The Living Room

Pitures on the wall in Dining Room

Mask in Dining Room



Arielle and Noan and there game

Pictures in Living Room the 2 on the end are in black frames now

More Fun

So Mom and I went and ran some errands yesterday. We went to the bank and then to JC Pennies and found some nice clothes for Mom. (Dad she looks great and we kept her position in mind i.e. turned down the more Eugene type clothes) After that we went to Panda Express and mom tried there food. I love Panda Express. We then tried three different salons and it was not until the 3rd one in Springfield that we were able to find one that does eyebrows!!! After this we went to another bank and then to G-ma's and G-pa's. Michail and I watched a T.V show and then the rest of the family arrived. I hung out there a little longer and then went to work.

At work it is suppose to take 3 - 3:1/2 hours to clean I have been going over on the time but I worked really hard and fast yesterday. I was starting the damp mopping which is the last thing and meant I would only have about another 10 - 15 minutes of work. I had only been working for 2hr 55 min I was so excited. Then Bob my boss walked in the door 44 minutes and multiple Prophecies later he left AWWW. It took me 4 hours again.

Tuesday

So yesterday I found out which building I'm cleaning and when and how many hours. I also found out who my team lead would be. I'm cleaning a Hospice type office building and there are signs everywhere that are a little bit "different." Such as there is this bookcase in the hall that has all these cute pictures of kids and other pictures of adults but if you look closer you find out that they are obituaries. I can start anytime between 6PM - 7:30PM and it is Sun - Thur it is suppose to take about 3 - 31/2 to clean the place. This is a lot less hours than I wanted so be praying the place decided they want everything cleaned every night instead of half one night and the other half the next night. The place is only about a ten minute drive from home which is a lot nicer than the 20+ minute drive it takes to get to there main office. My boss is Bob M. he used to work with Dad and he is a christian. This is really a blessing and a nice change from the lesbian boss.

My new camera arrived and so I can start putting pictures on WOOT.

1st day

On Sunday we went to church and then a potluck at G-ma's and G-pa's. There was a lot of people there and it was fun. I also remembered why I like working in the kitchen at such functions you can hide and everyone things that you are just a true "dear".

Bre and I hung up picture in the apartment I think we beat the boys and they had about a month head start WOOT. It looks really good.

On Monday a friend from masters that now lives in Eugene came out and visited we had a really good time.

I then got ready for work and went to my safety class. It was rather funny. I went from the call center where even if there was truly an emergency you could not get ahold of anyone to being told that if there is the slightest thing different or anything no matter how small is wrong you are suppose to call your boss. I think I can enjoy this.

After I got off work I meant the other siblings and Mikael at Gateway theater and watched Monsters vs Aliens. We had a good time the movie started at 9:15 and I showed up at 9:15.

Oh Quick Catch Up

I went into Brothers Cleaning on Friday and received my "uniform" which is a Bright Blue T-shirt and the information that you can not wear a bathing suite to work (shoot). We also went over all of the policies and such. Hey Dad they now have gone green and you have to start work by 7:30 PM. Myself and 2 others were the first people they had hired in about a year. They are going to try and get us three new hires up to full time as quickly as they can.

The DMV would not provide a temporary license aparently the call center lady (who I will not name) did not know what she was talking about. But the person I spoke to at the DMV said that my driving record did show that I had a active drivers license and that the police are really nice and understanding. I believe that was her way of saying just go ahead and drive as you wait for the bill to arrive.

Stacia and I then ran some errand with mom and came home.

Us offspring then finished the Revenge of the Drunken Duck. it is a lot better now but still kinda of iffy in spots. But that is okay because there is a lot of above branches and if anything was to start to give there would be a lot to grab on to :)

We went out to Aunt R house on Saturday and had a good time she had really developed the place it look really nice.

We then dropped off some plastic chairs at G-Ma's and grabbed a few items from the store and came home. Later we had a really great dinner which we ate on the floor because we had taken all the chairs to G-ma. I relaxed for the rest of the evening.

Anyway I need to go do my hair to go to church or I might be left behind.

07-16-09

Yesterday was a very good day. Mom and I went out to pick up some job applications and we stopped and did some shopping as well. We were able to find some clothes for mom. I memorized the Wal-Mart greeting "Thank you for calling W 11th Wal-Mart home of unbeatable prices how may I help you." But I resisted the urge to do the ladies job when she was not there.

I received a call from Brother's Cleaning: WOOT

We went to the lake and had a great time it was really enjoyable. The water was not deep enough to drown in unless something went really wrong so that was nice to illuminate that concern. We did some chicken fights and Jared (the other person on the bottom) decided to try and drown me. So I decided that if he was going to use his height against me that I could use my ability to kick...The people on top were a little surprised when there death lock was broken by Jared...

We then came home and ate a delicious meal. Myself and Arielle down then did clean up and went and were hanging out in the basement. In the meantime Mom, Bre, and Jared went to Wal-Mart. While we were cleaning and relaxing in the cool basement we started receiving phone calls from Bre saying that she HAD a INTERVIEW at Panda. The last of her calls sent us flying from the cool and amazing basement into the blazing OR heat :grin:. We did what she needed and then watched as the whirlwind arrived.

After she left us kids watched Tim Hawkins and then we all headed to bed it was a very fulfilling and complete day.

