Sep 27

today was another long day. i am convinced Satan wants to keep me so busy that i cant spend time with my Lord. i slept through breakfast, which i usually do on Sabbath morning. i made it down to sabbath school on time, but all the preliminary stuff took so long that we only had 25 min. to have any study. the sermon was alright but not all that spectacular.
usually on sabbath afternoon i really enjoy going for a walk with the students. for the past couple of weeks we have gone down to the river and had a nice, peaceful time playing in the sand. this week we had out reach planned for Sunday afternoon, but that got changed to sabbath afternoon. so we all piled into the buses at 2 and headed to Lillooet. we passed out flyrs for the international supper coming up next week. there were a few hiccups, but all and all it went well. we passed out about 750 flyers! i really hope that many people dont show up! i dont know what we would do with them all.
tonight and tomarrow the students are working with Blaylock. should be lots of fun for them :)
right now i cant sleep, so thats why i am writing this at 12:30. honest, i dont usually stay up this late. but i am going to try and sleep now, so good night.

sep 26

well, another work week is over and now it is sabbath! i so much enjoy the sabbath. God sure had a great thing in mind when He decided to make a day of rest.
this week went by super fast. every thing was all messed up on Monday because of the guys that were lost. i had Tuesday off, most of which i accidentally spent sleeping. i hate wasting my day in bed, but every once in a while it happens. Wednesday Craig had off so i picked up on the stuff he usually does. Thursday wasn't so bad, i was able to relax a bit. we had student life meeting and a dorm meeting which took up most of the morning. then this after noon i had to spend almost and hour and a half trying to get the guys to clean their rooms. it was super annoying. i had to give out free labor to three guys today!
for vespers tonight we did a little test your faith thing. three people were called to the front and were presented with a question and they had to find verses to answer it. it was a lot of fun and very challenging.
tomorrow we are going into Lillooet to pass out invitations for the international supper in October. should be lots of fun.
well, its late, so i am going to bed.

Sep 22

to day was another long day. thankfully i was able to wake up at a reasonable time and have a nice breakfast of biscuits and gravy before i got too busy. after breakfast i Jeremy put together to equipment for him to take in his truck up the mountain to assist in the search. some shovels, a chain saw, tarps, food, water, blankets, and the like. right after that i had class. i knew it was useless to try and teach what i was going to, so i decided to teach about wilderness survive. considering the situation at hand i was quite appropriate.
the search and rescue teams got started right after sun rise. they had a large helicopter with infer red and an airplane that took surveillance photos, plus quite a few ground crew. it started snowing around 2 am, and the fog was really think most of yesterday and didn't let up till around 10 or so. it was still around and made it hard to the air crew. right after lunch, at 12:35 the announcement at the school was made that they had been found!!!! they were cold, wet, tired, and very happy to be found :) it took a little bit to get them air lifted out to Lillooet and then on to the hospital to get checket out. every one was fine, i havnet talked to them all yet, but from what i can gather they all did quite will and were very positive. they made it back to the school just in time for worship were we had a wonderful prayer session and some of them told thier stories. now they are all sleeping in thier nice, warm beds.
we are going to be reviewing all that went on and try to make sure that this never happens again. we are glad every thing turned out well, but a lot of this could have been avoided from the begining.
praise God for His goodness!!!

Sep 21

wow, to day was crazy. this morning started off with a phone call from a parent at around 6. the i slept through breakfast and spent the time getting stuff ready for the day. the neighbor called and was wondering if a few guys could help him in his fields. son i had to get people together for that. we left for ice skating and had a wonderful time. after wards we went and got subway for every one. well, that's when the real fun began. you see, this weekend fa group of about forty went up mt. Askom. over the weekend i snowed and one of the girls twisted her ankle. i cant go into all of the details here because that would take way to long. lets just say it has been a long day. a hellecopter was called to get the girl, but it was too foggy. so shee ended up walking out. then later it was found out that one of the groups got seperated from the rest. i guess thier batteris died because we havent heard from them in a while. so the hellecopter got called back out to find them, but they didnt. so now search and rescue have been called and they will haed out at sun rise to try and find them. the are cold and wet. no body was prepard to get snowed on and most of the kids havent done much camping before. so for now we just pray that they stay in one place and that they find them in the morning.
the whole situation has been compounded by miss coomunication and lack of any coomunication at all. so we are going to turn this into a great learning experiance and we will be way better prepared next time :) so for now we will just have to wait and see how things turn out in the morning.

Sep 17

wow, today has been a busy day. Wednesdays are always hard. i have to do wake up, teach class, and bring the grade 11 students their laptops for Bible class in the after noon. plus the fire alarm at the dorm keeps going off every 5 min. (no joke). so i haven't had any time to sit down and think at all today. now its 2 am and i am just going to bed.

Sep 16

i just had a wonderful day off. i had a really rough monday. i prepared for class first period, had class second, then had meetings all afternoon. i was super tired and really needed today off.
i slept in a little then had a great study and memorized the second half of the ten commandments. after lunch i talked with mr rasmussen. about the stryen cabin. then i went and set by the beaver pond for a couple of hours. for super i went over to robert and vanessas, after which she gave me a hair cut and we worked on a puzzel until 11! and i have to do wake up in the morning and teach class. i think i will take a nap tomarrow.

Sep 14

just got back from a simply wonderful weekend of camping. i took nine guys up to the Stryen cabin. i love that cabin so much. for Sabbath all the guys went in different directions and enjoyed nature and solitude for a couple of hours. on Sunday we got a little work done around the cabin before we left. if i could i would go up there every other weekend.
we want to build another cabin closer to the school. we have some really cool plans but we have to find a location first. its a large commitment to build a cabin, so we need to make sure we build it in the right place.
for supper we had a campus picnic in the orchard. we had fire roasted corn, corn bread and chili, and water melon. and for desert we had caramel apples and apple pie. it was most enjoyable. four of the seniors had worship. they talked about trusting in the Lord and not worrying.
a most enjoyable weekend and evening.

Sep 12

just finished another class with the sophomores. they are a great class to have. its super fun teaching them. today we studied colors used in the Sanctuary and their meanings. very fascinating.
i found out Wednesday that i could take some guys and go camping! so i am taking 9 of the guys and going to the Stryen cabin. i really enjoy it up there. its so peaceful. so that's the highlight of this weekend. then when we get back on Sunday we are going to have a big picnic for the whole campus. big corn roast and every thing. going to be fun :)

Sep 10

well, just finished another class. we are studying about the sanctuary. it is so fascinating how every thing points to Jesus as our Redeemer. today we studied about the curtains and colors. great stuff. did you know that the curtain in front of the Most Holy Place was 4 in. thick? and that it was replaced every year? you lean some thing new every day.
the weather is awesome today. no clouds what so ever. i think i will go for a walk later.
some crazy stuff has happened in the last couple of weeks. three friends have had babies. another friend got engaged and two friends have had deaths in their families.
its lunch time, and i am hungry, plus i have to supervise. its so hard supervising lunch. its a rough job, but somebody has to do it :)

Sep 9

i finally got around to getting a blog going. i don't usually do this kind of thing, but i think it will be good for my character :) so i hope you enjoy. God bless.