End of the Semester

This week has been awesome. The final week of the first semester. It is crazy to think how fast it has gone by. Brett Jensen spoke to us this week. He was pretty cool. We had a Q&A with him last night after the fort, and got to dig into some great questions. He talked to us today about several things, one off them was consumer Christianity. It is the idea that Christians look for churches based on what is good for them. Do I like the teaching style here, do I like the music there, and when you no longer like the church you just go to a new one. It should be a commitment. Last week I lost my keys :p so I had to get a new key made. But I got it taken care of and life goes on. Hopefully the key will be ready tomorrow so I can drive myself home. Otherwise I will probably just ride with Kelsey or Hannah. On Sunday we had our Christmas party. We brought white elephant gifts and went out to eat. It was really fun, the gift I brought was a pair of socks that had a walrus wearing a Christmas hat on them. I also bought an eye mask with sunglasses on them. The gift I got had some fruit roll ups, gushers and fruit by the foot. I have eaten some of them. It took me back to my childhood days when these were classic snacks. I was looking at something in Luke 8:9 after the parable of the sower it shows the deciples asking Jesus about the parable and he tells them

Luke8:10 he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'

This verse bothered me. It made it seem like the deciples were the only ones who Jesus was really teaching, the rest were just confused. But as Brett was talking today we went to the same parable in

Mark 4 verse 10 it says “And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables.”

This shows that there were others who wanted to seek the truth in Jesus teaching. So while Jesus did scatter the crowd and many did not understand him. It isnt always about immediately understanding, but about seeking the truth that is in his words.

Thanksgiving break/First Week back

Well a lot has happened since I last blogged. I went home for thanksgiving break. That was so much fn. I got to celebrate thanksgiving on Tuesday with my mom’s side of the family. Unfortunately my older sister sarah beth and cousin Bethany could not be there and my cousin Mary Faith also couldn’t be there. I cant wait to see them over Christmas break. On Wednesday we went out to a friend of ours ranch near Amarillo. It was awesome. We heard some history about the property and got to go hunting. On the last day I killed a 9 point mule deer. It was so cool. The biggest deer I have ever killed and it will be my first one to make the wall. My older sister made it into Amarillo for thanksgiving day. I was so happy to see her. She goes to school in Kentucky so I don’t get to see her as often as the rest of my family. Then over the weekend I had some friends over to my house before coming back up to Link Year. Now I am back in Missouri and man is it cold. It is getting cold in texas too. We got our first snow today which was exciting and if you have not heard we are doing something in the community next week called Project Affordable Christmas. The name exxplanains the basic idea (to make Christmas affordable for people) Please go look at my facebook for more information. Or just google Project affordable Christmas Branson. It should come up in several places. If you would like to support you can go to the kanakuk website and project affordable Christmas is a choice under donations. We will post pictures as we go through and help the families in the community that need it.

Have a great week cant wait to tell you all about it.