Oh Bre said the interview went really well and she thinks that she will get the job. Be praying.

The spellcheck is not working so forgive the spelling.

WOOT

I HAVE A JOB AT Brother's Cleaning!!!! It is part time for now but I am also waiting to hear back from PaPa Murphy's about there 5-10 hours. The Lord is Amazing

Oh what a mi call it

Yesterday was a pretty laid back day. As I mentioned I did not go out job hunting yesterday because I had already pestered the people to the point of annoyance. So instead I got up and went to work out. Now I have tried to make it over there at the same time Jared is a couple times and it has never worked out even when we communicated before hand. But yesterday I woke up and decided to go upon exiting the apartment I saw Jared just exiting his house. (lol)

Mom and I then messed with the Internet stuff and I worked more on the checker board. I managed to finish the checker board and it only looks somewhat abstract. Jared said "wow I did not expect it to look that good." He must not have a very high expectancy of my work (hump).

I played a VERY quick round of pictornary with the little ones and yes Josiah the butt did come up.

We then tried are hand at Hangman and let me tell you it was an EXCITING time. Some of the spelling that we came up with was very unique.

We then decided that to calm down from are rousing game of Hangman that we should build a tree fort. Now as Jared would say "it was Rodeo." Arielle and I climbed up in the tree and Jared handed stuff up as Nolan, Zander, and G-ma worked on getting a few steps putt together for the more vertically challenged. We now need some rope to tie it all down. I think this latest creation rivals the drunken duck in soundness (lol).

We then ate dinner and went on a walk. All in All it was a lot more rewarding than the job hunt has been.

Today I am probably going to try picking up some more applications and start the process over in a new section of town. Which is a bit frustrating without a drivers license. I think that DMV's are more frustrating than call centers ARRGGG

Weird Lane County Sighting

Bre had the weird sighting of the day.

As she was driving home she saw this lady walking down the street in a WEDDING dress. Now the lady was carrying her shoes and limping... So of course Bre would assume something was wrong...But when she got closer she discovered that the woman was just find and she was just going for a stroll in a wedding dress. The woman also had very bazaar make up on.

Bre commented that with all these people around she is constantly getting ready to stop and help just to find that they are just weir Lane county people.

Life in Lane County

Bre and I have been spending the last week filling out job applications and basically making the rounds.

I have put in applications at:
Lowe's
Fred Meyers
Wal Mart
Albertson's
Carls Jr
Papa Murphy's
Little Caesars
KFC
Taco Bell
Subway
Panda Express
Pet Time
Knife and Edge
Brothers Cleaning

I have had an interview with Brothers and with Papa Murphy's I have made sure that I was always dressed really nice when I dropped off applications and I have stopped back by the locations and checked on progress I have also sent thank you note to people after I had an interview. I have my Resume (on nice paper) and a letter of recommendation that I have also been giving out. Does anyone else have any other suggestions? The unemployment rate in this county is at 15%.

I started working on Bre's and I's checker top table and I decided that making perfect squires are even harder than perfect circles(lol)

I am going to be heading out to have fun with mom and the little's plus Jared(yes Jared you are so special) later. I made the rounds (jobs) yesterday and I don't want to overwhelm anyone with my awesomeness(grin)

I have also come to relived that this town is really "messed up" (just for you cy) and that apparently the people have decided to cut there expenses by not purchasing clothes! For that matter I think they are not buying soap or shampoo either.

Family

This is a test post can the family find and view this blog?

Hey I'm still alive I am working and finding scholarships for college and that is about it

Life

Hey Everyone or no one HMMM.... Well even if nobody is seeing this I fill like writing it. I have a job now I'm working at West and no I dont me Qwest. West is a telacommunication center in Spokane if you shop at Albertsons, Jewel, ACME, or Shaw's and you were to call the 1 -877 number on the bottom of your receipt you would get us and if you were lucky you would get me (lol). This has turned out to be quite the full time job I work about 50-55 hours a week. I really do enjoy this job I work 5 AM - 1:30 PM. But I have been thinking about switching to the graveyard. I have applied at EBC and I think I've been excepted we will see. I will be going for a bachelors in Intercoultor studies. So my life is made up of work, INSTE, and scholarship hunting.

The last little bit has been crazy busy. We just finished the Easter Egg Scramble fort the Church it was a lot of fun and came off pretty good. Well we didn’t have to run to the hospital (harvest party) and no stitches’ which was actually a concern, let me explain we have a TON of eggs that were given to us by a church and every year we match and count out a certain amount ( this year 5000) and then because they have been sitting in storage with mice we have to wash them with bleach. Well the eggs have a tendency to shatter when you go to wash them which can leave some pretty deep cuts. Then also apparently bleach is a acid and we managed to over do the bleach in my sink so that I got chemical burns all over my hands (there better now and I don’t think they will scar Praise the Lord) and the other person ended up sick from the fumes. We were much more moderate from then on out (this is my third year to do this and we had never had any problem). But other than that this can be a very fun time of making eggasperating jokes and the like.

Bre and I are getting ready to go to Anaheim Ca to work a Microsoft show, and then do pastors conference it will be a long trip but I’m sure it will be loads of fun aswell…

For Me personally I have decided to start looking into doing mission work in Israel and see what the Lord opens up.

