Man last nights rain was crazy. The rain was the hardest i think i have ever seen it before. We all thought that we were going to lose the power at some point yesterday, but thank goodness that never happened.

Today we had a speaker from san diego. He works for an organization called om ships international. http://www.omships.org/ check it out if you have time. The stories he told us were awesome to hear. He has lived in a few different countries and just has a passion to serve God.
Today, he used a few verses to get his point across, but the one that really stood out to me was Romans 10:13-15. it was talking about people need to call on the Lord to be saved. But how we they hear about Him if no one is out there preaching about Him. It was just really encouraging to hear. I don't think i want to be a missionary, but i strongly feel that there are people who don't get a real chance to hear the Word. Yes Jesus is all over the United States, but i don't think people really have heard what he is all about. I have heard time and time again that we need to learn the culture we are trying to reach, but i don't think many of the Christians in the U.S. really understand the people they are talking to.
Well, that's just my thoughts for today.

well, i am now back in Mexico so i decided i should write on here again. i had a few people ask me to write in my blog because they missed hearing about stuff, i don't know why, lol.
I came back down here on Sunday the 17th after church at Sandals along with my friends jeff, jay and Justin. it was nice day, because a few friends stopped by to say good bye to me before i left.
Well, i met up with Johannes and Kelly in san diego to watch the chargers game, too bad they lost. After the game we grabbed a bite to eat and went to Flood church in san diego. The message was really good, joel spoke about how to pray and how its responding to God. If we only take and take, we are not praying properly. I don't know how to explain it, but it was good.
The first day of class we discussed what was going to happen with this class, like how long it is and what it covers. Basically this class is a 15 week course but we are doing it in 15 days (yikes). The classes are not too long and interesting for the most part. Class starts at 9 but i still wish i was in bed at this time, so i drink multiple cups of coffee to insure that i stay awake. After class we had free time, the guys and i went to the beach to read and play chess at a local coffee shop. it was all good and fun until the storm knocked out the power.
The homework for the class is good but there is a lot of reading in it. sometimes just the reading takes about 3 hours, and then we have a chapter review to go over. i usually do the review as i read and then maybe finish the reading later. In the homework today, there was a comparison to the church and Jonah. Jonah was fleeing from what he was told to do. While fleeing on a ship God sent a storm, Jonah slept below deck oblivious that the storm was sent because of him. The comparison to the church, is that many people know that things are happening, but they are oblivious to the truth that they can put a stop to it by being obedient.
I have heard the story of Jonah and the great fish many times before as a child, and i even read it the other month, but i still didn't understand the point of the story. I see more now that Jonah didn't want to share about God because he was selfish. sometimes we find great things and hide them for ourselves like Jonah was doing. he didn't want God to save the people.
I had a good time doing the homework tonight. Rory and i decided to read outloud to eachother what we were reading. While reading, if we had a question, we would discuss in depth what was going on. Its good to be back hanging out with rory, and i just might have the chance to be on the road with him and one other cool guy this summer working with youth camps.
Well, that is all for now. talk or see you soon.

Last Friday 11/20 Rory Kyle and I went to San Diego after class to explore and to find a place to enjoy a steak. We hitched a ride with Ryan, who was dropping the speaker off at the sd airport. We were dropped off down town, where we then walked to my friend Addie’s work. I posted on face book that I was going to be in sandiego, so my friend Rachel asked if I could hang out. She drove down and met us downtown. We walked through parts of Balboa Park and went to Black Angus for a steak. After dinner, we met up with Addie again and went to a frozen yogurt place. Later we watched a movie before Addie drove us back to the border.
Rory’s mom came down late Friday so a bunch of us met up in sandiego and had breakfast at the hash house agogo. The food was really good but the cool part was the portion sizes, like one pancake 2 feet in diameter.
After breakfast a few of us went to Balboa Park to play Frisbee golf, it was my first time and a lot of fun. My friend Justin visited while I was in SD. He and I drove across the bridge to Coronado Island; it sure has a great view.

The night before thanksgiving I visited with raylyn and Phil and others for her friend’s bday. We went to the shout house (a piano bar) .after we left; Johannes’ brother picked me up so I could stay the night with them and have thanksgiving with their friends. It was a cool thanksgiving, we deep-fried the turkey and ate a bunch of pie, after our food comas were gone, we played pool. I lost 5 bucks in a game of pool against Johannes’ sister, but its ok, because I am going to rematch her and win.

Mustache is gone for good. I realized that some things are not meant to be, and some people are not meant to have facial hair.
So, im trying to think back to what I have been up to the last week and a half.
Well last Monday, Dan’s car was broken into and one of the girl’s purses was stolen. It sucked because she now needs to get a new passport and id and what not. The window on the door was broken as well, so a few of us went to the states to look for a new door at some junk yards. After hours of searching, we found a door with all the parts we needed.

