2009-08-28T14:26:00.000-07:00

Catching You up to speed:
I graduated from East Literature Magnet high school May of 2006. In june of that year I went to Denver CO to do a Discipleship Training School with Youth With A Mission. We spend three months in a lecture phase and two months overseas (mainly Bosnia and Romania).

My next step (of which I am still in) was college. I attended Nashville State and Columbia State Community Colleges for my generals and earned an Associates of Science, with a focus in pre-nursing courses. In may of 2009 I was accepted to Tennessee State University's school of Nursing (an associate program, as well). I started nursing school fall 2009 and will finish and earn my RN May 2011.

I have had some adventures in between school. I volunteered at a YWAM summer mission camp for high schoolers in 2007. I was mainly in the kitchen and oversaw meal crews. It was a good summer, I was and still am such a novice, i learned a great deal! I went to the International House of Prayer, Kansas City's onething confrence for two new years' in a row.

Summer 2008 I did a few things: I changed churches. I stopped going to Belmont Church and started going to Grace Center in Franklin. I am especially involved in their young adult group, it has changed my life. It is called Emanate! I went to Mexico with Abundant Life 's youth group, as well as traveling to DC in a bus with random people, some friends, and my sisters and mom to the thecall DC.

Summer 2009 was eventful too: My good friend Emily McGinty and I went on an overnight canoe trip. I was in my first wedding as a bridesmaid for my friends Matt and Catie Nelson, in Atlanta (I met them while serving YWAM in 2007). I worked at a camp in Onekama Michigan, called Little Eden for a week in late August. It is a magical place and I somehow managed to leave my heart there :(

I know you are wondering about boyfriends. Haha! Well, I dated someone pretty seriously there in the middle between High School and now. However, that's very much behind me. I am looking to learn how to live today and expect that God is going to bring someone pretty special. Smile.

I still live with my parents and 2 sisters. Sally is 24 and graduated from MTSU December 2008 and now works at a Christian curriculum writing company as a proofreader/editor. Sophie is 15 and goes to a few homeschool tutorials. My dad had a major gall bladder removal surgery in July, it was a close call but he is back at work. My mom just jot her first full time job in 24 years as a teacher for a small christian elementary school called FCA in Old Hickory, near our house.

I bought my first laptop this year!! It's an apple MacBook pro. I plan on buying my first car here in October, but nothing is final. I have been driving a friend's 1989 oldsmobile. it has been a true blessing but I need something newer : )

Well, I think that is all. Hope this was helpful. I love all of you!

-Lydia Ellen

Lydia in Waiting