Tyler.

I decided to start a slew of posts of some of my favorite people from the summer. 

This is Tyler Williams. 

Or Tyla Jew. 

You can call him that too. 

He is by far one of the coolest kids in the entire world. 

Sweet boy is fairly inappropriate at times, but that is what makes him SO FUN!

I am going to miss him dearly when the summer comes to an end in just a short 10 days, but the amazing thing about Tyler is that he is staying at Tejas to intern for the year. Woo Hoo!

Dear friend,
You are awesome and Im so thankful I can call you my friend. I love your attitude and you lovingness towards other. God is truly evident in your life. Love you brother.
Britt

My Biffles.

These are the greatest friends I could ever ask for. 

Nelan, Jennie, myself and Meredith

I am SO excited about this weekend!
I will be spending all weekend with the 3 best friends ever. These are my camp biffles. We all have met and maintained a wonderful, God given, friendship for the past 3-4 years.
Friday night starts our last hangout before we all disperse for the fall. We are going to spend the weekend at the West's lake house in Austin. :)
Nelan is heading to school is South Carolina, Mer will be in Brownwood at Howard Payne, Jennie will be at Camp and I am heading back to Houston.
Praise the Lord for these sweet girls and the time I have known them.

Rain.

I love days that it rains and Im stuck in my office with a lemongrass candle and norah playing in my ear. It makes life so sweet. The only thing that could make it better is if I was in my bed watching pride and prejudice.
Mmmmmmm....God is good.

This is me.

I am me.

I am a flake.

I am a dreamer.

I am a lover.

I am a person of passion.

I am happy.

I am emotional.

I am fun.

I am crazy.

I am a people pleaser.

I am a talker.

I am a believer.

I am so many things.

One of those things is random.

I am for sure a dreamer. I am one of those people that when I have an idea, I say it out loud and then sometimes I never act on it. Which then makes me seem like a flake. I just love to talk. I love to speak what is on my mind. I love advice, but I don't always take it.

This summer has been a summer of learning and faith.

I am really growing into my so called "adulthood" and learning its okay to disappoint people sometimes. All summer I have been trying to figure out what is next in my life. It's been a pretty stressful thing to think about. Where to move? Where to work? Where to build community? It's all kind of stressful, but for now I am leaning on the Lord knowing that He has a perfect plan. I really would like to know what that is, but I don't have to know.

Praise God that He is the planner and perfecter of my life.

Here are a couple pictures thus far from the summer...

I really love these people.

Sweet Hanley.

This girl is seriously amazing.

"Are you ready? HECK YES!"

;)

Sweet Jennie Wojtczak.

You are awesome.

Im so happy you have been in my life for the past 4 years.

HOLY COW!

You are a great woman. :)

This man is the jam.

Ryan Fletcher.

You made my summer happy.

Mer and Nelan.

I can't begin to explain how much you girls mean to me.

Our friendship, along with Jennie, is amazing.

God has truly blessed me with incredible lifetime friends.

Life would not be the same without your girls in it.

I love yall so much and count is all joy to share life with you girls.

Yall are amazing.

This is what we call amazing.

These people make my heart happy and have made my summer absolutely perfect.

I couldn't thank the Lord more for such wonderful people. The love that I have for them is huge. They are some of my most cherished friends in life.

Thanks guys for an incredible last summer at Tejas. I will cherish these memories forever.

Love you like a fat kid loves cake.

:)

B

Tomorrow.

May 17, 2010.

I begin a new journey. Yeah, its only for the summer, but I am super pumped about how much the Lord can do in those short 3 months. Tomorrow I start my summer job at Camp Tejas. For those of you who don't know me very well, this is my third summer at Tejas. I spent the first two all together with an internship in there for the year, so when I left at the end of that second summer, I really didn't think I would ever go back.

Well, all praise, honor and glory goes to Jesus for giving me the opportunity to go back this summer. I know that this opportunity is a plea for me to come back to Jesus. WHAT?!? You say.

The past few months have been a rough one for this little girl. Do I love Jesus? OF COURSE! Do I still have faith in Him? Oh my word, YES! But, Have I completely grown tired and complacent with my walk with Him and my life in general? Uh, YAH.

I have gone through this past few months bored and tired of doing the same ole same ole. I became super caught up with work and school that I didn't even care about anything any more. My fire and passion was gone.

My walk with the Lord also began to sit. I still talk to Jesus, but our relationship has not been that of one that is growing and going any where.