We had a worship sesh Tuesday night, Kelly has been helping me the guitar a little bit, so I had a chance to play some songs with him and dan.
Friday, I went to church with a few of the guys at the playas church. After church we had coffee at starbucks and talked about som stuff. While there, there was like 20 police cars that drove by, it was pretty cool. Later that night a group of people came down from sandals. It was nice to see some familiar faces, and to receive the gifts a few had made and got for us. I now have plenty of candy, and had some great home made cookies.
The same weekend as sandals, another group came down to stay with us for a few days. They were making a documentary about human trafficking. They started their film here in Mexico, and were making their way up the 5 after a stop in Vegas. The group was a lot of fun, and encouraging hearing their stories, of what they are doing and why they are doing it. We also prayer walked with them in th redlight district. I hate going there, but I felt like I should give it another try. We also met a high ranking officer because he was going to meet with the group and give an interview, but he had other things he had to take care of.
Sunday, Kelly and I went to san Diego where we met up with our good buddy Johannes, we went to the flood church which was really cool to go to an English speaking church. The lesson was on our foreign places, and how it doesn’t have to be an actual place, but it can be a time or a way we feel. Like being a father, or just lost a job, depression and so on. I really could relate, because I have felt like that lately, partly being in a different country, but also because I just kinda left my job and im thinking about what im going to do when I get back. I have really felt lately about starting a church, I don’t know how or when, but I will be looking more into that when I get home in December. I still don’t know if I will go back to Baja for the second semester or not, but I really don’t think I will.
This week, we have a pastor teaching the book of James to us. He makes sure to take his time on each chapter, which is good for all of us not to rush. I keep promising him to take him to get a burrito, but things keep coming up, but we did get coffee twice now. The first time, we went to a shop up the street from us, it was nice and sure did taste pretty good. The second coffee shop was a pretty fancy one and the brew master is actually an international brewer. I don’t know what my drink was, but it was good, and they put a design on the foam.
Since the students helped with the groups on our days off, the dean of men and director took is out for Chinese food. The Chinese food restaurant was big, but there weren’t many people eating there, I guess Chinese isn’t a big thing in MEXICO. Haha. The whole time while we were there, Rory was staring into the room behind us, he swore that there was a mob meeting going on, when we were getting ready to leave, a few cops showed up and looked like they were getting ready to eat, Rory swore that a battle was about to begin and he didn’t want to leave. Lol

so i havent shaved my mustache since ive been down here. i also havent cut my hair since may or june, so its getting pretty long for me. im going to try to update some pictures of them, and some potential hair styles. tell me what one you like, lol.
one of the pictures is what happens after i take a nap with brushed hair. lol

my roomate smells so fruity, and i love it. he made me type that, well not that, but he wanted me to write about him, so i will. Rory is a funny guy, there are few nights that i dont go to sleep laughing at our conversations about random things. He and i agree on most things and we dont offend each other over little things. we both respect one anothers gifts and opinions. He is from Denver colorado ( the cold state). He has a hampster named ping ping, who he named after the smallest person alive. I often hear him singing in the shower or making weird noises. he says he is trying to use his other set of vocal chords, but it sounds like he is trying to speak whale. lol. he sometimes joins me for a walk to the park where we run/walk. we have a saying about running here in mexico, siempre manana, nunca hoy. it means, always tomorrow, never today.
Rory is verry flexable, he can put both feet behind his head, and he shows this talent off often, mostly because i tell him to show people. i dont know if its because of his flexability, but he falls from time to time, im going to post the picture of him on the ground. we were given sweatshirts from a printing shop up in washington. the sweatshirts had a error on them so they needed to get rid of them. they are a highschools choir sweatshirts, so we were pretending to be singing, and somehow he fell. so look closely, cause he fell during the photo shoot.lol
Rory wants to become an evangelist and i think he would be good at it. He knows his stuff and is verry open minded, his humor will help as well. he wants to help fix what is wrong with the church and i hope he helps out. he is a Godly man who loves the Lord and im thankfull to have him as a roomate.
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This weekend we went to porvenir to visit our friends with ventana minestries. The local church was putting on a misionary conference and people were coming from all over. There were people coming from 5 hours south of ensenada and there were even some people from washington state there to see it. We arrived friday afternoon and were shown around their campus, the town is more of a country town. the scenery looked like back home minus houses. most of the roads were dirt and a lot of the locals rode horses around. my favorite part was the smooth sidewalks and the lacking of giant hills on our way to church. The guys slept in a mobil home with the guy students from ventana. the house was pretyt cool, 3 bedrooms a laundry room and a kitchen and so on. the nights there were super cold and the last night it was super foggy. i could taste the moisture in the air. It sure was nice to be in that town, because its nice to be away from the city and have some good clean fresh air.
One of the nights out there, they had a youth conference thing. It was cool, there were like 700 or so people in the one building. If it were in the states, the fire marsal would have been called hahaa. but it was good and the message was good ot hear. Today at church they were going to have the actual conference, but we were unable to stay at see it. Our friends were going to be in a play for the conference where they set a car on fire as a demastration. It stunk to leave but it was also nice to be back home.