Random Post
Got a Youth Specialties Email today and had some cool links that I thought I would share...

States I've Been In


create your own personalized map of the USA
or write about it on the open travel guide

Surfer Girl's Faith
A deadly shark bite could not keep this amazing teen down
Bethany has already made numerous media appearances on MTV, Oprah, and in magazines like Teen Vogue and YM. Wherever she goes, people soon hear about her dynamic faith....
..."I can't change it," she told the Free Press about the shark attack. "That was God's plan, and I'm going to go with it."

Bethany Hamilton's Personal Website - Get this, She is ONLY 13!!!! Wow!

Doctor Visit...
This is really cool! I woke up this morning, and decided I NEEDED to go to the doctor, so after securing a substitute, I opened the phone book not having a CLUE how to choose a doctor. 'Lord, help me to know where to go!' Looked and looked and then found a name that I was familiar with... Dr. Winfield. 'Winfield... there is a girl in 9th grade with that last name... I wonder if that is her dad?' I thought. So I called the number. Got the answering service, and they took my information so that the doctors office could call me back when they opened. I rested a little while and actually fell asleep (since I hadn't slept much the night before.) Got a call a little later.

The receptionist on the other end: 'Well, we are all booked up until late next week.'
Me: "hmmm ... That wont work b/c I need to get in TODAY b/c I'm leaving for Denver tomorrow."
Receptionist: 'Hmmm... we are double booked all day today. Well, hold on a minute and let me see what we can do.'
Waited....
Receptionist: Dr. Winfield said to come on in and we will try to fit you in after 2.
Me: 'THANK YOU!'

I went there a little early, filled out paper work, and then sat and waited. Quiet instrumental praise music was playing over the speakers in the waiting room. Read. wrote a letter.
Receptionist: Melissa?
Me: Yep!
Went in to see the doctor... YES! It was one of my students dad's! Awesome! Everyone was incredibly nice, AND a girl i know from church stuck her head in my room to say hi. I didn't even know she worked there!
Doctor: Diagnoses is that you have some bronchitis. Here are some meds.... (paraphrase)
Soooo... It was a painless, mostly encouraging trip to a doctor (which is saying a lot coming from a girl that NEVER goes and was mostly dreading the experience!)
PRAISE GOD!