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smells

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:27:06 GMT

i really do enjoy the smells of fall. the leaves, the brisk air, the new starbucks beverages, dryer air, ahhh i love it. but let me tell you about another smell.
so this mysterious disgustingly foul (thats fo-ul : two sylabels) odor emerged in the bathroom at the guys staff house (on my side of the house) and also into my bedroom. I figured it was a dead animal, but couldn't find anything. so finally one day me and nate lifted the skirt up on the side of our trailer (guys staff house) to check for dead animals. no dead animals. so we finaly decided that it was a dead mouse in the heating vent. so today i decided to buy candles and just wait out the smell, and hope that it goes away. but no. today as i was putting away my clean laundry i thought i smelled "the odor" coming out of my dresser, here, low and behold i found it. a dead, decomposing mouse under my dressing. words can't describe that disgusting, fo-ul, puetred odor. but the smell was found.
the end.

bonfires

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:54:37 GMT

where did the name "bonfire" come from? am i even spelling it right? anyway, i like bonfires and i made one the other day. after an exciting time in the Springfield ghetto roller-skating rink with me and 6 DTS students we decided to light a bonfire. roller-skating is amazing. it's an american tradition that i hope never dies, but if it ever would, i look forward to being able to tell my kids about "back in my day" when we went out to go "roller-skating" and make my childhood sound mysterious and fairy-tail esque. oh boy. anyways, my favorite song to skate too is "tryin to catch me ridin' dirty", which is all around a great song.
but back to the bonfire. we made marshmallows and stuff and then played worship songs and prayed. it was sweet. the moon was out, it was chilly. the perfect autumn night for a fire.
so i just realised that i refered to my childhood as something that i was still living in... hmmm... i never thought of that. sometimes i definately think I am, and other times I don't. I think that changes when you get married. maybe it never does...

get with the program

Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:00:38 GMT

i'm writting from Ensenada, Mexico! Hola, como stas!? haha that's enough of that. the other night i asked someone how you say taco in spanish. lets just say it was a humbling experience...
So i'm at the DNA conference! it's called that because we are learning all about the DNA of YWAM, who we are, where we've come from, how we grow, what we do, what we will do in the future! and it's led by, who better than, Loren and Darlene Cunninghman, the co-founders themselves. i can honestly say i have never in my whole life encountered a couple with more wisdom and walking in deeper communion with God. Loren has been to EVERY single nation and geo-political structure on the planet. it's over 400! we have 4 sessions a day, and each one is overflowing with stuff, i'm scrambling to get all my notes taken! i literally feel like i could throw up sometimes. it's all so good, so amazing to hear the things that God is doing around the world! God is imparting so much inside of me and giving me so much vision personally and for the new base in Louisville!

The great commission is being fulfilled, will we be apart in it? will we be effective in it? will we listen to God to discover what our part is? do we really know God???

today i went swimming the Pacific ocean. it was cold. that about sums it all up. ( =

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:53:34 GMT

So here i am in adams, TN again! back at the base, and it sure is good to be back! my road trip down yesterday went amazingly! so one of my friends prayed that i'd have "good gas milage" and sure enough God did a miracle! In a normal full tank of gas (about 10 gallons) i drive roughly 300 to 320 miles! but yesterday my full tank of gas got me from Elizabethtown, PA all the way into Tennessee! that totaled 490 miles!!!!!!!! I sat there thinking "God must really want me to bring my car!" so a normal trip to nashville from home is like $80 bucks, i paid $35 yesterday! God is so amazing!
I also discovered that my E light doesn't work and i ran the car totally out of gas along 81! that was a first! haha

Friday, October 06, 2006

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:13:36 GMT

so can you get human flesh boyan cubes??? ya know? like, flesh noodles for lunch? sound good? maybe...

Monday, October 02, 2006

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:17:46 GMT

did you know that cake batter ice cream can actually be backed into a cake??? according to a worker at maggie moo's. ( =

saturday night at 6 pm. my potatoe bar at my church - be there or be there.

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:21:23 GMT

I saw a wide mouth frog the other day...

I'm now the youngest male staff member at the ywam nashville base. it's great!

and thats pretty much all i can think to say at this point... i miss everyone...

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:16:22 GMT

so i'm driving home the other day and this flippin' car kinda gets in my way, right, so i get out of his way. and i'm talking on my flip phone, and i guess he doesn't like that, i guess, and he flips my the flippin' flipper and yells "flip your flippin' flip phone shut or i'll flip you off again!" .

Hypothetically speaking lets say i have a girlfriend. hypothetically speaking. and say i wanted to take her out on a real nice date, b/c we weren't dating for very long and i want to make a good impression. hypothetically speaking. where should i go, what should i do???

so apparently now it's illegal to buy alcohol if your under 21! sheesh! ...worst day of my life...

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:09:42 GMT

ahhh, i'm home in Nashville now! our drive back from louisianna was good and uneventful other than a few random dance parties at ghetto gas stations to Family Force Five (ps there like my new favorite band)

so now this week we have a speaker, it's weird being back in "school". BUT ONLY FOR A WEEK! our speaker is Dave G, the director of the LA ywam base, he is amazing! today he spoke on how we need to become like children to be "kingdom people". very good and challenging.

so this week is also alot of debriefing stuff, we have a lot of free time. so this afternoon me, adam, morgan and amy and some others are going swimming in our creek. can't stinkin wait! and then tonight our Mission adventures team is eating out at some nice place, they won't tell us where.

PS i'm so excited for the future. GOD IS UP TO SOMETHING HUGE!

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:36:28 GMT

wow, only a week and half down here in the Gulf yet! I can't believe it!
I'm leading a group from Petra Christian Fellowship this week, that is alot of fun!

PS if you get a chance watch Lady In the Water, great movie!