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From Students to Leaders: The Summer Interns Episode · Everything In Between: a Trinity UMC Podcast

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  Life isn't black and white. It's not just mountaintop
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  moments or rock bottom seasons. It's lived in the middle, in the
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  doubts and the prayers that feel unanswered, in the joy you
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  didn't see coming. Welcome to Everything in
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  Between, a podcast from Trinity UMC.
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  Our. You don't like talking to music,
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  do you? I mean, I can't.
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  I thought you were just playing music first.
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  Are we? Are we dancing?
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  All right. Hello and welcome to the podcast
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  with our summer interns where everything in between and you
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  get to hear today from the best interns 2026 has ever seen for
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  Trinity Student Ministry. I'm Melissa and today we have.
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  Addison. And Peyton?
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  And Josiah on the ones and twos. So buckle up and get ready.
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  It's about to be a fun one y'all.
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  Woo all. Right, you're a natural that's
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  thank. You I learned from Carlos
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  Whitaker. Interesting.
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  Yeah, you should listen to his podcast.
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  I should. You should.
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  I should. Anyway, greetings everyone.
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  We are so excited to be here today.
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  Josiah and I have amazing interns for our summer.
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  You might ask, why do we need interns in Trinity Student
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  Ministry in the summer? And if you don't understand why,
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  I encourage you to come volunteer and lead with Trinity
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  Student Ministry 1 summer, right guys?
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  Yeah. That sounds like a challenge.
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  It is. It is a challenge.
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  But honestly, we have interns. I'm going to let them tell you
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  just a little bit of what they've done.
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  But we also have interns because it's just this place where you
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  can kind of, it's an everything in between place where you can
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  figure out where you are in life and what role does ministry
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  play? How do you want to serve within
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  the church, What a student ministry look like?
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  We've had several people come through our internships, myself
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  included, that have ended up working as a career in ministry.
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  But ladies, tell us a little bit about yourself and what you've
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  done so far this summer. You want to go first, Daddy?
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  Sure. I'll go first.
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  So I'm Addie. I'm fresh out of the youth
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  group, so I just got out of it last year.
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  I graduated in 2025, Now I'm at Florida State studying
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  neuroscience, behavioral neuroscience, hopefully getting
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  into the medical field of going to Med school afterwards this
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  summer. So far I've been in the church
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  office a lot starting off the internship and then I also work
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  at Buffalo's Reef and I have an internship at Niceville Urgent
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  Care. Shameless plugs to Buffalo's
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  Reef. We love them.
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  Yes, come visit me, I love to see you all.
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  Right, Papa? OK, I'm Peyton, but everybody
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  here calls me Peppa and I'm not fresh out of the youth group.
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  I graduated in 2022 and I've been at Florida State ever
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  since, and I'm currently working on my master's degree in sports
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  nutrition. And this summer I am continuing
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  working for UDA, which is Universal Dance Association, so
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  I teach camps for them throughout the summer.
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  And yeah, I've just been in the church office a lot with
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  Melissa. Anybody out there got a text
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  message about owing money for ARM?
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  That probably came from me, but yeah.
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  And I've just been enjoying my time hanging out with Melissa
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  and Addie and Jane in the office.
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  So super excited to be here. Yay.
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  Super excited for you to be here as well.
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  Yeah. So now you've told us what
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  you're planning to be when you grow up, can you tell us what
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  you used to dream about being when you grew up?
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  Go for it. Oh, gosh.
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  OK. So I when I was real, I
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  basically wanted to be everything.
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  Like, I've had a phase where I've like, thought about being
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  anything. When I was in kindergarten, I
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  wanted to be a surgeon. I have a picture I think
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  somewhere dressed up as a doctor.
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  But if you ask my like, old Diaries that I used to write in,
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  it was an Acrobat in the circus. Yeah, I know.
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  Really weird. Thanks, Josiah.
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  That was super awesome. Super awkward.
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  Yeah, Like, I don't know why I wanted to be that.
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  I was a dancer, but like, I wasn't in the circus because it
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  looks cool. I was like, not doing that at
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  all. Did you want to be like?
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  Trapeze or tightrope or just like no like flipped.
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  Around like and I, that's just like not my journey.
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  I don't know why I ever wanted to be that.
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  I just thought you could just like declare that for yourself.
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  I didn't actually like try to do anything with that.
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  As a dancer, was your flexibility.
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  No, no, not at all. I mean, maybe that's why you're
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  not an actor. Yeah.
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  But now it's kind of come full circle, cuz now you're here
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  interning at a different kind of circus.
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  Yeah, OK. That's a good one.
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  All right. Actually, Josiah, what about
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  you? I'm not one of the interns.
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  That's OK. We're asking you one question.
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  From you what? Did you want?
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  To be when you grew up. What did I want to be when I
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  grew up? I wanted to be a Believe it or
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  not, I wanted to be a personal trainer when I grew up and I my
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  biggest push towards that is I never want to wear a suit.
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  I wanted to be able to work in khakis or sweatpants and that is
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  what I now do. Comfort level was priority.
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  Whatever. There was a time where, like
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  when I was really young, I might have wanted to be a cop just
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  because. Like everybody went through that
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  phase. Cool cars and whatnot.
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  But then when I figured out that there was more jobs than just
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  cop firemen or astronaut and doctor.
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  Those are the main 4. Those are the ones that they
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  make toys of. Not many toys of personal
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  trainers. We got to work on that.
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  Yeah, I I wanted to be a a lawyer when I grew up.
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  I could so see that for you I did.
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  I wanted to be a lawyer. I wanted to go to Harvard.
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  My dad really fueled that dream and and then Legally Blonde came
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  out and that really set a fire in me.
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  I think that sets a fire for anybody.
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  Yeah, because I watched that before an exam and I'm like, I
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  got. This exactly.
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  It's so empowering. All right, baddie, what about
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  you? I think I didn't really really
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  changed mine pretty much until I was in high school.
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  I wanted to be a teacher, but I kind of realized in high school
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  that the reason that I wanted to be a teacher is because I wanted
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  to decorate a classroom and that was literally it.
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  I had no other desire to work with like younger kids every
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  single day you're. So good at it though.
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  Oh, it working with kids. Yeah, day camp at ARM.
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  You're so good. I love working with kids and
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  like, I do enjoy it, I just don't know that I would want to
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  do it every single day. Like, love babysitting, love
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  watching Jane, I'll babysit anyone's kids, and I'll work day
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  camp for a week. Highly recommend as a
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  babysitter. Yeah, hit me up guys, in my free
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  time. Let's add that fourth job in
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  there, yeah? Just throw in another.
