Dear Diaries,

things are going great at the moment. i am in the middle of reading a book called 'God Called A Girl' which is really encouraging. its about Mary and how she trusted God throwout all her troubles, and all the days and months and years where she couldn't see what God was doing in her life and what good would come from it.

i have just wrote a really long letter to Becki [about 3 pages long] about camp, and my mum, and Abi and Mez's engagement [yay!] and just about life. hopefully she gets to come over at Christmas. that wud be really cool! i really miss hanging out with her, and i hang out with Clare more than her now and she's supposed to be my best mate! we are still like sisters thou, coz we have known each other for sooo long and really alike.

i went to Clare's yesterday, and dropped off a bible that i am lending her, co for some strange reason her one disappeared on camp. it was really strange coz mine was where i put it, and hers was in the same place so i guess someone picked it up for some reason. but anyway, i meet her boyfriend Joel! he's a really nice guy i understand why she doesn't want to let him go. it must be really hard for her. they have been together for such a long time, and now she knows she shouldn't be going out with him because he's not a christian. i just really pray that he does become one. it would really encourage her to have someone else in her family [sort of] that is in the same situation as she is.

i really need a job! i know i probably;y keep going on about it to everyone, but I'm not exactly going out looking for one. and I've got a feeling I'm not gonna have time until the end of this yr when i get an early break, but who really wants to spend that time working??? i guess i will need it if i am going to take a gap year... i don't even know where I'm gonna go, or if I'm gonna go with a christian organisation. i would love to go with OM. they say you have to go for 2 years, so i don't know if i can. but anyway, it will be really good just to get a piece of the world, and see what God is doing in people's lives other than my own and the people in my area.

anyway, i really should be finishing ... oh yh! my brother went to school today! he's in yr 7 now so i have to go back tomoro!!!...my geography corsework which i have to give in asap!
at the top is a picture of this years camp which was sooo fun!!!

good luck this year to anyone else in year 11 like me, or anyone in school or college, or uni or with any other troubles that come ur way!

just remember...

dont tell God how big your problems are...tell your problems how BIG God is!!!

love always,
Rachel.A xxxxxxxooooooo