How fitting the last time I wrote was exactly a year ago (sigh) well I lot has happened in that time I went to MX and had a great time. We did more Microsoft shows and raised money. We helped host the 75th diamond anniversary for open bible at our church. We planed and executed our Masters tenth year anniversary. We did multiple outreaches, smaller mission trips, and church services. We saw many lives touched and hearts changed. And then we graduated I have to say it was a very exciting thing to see all the young people that I had mentored or just had grown with all reach the end especially because some didn’t think they would. And then I entered my first courtship and had my heart broken for the first time (and I pray the last time) when it didn’t work out… Bre, Trevor, and I all came back for a third year which means we are interns/ staff (Shutter). Are year started off rough and we have had our ups and downs throughout this entire year. But seeing the growth in the students (my kids) is really worth it. Pastor Josh (our new director) and I just took the first years down to feb tour (held in AZ) which was a time of renewal and birth for all of them it was a great time and I enjoyed watching and participating in it all. I am praying about next year and will someday figure it out… Bre and I just got back from visiting dad in Eugene, we had a great time and cant wait to see the whole family later…

Josh doing the leap of fatih (orintation)

Austyn, Amanda, Nicki, Ali (orintation battle of the sexes) Amanda, Emily, Nicki, Ali (orintation battle of the sexes)
Adrianno and Josh (at one of our ministery trips to Seattle)

The Master team at Walmart (I was making a point for morning prayer)

80's night at our college group

Playing in Jumpy castles in Eugene (fuel tour)

Getting ready for Harvest party

Bre and Leah at Leah's birthday (we were playing a game)

Hello everyone I'm sorry about the month absence I couldent get blogger to work. SAD Day My life has been really busy but amazing I'm learning a ton but I have to go (by the time I got logged in my ride was ready to go) I will post again Soon. once again I'm sorry.

I think it's working

Krista - I think I've got it working. I moved it to the new blogger. What you'll do to sign in is use your same password and your email address is your log in.

Try it and let me know.

Love ya,
Mom

hi

I'm still alive and doing very well YAY. The Assembly went really well. I did really good (not to brag) with my 1st main part in a music video. and I led morning prayer on Monday and tuesday. Academics are going really good. This has been really generor but thats because I have to go and I wanted to say something I'm going to try and write more in detail later.
~Krista

Ministry Final

Hello Everyone,
I am not sure how long it has been but I will only write on this last week. Which was (drum roll) MINISTRY FINAL!!!! Ministry final is where we go and take everything we have been taught up to date and apply it. This year they divided us into three groups. The 1st yrs were divided into there traffic groups (ministry learning groups) and then us second yrs were our own group. On Monday we all went to the Valley and had a meeting with a businessman in are church and he talked about professionalism and business ethics. On the way back we were all assigned hand tailored jobs for each of us designed with the intension of challenging us in different areas. I’ll list them off in the order they came.
Trevor, lead and execute a youth service that night.
Lance; come up with a new ministry venue to present to the pastoral staff Wed. morning.
Bre, plan and execute an outreach for both 1st and 2nd yrs that has never been done.
Krista, manage the 2nd yr team and make sure all assignment are done.
Esther, focus on relationship NOT task. Plan and execute an outreach to a nursing home.
Well we had a LOT of questions and then we dived in. Monday night’s service was good but not all that it was supposed to be. So are first lessons to be learned. For Trevor you HAVE to Rely on your team. For me I hurt my team by not speaking up. I’ll expound later.

On Tuesday we had academic stuff in the morning and then jumped into planning an outreach (Bre) for a woman shelter. It went really good, we all had a great time. But this was just an outreach with us second yrs. So it didn’t count as Bre’s assignment. Then when we got back from that 8ish we jumped into preparing Lance’s Ministry Venue. We worked on that till 4:30-5ish wed. AM and then we went home showered took an hour nap and came back all dressed up to present it to the Pastoral staff.

Wednesday, Our presentation was supposed to be 10min. long with A&Q. We finished presenting in 7 min and then the Pastors proceeded to question us for 42 min. It was really good and we all learned a lot and we will continue to work on the Ministry Venue and present it again. From this Lance learned in a major way about having a soft heart and tough skin. And taking what is said and learning from it. And the rest of us learned this in varying degrees. We then spent the rest of the day preparing for Esther’s nursing home outreach. And doing Financial Peace University. And then after all that we had mid-week ministry and I have to tell you all I love my Preschoolers. Then we all went home and studied a little bit and went to bed. YEAH

Thursday, we madly practiced our instruments the nursing home. And then we ran to lunch buddies ran back grabbed stuff threw it into Lance’s jeep talked to the first years about what we were doing that evening With them. And ran to the nursing home. We had a lot of fun it is always so much fun to go to nursing homes you leave feeling so encouraged. But the Race was on again so back to the church we went and taught the 1st yrs the skit they were doing for that evening threw a different set of stuff into the Van (caught ya you thought I was going to say Jeep HAHAHA) and went to a after school program place for kids and had a Christmas party with them. It was fun and Really nice to have the 1st yrs back with us.

