Luke 1:37

Goodbye livejournal... at least, for awhile.

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:00:49 GMT

I'm going to China in three days. Two, depending on how you count. I leave for Yantai, in the Shandong province of China on July 3rd. I'm going there to teach english. That's about all I know. I'm not an official missionary, I didn't go through any organization. I got in contact directly with the school will be teaching at. I told them I had an unaccredited associates degree in theology and offered my services to do something I've never formally studied: Teach english! And what's crazier is that they hired me! 0.o

I'll be out there for at least one year. That's how long my contract is for. If I like it I won't come back.

I mentioned I'm not a missionary. You may be wondering if I have lost my mind. You thought I was saved! haha. I see the missionary title as more of a burden than it's worth. So I haven't gone out of my way to be official by the western church's standards. That said, I'm just like anyone else who loves and serves Jesus with a desire to see other's lives changed by Him. I'm just a Christian who is going to live in China ? like many Christians who live any other number of places around the world. You can call me what you like, but I would prefer just a Christian living in China. Or better yet, a follower-of-jesus-whose-path-is-taking-him-to-China. But those terms may be a bit long...

Whatever you call it, my drive for service is undeniable. So I'm praying that God will use me as effectively as possible. I'm praying that He will bring me one or two people to disciple. I hope that I can use my music and share love songs with people in coffee shops or the equivalent. I also pray that I can help at an orphanage, but I fine that improbable (but then I remember luck 1:37). And I can't wait to see what He will teach me through a different people and a different culture.

But my duty first and foremost is to be a witness through my work. So pray that I am the best darn english teacher China has seen! That Christ would shine through all my conversations.

I'm not going to send out news letters. They are a thing of the past. I will, however, continue to update my blog. The url has changed and I now use blogspot because it's blocked less often in China, or so I've heard. The url is:

engrafted.blogspot.com

Bookmark it!

I don't think many of you have my email address. If you want it it's the same name as my blogspot url @ gmail . com. But please don't email me with Christian jargon (i.e. Jesus, God, Christ, Pray, etc.) or anything about the Chinese government. Everything in China is filtered and I don't know how strict they are in Yantai. But no one in the country takes kindly to that sort of thing. I'll know what you mean if you say I'm in your thoughts, or the book says, "love your enemies", etc.

I think that's just about everything. I may not update my blog often, but I'll do my best. I'm praying that I will not have internet in my apartment. What a stupid distraction this creation is.

You all have been a great community to be a part of. I hope to keep in contact. And I hope that your journey with Jesus is as awesome as mine. Though I'm sure it is!

Sunsets

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:24:45 GMT

People keep asking me what I will miss when I leave. They don't seem to understand that I'm not actually attached to anything that I can't take with me. I may miss the New Mexico sunsets. I didn't miss them when I was in Japan, but then one often doesn't realize what one misses until they are back. Last night I realized I missed NM sunsets.

One week.

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:21:57 GMT

I'll be in China within a week. I got my plane ticket, my visa, my guitar, some books, clothes, what more do I need?

I want to get some gifts for people. I think it would be good to give little things to my coworkers. And the poor people who pick me up from the airport at midnight. I feel really bad that I couldn't get a better flight.

Does anyone have any suggestions on gifts I could pick up? Preferably nothing to expensive.

Oh, and before I can get to China I have to at least stay alive. I almost got t-boned at a stop sign yesterday. Then I saw someone in a white car go nuts on the highway. They started swerving across all four lanes, then fishtailed like mad (I actually thought they were going to flip) while their trunk popped open throwing all their loot in front of my car. They finally got it under control and pulled over. I almost ran over their back pack. I'm so glad no one nailed me from behind because I had to slow down quick.

Anyway, suggestions for gifts to bring to China?

Hiking

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:08:51 GMT

On Saturday I went for a hike with some friends. It was loads of fun. After that we went back to Mark's house to swim and eat. Good times.

Listening is a skill...

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:46:34 GMT

...that most, including myself, don't have. The problem is that most don't know it's a skill and don't try to develop it as such.

Young adults tonight, as with most nights, made me think about something totally different than I expected. It's cool how God does that. But I didn't really like how it came about.

In a big group it's hard to talk about one thing and have it stay on that topic. What I saw tonight was surprising because most thought it stayed on topic.

