Women's LTE

This weekend we had our Women's LTE and to be honest I wasn't that excited about it.  Anyone who knows me knows that I am not the girliest person in the world.  I'm a tough, rough, get your hands dirty type of girl so something like this is so far out of my element.  This year has been a year of embracing womanhood and realizing that I can the fierce woman that God has designed me to be and still not be a girlie chick.  I love it!  The Woman's LTE was honestly such a blast for me.  Yes I painted my nails, yes I had to wear a facial mask, yes I played with makeup and wore lipstick, yes I took lots of girlie pictures, but I enjoyed every moment of it because of the amazing women who wer beside me.  I got to spend the entire weekend with my core that I have been blessed with.  These women mean the world to me.  Through the weekend the Lord was really showing me how to be in community with women, which is a stretch for me.  Growing up, I always preferred to spend time with guys.  They are less drama, they get dirty, they don't cry, it was always my preference.  This weekend my eyes were opened up to other women, how we need each other regardless of whether I think so or not.  

One of the best parts of the weekend was Damsel in Distress.  During this, the women are role playing that we have been captured and imprisoned.  We are taken to the top of a hill to scream and holler for help.  In the meantime, our brothers have to run up the hill through paint balls and weeds to rescue us.  For me, this was absolutely amazing to see the man come out of each one of my brothers.  As I have mentioned before, we have a huge family, we have 7 brothers and 18 sister, those 7 had to come and rescue each of us one by one.  They were exhausted but they did it anyways because to them, we were worth it.  To be valued like that meant so much to me.  I also learned how important it is to let a man be the hero.  We very easily could have ran off the hill ourselves and have been fine, no big deal.  But the point was to call the man out of our brothers and trusting them to get us to safety.  It taught me a lot about being a woman, we have to trust that a man will do what he needs to do even if we can do it ourselves.  I was so proud of each of my brothers, they struggled and pushed to save us and they did it well!