As the summer draws closer, I can't help but get excited about me and Jesus. All summer long I get to fall in love with Him all over again.

I know that these are things I should be doing right now, I know that there are higher expectations for me, but I am human. I have not perfected this. Praise the Lord for grace. I know all that is right and wrong. It just takes a little bit more of a slap in the face to understand that my life is nothing without Him in it.

So, the next 3 months will be about me and Him. Nothing else. I pray that I would be the woman I am called to be, a woman of love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, kindness and self control. This is who the Lord wove me to be. Praise Him for His patience with me and the love that He still has for me. I do not deserve it.

So, tomorrow I am gone. I will try my hardest to keep in touch with my blogging. We will see how busy I will be.

Much love to you and thank you for praying for me.

Peace.

Britt

Camp Tejas 2010

I first began my journey in Texas in a small town called Giddings. It is about half way between Houston and Austin and is one of the smallest towns I have ever been to. There is a Wal-Mart (not even a supercenter) and a Dollar General, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Subway, Sonic and the ever famous Taqueria Chihuahua. (They have the best breakfast tacos EVER.) It is definatly a small town, but so dear to my heart. I loved my time there, for the 16 months I was there and count it all joy that I have the opportunity to go back this summer.

I left camp at the end of the summer of 2008. My internship had ended and I was ready to embark on the "real world" of College Station. My time in College Station was very short, and I ended up moving to Houston to begin an internship at Houston's First Baptist Church in the Missions Department. The past year and a half has been a whirlwind here in Houston. I have started and completed an internship, ended a relationship, moved to Katy with my aunt and uncle, started school (and completing soon!!), took a job I would of never thought I would take and have made some of the most incredible friends I could ever ask for. God has surely been faithful in this process.

Around this past Christmas, I began to feel a tug at my heart for Tejas. I had no clue what the Lord was beginning to stir up in me, and so I just let the stir happen and prayed through it. January 2, I went to a Christmas party at Camp and it was the first time I had been back to camp in months and it was the firs time since I had finished my internship that I felt at peace with being there. Over the next few months the stir became more and more like a push and a pull, but I still had no plans for the summer.

In March I went to a dear friends wedding at Camp and fell in love all over again. It was so amazing to be there and to catch up with old friends. God began to really stir in me what my summer could look like. I had a very quick conversation with a sweet woman named Jennifer, she's the bosses wife, where I basically told her my heart and that she should begin to pray about maybe a job for me in the summer and I told her that I would begin to pray for that position if that is what the Lord would have for me.

Over the past few weeks I have prayed and prayed and prayed and last Monday I was offered an AWESOME position. I thought and prayed about it for a few days and accepted the job last Thursday. I have already started packing up my stuff and I head that way for the summer on May 17th. I can't believe that the Lord is bringing me back to camp, but I am super pumped about it. I know that His plans are perfect and that all of this is going to be a stretching experience.

Please be praying for discipline and wisdom as I prepare my heart for this summer.

Love you friends.

B

If you haven't heard yet....

A LOT is going on in my life.

First things first, I Passed my State Board Written Exam for TDLR (Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation-Cosmetology). This was such an amazing and huge accomplishment. Not to toot my own horn, but I am proud of myself. :)

Enough with all that tooting horns and stuff...

I have gone back and forth and back, mostly, on if I am going to walk at graduation in May. I have been so up and down about it because my sweet sister and brother in law are graduating from Texas A&M the day before me and I didn't want my family to feel like they had to be at both, and I still have a few more physical class time hours, but I have completed the program, and all of my classes. With all that said, I decided today I am going to walk. WOOHOO. I actually made the decision and IMMEDIATELY went and purchased my cap and gown. I know the type of person that I am, and if I don't act ASAP on my decisions, I have a tendency to talk myself out of it. So, on May 15, 2010, I will walk across the stage at Relient Stadium at 10am and celebrate this crazy journey I have had at HCC. Im actually pretty pumped now. Awesome!

Another HUGE thing that has happened is that Jesus as called me to leave Houston. I feel like I just got here, but it has been a little over a year and a half. This next season of my life will include a summer back home at Camp Tejas and a new life in College Station in the fall where I will begin my journey of getting my bachelors degree at Blinn and Texas A&M. (Whoop!)

I am so excited to share with you all about this incredible journey the Lord is already preparing me for, but you will just have to wait. :) I have about 3 weeks left here in Houston and then Im headed to Giddings for the summer. Please be praying for a smooth transition and for the Lord to use me in ways I could never dream of at camp.

Much love friends,

B