We are going through philippians. Tonight we were going to go through chapter 4. We came upon verse 8 where Paul makes a list of things we should think or meditate on. Recently I have been thinking about this list, especially how it omits the Word of God (though this is taught in other portions [especially psalm 119]) as one of the things to meditate on. I think this is for a very specific reason.

The Bible is completely true from start to finish. It can be tested and doubted. And it has been for hundreds of years. I won't get all apologetic, but it always comes through tests standing. So the Bible is entirely true, but truth is not entirely contained within the Bible. In other words, God is bigger than this book He wrote.

I brought up, not quite as well articulated as I try to write here, that truth can be found outside the Bible. I didn't expect for people to agree with me, many don't. But I realized that when I would make an example to illustrate my point people would get hung up on the example.

For instance.

I brought up finding truth in other religions and we hit a half hour long discussion of being able to discern truth in other religions. The general thought was that we shouldn't go studying them for truth and the like. Whatever, I don't care about that! I wasn't talking about other religions, I was talking about truth in general being found outside scripture. Be it science, religion, philosophy, psychology, or whatever.

Then I tried to get everyone back on topic by talking about how this should change our lives. How seeing truth in everything should change our attitudes. But I made the mistake of bringing up witnessing as an example and everyone got off on different methods and how we should all rely on the Spirit to witness.

Now, that's not what I was getting at in the slightest. But that's what people heard.

My point was that seeing something good and true in a person should change how we view them. I've used the example before, seeing a prostitute as a mom. Seeing a homeless guy as someone with discipline because they can stand out on the corner for 6 hours every day. (I've done it, it's hard and humbling. Don't ever yell or throw your trash at a guy on the corner.)

But this point was completely overlooked.

How could something this beg be misunderstood? It got me thinking about how we process what we learn. Why is the main point often completely missed?

I'm pretty sure it has to do with what everyone is learning personally. From what every person said tonight, I could go through and tell you what God has been teaching them this week. One person is learning prayer, one witnessing, one trust, etc. So why did they seemingly disregard the main topic of the discussion without even knowing it?

I think it's because everything that was said was filtered through their recent experiences and knowledge. And the only content that made it through was whatever fit through that filter.

Say God is really teaching one person to pray. Out of everything I said the only thing that they would connect with is praying for discernment when looking for truth. So they would talk about that. Then the next person who is learning about evangelism only hears my example about witnessing so they would talk about that. They both heard every word I said but each is using their own filter.

It was all very frustrating. And I realize how much we don't actually listen to what people say.

So I spent most of the night trying to understand the main point of what people were really saying.

Because what they are saying, may not be what I am actually hearing.

張懸

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:14:19 GMT

張懸 (zhang (or deserts) xuan) is an artist that i have been trying to get my hands on for ages. I tried to order her album My Life Will... months ago. But yesasia gave me my money back and told me they couldn't find her CD anywhere. It took me a good 6 months of looking to finally track down a torrent. And I have to leave it up for days and days before I ever got anything. The torrent actually never finished because it had a few music videos. But I got the CD... finally.

As far as Chinese music goes deserts xuan is a breath of fresh air. It's good to have someone that plays guitar and writes their own songs. She has a great chill style with a voice to match. I'm totally excited that I finally got it!

Scream:

宝贝:

dissociating phrases

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:47:13 GMT

Every Friday there is a young adults bible study at the church I go to when I'm in NM. I was really disturbed by the study last night. There have been a lot of changes since I left. Which is good, except when change is bad. It's good to have a relaxed Bible study, but it is God's Word after all. And I feel that there is a blasé atmosphere among most. There are a couple into it, but it just feels like no one expects anything to happen. And this is not even what disturbed me.

What bothered me was something that is all over the church, but I just noticed it last night. There are certain phrases people use that sound great but have no real weight in their life. Last night we talked about worship a little bit. If a discussion comes up on worship I can predict exactly what people will say. First they will talk about it not being just a song like most people think (but everybody says that so obviously nobody thinks it's just a song). Then they will bring up different catch phrases to describe worship "as a lifestyle". "For me worship is pointing to Christ in everything, praising Him in everything, etc" You get the point.

Alright that's great. But so what? Did anyone leave the study last night thinking about how they are going to do that? Phrases like that have a certain dissociating quality to them. It's a way of connecting spiritual truths to one's life without letting it change anything.