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  But yeah, so then that kind of led into maybe I want to be an
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  interior designer because I just like to decorate things.
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  But then I realized that it was kind of more of a hobby, not a.
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  Her bedroom looks like it's out of an IKEA catalog.
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  It's insane. Yeah.
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  And I just keep like I'll do that with my apartment.
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  I'll do it with anything. But I need you to come do that
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  with my house once it's cleaned out.
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  Deal, OK. Great.
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  She's really good. All right, So what brought you
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  back here? We're just skipping you.
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  How can? I ask you, I did.
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  Answer it, never mind. See how well he listens to me?
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  You guys, I want to point that out.
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  He heard every word I said about wanting to be a lawyer.
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  And Legally Blonde. I remember now.
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  Do you what evidence we have here Exhibit A?
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  Right. All right, So what brought you
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  back to want to intern? Oh, honestly, I OK, so I came
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  back last summer just as a volunteer and I don't know, like
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  there wasn't like a thing that like made me want to do it.
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  I think it was more just like I felt like I just like a pole to
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  come back. I mean the Holy Spirit honestly,
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  because I just like got this feeling and I was like, Dang,
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  like I feel like I've been out enough.
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  Like I didn't want to come back right away.
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  Like obviously I wanted to come back right away and go on all
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  those trips and do all the fun things, but I knew that that
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  like wasn't my space. I needed to like be away and
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  like figure out who I am as a person and then can come back
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  and like help you. But I think like I've, I like
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  came into like a full circle moment in like the last year and
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  was like, wait, actually like I graduated undergrad and I was
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  like, I think I do want to come back.
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  And like, I feel like I, I like got my, you know, undergrad
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  done. And I was like, I have some like
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  something to give. I don't know what it is yet.
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  And I hope that like, you know, if I like talked to any kids
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  last summer at camp that like I was able to like God was able to
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  use me in whatever they needed, but I just felt like I needed to
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  come back and like via vessel basically.
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  Yeah, I think last summer I saw the spark you gave one of our
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  most difficult midweek destination Bible study talks
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  after your experience at FSU last summer and how God is
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  greater than a school shooting, which he is.
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  But it sounds like a crazy thing to talk about specifically weeks
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  after you've experienced it. And I think, I think God's doing
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  great work in you and I'm really excited that you said yes.
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  So, all right, Batty. I honestly really missed it,
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  like I just wasn't ready to leave.
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  How many years were you president before this?
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  3. She was away for about two
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  seconds. She was right back.
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  She. Was the intern with the intern?
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  With the intern. Pretty much.
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  And like, I guess this isn't really my first time interning.
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  I was part of the ACORN program with three other people.
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  So I've like kind of had this role before, but it was split
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  among four people, not 2. And so I honestly, this youth
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  group has given so much to me and helped me, helped foster so
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  much of my faith that if I can come back and help in any way
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  that I can to do that for other kids, like I want to do that
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  immediately. So yeah, I think just one, I
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  missed it too. I have a big passion for this
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  youth group and what everyone is doing between you, Melissa and
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  all the other leaders so and I love to be part of it.
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  I think that summed up exactly what I was trying to say when
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  you're saying like the impact that Melissa had on our lives,
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  like I don't want like I want to be able to like give that impact
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  to someone else too. Because like the fact that I've
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  been out of high school for almost five years and I still
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  meet up with you with like things and like get coffee with
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  you. And anytime I have a problem,
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  like I just come to you. Are you crying?
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  Why are? You going to?
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  Make me cry you in the eyes right now, but like and I just
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  like thought about that. I was like wow, like what an
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  impact that she made on me and why are you?
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  I can't look at you. You're talking.
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  I'll look away. I'm so.
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  Sorry, like I just like was like, wow, like this is
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  something I, I got to be a part of this.
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  Like if we can make more impact with more people like you.
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  You guys are so kind and those are moments where I'm just like,
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  it is what I'm doing, doing anything.
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  Like, you know, I'm trying to do this work for God, but like, am
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  I being fruitful in what's happening?
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  And like you guys are examples that, you know, trust the
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  process and all the work that Josiah and I put in and that,
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  you know, think good things are happening.
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  Like it's, I don't know quality over quantity in this case,
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  right? So.
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  Melissa has statistically planned for you guys to be
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  interns for years now. I hear it almost every year.
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  She's like, Eddie's going to be my.
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  I think it was like in her junior year.
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  She's like, Eddie's going to be my intern.
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  Yeah, there are certain ones that I'm like, do they have to
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  go off to college? Can I please just stay?
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  But that's what's great is now Christina's transformed my job
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  into next Gen. And I get it's my job to connect
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  with the college students, which I was already doing, but now?
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  There's been a plan. It's in the job description.
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  OK, so we talked about this question.
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  We're going to morph it just a smidge.
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  Is there an experience or something that happened to you
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  or a lesson or a rule? Is there something from your
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  time in Trinity student, Trinity student ministry that you didn't
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  really fully understand or appreciate that now on this side
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  of it that you're like, oh, I get why this happened or I
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  understand this a lot better? I think for me, it's not really
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  something that I understand better necessarily, but
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  something that I appreciate a little bit more now and that I
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  use more. It was actually student
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  leadership university. I talk about this a lot, but it
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  was a lesson from Jeff Wallace that has just really stuck with
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  me. And it's the disc personality
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  and he went through it. We discussed every personality
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  type. I'm an S, which is like the shy
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  typically personality and for a lot of, I mean, that's what I've
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  been my whole life, but I kind of just assumed that like I was
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  more of a behind the scenes gal. And so like if I was an intern,
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  I was going to be in like working in the office and like
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  that I wasn't out there and like putting my leadership like in a
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  more visible way to people. And so I think in high school
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  that was applicable, but I think in college, like you're in such
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  a a much bigger community that like you, it, it means a little
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  bit more to put put myself out of the S box and be a leader and
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  a member of different communities, like in the run
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  club. Like it means a little bit more
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  than just I can speak in front of people, but like I can in
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  front of way more people than I had ever anticipated.
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  It's not just. Preached last year in front of
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  the. Congregation and so like those
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  are things that I never thought that I would get to do, but now
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  on the other side of SLU, like I can do those things.
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  So that's something that I definitely have been applying,
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  but even more so now outside of high school, outside of the
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  youth group, I apply a lot more. Yeah, You don't have someone
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  forcing you to go do these things like you've got to choose
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  to do it. Exactly.
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  Yeah, It's not like Melissa asked me to pray in front of,
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  you know, hot dog heaven or whatever it.
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  Is podcasts are going to show that I'm pushy?
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  But in a good way, it's for a good reason.
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  Yeah, I have a T-shirt that says I'm not bossy.
