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Hey y'all! It's Grace! I've decided to start a vlog! Yay! I know you're all thinking, "You
already have a vlog, Grace." Yes, I do. I share it with my sister and it's wonderful.
It's called something about PKs, or something like that. I don't know. We're PKs and we
talk about being pastors' kids and that all I can really remember. But unfortunately,
we had to take a temporary hold on that because I am in Missouri for four months. My mom is
finally finishing up her degree. Yay! We're very excited about this. So I've decided that
I kind of want to do a vlog to kind of record my experiences in Missouri. I'm not sure if
it will go past the four months, but if it does then hey, cool. We'll see where it takes
me. So I guess I'll be talking about my experiences here. I guess the first experience I've had
so far, cause it's only been like a week and a half, is church, basically. That's pretty
much my experience so far. Yep. PK probs. Been here a week and a half and the only thing
I can talk about is church. Still. But on Sunday we decided to go to two churches, like
normal people. We went to this one church, an Assembly of God church for Sunday School.
I enjoyed it a lot. I got to sit in on these people's human video practice thing. It was
very cool. I like it a lot. I learned a lot from them. And then we decided to go to a
black church for the Sunday service. So we looked it up and we found this one church
and we were so excited to go. And see the "Whooo!", you know how black churches are.
So we get there and we're like, "Ok, we can't open the door. But we can hear the singing
going on inside, but we can't open the door." So we look around and we find another door.
And we're like, "I wonder where this is gonna take us." So we open the door-no, it's not
Narnia-but we open the door and we're all excited to see these African American (trying
to keep it nice and politically correct, already failing though), but we get there, open the
door, and the first thing we see is the worship team. Yes, we walked in at the very front
of the church in front of the worship team. Actually, more in between. Like here's the
congregation, here's the worship team, and here's us- we're right here. So it was really
awkward like, "We can't turn back now!" And then, as we look around, none of them are
African American. They're all Caucasian. (I'm doing so good at being politically correct,
look at this.) So that was interesting. We found out that they had switched buildings
because of number problems, or maybe growth and some good stuff. I don't know. I wasn't
really paying attention. So we didn't get to go to the church that we were really wanting
to go to. But it was a good church anyways. On Wednesday, I went back to the first church,
the Assembly of God church, I went to their youth group. And that was interesting also.
I enjoyed the sermon, the sermon was very good. The preacher talked about tolerance
which was very interesting. So I really enjoyed that. One thing I noticed though, is that
nobody really talked to me. It was interesting because, you know, you grow up in church and
we're all like, "Hey, if you see a new person come in you should totally talk to them and
be their friend, it might be their only time they've ever heard about Jesus and blah blah
blah" but nobody actually does it. And it's really sad! It's like that movie "To Save
A Life" (It's a really good movie, one of my favorites). This kid, he goes to this youth
group in a last ditch effort. He was looking for hope and everything. And he goes there
and nobody talks to him. So he leaves and nobody knew he was there, really. And that's
kind of what I noticed when I was at that youth group. I went in there, and I did talk
to two people that I had met on Sunday morning and they were very nice people. But nobody
else talked to me. It was kind of depressing, really. Because you go into this church and
they're really exuberant in their worship and paying attention to the sermon and the
worship is nice but nobody talked to me and it's kind of depressing. I mean, I'm OK if
nobody talks to me because I'm an introvert and I like it when nobody talks to me. But
I was thinking, if anybody else came in and nobody talked to them, what would be there
reason in coming back? It was kind of sad. But it's definitely an experience. So I'm
looking forward to next week. I think I'm gonna try going back to that church again,
because I really did like the sermon. Another thing I'm really excited about is that we're
getting a kitten tomorrow! Courtesy of the Ellis' who are wonderful. They found a stray
kitten and so they're letting us take her. We're gonna go on a 6 hour road trip with
this kitten who my mom doesn't know at all, really. So it'll be exciting! I wanted to
name her "Smaug", but my mother said, "No." because apparently "Smaug" is not an acceptable
name for anyone, even a kitten. So, we decided on "Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All". I'm very
excited about this! So stay tuned! We'll see what happens next. Bye! (Still can't find
the button...)