Why aren't there answers like these?

"For me worship is giving the homeless guy who asked for spare change my last 20 bucks because Jesus said, give to those who ask."

"For me worship is sitting across the street of an abortion clinic offering to help the moms who have no option."

"For me worship is celibacy."

"For me worship is having a huge BBQ every Saturday for any homeless people who want a lunch."

"For me worship is seeing that prostitute as a mom and asking her how I can help."

"For me worship is going to gay bars and talking to guys about Jesus."

"For me worship was skipping church last Sunday because I saw a teenager who obviously slept on the street. So I took him out to breakfast instead."

"For me worship is building the church a decent website and keeping it current."

"For me worship is dropping every tenth cigarette in the offering plate."

"For me worship is protesting war."

"For me worship is turning my iPod off and listening to the wind."

You get the point. Comments like these would get people thinking about worship in a way that would change how they live. But how is the worship-is-pointing-to-God-in-everything attitude going to draw anyone closer to God? It won't change any actions. And it's what we do as well as what we believe that will build this love relationship.

For me... worship is...

Around town

Thu, 31 May 2007 19:38:27 GMT

Yesterday I went around Albuquerque taking pictures.

At UNM:

Downtown:

I love my camera.

It's over

Wed, 23 May 2007 06:44:36 GMT

The end of an era. Bible College. Because of my outstanding ability to graduate from a 2 year unaccredited college my parents decided to give me a toy. OK, I make it out to be easier than it was. Half the people I knew at the beginning never finished. Forget it, on to the toy.

Before:

Half way:

After:

I didn't cut my hair as long as I was in Bible College. But now it's time to move on to bigger and better things and I don't need to be weighed down by all that hair.

The End

Sat, 19 May 2007 08:54:38 GMT

Service. Every season of life tends to have it's themes. Before I came to Bible College I was an intern at my church. That season the Lord taught me service. Being a servant to all.

Nothing. I was able to go to CCBC in fall of 2005. My first semester God tore me apart. In the light of His glory I saw my pride, arrogance, selfishness, etc. Bible College was going to be a season for Him to rebuild my life the way He wanted it. I had spent nearly 20 years doing things my way, now it was time for Him to transform my whole being. So the first semester he taught me that I'm nothing.

Prayer. In the spring I spent my second semester in York, England. This is where God began to rebuild. I learned how to pray. Not to say I know how to pray now, but I learned the importance of prayer. Dave Sylvester, the Pastor in York, knows prayer is the only way to get things done. The church has 5 or 6 prayer meetings a week and he is at every single one. I learned more from his life than I did from any class.

Vision. Summer passed and Fall came around again. This time I went East and headed over the Okinawa, Japan. This is where God gave me vision. Vision for China. I prayed for China the rest of the semester, but not much came about. I loved it so much in Okinawa that I came back for the next Spring semester.

Action. It was when I came back that God started purring everything together. First I started studying Mandarin with Kayo who, by the way, will end up in China some day as well. After a few weeks with her Ping began teaching me as well. God gave me two chinese teachers. Next He gave me a job in China. I can't wait to see what He will give me while I'm in China!

Semester video

Fri, 18 May 2007 22:01:01 GMT

It's been a great semester. Matt made a really good video about it. He's got a good eye for things. The music is Twenty Two Fourteen by The Album Leaf.

Migiwa

Sun, 13 May 2007 13:40:25 GMT

Tonight Migiwa came and played at church. It was really good. She has a beautiful voice and a gift for song writing, but more than that she has a especially touching testimony. She only shared a little bit, but it was about how God took her from being 引き篭り (hikikomori) for three years. She quit going to school and stayed in her room for that time. Then she read where God told her she was precious in her sight. That changed her entire life. Now she has all this amazing music He has giver her. It was amazing.

I was especially touched because God has been directing my prayer towards 引き篭り when I pray for Japan for the last 6 months. God is so good!

bullet point update

Thu, 10 May 2007 02:28:04 GMT

When I wait this long to update I find it difficult to write anything coherant in prargraph format. Thus the list.

I'm about half way done with my finals. That means I will be completely done with school in a week!

I already feel more comfortable speaking Chinese than Japanese. It's massively easier to construct sentences.

I've discovered that Leviticus is possibly the most intimate soul-searching book in the Bible.