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  It's leadership skills. The leadership skills,
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  Absolutely. All right, Anything from you,
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  Peyton? Honestly, we were talking about
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  this a little bit before, but like the rules and the things
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  that you do. Like I got it then because like
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  I just trusted whatever you were saying.
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  I was like, she's probably right.
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  Like I we probably do need to do it this way.
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  But like now I see it because I see like the amount of times
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  that you have to like remind people to do things or like even
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  like this week I noticed somebody asked you something and
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  you were not even like really like fully listening.
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  Like I think we were. It was me and Josiah talking
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  about something and then all of a sudden I was like, oh, we need
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  to make a copy of this. And while you were or like, on
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  the phone with someone, you sent it to the printer.
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  And I was like, how does she, like, have, like, 500 tabs open
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  in her head? She's listening to everything.
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  There's music playing up there, probably.
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  Yeah. Like, it's so insane the things
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  that you're able to keep track of.
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  And then like, also like, Jane's having a conversation with you.
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  You're on the phone. You're managing all these
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  things, like kind of Florida State.
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  And then you just like send something to the printer because
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  I mentioned it one time and I was like, whoa.
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  She like whispered in the corner that something needed to be
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  printed. And you're like, oh, it's
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  already back there. And I just.
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  Appreciate so nice signs of acknowledging that she heard.
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  She was like. Sent it off and I think in her
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  mind she just forgot to send acknowledgement.
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  There's like, I got you. Yeah.
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  We didn't really figure out till we went to the printer.
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  I was like, oh, it's already printed.
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  Yeah. It's like that, like you're
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  like, you basically did so much, but like, I didn't like, I fully
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  get it now that I'm like, whoa, like you have all this stuff
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  like paperwork and stuff behind the scenes.
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  I mean, it's all a little bit of that.
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  But like, because youth ministry looks really fun on the surface,
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  like we're at pool parties, we're going to camp, we're at a
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  concert. Not the pool parties.
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  Those are scary sometimes. Pool parties are so stressful.
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  We add a. Body of water, yeah.
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  Or if you add like open water, like when we go to the Curtises,
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  so. Fun, but kind of scary.
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  I tell him if you're if you're down like current or whatever.
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  I'm not strong at swimming, so you need to stay in the
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  boundaries. Or in the woods.
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  Oh my gosh. Yeah, stay.
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  Take a bunch of kids over state lines.
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  I don't know how you sleep at night.
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  With when I open. No, literally.
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  Yeah, there's that. That post Oakwood nap is a real
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  thing. Post arm I have to go load up on
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  sushi like I carbo load and that's how I recover.
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  Wait, can I join? Yeah, that sounds like fun.
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  I need to load up on. Sushi.
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  It was back when, like the interns of ARM, we're budgeting
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  for the food and it was not greatly done.
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  And so we would have to ration off food because we had big boys
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  like, you know, Brett, who needs more than one serving.
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  So I would take less, which is not going to cut it.
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  No, no. For like 1 scoop of lasagna.
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  Have you met these boys? They're bottomless pits.
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  But you know, I'd get home and I would order myself $40 worth of
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  sushi and I would eat it and I would go home and then I would
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  sleep. I would be a part of that.
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  We can go do sushi, but like the Post, the nap doesn't really get
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  to happen because now I have Jane.
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  But yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot.
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  All right, So now you guys are college students.
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  You're away at FSU and it's one of those seasons where a lot of
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  times young people fall off in their faith.
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  It's where they're like, I'm in college.
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  Time to experience the college life and it's where I make my
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  mistakes and what not. And I would like to commend you
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  guys that you have really like paved your own way.
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  Like of course mistakes happen and life happens and you have to
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  experience things. But you were two of the students
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  that like have really established yourself.
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  So I would love for you to share how you did that, why you chose
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  to do that, and all of those things.
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  I'll go first. I think for me, I knew going in
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  to Tallahassee that there is a very big party scene and that's
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  what a lot of people are doing. That's what they do with their
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  free time. And I knew going in that I
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  didn't want to be a part of that.
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  And so I had to be very intentional going in.
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  And like I talked to Peyton about it before.
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  Like I wanted to get plugged in immediately.
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  So that that wasn't even like a thought in my mind.
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  So I got there. Me and my roommate immediately
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  started like first Sunday started going to different
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  churches, seeing which one we liked and wanted to make like
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  our home church in Tallahassee. I still kind of go back and
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  forth between one or two, but then it was the same thing even
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  outside of Sunday mornings. We me and my roommate joined a
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  small group with one of the churches.
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  We are now doing the run club that Peyton helps lead.
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  And so just filling my time with things that are going to build
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  me up in my faith and not lead me away from God.
• 20:04
  I think I it took, I had to be very intentional about it and
• 20:07
  make sure that what I was, yeah, what I was filling my time with
• 20:11
  was going to be productive for my faith.
• 20:15
  Mine is very different. So when I went, I did not have
• 20:20
  someone already there to help me plug in.
• 20:22
  So I kind of thought, and I had said this my senior year.
• 20:26
  I thought that there was a way that I could because you know,
• 20:28
  society is telling you like this is college.
• 20:30
  This is your time to like go out and just like you got to be in
• 20:35
  college, right? So I was like, OK, well, I love
• 20:38
  Jesus and but I also like want to experience what everyone else
• 20:41
  is talking about. So I thought that I could be in
• 20:44
  the world and of the world as well.
• 20:46
  I thought I could, like, ride that fine line.
• 20:48
  And that just didn't happen. So like, you just kind of like,
• 20:52
  fall into it. And then you're like, wait a
• 20:54
  second. This is like, more than what I
• 20:56
  really wanted. And it didn't help that I didn't
• 20:59
  really have a Christian community because everyone
• 21:01
  around me didn't love Jesus. And I didn't really know, like,
• 21:03
  how to find those people. Like, I was going to church and
• 21:05
  I was in small groups, but none of my like, roommates or people
• 21:09
  in my classes. Like I kind of felt like it was
• 21:12
  like a secret part of me that I just like, wasn't really like
• 21:14
  talking about that much unless I was in those settings.
• 21:18
  But so then I just decided I was like, I don't want to do this
• 21:22
  anymore. Luckily, the party scene didn't
• 21:24
  really like entice me that much. So it wasn't like something that
• 21:26
  I was like, you know, a prisoner to.
• 21:28
  I was able to just be like, yeah, I'm, I'm good on that.
• 21:30
  But I was like just praying and journaling about needing
• 21:35
  community because I was like, that's I think that's like
• 21:37
  really what I'm lacking is like, I don't have any friends that
• 21:40
  like want to get up and go to church with me on Sunday
• 21:44
  mornings. I was going by myself and then
• 21:47
  literally one of my friends asked me to go to a run club
• 21:51
  with her and I did not run at that point.
