Replacing a passport is easy and quick but in order to get a passport in the first place, you need proof of citizenship and it could be well over a year before you get it. Unless you apply for an urgent citizenship, but they still need to verify if it's important enough. When I heard this I said then and there that getting to Oshkosh for the camporee wasn't going to happen. To me, the timeframe was too little and I had no faith that they'd verify Oshkosh as an event important enough for an urgent …show more content…
At the beginning of the school year, I had told myself that I would stay in the right crowd and be a positive influence to others. I had also promised myself and God that I would trust in Him and if I ever struggled I would go to him for help. Instead of trusting in God and what He thinks is best for me, I started to trust myself more and I did what I thought was best for me. That ended up in doing and saying stuff that I thought made me “cool” and made me look “cool”. One day at school I had started to use bad language and acted in a manner that wasn't showing Jesus through my character at all. Essentially I was only embarrassing myself, and losing my integrity. From that particular experience, I’ve learned that trusting myself too much and losing trust in God leads to regret. So much