New Friends!!!
OK! So besides the fact I PROMISED these people I would blog about the following experience…it is most certainly blog worthy.
Sooo the other day I was just chilling in history class and I got an e-mail (which I waited to check until AFTER class) from Jacob, one of our interns at Memorial Road (where I go to church, right by OC) inviting me to go to a before church dinner at Jeff’s (our college minister) house with some other students and the interns and other such people! I of course jumped at the chance because
1) I love the college group at Memorial Road and am wanting to get even more involved.
2) FREE FOOD?! I THINK SO YES!
3) I would get to meet new people (Which I love to do!).
Long story short, I accepted the invitation and invited Todd to go as well and we were set.
Jacob picked us up at 5:30 and we headed over to Jeff’s and there were a few people I’d met like my freshmen link Casey and Caleb plus Blake, who I had just met a couple days before that when I had an interview for Earn Your Wings Hub Leader; other than that, it was allll new people.
Jeff made us all hamburgers and we got them STRAIGHT off the grill so they were so fresh and DELICIOUS!
Once Todd and I got all of the fixings on our burgers we went to the table and sat with Jacob, Casey, Kim, Jeff, and…(he is going to be so excited for his official debut on the blog)...HUDSON! Hudson is also one of the interns at Memorial and he is HILARIOUS. Good grief.
We all ate and talked about just… random things. Mainly to do with Spring Break, OC, Church and Spring Sing (since it had just wrapped days before).
Also while we ate, Hudson was getting the powerpoint slides for the announcements at church ready, and gave us a “sneak preview” at one of his announcements.
If ONLY I had it on video….my life would be complete.
We were having “pop tart” night after church and Hudson had this WHOLE thing planned where he was a jack in the box and wound himself up and popped out screaming “pop-tarts tonight”
It may easily be the creepiest and most hilarious thing I have ever encountered.
He just kept doing it OVER. AND. OVER. to “practice” so he wouldn’t laugh once he got up in front of the college group.
After we all got done laughing at Hudson and eating, we loaded back up in the cars and went to the church to set up.
Let me just keep it real…I was looking forward to that announcement all of church…the time came…
HUDSON DIDN’T DO IT.
I was angry…but he told me I should feel “grateful that even though we are new friends he felt comfortable enough to be crazy in front of me.” You win this time Hudson.
In any case, it was a LOT of fun and I enjoyed getting to know Jacob and Jeff and everyone else better than before.
Can’t wait to do it all again!
(Hope everyone mentioned here is happy to see their name…I was GLAD to put them there! Glad we are friends now!)
BTW…found out yesterday…I’M GOING TO BE AN OC RECRUITER THIS SUMMER! This blogger will soon be coming to a church camp near you! Can’t wait to meet all of the prospective Eagles!