• 21:54
  Like I ran like as a punishment in sports, like now.
• 21:58
  You've run a marathon and. Now I run a marathon, but so I
• 22:04
  went with her to that and there was only like 8 people at this
• 22:08
  guy's house and one of them was like AFSU football player.
• 22:12
  And I was like, oh, so like, I don't run like that.
• 22:14
  But she ran like she was a runner.
• 22:16
  And I was like, I don't run like that.
• 22:18
  Like I don't know, this is going to be weird.
• 22:20
  So I just, I went and it was fine.
• 22:22
  And everybody's really nice. And then I went back the next
• 22:24
  weekend. And then I think like after a
• 22:26
  couple weeks, me being there, the one of the guys that was
• 22:28
  leading it, he asked me and my friend that we're going if we
• 22:31
  wanted to be in leadership with it because they were trying to
• 22:34
  grow it. And we were like, oh, like we'll
• 22:35
  think about it. And this is like right before
• 22:37
  Christmas break, I left, I went home and then I was right about
• 22:40
  to message him back and like, be like, hey, I want to do it
• 22:43
  because I've been praying about it over Christmas.
• 22:44
  And then boom, immediate text message back.
• 22:47
  He was like, hey, like, did you think about it?
• 22:49
  Like, we really want you? And I was like, yeah, like,
• 22:51
  actually I really do. And so that like transformed my
• 22:54
  college experience. That was, I think that was my
• 22:58
  last year of undergrad. It's been, I don't even know.
• 23:01
  It's been like a year and a half of this run club.
• 23:05
  And so we got it started up. We got like a bunch of people
• 23:10
  and I like built my community and I was able to go to church
• 23:13
  with them. I hung out with them outside of
• 23:15
  like church and outside of just like life.
• 23:18
  Like we just always were hanging out together.
• 23:20
  We were studying together, we were going and like Tallahassee
• 23:22
  has a huge like backyard band culture and like it's all like
• 23:25
  college students that have their own little like niche bands.
• 23:28
  So we would go to like see all of our friends in bands and like
• 23:30
  we would go to all their shows and like the backyards.
• 23:33
  And so we would just do that together a lot.
• 23:35
  And that I think is really well like got me out of like being
• 23:39
  one foot in one foot out that like really was was like, OK,
• 23:43
  you're, you're back in like you're done with that.
• 23:45
  Yeah. Because you can't be in the
• 23:47
  world and of the world or no, what is it?
• 23:50
  You? You can't.
• 23:52
  You can no. Be in the world but not.
• 23:54
  You can be in the world, but not of the world.
• 23:56
  But you can't like ride the like, you can't be on the fence.
• 23:59
  You can have one foot in and 1 foot out it.
• 24:01
  Kind of makes me think of like a tightrope, Like when you're
• 24:03
  walking a tightrope and tightrope and both feet are on
• 24:05
  there, everyone's like, OK, it's not that like it looks good,
• 24:08
  like you're safe ish. Like you lift that one leg up
• 24:10
  and everyone's. Like, yeah.
• 24:12
  'Cause it's dangerous, 'cause all you have to do is, you know,
• 24:15
  not step back onto the rope and you've slippery slope down, you
• 24:19
  know. Yeah.
• 24:20
  Also, if like, if you have any ounce of you that isn't fully
• 24:23
  committed to Christ, then you're giving the devil like that
• 24:26
  leeway to like, really take over.
• 24:29
  Like, you've got to be all in. If you're not all in like, then
• 24:32
  you're not all in, right? I think I think a lot of that of
• 24:36
  both of y'all stories is go to the show.
• 24:37
  Like that's how important community is.
• 24:40
  And like a lot when a lot of people are saying like, well,
• 24:41
  why church? Because a lot of it was like,
• 24:44
  well, I can just read my Bible at home.
• 24:45
  I can praise God at home and do all that kind of stuff, but just
• 24:49
  how much community provides like accountability, opportunity and
• 24:54
  then all that. Cause both of y'all knew like,
• 24:56
  Hey, when I, when I go over here, I was like, I'm going to
• 24:58
  need something's going to grab your attention.
• 25:01
  And so just being attention about what you're going to be
• 25:05
  around the community's going to shape that.
• 25:07
  The people you're around are going to shape that.
• 25:09
  And I like how what Addie said reminded me of a lot of my, my,
• 25:16
  my dad would always tell me and he was like, you know, if you,
• 25:19
  you got to decide while you're in your right mind what you're
• 25:22
  going to do. Because if you, if you don't
• 25:24
  plan, then when you get there, you're just going to do whatever
• 25:27
  feels right in the moment. A lot of those last minute
• 25:31
  decisions are usually not like the best decisions.
• 25:35
  I know we've all sort of been there.
• 25:37
  There was, and it could be just as, I don't want to say easy,
• 25:40
  but just as simple as if you see yourself going down one way,
• 25:44
  it's like let me find a community that's going to bring
• 25:47
  me back. And it's not like let me get
• 25:48
  back on my own. It's let me find a community and
• 25:50
  then it's just so much easier to.
• 25:53
  Yeah, my moment of like transition from high school into
• 25:57
  adulthood, I, I struggled with that because like my graduating
• 26:02
  class from Trinity wasn't very big and none of us were very
• 26:05
  tight. And so like, like Addie, I
• 26:09
  immediately plugged back into the youth group.
• 26:11
  But like Peyton said, I was living in both worlds.
• 26:14
  So like Sundays and Wednesdays I was leading a small group, but
• 26:17
  you know, Fridays and Saturdays I was going out with my Co
• 26:19
  workers because like, it was a whole new life.
• 26:24
  And I think it, it took Matt firing me from being a small
• 26:27
  group leader for me to realize like, I have to pick where I'm
• 26:30
  going to live. And I, I obviously picked to,
• 26:34
  you know, walk with the Lord and to leave partying behind and
• 26:39
  just being more responsible and how I take care of myself.
• 26:42
  But it, that was like a big wake up call for me was when, you
• 26:45
  know, my trusted mentor was like, yeah, I don't need you to
• 26:49
  come back next semester. So and so is going to take over
• 26:52
  your small group. So like, you're free to go.
• 26:54
  And that free to go was like, it just stung.
• 26:58
  I was like, Oh no, he knows on Sunday morning when I'm here
• 27:02
  with my Sprite why I have a Sprite so.
• 27:06
  Let me not hold you back. Yeah, he was like, you go do
• 27:09
  what you need to do as a 2021 year old and let me know when
• 27:15
  you're ready. OK.
