AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I AM BECOMMING A MUTE!!!!!!!! AIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

if you have not already figured out the meaning of my rather obvious cry of despair, see above, my voice has decided to leave me. or rather, last night it decided to leave me and has gotten worse ever since. right about now, whenever i talk my voice gets really high in pitch every so often and dissapears almost entirely when i try and speak loudly. so i kind of sound like a duck... or a teenage boy... or a teenage duck-boy.... hmmmm..

I AM ERIN! THE TEENAGE DUCK-BOY!!!!

come Quacky, to the duckymobile...

in other more joyous news, the retreat that i went on this weekend (not sure if i've mentioned it here before or not.. it was a missions conference at Bow Vally Church in Cochrane) WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!! it was so great! God was really speaking to me and at one point i was moved to tears by what He was saying. i know for sure that He wants me to do some sort of summer mission. i got the idea of doing a summer mission about a week back when i got an e mail from a guy in the Okanagan Valley who was looking for summer missionaries. and so i was thinking about doing that and now i know for certain that that's what God wants me to do. i'm not sure if i'll end up still going to the Okanagan, (Penticton i think... and if that's not actually IN the Okanagan... then somewhere else...) but i do know that i'll be going somewhere and it's gonna be great! :>

and while the retreat was SUPER AWESOME, it was also kind of sad too. see, Aaron was going to be there and i was sooooooo excited that i was going to see him again after 5 months, but then he didn't go because his youth leader didn't think that the roads were safe enough to be driving on. we learned later on that they were in PERFECT condition because Lindsey (Patrick, the new youth leader at my church's sister (who still lives in st. albert) drove down here and she said the roads were just fine. so it's too bad that Aaron and crew (crew=Calvin and Shane and possibly Tom, but i can't remember if he's old enough or not yet) didn't just go down with her. so it was very saddening in the first bit, but then i got over it and had a good time.

i still miss him to absolute bits and pieces though... :<