So what did I learn over all from all of this? I learned that you have to speak up. Unfortunately for Trevor I learned this from not doing so with his ministry (sad day) some of the components that he was supposed to have were creative and using the whole team. I knew he was doing either but I didn’t tell him I decided that it was better for me not to interferer. Boy was I wrong that night when Shelly and Pastor Josh evaluated the service they tore him up pretty bad for not using his team. His sermon was good and interaction with the kids was good. But he didn’t use his team. Now the fact that I had seen this and not pointed it out to him was really an eye opener for me. And so I tried really hard the rest of the week. I spoke up and present my argument to Pastor Josh for a Curfew extension and because of it we got curfew lifted so we were able to finish Lances projected. If I hadn’t that would have been another meeting I sat through going I saw this and let my team down by not speaking. I later let Esther down by not helping keep everyone focused on Wednesday (we were all so Very Tired) I helped both Bre and Lance by critiquing they’re speaking. (Funny I know since I’m the one that doesn’t speak. But I did take a public speaking class and they haven’t) So I will continue to work on this speaking up thing. Something of interested that Esther told me was that by not speaking up you lose the right to be heard. And this was meant only in a good way not in a bad overbearing sort of thing. So that is what I am coming away from this week with.

I have to go study or I would tell you all about yesterday and today as well. But I will say Really fast that today’s outreach was Amazing. And we are beginning to see the fruit of are labors in Hillyard from over the last 2ish yrs.
~Krista

My thoughts

Hey everyone life is still pretty laid back, but busy at the same time. We are making another human video and it is really cool. I am excited about it. I am also playing the lead girl in it WOHOO.

On a bit more of a serious note, I have some thoughts from a scavenger hunt we did the Friday after thanksgiving. With this scavenger hunt a group of adults from the church goes to the mall and hides, while the youth tries to find them. The youth that finds the most people get a reward.

The hiders are encouraged to dress up. Bre wore her host brothers clothes and went as a boy, Molly dressed like a girl punk rocker. I dressed up like an interesting Emo/Goth. I ended up getting separated from the group and walking around the mall by myself for two hours. I learned a lot by doing this.

People would shy away from me like I had leprosy. This was weird because people usually crowd me and make me move for them! The little kids were all scared of me and were hiding behind their mothers! Everyone else acted like they didn’t SEE me! Now, they had to see me to avoid me. Didn’t they? After an hour of this I really just wanted someone to smile at me or even acknowledge my presence. One person did a person at a KIOSK!

I got to thinking about it. The place was crammed with people from the church, but none of them saw me. I walked by all the youth kids, and because they wouldn’t look at me, they didn’t recognize me. How often do we walk around judging people by how they are dressed? All the mothers that hid their children from me, would have let me baby-sit if I was dressed differently!

How may of the people that look mean and scarey that walk around the malls or around town are inside longing for someone to just smile at them? I was. You have kids with bad lives that start dressing scarey or even just DIRTY, because they cant afford nicer, and people treat them like outcasts. Except the RELLY gothic people, the witches, they will accept them. So that is where they go. The whole time they might be crying out, as they are be dragged down that road, but we, as Christian,s don’t see or hear them because they are ”scarey” and not “acceptable”. Next time you see these people, try smiling instead of the judging look that asks why someone would dress like that.

I'm about to be shut off so I don,t have time to reread this so if it is hard to read in places sorry.

Life has been real laid back this week. We had are 1st INSTE class YES and we have Excelsiar youth tomorrow night so you can be praying.

Alissan

Trevor writing stories about Les Swab for Veranica
Anne (She is a wild one)

Wed. Night Kids

Andrew and Ryan

Veranaca, Alissan, Camdyn and in the background Makenzy
Andrew, Grace, and Toby Playing hide and go seek

Setting up the brickbreaking stage

Setting up the backdrop(this is the crew I was incharge of)

Backdraft

Are Backdraft Assembly(Shelly speaking, Tim and Rena in the background)

Setting up the stage
Mask

Esther and Trevor at Orintation

Esther at the doctors after Backdraft.

Saturday outreaches moving the pile of wood. Trevors the one on the phone, Rachel is the smiling one, JD is the one bending over.

The pile of wood

Lance and Shelly getting ready for Ignite

Esther and Adriano
Jeff and Eric

this week

So we got home on Sunday (11:30) and they gave us Monday off YEAH. On Tuesday we had a guess speaker come in and talk to us all about being internet coaches for this internet ministry that they are doing. It was really good and it sounds really exciting and pretty amazing. Basically they have these commercials that air on a TON of different radio stations Christian and secular and they tell people that for help and support they can come to these Website (They also talk about Jesus) and when the people go to the site there is a bunch of pages on all different types of issues and there is also the option to E-mail the people asking for help or go to the chat room and have a chat. So they had a respond to 5 different mock E-mails just to see how we communicated. And then on Wednesday he (Sean Dunn) critiqued are E-mails and gave us some more guide lines on how to do it and the does and don’ts of it all and showed us how to log on. So we will all be doing Chats primarily. Which means that once a week, for two hours we log on to the website and wait for someone to want to talk and then we talk to them? Then we had mid week ministries that evening and that as always was a ton of fun. Trevor and I are going through Rainbows with the Preschoolers and we finished up the section on turkeys. Which is giving thanks and all the kids actually new there verse? It was really neat but the kids were also very hyper we are going to try and figure out a way to reward good behavior because just punishing bad isn’t working to well. If you have any suggestions let me know. Thursday we had Lunch buddy interviews this year it is much more in-depth and took a lot of time but we got everyone through. Then we did Scripture review test and after that the 1st years did INSTE and us second years started working on getting water to boil for a ministry that we were going to do that evening. PS3 is coming out and there are lines of people waiting to buy it so we were going to go hand out Hot Chocolate to them all. Then we all meant up to debrief on Ignite (we hadn’t had time at any other time that week) after that people started setting up the sanctuary for the ladies event Friday night and Esther, Trevor, and I started putting the hot chocolate together. Then off we went to minister well when we took on e of the corners both things of hot chocolate spilled everywhere. So we spent three hours cleaning the van instead it was actually pretty fun just not what we expected.