• 27:19
  So all right, so you guys are career pursuing careers in
• 27:24
  healthcare and nutrition. How have you learned to see your
• 27:29
  future work as part of God's calling rather than just a job
• 27:32
  and it being a ministry that you're going to get to foster?
• 27:38
  Yeah, I mean, I don't really know exactly what my career is
• 27:42
  going to look like. Like right now I'm just kind of
• 27:43
  like trying to be in the moment. Like I have like my steps.
• 27:46
  Like I finished undergrad, now I have to get a master's degree
• 27:49
  halfway done with that. Then I have to do internships.
• 27:51
  Like I don't really, like know exactly where it's going to take
• 27:54
  me once I become a registered dietitian.
• 27:56
  I have like things that I want to do, but like, obviously
• 28:00
  that's not really my control. I'm just kind of kind of like be
• 28:02
  in the moment and let like the Lord kind of guide my path.
• 28:06
  But I don't know. I think that whatever it is, I
• 28:09
  know that it's going to be from God because I feel like he gave
• 28:12
  me the passion for it. Like I wouldn't have made it
• 28:16
  this many years learning about nutrition if I didn't love it.
• 28:18
  And I do. And like I'm sure like Addie can
• 28:21
  attest to this, like even in like family settings or like
• 28:23
  when we're hanging out, like I will talk about it.
• 28:25
  Like if anybody asks me a question about anything food
• 28:28
  related, like it hypes me up and I will just like go down a
• 28:31
  rabbit hole. Like, I'll just give you all the
• 28:32
  information about it, but I just feel like that passion had to
• 28:36
  come from the Lord. So I feel like he's going to
• 28:38
  foster that and like guide that into something that like is, you
• 28:45
  know, going to help people. And so yeah, I just feel like
• 28:48
  that's going to like he's going to foster that and guide that
• 28:50
  and take it where it needs to go.
• 28:52
  And obviously, like, everybody has to eat.
• 28:53
  So I'm going to be able to do something with everyone if like
• 28:57
  that's what he has me do. But yeah, I.
• 29:02
  Since having you in office I've been observing your lunches and
• 29:05
  like you make it a point to eat. I'm really bad about having
• 29:08
  three meals a day and I know it's so important to have three
• 29:11
  meals a day and like 2 snacks and what?
• 29:14
  5. Oh yeah, I said three meals a
• 29:16
  day and two snacks. Oh, if my, my, no, my mom is
• 29:19
  listening to this right now and I'm, she'll tell you like I do
• 29:22
  not miss a meal. Well, I'm I'm so bad at it and
• 29:25
  it's. Reflected 4 or 5.
• 29:27
  It reflects in my labs and my weight and all of these things.
• 29:31
  And so since you've been in the office, I've been making it more
• 29:33
  of a point to like, pack food to eat throughout the day.
• 29:36
  And I try, like, before I eat, like, leave the office, I'm
• 29:39
  like, OK, I'm going to have my crackers and my baby bell cheese
• 29:43
  and, like, my little meat. Yesterday, I came up with a cup
• 29:46
  of oatmeal. And I was like, I cheered myself
• 29:48
  on at the end of dinner. And I was like, I had three
• 29:49
  meals today printed. One of them was like an adult
• 29:53
  lunchable. But yeah.
• 29:54
  But it's I've never inspired her that much.
• 29:56
  So she. Doesn't.
• 29:57
  Yeah, if y'all don't know, Josiah keeps the jar of peanut
• 29:59
  butter on his desk. Kind of like Ted lies where he
• 30:02
  just comes by and takes a scoop. Yeah, just kidding.
• 30:04
  With the rice cakes don't look to be clear, I'm not just like
• 30:07
  spooning. Jars.
• 30:09
  And also a pack of. There just so you know, I I got,
• 30:13
  I got 3 workouts in today. I'm really trying to be better
• 30:15
  about my health, you guys today. Or yesterday.
• 30:18
  I got one in today. I took a break yesterday and
• 30:21
  then I did one Tuesday and 1:00 Monday, so I've done. 3 this
• 30:24
  week. Yeah, arms, a bar class arrest.
• 30:28
  And then today I did back and chest.
• 30:33
  I'm trying, but I've been inspired by like that until like
• 30:36
  I observe your lunch and I'm like, I could pack things like
• 30:38
  that. I was really happy.
• 30:39
  Everybody was really interested in my chicken salad recipe.
• 30:41
  You. Should share the recipe.
• 30:42
  Share Share. With people, yeah.
• 30:44
  OK, so I get. OK, so obviously living in
• 30:46
  Tallahassee, most of this comes from Trader Joe's, but you can
• 30:48
  find different brands. I get a can of chicken because,
• 30:51
  I'm sorry, convenience. I'm not cooking a chicken breast
• 30:54
  and shredding it. Just get the one that's in
• 30:55
  water. It tastes fine.
• 30:56
  Drain it, and then you put in like a rap ton of yogurt, Greek
• 31:02
  yogurt, unflavored. And then the Trader Joe's ranch
• 31:05
  seasoning, Pour that on there, a little bit of sweet pickle
• 31:09
  relish from Trader Joe's or wherever, salt and pepper.
• 31:12
  Mix it all together, Hannah Montana style, and eat it with
• 31:15
  crackers, bell Peppers and cucumbers.
• 31:19
  Or you can put it in a wrapper on a sandwich.
• 31:21
  And it's so fire. Yeah.
• 31:23
  No relish. And it's really good.
• 31:24
  Oh yeah, I didn't put relish in it when I brought it to the
• 31:26
  office. Yeah.
• 31:27
  How many ounces is a crap ton? OK, so I just like, I'm kidding
• 31:31
  and there's probably like 1/2 of a cup for a can of chicken or if
• 31:36
  you really want it like super creamy chicken salad more, I
• 31:40
  don't know, it's kind of just measure with your heart.
• 31:43
  I love that I want to say before, like it gets too far
• 31:46
  off, like just the, I love what you're talking about, like your
• 31:49
  the pat like I don't know where my career is going, but I know
• 31:51
  what I have a passion is and I just want to use that passion.
• 31:55
  Like that passion was given to me.
• 31:57
  And the way I've always seen things is like the gifts that
• 32:00
  God gives you is like the gifts of passion.
• 32:02
  Like like for me when it comes to music, Oh my gosh, you're so
• 32:06
  just naturally gifted. And I was like, I don't think I
• 32:09
  have a natural gift for music. I have a natural passion for it
• 32:13
  because that passion is what led me to be good at it per SE.
