Feeding Starving Children!

What a whirlwind this semester has been! One minute I was crowned and the next I am taking midterms! Last Wednesday I was able to take some of my lovely Bethel Student Association members to Feed My Starving Children! Some had never packed before, and some had done it many times before! It was a great bonding experience for the organization while doing wonderful work! At the end of the night we were a part of a group who packed 79 boxes equalling 2844 bags and 17,064 meals! That is enough food to feed 47 kids for a year! I could not have asked for a better experience with these Christ serving people!

"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me." - Matthew 25:35

These girls are ready to pack!

 Waiting to start!

 Hannah and Darwin are rocking the sealing and packing process!

 Bri is just so excited!

 Praying over the meals we packed.

All the prayers for the foods safe delivery

Last Friday (the 18th) was the first night of Dreamcatcher bingo!!! Yes, very exciting! For those of you that don't know what Dreamcatcher is, it is a program that Sleigh and Cutter runs that allows children in Waseca County to have their "dream come true". It is like Make a Wish but only for Waseca County. Sadie and I had a blast with the crowd! My parents even won pork chops in the meat raffle (of course they didn't think of sharing with me.) I can't wait for more bingo next weekend! (Come check it out....I heard certain queens are dressing up in Halloween costumes...)

THIS WEEKEND was another full one! Friday night Alyssa, Sadie, and I went to pack meals at Owatonna's FMSC Mobile pack! Sadie had never packed before, so it was a fun experience for her! (She assured me if I did a mobile pack that she would come :) ) We were grouped with some locals from Owatonna who asked us all about our titles and what we were doing! They even made up a cheer about us for when our boxes were filled! HA! It went "We have royalty in our midst but we're just here to feed the kids!" They were a hoot! Afterwards I got talking to some of the staff about my platform and they gave me so much information on how to do my own mobile pack in Waseca! I am so excited for the potential I have for this year! Friday our session ended up packing 189 boxes equalling 6804 bags and 40,824 meals! That is enough to feed 112 kids for 1 year! I love this organization so much!

Saturday afternoon Alyssa and I spent a chilly 4 hours handing out candy at Farmamerica! All the costumes of the kids where so cute! One of the little boys was dressed up as Captain America and he was scared of the witch by us, so he just started hitting her with his shield. It was very affective :). The all time favorite of the day for Alyssa and I had to be the little unicorn! I LOVE unicorns AND babies! It was an ultimate dream come true. I definitely know what to dress up my kids as for Halloween when I have them! 

xoxo,

Katie

Hartley, Team Academy, Walk for Autism, and MORE

I feel like I haven't blogged FOREVER! School has been so crazy busy that I seem to forget...I'm sorry. I'll start with homecoming. Homecoming at Bethel was already 2 weeks ago. That is so weird to think about. I am involved in Student Activities on campus, so I was able to help with the planning of the activities! (I also got to be Roy the Royal on Homecoming Cheer Night! shhhhhhh!!!!) We ended the week with a win against Augsburg and a wonderful banquet with all my closest Bethel girls. 

Last weekend I had my fall break and spent Thursday and Friday reading to some kiddos! I went to Mrs. Harris's 1st grade classroom and Mrs. Zafft's kindergarten classroom on Thursday morning at Hartley. Afterwards I headed over to Hansel and Gretel for the morning and afternoon class! Friday I spent the entire morning with Team Academy grades K-6! I had the opportunity to teach all of these kids about what hunger is and how even people in our community are affected by it. We read a book called Stone Soup which is about how 3 monks start to make soup with stones in a village of selfish people. The monks draw attention to themselves by doing so and eventually the villagers become more and more giving. I talked about how I wanted to give to the hungry in hopes of others seeing the good deed I am doing and that they would want to do the same. After reading and discussing the story, I let them ask me ANY questions they wanted! The most popular ones were how my crown stayed on and if I lived in a castle (: the Team Academy kindergarteners also told me their dads were going to call me! (I wasn't sure if that was a good or bad thing!) 

here are some of the kids I talked to!

Saturday morning was an early one as I trekked up to the Mall of America for the Walk for Autism to support Miss Minnesota, Rebecca Yeh! It was such a cool opportunity to see the program that Rebecca is so passionate about in action. Lauren and I got to spend quality time with Rebecca and Corrina for the few hours we were there also! They are both so hilarious and I am so excited to get to know them better! 

Did I mention we met Spongebob?!

Lauren and I met up with our lovely director, Christy, and went evening gown shopping after the walk! It was a long day, but I said yes to the dress (twice)! I was successful in finding an evening gown AND a talent dress (: It felt like Christmas! 

This coming weekend I start BINGO at Katie's in Waseca and get to hang out at FarmAmerica's Haunted Corn Maze with my sister queen, Sadie! Check for that blog next weekend!

xoxo,

Katie