Ignite

Hi everyone sorry about the long absence in writing I am still alive. SO last Monday and Tuesday we scrambled like mad people to finish getting ready for Ignite. On Tuesday evening we had Excelsior youth which is a correctional facility here in Spokane, that some of us go to. Well we have been going for 6+ months with no major response but last Tuesday Lance asked if anyone would like to except Jesus and 4 people did and 2 others recommitted there lives. So that was awesome and then on Wednesday AM we took off for Eugene to do Ignite. We were doing a service that night at Calvary and usually when we get places after a bus trip you have a little time to clean up so we all got on the bus ready to travel and found out after taking off that we weren’t going to have time to clean up so we were all doing are hair and putting makeup on and changing all along the way. But when I went to do my hair at one of are stops there was no plug-ins but across the street there was a Burger King that some people were going over to get some food from so I went with them to use the Bathrooms there but there was no plug-ins in there bathrooms either but there was one outside of the bathroom so that is the one I used so Rena did my hair for me in Burger King there was a couple people that could see us and they were staring at us like they had never seen anyone do there hair in Burger King before. J But we got to Calvary which is where we were doing the service for the youth group and we ran though the human video/skit (mask) a couple times and then the kids were showing up. We didn’t make it through Mask this time without injuries either so are “good luck” is still working. Nick got hit in the face pretty hard. But I didn’t get the wind knocked out of me this time YEAH I only bruised my elbow. The service itself was really good I enjoyed the youth and I could tell that I have changed because I wasn’t hiding from the youth. We got to see are family which was really fun and exciting. Then we have Thursday on Thursday we set up Lighthouse for Ignite one of the things we did was hang up these banners from the ceiling which was kind of nerve racking but it all looked good when we were doe and we had no major injuries. Aunt heather stopped by and took Bre, Esther, and I to see G-Pa it was a fun visit. After that we all went out to eat and just talked with Aunt Heather, then we went and visited with G-Ma. After that we went back to the church and crashed. Friday the youth conference began and it was great the speaker Troy Jones rocked the house they did an altar call and it was amazing watching not only the kids but also the first years as they all came out of there boxes and started interceding for the kids. It was also amazing to stand back and just watch all the kids (650) worship. Saturday was also had rocking speaking from Troy J and also Vaughwood they both did a great job and it was really amazing just watching as hearts were changed and people were set free you would also have the 1st years come up to you all excited about what they were seeing. It was all in all just a real amazing time. We did are human videos on Saturday both went really well and we had no major injuries YYEESS. We took everything down that night which actually went pretty fast. Sunday: on Sunday morning the first years headed home with the youth group while the 2nd years and staff and a couple alumni stayed back to do Total Praise for the morning services at Calvary. We were all exhausted but we got up there the first time and did it and it was good. But after the first service we all had no strength the team looked awful. We had people that were sick and people that were injured and no one had anything to give. And we had nothing left to give of ourselves so we just got up there and gave it all to God and I’m telling you the 2nd time when we had nothing was much better than when we had a little left whether or not the church could tell I don’t know and I don’t really care for us doing it, it was like a breath of fresh air, that whole worship time was so refreshing and worth it all.