• 32:18
  And so and I just like, that's why I always inspire or
• 32:22
  encourage people to do and think about is like, try to find
• 32:25
  something you have a passion for and then like see how you can
• 32:27
  use that passion while also at the same time, you know, we all
• 32:32
  live in this America, we got to eat.
• 32:34
  So we'll also try to find how can my passion, how?
• 32:38
  Can I monetize this? Yeah.
• 32:40
  Well, you got to put food on the plate, but then at the same time
• 32:42
  like. But I do honestly believe, like
• 32:45
  if you strive to increase your passion and then use your
• 32:49
  passion for God, he'll open that door.
• 32:52
  So it's like, here's where you can use it.
• 32:53
  Here's where you can use it and he'll make sure you're fed along
• 32:57
  the way. That's what I truly.
• 32:59
  Yeah, and I feel like that's something that I've had to learn
• 33:01
  a lot in the last year cuz one of my roommates is going into
• 33:03
  ministry and she's getting a degree in something that's not
• 33:06
  ministry and she does not enjoy learning it that much.
• 33:09
  Like she just kind of is trying to get through it and like she's
• 33:12
  killing it. If you're listening.
• 33:14
  Not there, Emma love you. But she is like just not wanting
• 33:18
  to do that for a career. But she's really, really
• 33:20
  passionate about ministry. And she's like, I don't know how
• 33:23
  this is going to make me money. I have no idea.
• 33:25
  But I will be poor if I can spread the gospel.
• 33:28
  And I was like, wow, like, maybe I need to adopt that mindset
• 33:31
  even in like my nutrition career, Like, it's OK if I don't
• 33:34
  do something that's making me the most money because the Lord
• 33:36
  will provide. And I was like, she just hit
• 33:39
  that on the head for me this year.
• 33:41
  And I was like, wow. That's how I ended up in
• 33:43
  ministry. I was terrified to like actually
• 33:45
  be in ministry because I was like, how am I going to like pay
• 33:47
  for life? How am I going to do this?
• 33:49
  Because I, I had to do a research project in college
• 33:51
  success and I picked youth ministry as what I was doing it
• 33:55
  on and decided afterwards like, oh, I can't do this.
• 33:58
  And, like, all within the same week of me at Oakwood accepting
• 34:01
  my, like, God being like, come on, listen to what I'm saying.
• 34:05
  I'm even like, OK, I hear you, like, loud and clear.
• 34:07
  And the same week it was like that happened, John bought a
• 34:11
  house. John proposed.
• 34:14
  And like, that's my partner for life.
• 34:16
  And so, like, he does, he covers the things that like, I wouldn't
• 34:19
  have been able to. And like, we're just a team.
• 34:23
  Yeah. You just like lean into your
• 34:24
  passions. I feel like it'll all just kind
• 34:26
  of work itself out. Like God doesn't put those like
• 34:28
  passions on your heart for no reason.
• 34:30
  Yeah, John was really supportive and like the you want to do
• 34:33
  youth ministry. Like why?
• 34:34
  Why are you torturing yourself trying to do other things?
• 34:37
  Like this is your passion. This is what God's called you to
• 34:39
  do. Why are we, why?
• 34:41
  Why are you sitting through another class that isn't going
• 34:43
  to do anything for you? But my degree is not in
• 34:45
  ministry. My degree is something called
• 34:47
  Children's Society. And so it was criminal justice,
• 34:51
  social work, an education which gets used a lot.
• 34:56
  Yeah, I thought you could definitely use.
• 34:58
  That yeah. And then it's just something I
• 35:00
  hear all the time when people like, you know, church won't pay
• 35:03
  your bills or like God won't pay your bills.
• 35:06
  Like, because like it's like, because they always, because in
• 35:08
  their mindset, they're like, you have to do something that's
• 35:10
  going to pay your bills. And but, and it's a hard thing
• 35:14
  to like to lino because it does, it takes a lot of trust to where
• 35:16
  you're like, if God wants to do this thing, he's not going to
• 35:21
  have me. I'm not going to go and do this
• 35:22
  thing and then like not be able to survive when he's like, he'll
• 35:26
  lead the way. And but it takes a lot of it
• 35:30
  takes a lot of trust. And the only way I've learned
• 35:33
  that is like I had one, I've had examples.
• 35:37
  One example of that I'll share real quick is I was close with a
• 35:43
  Jim who was like a nonprofit Jim and they were their biggest
• 35:47
  mission was to help and support kids.
• 35:50
  But in order to do that, they had to do a lot of they gave a
• 35:53
  lot of free training. And so very often they, I
• 35:57
  remember hearing from them almost monthly, they're like, we
• 35:59
  don't know where the how the next bill is going to get paid.
• 36:03
  Like we don't know how the next where the next food's going to
• 36:06
  come from. We don't know what's where
• 36:07
  anything's going to come from. But month after month, year
• 36:10
  after year, whether it was through donations or just random
• 36:15
  financial incomings, they would just things would get filled,
• 36:19
  things, things would get done. And, and that's the, the trust
• 36:24
  it takes where it's like if, if I know that God has me to do in
• 36:28
  a mission, I just go and do that mission and then just sit back
• 36:33
  and wonder about like how he's just filling those.
• 36:36
  Filling those doors. Provided that, you know, we're,
• 36:39
  we're utilizing the best that he's given us, you know?
• 36:45
  That's good. Yeah, I mean it goes back, what
• 36:47
  is it, Proverbs 3/5 through six that talks about like a proverb.
• 36:51
  Trust in the Lord with all your heart.
• 36:52
  Yeah, when you submit your plans to him like he's going to make
• 36:55
  the path. Yeah, straight.
• 36:56
  He's also not failed if you wake up, if you woke up this morning,
• 36:59
  like he didn't fail you like every day that you're giving
• 37:02
  breath in your lungs like that's God.
• 37:05
  He's not failed you yet. So why are you like stressing
• 37:07
  out that like everything's going to fall apart?
• 37:09
  Like I've never gone hungry or homeless.
• 37:11
  So like clearly I've we I've made it work and like but.
• 37:15
  Even those who are homeless, like some of them have the most
• 37:18
  joy because they're not, like, confined to like the
• 37:22
  restrictions of what the world worldly standards are.
• 37:25
  Yeah. So all right, let's give Batty
• 37:27
  or Addie a chance. Sorry, we go.
• 37:29
  We call her Batty Addie at church.
• 37:32
  But let's give I want to hear what you say to How do you see
• 37:39
  your future work as part of God's calling rather than just a
• 37:42
  job? Well, that's actually an
• 37:45
  interesting question. Question for me because I'm
• 37:47
  still figuring it out. I mean, I said before, like when
• 37:51
  I said I wanted to be an interior designer, I'm talking
• 37:54
  about like less than a year ago. I made that decision.