I will be in China within three months.

God is completely in love with me. Something I will never understand.

amen.

Here's the deal.

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:52:42 GMT

I've just signed a contract to work for a school in Yantai, a coastal city in the Shandong Provence of China. I'll be there for one year. But everyone that goes to Yantai says that their 6 month visit turned into 2-3 years because it's such a great place. So hopefully my year may turn into something more...

God put this together so well, I can't believe it. Last semester China just wouldn't leave me alone. I hated it at first. I wanted to stay in Japan and do the whole missionary thing out here. But China weighed on my heart more than anything.

Finally I broke down (I'll leave the details of that for my auto-biography ^_^) and God gave me three specific verses proving to me that China is the place. After I quit fighting it I just fell in love with China. Now when people ask me about it I say I love China like I have already been there. But that's how I feel. It's not a love from me. I don't want people calling me a missionary though, that's a loaded word. I'm just going to be a Christian in China.

I could write pages on how much everything has been put together by God, but I'll just leave it at that.

Here's to China!
.cheers

Last Weekend

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:56:00 GMT

Last Sunday I went out on a boat with Hazel and her Dad, Max. A couple of the most amazing people on the island. Here's some pictures of it.
It had been raining all day so we weren't sure if we were going to be able to go out. But God loves us so much He let us have blue skies for a couple hours. Really, it started raining a little bit after a couple hours.

We went out to Zampa and saw some rock climbers. Lucky, but climbing on coral really hurts!

The light house.

(Oh, and I saw that shoe again. it was down the road about 30 meters. And I saw it again a good 20 feet from this spot as well... That makes me happy.)

I had a free day on Monday so I decided to ride my bike up to Zampa. It was a wonderful ride. Nothing too long, but I was refreshed.

Big chains are cool:

We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast, which reaches inside behind the curtain, where Jesus our forerunner entered on our behalf, since he became a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.—Hebrews 6:19-20 (NET version)

I finally made it to the cliffs, hung off the edge. Innocent people committed suicide by jumping from these cliffs during WWII. Sobering thought.

The light house:

Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.—Psalm 119:105 (NET)

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:13:49 GMT

These feet will walk the length of the Great Wall.

...

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:56:29 GMT

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:15:29 GMT

"sometimes i want to quit, then i remember love. sweet love dripping from the cross of calvary"

Yesterday and today

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:58:03 GMT

Yesterday I...

...gave a short devotion on the promise given to us in Jeremiah 33:3.

...led worship for CC Okinawa.

...broke through with a kid in the church that wouldn't speak to anyone, ever. It took 4 weeks and now I'm not going to be there on Wednesday nights anymore. I feel really bad about just starting to break down his walls and then leave. Hopefully the next group reached out to him.

Today I...

...took a picture of this shoe on the way to school.

...passed out some flyers for Passion Week. I took 100 flyers and passed them all out. Among the recipients were two little boys, probably about 10 or 11. Maybe a little younger. I'm not sure. They were really excited and told me to give some to their friends down the street. I gave them to the two little girls they pointed at.

Not even a minute later they zipped up on their bikes and asked for a few more to give to their friends, of course I obliged. They proceeded to speed down the street and call to their friends (2 boys and a girl holding a puppy) who were on the other side of the busy street. The first boy ran out and stood in the first two lanes with his hand out to stop traffic. The second boy ran into the next two lanes to stop traffic going the opposite way. Then the girl holding the puppy ran across when all four lanes were stopped, then the first boy, and finally the second boy. It was crazy.

They all ran up to me and we talked for about ten minutes. Before they left though they asked for more flyers for their friends. Then each of them took about 5 or 10, probably 30 or 40 flyers altogether, and took off. But what was really cool was that while they were running down the street they were passing the flyers out to every person they saw! Then they ran back into some neighborhood I probably would have never gone through! Isn't that amazing! They are already serving Jesus and they don't even know Him! ^_^ I know that God will do something really cool with all that.

Then I took a picture of my cave.

peace 'n love
.mjs

The calm before the storm...

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:46:40 GMT

Yesterday was amazingly relaxing. I created a new sanctuary. A small room in the back of the Koinonia Thrift Store. The Thrift Store is a new ministry we started this semester. Apparently I'm the one who runs it. Manager, CEO? Whatever. So I'm one of the few who has a key to the place. It's super ghetto, but we're getting everything together real nice.

