on us. Danielle was yelling at the phone and then hung up but very soon after it rang again. By this time I saw that it was 3:00 in the morning. After one more ring i jumped out of bed and went over to the other phone and unplugged it. In the morning I found out what they were saying when the called. " five" ... "four"..."three"... by then the phones where unplugged.

We all wake up about 8:00 again but we are very tired. Will and Andrew were really anxious to see what we were going to do to them. We went to worship and red session much like Saturday. We got out a little earlier than Saturday for Quiet time. Then we went to the second session. This time after lunch we went on an outreach to the cocoa beach communitys. It was a fun experiance. We met this one lady that said that she did not believe you could have a personal relationship with God. So I gave her the Four Spiritual Laws booklet and my group prayed for her outside her house. When we got back we had free time for about an hour and a half. So Danielle and me ran sprints up and down the halls so we could stay in shape for our sports in the spring (more like tomorrow). For dinner Danielle and me brought our food up to the room and had a little picnic outside our door which was right in front of the elevators. After dinner we walked around and soon found out that there were going to be pranks that night. Earlier while Will and Andrew were out on the beach the some freshmen girls pranked their room. They sprayed their clothes with perfome and tipeed it. So Will and Andrew where wanting to get back at them. At the evening session Will and Andrew where a little late. Danielle and I came to find out that they were pranking the girls room. The session was great along with the worship. Mr. Wilard talked about Pure Excitement, that even though we were to go home the next morning we still needed to be excited about God. That night my room stayed up til 2:30.

In the morning we packed and went to session. In session we had a big prayer time. It was so good to just pray. Then we loaded up the buses and came home.

Well got to go do some other things. Have fun reading.