• 37:56
  That choice always baffled me. I never said it out loud because
• 37:59
  I didn't want to have crush hopes and dreams, but I was.
• 38:02
  Like interior? What was your ACT score?
• 38:03
  Yeah, a 33. Yeah.
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  One time she took it and got a 33.
• 38:07
  I took it like 8 times must. Be nice.
• 38:09
  Yeah, yeah. Well, so literally I applied to
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  FSU as an interior design major and then I within the span of
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  probably four months, I was a nursing major and then I was a
• 38:23
  preclinical professions major and now I'm behavioral
• 38:26
  neuroscience. So I changed a lot.
• 38:29
  I'm still figuring out where I'm called to be, what I'm called to
• 38:34
  do. Obviously right now the goal is
• 38:38
  medical school after I graduate, but where that's going to take
• 38:41
  me because that's pretty broad category, I'm not sure yet.
• 38:46
  And really the only thing in my life that I have ever felt
• 38:50
  called to be is a mom one day. Like that's all I want to do
• 38:54
  really is be a mom. And like that's the one thing
• 38:57
  that I've known for sure pretty much my entire life.
• 38:59
  And so separating like what I feel like I'm called to be
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  versus what I'm called to do as my career is something I'm still
• 39:08
  working out. And so it's been in my prayers a
• 39:12
  lot lately. Like God, right now, this is
• 39:15
  what I'm working towards. I'm working towards going to
• 39:17
  medical school. But if you have another
• 39:19
  direction you want me to go in like I'm down, like wherever you
• 39:23
  want to take me, that's where I'm going.
• 39:28
  So yeah, still figuring it out a little bit, but we're getting
• 39:31
  there. That's tough to be smart enough
• 39:33
  to have so many different avenues.
• 39:35
  I was only smart enough to have 30 a few my my option plate
• 39:39
  wasn't much because it's like I was going to college for one
• 39:41
  thing and realized, oh, college is not for you.
• 39:43
  And I was like, there's only so many doors left.
• 39:45
  So, but that, I mean, congratulations on being
• 39:49
  amazing. Thanks.
• 39:50
  Congrats on being a genius. But yeah, I do.
• 39:55
  But I do hear and feel where you're coming from just as far
• 39:57
  as like the wait and you'll figure it out because a lot of
• 40:01
  times it's just about, well, I know what I'm supposed to do and
• 40:03
  just wake up tomorrow and keep exactly so and they'll take care
• 40:07
  of the rest. That's how I've been going
• 40:08
  through life. Just like wake up tomorrow, what
• 40:11
  do I have to do? And that that's what I'm going
• 40:13
  to do. And you know.
• 40:15
  I know me personally, I was always frustrated by the what do
• 40:18
  you plan to do in five years? I was like, I can't control the
• 40:21
  wind. So I I mean I'm not the.
• 40:22
  One in charge. My five year plan is whittled
• 40:24
  down to about a week. I got that a lot when I
• 40:27
  graduated undergrad. They're like, what's next?
• 40:29
  I was like, heck if I know. Ask God, don't.
• 40:32
  Ask me. That's it.
• 40:33
  I don't know. But I know you're I'm not
• 40:35
  writing the story here. Yeah.
• 40:36
  Exactly right. Hey I'm just flipping the page.
• 40:38
  Yeah, I would love to talk more about mom stuff with you
• 40:41
  sometime and like the balance of like professional, like a
• 40:45
  professional job and like who you're called to be.
• 40:48
  Those are really difficult things to work through.
• 40:52
  It was, it's still really difficult for me to like figure
• 40:54
  it out because they say you can be both, but like, there's
• 40:57
  always a compromise somewhere in it.
• 40:59
  And I learned a lot from you in that, like how you balance.
• 41:03
  James in the library next door. Yeah, being.
• 41:05
  An amazing mother and also an amazing youth pastor.
• 41:07
  So yeah. And I feel like our moms too,
• 41:10
  like they both have professional.
• 41:11
  Who I'm so excited to work with on ARM next week.
• 41:15
  I'm so excited that they're coming with us.
• 41:17
  We love you, Gina and Lindsay. Yes.
• 41:19
  OK. So we've got some rapid fire
• 41:20
  questions to wrap this up. What are you most?
• 41:24
  Thank you, Thank you so much. What are you most excited for to
• 41:27
  for this summer? What are you excited about
• 41:30
  within your internship? I'm most excited for to go on
• 41:37
  trips and go to arm with my mom and my dad and my aunt and Addie
• 41:42
  like my. Cousin, if you haven't picked up
• 41:45
  yet. Oh, and our moms are identical
• 41:46
  twins. Yeah, they're so cute.
• 41:48
  They're basically sisters. Yeah.
• 41:50
  Yes. I was also gonna say ARM, but I
• 41:54
  know that's not really like we're going as college students,
• 41:57
  not interns. You'll be you'll be asked to
• 42:01
  help as much as interns. The whole thing is serving.
• 42:03
  They all get asked to do something.
• 42:05
  Yeah, true. I would say.
• 42:07
  I mean I'm just stoked about arm and I, I would say Oak would be
• 42:11
  by next but I can't. Go.
• 42:15
  So are you as stoked as Janus? I am as stoked.
• 42:18
  As she was just telling us, did you know there's three days
• 42:22
  until Arm and I was like every. 5 seconds because I'm so excited
• 42:27
  for ARM next. Week, she loves it.
• 42:29
  She's so high. We got to talk about that
• 42:30
  sometime on the podcast, Taking her to to arm.
• 42:34
  Do you have a question? Be on that podcast.
• 42:36
  Well, yeah, do you, do you want to ask a rapid fire or do you
• 42:38
  want me to keep going? Keep going, I thought.
• 42:39
  Aren't you supposed to be prepared for rapid fire?
• 42:41
  Questions. No.
• 42:42
  OK. I just wanted to give you an
• 42:43
  opportunity, Sir. Anyway.
• 42:44
  OK. What is one of your favorite
• 42:47
  memories as ATSM member? Oh, Oh my goodness.
• 42:52
  This wasn't on the wait. I got it.
• 42:54
  My first SLU. Yes.
• 42:57
  Me, you and Maddie, really every SLU.
• 43:00
  But the first one, we had no idea what we were doing.
• 43:03
  We were just figuring it out as we went and it was so much fun.
• 43:06
  It was truly a don't anticipate participate.
• 43:08
  Absolutely. We none of us knew what the next
• 43:12
  hour was going to be. And I loved it the entire.
• 43:14
  Time so good. I don't know, I my time in youth
• 43:18
  had a lot of like weird things that happened that like.
