Just Another Normal Day, Where Nothing Out Of The Ordinary Happens

It's nice to have a break in my schedule to give you an update on how the last few days have been.

Friday November 10th Ashley and I went out to dinner to celebrate being together for a month. She treated me out to dinner at El Mariachi's!!! I had been saying how much I wanted to eat at a local Mexican restaurant, My girl not only listens, but very good luck at picking out a restaurant. 

I had a ground beef tostada.

Ashley had a chicken quesadilla.

The restaurant totally reminded me of La Hacienda!!! The food was amazing!!!

Last week was tough. The first portion of my Youth Ministry one year curriculum was due, but after a few late nights, a trip to Walmart for ink, and 60 pages... It is finished!!!

Later that night a few of us went to the park, and then to an awesome local drive-in diner. We finished up the evening with watching Ratatouille. Cam was in bed, so we couldn't use my room. The student lounge was closed, and the only available place was third floor Currie. 

Using a projector, and a mattress pad, we made ourselves some Disney Magic.

  

On Saturday I helped Becca Wine (Sacramento) out with changing a flat tire. I did it all by myself, and with no previous idea as to how to do it. But it worked, I'm super proud of myself.

Saturday evening through Tuesday I was battling both a cold, and a fever. It was super annoying, and drained me badly, But on Monday night I managed to get Rachael and Ashley to join me in watching my sick movie, Jurassic Park, despite the fact that they both cannot stand the movie. Ahhh true friendship.

Last night at Neighborhood the Junior High ministry celebrated an early Thanksgiving, by bowling, with frozen Turkeys. Gotta love Youth Ministry.

It's Been Far Too Long...

I am sorry it has been forever since I have posted, but this thing called HOMEWORK entered my life quite dominantly in the month of October. October was a month of challenges. For the entire month and even up to today I have been having an battle with my shoulders. Every morning I wake up and find myself in pain. You can be praying for quality sleep and restoration in my body. October was a month of major projects, tests, and papers. I am currently working on a major youth ministry curriculum that will take an entire years worth of material, and allow me to visualize what my first year of ministry could be like. It is quite time consuming, but I see the value of it every time I sit down to work on it.

The biggest academic news for me so far this year occurred in October. I have really felt since arriving on campus that God wanted me to be around the community of Redding for longer than originally planned. I told Him that if he provided a way for me that I'd gladly follow, and in fact he provided several. I am excited to announce to all that don't know that I will be at Simpson for another year!!! God has put on my heart that I should pursue an additional minor in psychology. I have tweaked my grad plan, and will now be graduating a year later than I had originally planned. Because of this God is opening doors for me all over the city. I am beginning to really understand psychology more than before,my relationships with my friends are becoming even greater, and I have gotten plugged into my church's (Neighborhood) Junior High ministry. I love my middle schoolers!!! We celebrated Choctober the night before Halloween, and many of them were literally swimming in Chocolate. We also went down to Sacramento on the first of November for an all night party where we saw a Sacramento Kings basketball game, and spent the rest of the night surfing, bowling, and jumping on trampolines. That night four kids from our ministry gave their lives to Christ!!! God is doing great things this year, and its only the 10th of November!!!

Were there fun things that happened since I last blogged, YEAH THERE WAS!!!

On the 10th of October this lovely lady and I both finally determined that God was calling us to have a relationship together. Ashley has been a huge blessing to me as a bestfriend since I arrived at Simpson, and is continuing to be used in my life to bring me closer to God. Today (November 10th) is our one month celebration (Can't believe she lasted this long with me, She's crazy!!!), and I look forward to many more adventures with her to come.

On the 11th of October I took Ashley with me home to Salem for her first (Technically her second since she went to Ashland at the end of September, but that doesn't count) visit to Oregon! We had Columbus weekend off from classes and I wanted to show her my home. It took six and a half hours both ways but was an adventure. The best part of it was that no one in Salem had any idea that we were coming. What a surprise for everyone, especially my family, particularly my mom, who received a lovely birthday present.

On the 12th of October I got Pokémon Y!!! I love me some Pokémon!!!

Blarg and I entered into the competition of Airband!!! During fall preview weekend Simpson has a musical routine competition where we lip-sync to a song. All of the routines contained large casts, and multiple songs. But Blarg and I made ours a duet featuring the song Man or a Muppet (Click The Link) from The Muppets. We didn't win, but people still come to me to tell me how great it was.

I also got super cool Haunted Mansion iPhone Cases!!!

October was Great!!! And I Promise I'll Blog More In November... (;

Did He Just Say Uterus?

On Tuesday I gave my first sermon for preaching class. This was a great message to give, a fun one to write, and the perfect one to share.

I Survived The Day Of Death

Hello everyone. My how I have missed blogging, but there is this thing called homework that tends to get in the way of my posting. But SOOOOOOOOO much has happened since I last posted. Spiders find their way into my room all the time, and I am one of the best SCUM players in my group of friends.

I got an iPhone 5!!! Now I can take pictures all the time that actually look good! I also can do fun iPhone things! Yay iPhone!!!

I always make artwork pieces on my whiteboard outside my room, and people have actually taken notice of it, and write me messages back. 

Ashley is teaching me to play guitar! 

I participated in the day of serve on Saturday the 21st. 

My team went to Anderson Community plant church and painted the interior of the building. It was a blast to serve this small community church and bless the halls that its visitors walk through.

I survived the Day of Death on Wednesday the 25th. I had massive projects due in every class, somehow Jesus got me through it all.

I hosted Disney Night at trash club on Thursday the 26th. Mom mailed me all of my stuff from the parks so  I could dress up and entertain as we served the ladies on campus.

Tonight I participated in My Tie! I went on a blind date with Amaryah! She picked my tie and our group had a blast. 

Give Us All Of Your Trash

Got plugged into a club tonight. All guys club. Trash Club!!! Blarg and I rocked the classy look as us guys sang our ways through the dorms to take out the trash for our sisters in Christ.

Give us all of your trash

Give us all of your trash

Plastic, cardboard, aluminium, tin

If you've got trash then we're your men

Give us all of your trash.

Give us all of your trash

Give us all of your trash

We are trash club 7 to 8

Every Thursday night and we'll be great

Give us all of your trash.

A Black Persons Hair

What an awesome day! Have four classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Three of the four are with the Youth Min professor. I've got a lot of reading and writing to do for him, so we'll see how the HW goes. I'm super pumped! Oh and tonight I crossed something of my bucket list as I have touched a black persons hair. The experience was unforgettable, and quite unique I must say.

Go And Serve The Lord

Today felt great to have my first Christian classes in college. Opening with prayer, and closing with Go and serve the Lord. Preaching is going to be a great class, and completely ridiculous. Can't wait to see how the rest of the year pans out.