Tonight we had a meeting of all of the future student leadership for next year. There were probably about a thousand people in the Vines Center, we had a worship session and a lot of prayer for each other. While parts of it were cheesy, like symbolically "passing the torch" and crossing over the floor to your new hall for next year, I was hugely encouraged by it all. Just seeing that many students so committed to leading each other, to praying for each other, and for seeking the Lord's will for their lives was just so great. There's really nothing like being in a room with a thousand other people who have one common goal, and that is to bring glory to God.

The other girls that are going to be Prayer Leaders on my hall next year are very nice, and I look forward to being friends with them and getting closer to them. We all went out for snow cones on Thursday, and it was very fun, we all just kind of told about ourselves and chatted. It's a group of fun girls, and I absolutely love Sarah, my RA this year, who wanted me to be on her hall next year as well. She's the kind of girl that I would love to be friends with, even though she'll be a senior, and I'll just be a sophomore.

I only have to make it through 4 more days here! While I'm incredibly excited for this year to be over, and while I am so ready to get home and then go to camp, I'm sad that it's ending. There's always a twinge of sadness when I see a chapter of my life closing. I know I'll be back, but things next year will be drastically different, and that's ok. Early this year I had a very difficult time dealing with Katy; our personalities clashed at least on my part. However, this semester has been 100% better, and I do regard her to be one of my close friends, however aggravated we can probably get at each other. I'll miss not seeing her as much next year, but it will probably be good for our friendship to not be together 24/7.
But I've started packing, and that always saddens me just a little bit. It always has, and probably always will. Even if I'm glad to be leaving wherever I am, packing just puts me in a somewhat somber mood, and the worst is seeing a room or house so full of memories completely empty.

However, with all of that, God is opening a new chapter of my life! Even though I'm not going to be doing anything drastically new in the next few months, God always has plans that I don't realize. And I'm excited to see what those plans are!