Back to the sanctuary I created. The Thrift Store has a back room that is all dark and dingy, the floor is really sloped to the left, no real light, etc. I set up a really ghetto card table pushed up against the wall to compensate for it's wobbles. I found a lamp in the thrift store with no lamp shade that works nicely. And voilá! My own quiet, cool (temperature wise), study area. I got so much work done in there. If I hadn't made a place like that I think I might have gone insane. It's hard for me to get everything finished with people around me all day. I love my Thrift Store job.

Tonight a mission team comes in from the States. They are here for two weeks I think. Next week the church is having a Passion Week. We will have a service every night of the week leading up the Jesus' death on Friday (that night we will show The Passion, have an outreach on Saturday, and two sunrise services on Sunday. So this week going to be loads of outreach and inviting people to come to passion week. Super busy.

Of course next week with a service every night and school all day. Madness.

But it only gets better! Right after that a team from California comes in to do a worship conference. So we will be busy with all that for the week after Passion Week.

I love serving in Japan. What would I be doing if I had gone to Murrieta? Nothing, just sitting around, learning, eating boring food, probably not doing anything in ministry. God is so so good to me.

ugh

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:49:53 GMT

This week. Possibly the worst week of my life, and it will only get busier for the next eight weeks.

I could be teaching in China starting on the 28th of this month but I turned them down yesterday.

I wish I could just walk away from all of this, but God has me in Bible College to finish. The easy way isn't the best way.

After I'm finished I would rather die than have anything to do with CCBC. And that statement only begins to tap into how I feel.

...pray

Philippines!

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:28:18 GMT

The Philippines was so wonderful. Thank all of you who were praying for us, everything come together incredibly. The entire trip was full of great ministry, fellowship, good times, and not as good times, but overall God was in it all. And because of that everything was perfect.

We left on Friday, March 9th. We flew from Okinawa to Taipei to Manilla. In Taipei I practiced my Mandarin some. That was fun. We stayed in Manilla for one night at some big hostel type thing. We had some sweet prayer and worship. Then we relaxed:

On Saturday, March 10th. We got up really early and flew to Iloilo. We took one of these bus/taxi things from the airport to the hostel:

Iloilo is kind of a college city. There are a lot of universities there. It's also has some tourist traffic. So Calvary Chapel Bible Fellowship has a lot of young people in the church. We got to hang out with all our family there. The afternoon we got there a lot of college people were meeting at the church from discipleship houses around the area. Getting to know everyone was great:

Sunday morning we led worship, helped with a youth meeting in the afternoon, and had an afterglow at night. It was a packed day of wonderful ministry. We had some great lunch, BBQ chicken, coconut shakes, and buko-halo for desert.

This was the desert (buko-halo is a coconut with a mixture of crushed ice and all sorts of things):

At night I got to eat balut. Imagine a duck. This duck lays an egg. Then let the baby duck grow in the egg for 21 days. After that boil it and eat it. That's what I had. First you crack the top of the egg open and drink the embryonic fluids. (It tastes like soup.) But then you peel the rest of the egg off and find this little duck with feathers and everything. You roll this duck around in rock salt and proceed to eat it in one bite, otherwise it falls apart and you don't want that. Feeling the feathers go down your throat and chewing up the skull are the two worst parts. Other than that it just tastes like hard boiled egg with bones.

Monday morning we went on a boat for several hours. We were all blow away at where we were. 2 years ago I never could have imagined that I would ever be on a boat in the Philippines having the time of my life.

We also had great food. The mangos were the best mangos I have ever had. I'm not even kidding. We also ate this sticky rice with caramelized coconut on top. Oh, and it was also really good to take a bite of sweet sticky rice and a bite of fresh mango. The watermelon was also out of the world.

That night we went shopping. I don't like shopping but it was fun to hang out with everyone some more. Some of us piled in RJ's jeep.

On Tuesday we headed home. I was totally blessed by the trip. God has really made us all one big family no matter where we live. Ukraine, America, Asia, or the Moon!

Amen.

(All the pictures were stolen from e3missions, Daniel, or RJ. I didn't take a single picture on the trip. I always feel like I will miss out on something if I'm busy taking pictures.)

