In Lima

Hey, I´m in Lima right now with some friends at an internet cafe. We´ve had 2 days of orientation so far. It´s been a ton of talking, but all great info. Of course, in between sessions we just play soccer. It´s soo much fun! We´ll be here til Saturday and then we´re heading to San Pedra de la Casta (I think. ha). The altitude is 11,000 feet. It´s our high altitude training camp since we´ll be playing most matches in the Andes mountains.´

So far I´ve already made some really good friends and had a blast fellowshipping with them. God´s great!

I don´t know how much access I´ll have to the internet in the future, but I´ll update when I can :)

Thanks for praying and please continue. We have no idea what God has in store for us, but we´re ready to serve. Que Dios les bendiga (means ¨God bless¨).

Entertainment in THIS Economy

If entertainment is meant to entertain us, but our economy has fallen significantly then shouldn't the entertainment prices come down with us?

Why are ticket prices still outrageous and why are actors still making the same amount as before? What about professional athletes? Shouldn't we all be in this together?

I don't know if we should boycott the entertainment industry until some of this starts happening, but maybe we should definitely reevaluate what's important to us. Helping other or entertaining ourselves?

Also, why are there so many filthy movies coming out of Hollywood when the majority of Americans say they would like to see more family friendly things come out? Kids movies or at least child friendly movies usually seem to make more movie than all other types. Why? Because when a child goes to a movie they are usually accompanied by an adult this doesn't work vice versa for other types of movies. Stand up for what you believe in and tell the entertainers what you want. There's strength in numbers and unified the American people can have the America we want.

Trip to PERU

Andes Mountains of Peru

Well, I'm heading overseas again. I will be traveling with the International Mission Board to Peru for 2 months (May 25-Aug 2). Our group consists of about 12 students from various universities all over the U.S., and we will doing soccer evangelism. We will play in soccer tournaments and various pick-up games to share Christ's love with the people of Peru. I'm sure we will improve our soccer skills greatly through this because we all know that Americans have quite a bit to learn from the rest of the world concerning football/futbol/soccer. I'm really pumped about this opportunity to be used by God to let His light shine.

We are but humble servants begging God to use us in whatever way He would.

I will update this as much as I can from Peru so please follow and partner with me in prayer. Pray that we will be used to bring the Truth about the "eternity in the hearts of men" (Ecc. 3:11a NIV), for the people of Peru in general, the Peruvian Christians as they work to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19a NIV), and protection as we travel by plane, automobile, and foot through mountains and rivers.

"Not my will, but yours"

School's Out

School's out, and I'm heading home :)

10th to V-Day

Well... We've been doing quite a bit as usual, but this week was slightly slower than usual.

Tuesday we worked in the Mochipapa garden for like an hour or so.

Wednesday we had class, and hung out with this girl named Q (Brathcer and I). She's 29, from Bama, and in the Peace Corps.

Thursday we went back to the Wesleyan Bible College in Pemba. We helped out this lady named Jeanie in the library who is actually from Marion and works on the ground crew for IWU. She's just doing a short-term trip here.

Friday was a blast!!! It was class, and basically just a great day of bonding for most of the team who hadn't really bonded much before.

Today, Nick and I got up and made pancakes for everyone. The girls got the strawberry heart-shaped ones of course. ha It's Valentine's Day, and we decided to just treat the girls a little extra special :) I also attempted to do something nice for some of my very dearly missed girls at IWU, but it didn't quite work out too well. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to spend the rest of my day. I can't decide if today will be the day of rest and then homework tomorrow or vice versa.

I love ya mom :)

Up to Now

Well, I've been lazy as far as updating this goes, but not at all in other stuff. Homework's taken up a lot of time. Otherwise, I've been...
-riding dirtbikes in the bush to visit schools and present the AB program (program for basic schools that promotes Abstinence and Being faithful/Behavior change)
-cruising in the back of a truck singing and doing the same AB thing with Paul and Clesha (2 really good friends here that work for WHIZ)
-to church and was asked to say the offering prayer, which was kinda cool :)
-to an African History seminar from a professor at the University of Zambia
-chillin with Paul and Clesha watching soccer and playing their PS2

That was basically the highlights of last week, and so far this week we've just done homework and hung out.

*Clesha, Banda, Me, and Paul

Day 22-25

Day 22 (Thursday, Jan. 29)
-Today Melinda and I worked with Reach4Life again (New Testament with teen life lessons in it). We learned most of the ins and outs of it. They've had 22,000 students go through there program since just last year, and this year they should have roughly 42,000. We went to a Reach4Life Ambassador meeting, which is students who went through the program and still want to be mentors.

Day 23 (Friday, Jan. 30)
-Class, homework, soccer, construction, and just chillin. That was basically our day.

Day 24 (Saturday, Jan. 31)
-A man spent 3 hrs. educating us on the Impact of Colonialism today. It was really cool and interesting. His name was Dr. Yizenge Chondoka from the University of Zambia in Lusaka. I also got to talk to Troy Lewis today. He said that we would meet soon when he either comes here or we go to Lusaka in a few weeks (Zambia Director for the International Mission Board). Also, we sent out all our e-mails about the Bibles.

I got to talk to my family too, well sorta ;) I was on webcam, and they watched and listened since they were experiencing some technical difficulties. Now I think they see that it's hard to do computer stuff without me, specifically in our family. ha

Day 25 (Sunday, Feb. 1)
-We went to church. It was great, as always. I took a nap and read today. Then another lady came up and asked me for a Bible today. We really need those Bibles soon. I'll probably go do some homework now, and then hopefully I'll get to Skype with my girls later :)