Books Vs. EBooks

Ok, so I'm an avid reader.  I love finding new books that nobody has read before and trying to recommend them to others.  I can be a pretty good salesman :) I hear so many different views on using technology and having an actual book in your hands.  I use both and love both for different reasons! Here's my take on them.

Books:
Pros:

•  I love having an actual book to turn the pages.  Its very easy for me to see where I am in the book and how far I still have to go.
• It is very easy to pass on to my next friend after I've used my fantastic salesman skills. 

Cons:

• I have to wait until my next visit to the bookstore or my next Amazon.com purchase to arrive to get another. (I hate the wait.  I currently have one I'm waiting on and it stinks!)
• If you lose it or can't remember who you lent it to, you have to buy another or spend hours looking for it (Trust me! I know!).

Ebooks:
Pros:

•  It's so easy to click download. I am able to get a new book whenever I want!
• I also get to carry around my IPad mini instead of a huge book which I also like.  It seems to fit into my purse more easily.

Cons:

• I can't share them with my friends.  I have heard that with the Kindle app you can let them borrow it for 2 weeks. Sometimes I get busy though and I'm not done with it in two weeks. :(
• It's so easy to click download is also a huge con for me because my bank account shows!

I think I prefer to have an actual book instead of an EBook because it allows me to share with my friends.  I also tend to go towards a real book because I'm trying to build up my classroom library so that I don't have to do it all at once when I get a teaching job.  But, I love having an EBook when I'm traveling, because I love only having to take my IPad mini and not a book too.  I think this has a lot to do with preference! Either way, I suggest to just go read something!

42 kids!

Today was our second day here at Mission Arlington. Yesterday, we held a church service were only 2 kids came to. It was fun but a little disappointing also. We were hoping for more than just 2. They were the sweetest little boys who also had fantastic dance moves! Yes, we had a dance freeze off and they won (White people can't dance!) 

Today, we went around and delivered and picked up furniture to people. That was so awesome! I also got to practice my summer job by packing a truck (it was a much smaller truck but a truck at least). The 2 ladies we delivered to were so grateful! It was so awesome!

We then did our Rainbow Express which is much like a VBS at an apartment complex. We had 42 kids show up!! We were so excited! Much like any 1st day, there is somethings to change but overall it went so well! Those kids need so much love and our group has so much love to give. I pray that God just loves on those kids and speaks through us. 

Mission trips are one of my favorite things to do!! I love how God just shows us what we need to do and works through everything we do. 

I'm so excited for the rest of the week and to see how God works!

I am Kristin Huff

I am NOT a morning person at all and would rather stay up late than get up early!! So, at night is when I love to do my quiet times with God. Throughout the last month, I have been going through the book of Matthew. I felt like I needed to read and fall in love with Jesus all over again. The miracles he does, so many times, just mesmerize me. He healed so many blind people!! In my opinion, this shows me that he took me from my blindness of being lost and brought me to see again with him in my life. He healed me! I could go on, but this is not what has been on my heart lately. 

A couple of nights ago, I was reading Matthew 21. One of the parables in it is of two sons. This parable hit hard for me! It tells us how wrong our society has it! Go read it! 

(Kristin's paraphrase) A father asked 1 son to go work in the vineyard. He told him no he didn't want to, but later did it anyway. The 2nd son was asked the same thing except he said yes, but didn't do it. 

Jesus asked "which one obeyed his father?" 

 Well, obviously the 1st one obeyed. Jesus went on to say that corrupt tax collectors and prostitutes that know Christ will get into heaven because they believe. But the ones who just act like it, won't because they rufuse to believe and repent. 

I see so many of my friends being the 2nd son. They think it doesn't pertain to them. They are the special ones. Why are we saying that we love Christ but being hypocrites and doing things that are sinful? I physically lose sleep and have had many tears because people in my life are doing this fact thing. Why do people in our society think it is ok to live out our faith casually? They put Jesus on the back burner until something bad happens to them and then blames him for the bad things that happened. Yes, I have many reasons that I could blame Christ BUT I CHOOSE not to. Christ brought these dry bones back to life. He continues to bring opportunities and situations in my life that only he could have made happen. Christ took my father but he taught me so much from that that I get to share to the world. What a blessing that is in itself! 

I thank God everyday for what he has done in my life and I will continue throughout the good and the bad. 

I am Kristin Huff and I will not approach my faith casually!