∫joy = God =)

Haha hey

So the title means the integral of joy is God. And if you haven't taken Calculus then you'll have no clue what an integral is. But basically it means that joy comes from God =) basically =P i won't go into deriving and whatnot because it doesn't make mathematical sense.

I have to go real soon but I just wanted to blog because well...i felt overjoyed today =)
On Sunday we learned about peace through the sermon and then we had baptismal class and it was good. We learned about why there's evil in the world. And then I had my baptismal interview =) It was funny because I had freddy which made it...really relaxed and there wasn't any fear of some unknown deacon asking me strange questions and then correcting me if i was wrong and it was pretty natural feeling i think =) I also didn't study for it =P Which sometimes could be the best thing because...well if you know about God and you know what you're doing by getting baptized... a deacon interview shouldn't be too hard =)
Also, I listened to a sermon regarding baptism and it was...good because it was simple and yet it brought out why somebody got baptized. It's a washing. Literally. And it's an association with Jesus and showing publicly that I had accepted Jesus to be my Lord and Savior and that..it's what I believed =P So i'm excited for this Sunday because my school friends are going to be there. Also my sister's home and it's like one of the first things she'll see after she gets home =P
Also, we had the youth performance practice for Christmas Eve service. It's turning out pretty funny =P Going to see how it all turns out. Sadly there's only like...3 boys. And I can't project black voices =P So we'll see how it goes but it's looking to be quite the performance with some possible singing across the sanctuary =P

Monday was....I actually can't fully remember what happened yesterday. Had some good badminton, studied for my Calculus test. I guess that's something that's been on my mind because ever since I got my mark update I've been striving a lot harder to work hard at math and just keep up with it and to do the homework. And last night I kind of ended up not studying after I got home from badminton. I wanted to but in the end my mind wasn't in the right place and I guess i felt I was ready. I was still nervous. But I think I studied well. I did like...60 practice questions from the review and it was good.
And in the end, I had my test today and it went well. I felt so at peace afterwards when I got on the bus it was like shouting Praise God in my head because there wasn't any burden left and I thanked God for giving me peace while I wrote it =) It was a fairly simple test but I'm still glad I studied hard and didn't leave it to the last minute =) When I was walking home I was like smiling at the people I saw and the weather was nice and it was just...really great =) So PTL.
Tonight I went to the Family Worship planning and I was the only youth there but it was good =) We spent like the entire first hour in prayer and it was really intense because some of the prayers went pretty long but it was good to start off lifting everything in prayer. I feel like we don't do that enough. And I realized there's just SOOOOOO much to pray for. Like the prayer items that were brought up for our church were things that I would've never imagined myself praying for because I never would've realized them. So I thank God for opening my eyes to these things and it's looking like it's going to be a pretty interesting and amazing worship service.
So that's it for tonight =)
just wanted to update.

p.requests:
- that I can keep up this overjoyed state of mind because nothing is too big for my God =)
- discipline to just do more without being told now that I have more time
- more famjam time and to organize my schedule so that i have famjam time, serving and devos all balanced. No extremes.

thanks =)
-Chris