Scattered updates

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:36:31 GMT

Here are some things that have been happening that I don't feel I need to go into detail on.

We are going to the Philippines on Friday for a mission trip. Please pray.

I'm taking to many classes. Because of it I'm not learning anything really well, but I need to graduate. Oh well.

I've been listening to a lot of Chinese music. It rocks. Check out yobo.com if you want to fumble through some.

I've learned that if you want to really memorize scripture memorize it in another language and you will never forget it in English. わたしはただしいひとをまねくためではなくつみひとをまねくためにきたのです。That was last weeks from Luke 2:17. My Chinese verse is on the top of the page from Luke 1:37.

My heart is deceitfully wicked beyond all belief.

"Have faith in God." — Mark 11:2
"Little faith will save a man, but little faith cannot do great things for God. Poor Little-faith could not have fought "Apollyon;" it needed "Christian" to do that. Poor Little-faith could not have slain "Giant Despair;" it required "Great-heart's" arm to knock that monster down. Little faith will go to heaven most certainly, but it often has to hide itself in a nut-shell, and it frequently loses all but its jewels. Little-faith says, "It is a rough road, beset with sharp thorns, and full of dangers; I am afraid to go;" but Great-faith remembers the promise, "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; as thy days, so shall thy strength be:" and so she boldly ventures. Little-faith stands desponding, mingling her tears with the flood; but Great-faith sings, "When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee:" and she fords the stream at once."
— C.H. Spurgeon

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:22:51 GMT

On Saturday I got to go fishing with Tim and Ichigo. We were out there for some five hours without catching anything. Mega bummer, but it was still loads of fun being able to hang out. We also got pretty sun burned being out there all day. I think this monday we are going to go night fishing. I'm looking forward to that a lot. Here's a picture of Tim all ready to go:

And here's Ichigo:

Then on Monday we went up to Okuma for what was supposed to be a relaxing time. The first day was nice. Okuma has this really nice resort type place where we stayed on a beach. A lot of the activities cost money so I didn't do much stuff like that, not that I'm into it anyway. So I went exploring by myself a lot the first day. I ran into this guy on a little trail:

The trail took me down to a nice beach, the only problem was that there was all this trash. Stupid people make nature look like junk:

At night we all got together for some worship around the fire. It was quite enjoyable. Little did I know what tomorrow would bring...

I woke up on Tuesday morning feeling like I was going to die. My high expectations for the day were shattered. I threw up at least 8 or 9 times throughout the day. But it wasn't only me, 6 other people wished they were deal along side me before the day's end. By the end of the day I was feeling better, marginally. But by that time it had just gotten really funny. I was leading some worship around the fire that night and right at the end of this really quiet song someone threw up a loud as could be. It was madness!

All in all it was a good time, Monday and Wednesday were good anyway. Tuesday not so much. By the time we left on Wednesday everyone was feeling a lot better. Praise God for that.

On a completely different note, I just read this interesting quote by A.W. Tozer.

"There is scarcely anything so dull and meaningless as Bible doctrine taught for its own sake. Truth divorced from life is not truth in its Biblical sense, but something else and something less.... No man is better for knowing that God in the beginning created the heaven and the earth. The devil knows that, and so did Ahab and Judas Iscariot. No man is better for knowing that God so loved the world of men that He gave His only begotten Son to die for their redemption. In hell there are millions who know that. Theological truth is useless until it is obeyed. The purpose behind all doctrine is to secure moral action."

Fishing

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:49:51 GMT

Yesterday I went fishing with Tim and みちお. We were out there for a good 5 hours and didn't catch a thing. It was fun though. Usually みちお goes fishing at night so I'm going to try to go with them at night sometime. Me and Tim got sunburned. He got it worse than me. My face is a little red and my feet got really dark. But Tim is really red and his shoulders are really bad. The sun only made him like night fishing that much more.

Other than that nothing special is happening. The weather is warming up and it's really beautiful.

The park by our house had been under construction for months, they are making it huge and amazing. I love going there at night.

Tomorrow everyone is going up north for a few days to just get away and spend time with Jesus. It's going to be good. I'll toss up some pictures when I get back.

Oh, and freshraj suggested writing a song about Jael from Judges 4:17-22. I'm thinking about it but I'm not sure. I'm surprised I'm actually considering it. What do you think?