(Emotionally enriching music plays as voices fade in)...Christmas time, is here...da da daaa, de da...(The suave voice of a tall, dark and handsome narrator begins)...Yes, it's that time of year. Christmas. The time when family gets together and, anyways. It snowed on December 1, and it snowed all day. It was very cold, and wet, and white, and wet. It was the first real snow of this season (the first dusting we got a while back doesnt count). I even had the amazing privilege of playing in it, and trying to sled down the big front hill. The snow was very powdery, however, and we ended up plowing our way down more than speeding. I also found myself at a lack of winter clothing, and proceeded to go out in blue jeans and my good tennis shoes. My leather and suede tennis shoes. Luckily I found out that Converse are, according to my unreliable source, synthetic. They did dry out well in front of our little radiator. I also realize that you probably dont care about the physical well being of my shoes but, I already wrote it and honestly don't feel like erasing it and putting something else in.

Missions Emphasis went pretty well, it was really neat just to hear the heart of both the students and staff. I think everyone was wanting to go to MTC after that. (Oh, just to clarify for my readers. Mostly Clinton. MTC is a combination of both MI and LI. THey got rid of the all the american MI's and everything is now at Missouri and is dubbed MTC. It is a 2 year course. THis is the first year its been this way. I guess Durham is also all-encompassing as well. Just to let you know.) It is about 12 days until I fly for home for Christmas break! Family, rest, sleep, and warm temps here I come!! There are a couple pictures of the snow. I didn't want to go out in the snow and take pictures of the school and stuff, cause it was too cold. So i took three of the same picture out of on of our windows. I'll try and get better ones sometime. Enjoy...

Just a quick update with a few pictures of our newly, partially decorated christmassy room. Quite stirring if you ask me. There only 9 actual days of class left!! Its gone by soo fast! Missions Emphasis is occurring during the next two mornings, and I'm pretty excited to hear from some of the staff and trainees at the MTC (Missionary Training Center...so official sounding) Anways, enjoy...

Well, its been quite awhile since I first posted...obviously. The semester is still flying by, the last block starts monday. Only three and a half weeks until I fly home for Christmas!! Oh, I also finally got a job. I am one of the newest crew members at the world famous distributor of expedient food...McDonalds!! Yeah! Thanks for everyone's prayers, and maybe I'll be seeing you at Christmas? If not, until next time...here's some pictures of the view out of one of our windows, and some random pictures of my desk. Enjoy.

These pictures are from a place called "Holy Hill"- a catholic monastery. There is some really nice scenery, yet its so sad to go inside the cathedral, sanctuary thing and see the intense oppression and hopelessness of all the sacraments they must adhere to and perform. So much work and worry for any sort of salvation, and they are still missing the only element, Jesus Christ.

Greetings to all who've wondered what end of the earth I've dropped off of, and those who know and are wondering how that end of the earth is treating me. I decided to start this blog for two reasons: 1) I don't have everyone's email address to send out emails 2) I really didn't feel like writing an email, and this sounded much more fun. So here it is, my official blog. I will make a valiant attempt to keep this current, though I do make no gurantees. So, on to the part that you probably may care about.

I'm up in Waukesha, Wisconsin attending the original campus of the New Tribes Bible Institute. The fourth block (out of five) of classes begins on Monday, and I'm pretty excited to get into these next few classes. It's been really good so far, and I'm still just studying a lot of foundational classes (such as a lot of Old Testament, Hermeneutics- how to study the Bible etc...). The first semester has just flown by, and its crazy to think there is only six weeks left! I've been really busy inbetween classes, work, and homework; in fact I've never been so busy in my life, but it will settle down here for a while since my job ends today (it was a seasonal one). So please be praying that God will provide a new one before too long so that I can make some major payments coming up in the next few months.

Thanks to everyone who has been praying for me; it is so encouraging to know that friends and family from all over the place are praying for you! Until next time.