• 43:21
  Like breaking down in Gainesville.
• 43:22
  Breaking down in Gainesville my senior trip, the bus broke down
• 43:25
  multiple times. In Tallahassee, were you on the
• 43:27
  middle school mystery trip? No, I was not, but I was all my
• 43:31
  friends were like I should have been there but I couldn't have.
• 43:33
  And I was my heart went out to y'all sitting on the side of the
• 43:35
  Interstate. But like, I don't know.
• 43:37
  Sometimes those moments were the ones that like became like the
• 43:40
  fun little like trauma bond memories and then all the oak
• 43:44
  wits. Those are always really fun.
• 43:46
  Yeah. Where have you seen God the most
• 43:49
  since starting your internship in the last what, 2 weeks?
• 43:53
  Because it can be when you get into ministry.
• 43:55
  If you haven't noticed, we talked about a lot about
• 43:57
  passion. It can become a lot of work.
• 44:01
  So where? Where have you seen God?
• 44:03
  And the answered prayers for peace.
• 44:05
  I mean, I talked about earlier, I've got a lot going on this
• 44:08
  summer. And so saying yes to the
• 44:10
  internship I took a week before I gave you an answer.
• 44:13
  And it was because I was thinking, am I going to be able
• 44:15
  to do all of this in a summer? Am I going to be exhausted and
• 44:20
  not have time for anything else other than like work?
• 44:24
  And when we went to coffee, I was fully ready to take it off.
• 44:26
  You like to to have you not. And I, I thought about it and I
• 44:30
  was like, you know what? No, like, and this is something
• 44:33
  I'm passionate about and I want to be a part of it.
• 44:35
  So I'm not going to let you know, fear of like, oh, am I
• 44:39
  going to be too tired? Like I can sleep when I'm dead.
• 44:43
  No rest. Rest is holy.
• 44:45
  OK, rest. Did I tell you that I'm pretty?
• 44:47
  Sure you did. Banana, who goes to bed at 9:00?
• 44:50
  Yeah. She did tell me that, actually.
• 44:51
  I'm seeing where. The 30 the 33 ACT score come
• 44:53
  from. And so I think I in my mind, it
• 44:59
  was just like, if this is where God wants me to be, then it's
• 45:02
  going to work out. And so I prayed a lot for like,
• 45:05
  peace and rest and like, just to be this summer.
• 45:09
  And I feel like even just in the last two weeks, getting started
• 45:12
  with all of work, all of the internships, I felt a lot of
• 45:16
  peace with it. And so summer's going great so
• 45:19
  far. And yeah, that's where I've seen
• 45:21
  God. For me, it's kind of the same
• 45:24
  thing, but I, I did not go back to one of my other jobs that
• 45:27
  I've been usually working over the summer while I'm in college.
• 45:30
  And that's been the source of my financial stability was that
• 45:33
  job. And so not going back to it was
• 45:36
  kind of scary because I was like, oh, I have bills and
• 45:39
  things that I have to pay and I wanted to save up and, you know,
• 45:43
  have some money put aside for next semester and paying for my
• 45:46
  rent and all those things and student loans.
• 45:49
  And I was like, this is going to kind of stink.
• 45:52
  Like what if I take this internship and I don't go back
• 45:55
  to my job? And then I really regret it.
• 45:57
  But honestly, I haven't. Like, I feel like it goes back
• 46:00
  to what Josiah was saying, like it's, it's going to happen.
• 46:03
  Like you're, you got to go with your passions and he'll make
• 46:05
  away. And he has, and 1st month of
• 46:08
  paying my bills over the summer was a success.
• 46:10
  So it's fine. I did it.
• 46:11
  I got it done. I'm excited to see what God
• 46:14
  doesn't for you this year because you really have just
• 46:18
  like taking that leap of faith and I'm choosing this over what
• 46:22
  would worldly be the financial smart decisions and you're all
• 46:28
  in. I'm excited to see how God turns
• 46:29
  that around for you. Thanks.
• 46:31
  All right. Last question, quick answers for
• 46:33
  the Trinity Student Ministry people that are listening,
• 46:36
  what's a word of advice you have for them this summer?
• 46:41
  This one's been one that I've been like leaning into a lot for
• 46:45
  like probably the last like year and a half.
• 46:47
  But the Sabbath, look into it, like really take a Sabbath
• 46:52
  because it helps slow you down. And when you're in high school
• 46:55
  and in middle school and you're so busy with sports and
• 46:57
  extracurriculars, like it can be like, you feel like you're like
• 47:00
  not actually living your life. You're watching yourself live
• 47:02
  it. But if you like take a Sabbath
• 47:04
  and slow down, it makes it go by a little slower.
• 47:07
  You can really like, sit in the moment.
• 47:10
  I think for me, it's like, I guess this is more, I guess for
• 47:14
  older high school, but you're not behind.
• 47:18
  You don't have to have it all figured out.
• 47:19
  I definitely didn't. And I thought that that meant
• 47:22
  that I was behind or I wasn't doing everything right.
• 47:24
  But it's everyone's first time living and no one has it all
• 47:28
  figured out. So as a junior or senior in high
• 47:31
  school, you also don't have to have it all figured out.
• 47:33
  Even adults, we don't have it figured out.
• 47:35
  It's just one day at a time. And I'm figuring that out now
• 47:37
  too, yeah. Well, good.
• 47:39
  It's not my job to have it figured out.
• 47:40
  Gosh, it's fun when you don't have it figured out, because
• 47:43
  then you get to be surprised when something happens.
• 47:45
  You're like, wait, I did that. That's kind of cool.
• 47:47
  That's the most type B thing I've ever heard.
• 47:49
  I'm not, not, no. There's a reason that they're
• 47:53
  here. With us very much like to be in
• 47:54
  control of my life, but when God surprised me with something I'm
• 47:57
  like wow that's so cool. Thanks pleasant you.
• 47:59
  Should come over to the dark side of type B.
• 48:01
  No, don't. Absolutely not.
• 48:02
  I used to be that person, all right.
• 48:04
  I cannot. Youth ministry has made me not
• 48:06
  Type B. Anyway, we are so excited to
• 48:09
  have you guys this summer. You have done tremendous work
• 48:12
  already with Josiah and I, and we are just so grateful and
• 48:15
  appreciative for everything that you do.
• 48:18
  For those of you listening, take time to come over to the 945
• 48:21
  Service and say hi to Addison and Peyton.
• 48:23
  We would love for you to meet our interns.
• 48:26
  And yeah, thank you guys for being here and in everything in
• 48:30
  between with us. Thank.
• 48:32
  You for having us, Yay bye.