Short Stuff has a new church family

Good morning everyone!
I usually don't update my blog in the morning but I felt like it so I am writing a new blog update.
Well as a shared before I recently moved to Ankeny and I now attend a different church and I am homeschooled! Well today I want to share with you a little story. It's my story!
So I was born in Guatemala and I was adopted at eighteen months by the most amazing people ever! My parents. So they did all the paperwork and then after that process I went to my new home in Iowa. My other sister who was also adopted from Guatemala got adopted before me so I came later. But anyways I lived in Newton for a while and then we moved to Pella. I went to a public school for one year I loved it. Then my parents wanted me to have a Christian education. So I went to Pella Christian grade school. I graduated from there after eighth grade. Well then I moved up to high school and boy that was a change. So I went thru my freshman year and sophomore year at Pella Christian high school! Then my junior year changed. I did do part of my junior year at Pella Christian but then after Christmas break I didn't go back and I will tell you why. One day my oldest sister asked me if I wanted to be homeschooled. I didn't have an answer for her at the time and I thought about it and I later came to the conclusion that this would be a good thing for me. So after Christmas break I started going up to her place and being homeschooled. I have really enjoyed it and the thing I LOVE about it is its set at a pace that I can grasp the learning and actually get the lessons. It's great! Pella Christian was a school that I didn't really connect to. It was hard for me academically and socially. But I am going to leave it at that because if I share those stories you will be read at least a three page blog :). But anyways so then later into my homeschooling my parents start looking at houses and when I found that out I was thinking "hey I love homeschooling but I also love Pella don't make me leave my town of Pella" but we ended up leaving. We packed everything up and we sold our house and we moved to Ankeny. First couple of weeks I can honestly say we're hard. Because I wanted Pella back. I wanted things to be the way they used to be. I had a system going in Pella I would get up go to school come home and drive my golf cart for a while and then do homework and have a little family time and go to bed. That was my system. I liked that system. Actually I loved that system. But there came some unhealthy things to that system as well. When I was still going to Pella Christian high every Friday night my peers would be doing something. But I did not do anything on Friday nights so instead of being with my so called friends at the time I spent most of my Friday nights driving my golfcart all night long. I loved every minute but I look back now and it just wasn't healthy. I mean kids that age are usually hanging with friends but I was hanging out with my golfcart. To me that golfcart was not just a golfcart...it was my friend. That might sound weird but that's how I look at it. So when we moved tons of questions were going through my mind and here are the questions I asked myself.
Is driving in ankeny going to be hard?
What church would I attend?
Is friends going to be hard to find or make?
And what youth group would I go to?
Those are the questions I asked myself and here is what God answered
Is driving in Ankeny going to be hard? Yes, but you will learn in time.
What Church would I attend? Help out with Vaction bible school and volunteer at Lutheran church of Hope ankeny. If you like it then become a member.
Are friends going to be hard to find or make? I am your forever friend! talk to people at Hope and you will be blessed.
What youth group would I attend? Ignition at Hope ankeny!
So those answers I did not just make up I believe that God said that to me! So I did just that. And I learned how to drive in ankeny and friends were right there at Hope I didn't have to look far! Finally with tons of praying and hard thinking I have came to the conclusion that Hope Ankeny will be my new Church family! I attend there youth group every Wednesday night! It's a lot of fun! Last night I went to the new membership class for Hope and I am now an official member of Hope Ankeny! God is good all the time! That is something I say to myself all the time! Even though at the beginning I was stubborn and didnt want to move to Ankeny God knew that it had to happen! So overall I am very excited to be a new member of Hope and I can't wait to see what God has in store for me!
I hope you enjoy reading my story! Feel free to leave a comment! I love feedback!
May you be blessed throughout this week!
Blessings to all
Short Stuff