Sunny Days

Colour Conference and Album Recording

so i must say i'm glad that week is over, it was very exciting to experience my first Colour Conference at Hillsong, but man they were very long days! being gone for about 18 hours a day and only sleeping 6 hours! that is tough! bump-in day was wednesday , we really didn't do much that day - we were supposed to be there from like 8-5 but we were done packing 30,000 lunch boxes in 1.5 hours! and then had nothing to do - so we went for coffee, came back and had lunch that they had provided, had a little meeting and then left at 1:30, which was super nice - those in worship and creative arts though got screwed because they had to stay around for practice for the album - they didn't get home until like 11:30pm - thursday the conference was only at night but we were trained in our jobs etc during the day, had to do seat drops, which is putting all the flyers on the seats, but we had to wait for like 2 hours for our level to get ours - so that day was good - friday i got up and felt extremely exhausted, not good when you wake up feeling that way and you know you are going to be going for another 18 hours before you get to sleep and only to get up again 5 hours after that to go for another 18 hours and for some people they still had to serve early sunday morning and go all day for album as well - so saturday i had lots more energy - how i'm not sure, only God's supernatural power i'm sure - i had to do hosting and pampering as my jobs - so hosting i had to watch a section of the building and seat everyone in their seats, find seats for those who come in late etc and then do the offering etc and then help hand out anything they needed handed out - so pampering when i got there i got put on nails, okay if you know me, you know that i don't ever do my nails, paint or file them, they are super short, i know nothing about doing nails and i was put on that for 3 hours straight! but it ended up being really good, some people cared that i didn't do a super amazing job, and other people were just blessed by the pampering station - it was cool because i just talked to people, got to know them a bit and listen to them chat, the time flew by - and it's so much greater than doing nails, it wasn't about that at all, it was about making the women feel pampered, and valued, so many women never take the time to do these things for themselves, so they really enjoyed it! so it was good, sunday morning i still had to do car park - i was so tired, why, i'm not sure because i got to sleep almost double of what i had the other nights, but i guess it just wasn't enough still - then went straight from the church to the acer arena to host again for album recording - hosting this time was much easier though because the arena wasn't packed out, had some people argue with me about being up so high and seats being saved for special needs people, but other than that it was good - i was super tired and very emotional so it was a weird day, let's just say i'm glad it's over, but Hillsong Conference is coming in July and is a whole week, so that will be interesting - but i realized over these days that you can seriously go on alot longer than you think, you can do alot more than you think you can when you are tired and that the things you really don't want to do are usually the way that God shows his power - i felt so pumped after doing nails - like what if i wouldn't have gone - that would've been like 8-10 people i wouldn't have gotten to meet and bless and it wasn't about me, it was about being obedient - i'm realizing more and more about that - J. John was in our sunday service yesterday speaking to us on obedience and about how Jonah didn't want to go to Nineveh, so he ran to the other end of the country/continenent whatever it was and now because he ended up going they have an annual Jonah day in Nineveh - like our disobedience affects many people - it's really not about us - if we don't do what God asks us to - it is going to affect many other people around us and after us - it was very profound - and if you have never heard J. John speak, wow, he is the funniest guy ever, looks like Mr. Bean too - i'm hoping to get a DVD of him so i can watch him over and over forever!! haha! so now i have today and tomorrow off, then class wednesday and then hillsong women and weekly ministry thursday then a couple of classes friday and powerhouse at night, not much this week!!! trying to get caught up on some cleaning etc - got some groceries today and did two loads of laundry!!!

posted by Meliss @ 8:51 PM