My Crazy Week

This week has been VERY busy. All day Monday we worked on the Harvest Party I found out that I was in-charge in a weird way of the Preschool section of the Harvest Party. So I worked on finding everything and checking to make sure it worked in the AM and then we started working on taping cardboard together, then stapling it to the wall. To make the hallway look like the hull of a ship (the theme was Pirates of the Caribbean). Others were working on making a big cardboard ship for the skit. And others were just goofing off. We learned a lot about 1st year team dynamics. Then after dinner we had people drawing wood grain on the cardboard, people finishing the boat, making an Island, and then my group up working to set Preschool up. I had Lance and Rachel upstairs. I put together a bunch of lattice as section dividers and they started blowing up balloons for the balloon pit. I finished getting everything ready that I could and then started helping blowing up balloons. Eventually Eric showed up to help us blow them up. We he got there he said I heard people were losing there minds up here. Which was really funny, we blew up about 650 12in balloons. We were all VERY light headed and loopy. We went home at about 10:00.
Tuesday, everyone finished putting the finishing touches on there project’s and if I may say it all looked great. Then we killed about and hour (I wrote a short paper for core groups) then it was time and we all put are costumes on and went to are places. But I was really getting stressed because the stuff for three of the games hadn’t been dropped off yet. But it all worked out. We had eight games and registration and 4 workers (Esther, Trevor, Lance and I) so Esther was stationary with reg. and the rest of us jumped the kids had a great time and it was fun. We finished clean up at about 11:00 (I thing). The funny thing with the Harvest Party is that you wake up the next day and are shocked that Halloween is over because you never even noticed it was coming.
Wednesday, we started getting ready for Ignite. We are making a video/music video/ shadow thing that all goes together in a really amazing way. So we started learning that stuff. Wait back up, for and hour before that a group of us worked on making motions for a skit/ music video about the Full Armor of God. Then it was lunch. I took a Trevor; he is the one in-charge of the whole movie thing. And Eric, he is Jesus, and Jeff and J.D, they are disciples to the river to film the calling of the disciples it was really funny to watch because it was bright and sunny out but still rather nippy and everyone had there shoes off. And Jeff and J.D were wining the whole time about how cold it was and I just had to laugh at them. We came back did some odds and ends stuff which I can’t remember what it was. Wait I remember now we had Core groups. And then went to dinner and came back for mid-week ministries. Which was really interesting because all the kids were coming off there sugar highs?
Thursday, we had study hall in the morning then the 1st years had Inste. Us 2nd years did some studying then decided to go over Total Praise. Which was amazing doing Total Praise always is because it is 10 min of intense praise. Then it was lunch time. After lunch we had review scriptures tests and church choirs. While taking are test it started to snow outside and it just got harder and harder as we did choirs. This normally wouldn’t have been a problem but we were going out to film the rest of the video after choirs. And now everything was covered in snow and it just kept coming. So we all put on are bible costumes and went out in the snow to film the Sermon on the Mount. We were going to have to take are shoes off but they decided that we could keep them on YAY. But we weren’t able to film the other two scenes. So instead we came back to the church and started working on the full armor of God. We have 4 people doing a drum line in the back one person reading Eph 6:10-18 and then two angels that are putting the armor of God on a guy. Bre and I are the angel’s and Jeff is the guy. So we had Eric read and help nit pick it while Shelly taught the drummers there parts and everyone else choreographed the rest of the passage (we only finished the actually armor on wed) we stopped at 6:00. Then Esther and I went to Tai-kwo-do with shelly.
Friday, was our day off we kept hoping busy in the morning then Trevor and David helped Esther and I move her into her host home. She has been living with me while they tried to find her a home and they found her one on Wednesday. Then we started working on banners for Ignite. We stopped there and went to Candi’s baby shower. Then Esther, Molly, and I went to Wal-Mart to buy fabrics for the back drop at ignite. Then Esther and I went to hangout with everyone else at a girl’s apartment from the college group. Saturday, we had outreaches Trevor’s and my outreach groups are combined right now because he only has Rachel, and I only have J.D. So we went and put plastic up for I guy on his block collected money to pay for the dump run we made to week before from some people on my block then finished moving a pile of wood for another guy on my block. Then we came back to the church and went out to finish filming and low and behold it started to rain so we have footage in the sun, snow, and rain. We then came back to the church and had some people working on the banners, one person washing all the costumes, and then everyone else worked on the Full armor of God. We finished working at the church around 7:00. Then we ran home because Shelly, Rena, and Bre were coming over to hang out while Shelly braided Esther’s hair. I fell asleep before Bre and Rena showed up and slept the whole night through.

The rest of the week

Hi so after Backdraft the week has actually been pretty quit. We have been preparing for the harvest party. And just living life, we will probably be running like chickens with are heads cut off next week but that’s Okay. We are taking Financial Peace University (FPU) and that is a lot of fun and we are learning a whole lot about proper money management. We are still trying to get are INSTE books and having issues on that front but we are almost there. We took are personalities test this week, which was amusing. But that’s about it for now.

Monday(Backdraft)

Monday
We had the assembly on Monday are you surprised? It was in Puyallup which is on the other side of the state. So we all arrived at the church at 0430 to drive there. We all crashed in the bus and then woke up and did some scriptures and slept some more and prayed for the assembly and ate are sack lunches. And then the moment we had all been waiting for, WE saw the school (YAY). We ended up having a whole hour and a half to set up for the assembly and practice some of the stuff. Then the kids showed up and I was very proud of are team they actually got in there and started meeting the kids. Then it was time and we started the assembly. The speakers all did really well the one always scares me when he speaks because he stops (sometimes he forgets his lines others his dramatic affects are just too long (we are behind the backdrop and can’t see)) the humans video also looked really good but everyone that could get hurt did. When Nick is supposed to almost cloth’s line Trevor, Trevor didn’t go down in time so he was actually hit. Then we he picked up Esther who fell down while acting drunk (she was supposed to) he accidentally hurt her arm that was already hurt from the all-nighter. Then I came out (the nerd) and at one point I jump in his arms and he spins me around and drops me on the floor. Well I landed on my elbow and knocked the wind out of myself. But everyone covered it up well enough that no one noticed but we all got behind the backdrop and were in pain. And then when we did chains (the one where Eric gets the snot beat out of him) we hit the ground wrong and couldn’t move his arm and he was throwing up. But he also did a really good job of covering up till he finished the music video. Then Nick finished the assembly off by breaking bricks. So we had the main man of one music video down and another assembly in 20 minutes with kids showing up in 10 minutes (we did the same assembly twice). So it took some Holy Spirit power to rearrange the whole ending of the assembly (which was all based around the music video which we now couldn’t do) in such away that it wasn’t corny or short. But Josh managed to pull it off. But once again Trevor was slow in dropping and this time Nick was slow when Trevor went to punch him so Nick was hit and Trevor also hurt his shin again. But Esther wasn’t hurt this time through. I landed even worse and thought I was going to throw up with Eric but I didn’t (WOHOO). And then Nick hurt his arm breaking bricks the second time and almost wasn’t able to do it. The thing about all of this is that we practiced it ALL and NEVER really got hurt in practice, we would get bumps and bruises but nothing serious. But we finished them both. Iced Eric’s shoulder, torn it all down, and headed home. They rushed all the kids out right after each assembly so we didn’t get to talk with the kids and get there reactions which was a bummer. But I believe that looking at the opposition that we had that there had to be a kid there that needed to hear what we were saying. And seeing how we fought through and finished strong even with all the opposition I think we probably had a kingdom impact. We may never see it but that is my feelings on it. Because we were faithful with what we were given there has to be results. Eric went to the doctors today and had his shoulder looked at he strained his muscle and I am right now at the doctors while Esther has her arm looked at. This will be a great year I can since it in my bones (grin).

