On Mission

My friend Tom is proposing to his girlfriend, Alli, as we speak. Our little community has been planning this out for quite some time now. Everyone has had a hand in making today super special for Alli. Dan and Emily have been practicing the songs that they are singing, Charity and Mark prepared the food, Tom and Dan did tons of stuff like renting boats, borrowing cars, and driving a few hours north to get the ring. It's been cool and fun to see everyone working together to accomplish the goal.

Yesterday afternoon everyone was over at our apartment running through the final plans. And last night Emily and Dan sang the proposal song as a final practice. When Tom realized that the next time he would hear them sing that he would be engaged, he started to get nervous for the first time, and everyone else had the feeling that you get on Christmas Eve. After that the guys said goodbye and we all went to sleep. 

When I woke up this morning the apartment was already buzzing with excitement. Lor was curling Emily's hair, Charity was looking up the recipes, and I was walking around thinking "Merry Christmas! What should I do?"      Soon the guys came over and we were getting closer and closer to fulfilling the mission. It was just so cool to see everyone working together to help out our brother Tom. The people who are making this possible are not gaining anything from this, they are doing out of love for Tom and Alli. 

Right now our church is having a Gospel conference. We are meeting together daily this week and strategizing the best way to live out the Gospel. We are finding that the most Biblical way to do this is to live our normal lives. but with Gospel intentions. Just like our little group has been strategizing and doing everything in our power to make Tom's  proposal the best that it could be, we should be working together and meeting together with the purpose of sharing the Gospel with the people who are in our lives.