My week

Hey everyone how are you doing? This past week has been really busy and hectic.I was armor bearer this week, which means I pray for the staff member that is in charge of Morning Prayer and do refocus. Refocus is the 15 min right after lunch when we all come together and refocus. So I talked about being a Bond Servant for refocus I drew it out all week. It went pretty good, we will see whether or not people are going to apply what I said. If you haven’t ever looked up the meaning of Bond Servant in its original text I highly suggest you do it. Or maybe I’ll post it someday, when I have my notes with me so that I get it all actuated. We walked the first years through the first week of Masters. Which means we had a TON of meetings. The church is also doing this door to door ministry and we put those packets together all week the packets consist of a brochure and little bag of kisses with a label on them put inside a bigger clear bag which I then tied shut with ribbon that you then curl. So every spare moment we’ve had this week we worked on those. We also prepared for a couple of Backdraft assemblies, which we are doing tomorrow (Monday). On Friday we had a youth all-nighter which was a blast we did dodge ball, human fussey ball, laser tag, broom hokey, bowling, and then “watched” a movie. In a nutshell that was my week. But now to tell you about Backdraft, Backdraft is a school assemblies program where we go into the schools and do an assembly we are not allowed to mention God in any way, which is a bummer but we get to go in and provide some hope for kids and get in contact with them if they E-mail us or My space us then what we say is free game. The one we are doing on Monday is all about the power of choice. You can all be praying for this assembly all of us second years have been attacked. Mostly physically, Esther’s shoulder is all messed up from bowling, Bre is sore and stiff from broom hokey, Trevor’s fell and hurt his shin and then kept re-hurting it at the all-nighter, Lance is losing his voice and is fighting a cold, My knees are all black and blue from broom hokey. Isn’t it funny that the 1st years, that aren’t doing anything didn't get hurt it was only us 2nd years? So be praying we do two back to bakc on monday at 11:00-2:30 western time zone so be praying. Nick, Shelly, and Josh are speaking. Rena, Tim, and Lance are giving there perspectives (testimonies).Bre, Esther, Nick, Trevor, Lance, and I are doing a music video there. Then Later Bre, Eric, Lance, Trevor, and Tim are doing another music video this one is violent so pray for safety especially Eric’s. Then Nick breaks bricks. So be praying. I need to go do scriptures so till later. bye

Some of Wednesday

On Wednesday we had a bunch of workshops that were pretty much just to tell the 1st years how Master’s worked. Then after lunch we has traffic groups Olympics which was a blast. The 1st years were divided into two teams and then there was us second years, except Bre was pulled to take Rachel’s place because she couldn’t run (sad day). I was real proud of our 2nd year team because we all worked together really well and finished about 5 events ahead of the other teams. I have to go but here are some pictures I’ll write about that evening later.

My covenant night stuff

Walking down from the mountain

Isnt it pretty

The sunrise from the top of the mountian were I did devotions.

The rest of tuesday

So my dear God letter was different this year, while writing it I relieved how many fears and insecurities I had about this year. About failing and causing those who are following me to fall as well. So I finished writing it late and had only 10 minutes to get down from the mountain. Well being true to myself I got lost but I found the road with about 4 minutes to make it so I jogged back and was very much out of breath and sweaty when I got there, but I made it. That night was Covenant night and it was awesome. Pastor Nathan talked about communion and how it related to the Hebrew marriage ceremony and he talked about the death of Christ and what we are willing to give up what are we willing to kill for the sake of Christ. We had a cross up there for are 2nd year tool and we gave everyone a piece of paper to put there name on and everything that they were going to die to on and then nail it to the cross. After handing out the papers the second years went up and did there tool which was pretty much just worship and then nailing are papers to the cross. It was really cool and Bre and I were shaking so bad from excitement at being able to do this that we both ended up smashing are figures “blush”. Then Nick got up and talked and challenged the 1st years to follow suite. I went to have communion and make my covenant this year and while down in the field I could hear as one by one they made there dissensions and nailed there papers and came down to. I realized while down taking communion that Jesus had already died for my mistakes so I didn’t need to live in fear but I could stand firm in Jesus who has cover my mistakes. We had a ton of awesome worship that night as well.

Part of Tuesday

Tuesday, we started at nine. Had Morning Prayer which was good as always. Then the 1st years went and did an INSTE seminar (there is 8 1st years 6 boys and 2 girls). While us 2nd years prepared for the faith walk. We then took the 1st years on the faith walk which was good because of all the symbolisms in it. We then had lunch. After that we went over ethics for Masters. Then we all went and wrote our dear God letters. (Which are letters we write to God at the begging of the year then we bury them). I am out of time so I’ll have to finish this later. But I’ll tell you now Tuesday was life changing for everyone.

Monday

On Monday we went to Pinelow which is a rope course/team building place. I was pleased to see how well everyone worked together. I also was able to tell right of the bat who the take charge I know best person is going to be this year. We had a few people who are really afraid of heights but they all managed with encouragement to make it to the top of the telephone pole (You have to climb to the top of a 30ft telephone pole then jump to a trapezes bar) and at least ½ ways across the cat walk. (A log tied between to trees also 30ft up). We actually got about a 1/3 of the team to the end of the Mohawk walk (cables stretched between trees that you walk on). But Rachel’s knee and ankle gave out because she has weak knees, so the rest of the weak she was on crutches. We finished the other three challenges. Then we went up to Waite lake camp and had dinner, cooked by g’ma Jean her meals are always Von-da-bah. Then P. Brad came up to speak that night which was great because his message tied in perfectly with what P. Nathan was going to talk about the next night. But he didn’t know that. It was all about what are you willing to give up for God.

Sunday

On the first Sunday that everyone is in town we all go to both services and at a certain point in the service we all go up front and introduce ourselves. Well last year there was a ton of girls with pockets of boys, but this year there was 8 boys then us 5 girls. It was kinda funny. One of the girls had to say bye to her mother between services and the mom thought it would be best if us second year girls were there when she left. That was really hard seeing someone else have to say bye to a love one. That night was college group we are doing the course Tactics to defending your faith. It was really good and interesting.

The 2, 1st year girls (Rachel and Molly)

Nicholas (intern with Master's)

half of my room

Half of my room the bed is HUGE

Saturday

So today is Saturday and we just finished the 1st year B, B, Q we ended up barely having enough food. There were a ton of people. Clean up went really fast so that was geat. Now some of us are in the office a group of the guys are looking at video footage from last year. And Esther and I are on the computers. Later all us girls 1st year and 2nd year are going to go see open season. We are going to go up to Pinelow and Waitti lake for the week.

I forgot the most importan thing about tuesday. We were working on a second year tool to present our heart to the 1st years. It came together really fast and then we spent the day in prayer and worship. To fully get the heart of the tool it was very good we were all exhausted after we finished. But it was defently worth it.

Update

I made it to the library again and so it is time to update but this time I’ll start with today and work backwards.
Friday, October 06, 2006 I woke up and Esther and I went to run some errands. And we are doing internet stuff right now.
Thursday, I am in charge of the food for our Saturday B, B, and Q So I worked on finding the cheapest sausage in town, and finished making potato salad. And had lunch then while waiting to get permission to buy the meat one of the youth from the youth group that just graduated came over and taught me how to restring a classical guitar. Dad did you know that one of the strings on there was an acoustic guitar sting. He also told me the difference between the two. Classical guitar necks aren’t reinforced and acoustic ones are. So the strings on a classical are nylon. And have more given. But he had to go catch a class at the college. Then Bre and I went shopping for the meats. In my search earlier I had learned that Sonnenberger had the cheapest sausage so I got directions to go there. And after all of are other shopping we headed there. I didn’t relieve that it was in the ghettos of Spokane and that it was like a fresh meat market place I don’t think I’ll be able to eat the sausages after buying them. But I heard upon coming home that they have the best sausage in town. That evening Joanne got tickets to go see “Singing in the Rain” at the civic theater, for Bre, Esther, and I. It was so fun it was the best thing I’ve watched in a long time. Then we came home and I finished restringing the guitar it was fun and now the guitars strings aren’t rusting.
Wednesday, I planed out what to buy for Saturday and finished my second level INSTE application AAAHHHH. After lunch Bre, Esther, and I went shopping. We came back and Bre and I started making the potato salad. Then we had dinner and she went to kids and I went to preschool. Courtney ( a little girl that wanted to help), Sherer (the art teacher), Trevor (2nd Yr), and I did preschool we had a blast I had forgotten how much fun they really can be.
Tuesday, all of us Masters worked on gathering stuff together for 1st orientation. That night Esther and I had Excelsior youth. We thought hey where close another that we can walk then have the boys drop us off at home afterwards. Which was a great plan except that we didn’t know how to get there and we miss understood the directions that Joanne gave us. So we ended up getting very lost and being about 15 min late. We had called Lance to tell him we would be late so they knew we would be late.
Monday we got stuff together for orientation and Esther and I went to Taikwodo and got very lost going there and we don’t know how because we knew exactly how to get there. But that was just the first of many such adventures throughout the week. (We’ve gotten lost every day) My time is up so until later bye.

Narnia

Eating at Whit's End

Bre and Eugene

Aslan

Hollis

This is for you Cy

New Mexico

Hi, so after posting that stuff on saturday Esther helped me chech out shcolarships and grants for next year. We spent 2 hr's doing it but it is looking pretty good. I just have to figure out my GPA. We then went home and watched a couple movies. (Sinbad and Snow White (with people)) And wen to bed. I have to go so I'll write about Sun. later.