Yes I Am Still Alive

Ok, so I know I haven't posted in a long time. I know it's bad. I'm sorry. As far as excuses I guess I could make something up like I've been busy or tired or whatever, but I'm not going to I'm going to be honest and say I am lazy. Really though a lot has been going on in my life lately, and I am excited to get it all out and written down. This should be a long one so I hope your all in for the long haul...

First and foremost I want to talk about Young Life and how that is going. I'll start with today and work backwards till my last post or somewhere in there. Tonight we went snow tubing at Perfect North Slopes in Indiana. It was a lot of fun, and I was amazed at how sheltered the Kids in Mount Healthy Really are. A lot of them had never before been outside the state. So needless to say everyone had a great time. Being in charge of groups going far away (not really far but you wouldn't know it.) parents give you the fricken third degree. I mean this one lady drilled me for like 20 minutes it was ridiculus. Long story short it was a lot of fun. To sum up tonight I would say tubing was a great idea, White Castle's afterwards was great fun, and I found a new way home from the school.

Ok yesterday was Corridor Leadership. That means that groups of schol sbroke off and went to a staff persons house for Leadership as a group instead of monster Leadership at a church. My group included my almamater and therefore my favorite person Ed. It was a lot of fun especially when it came time to tell stories about how Young Life is going whit the new leaders. Ed told everyone how he is learning so much about about Christ by watching ME try to lead. I don't know if its the rareness of him saying nice things about me or the fact that it was in front of so many people, but I really really felt good after that. After Leadership team Mount Healthy went to the basketball game against Akien High School. The first game I missed, (freshman) they finally win. I mean they are like 2 and 17 and they won. I couldn't believe it. So I was really excited and the parents wanted to know where I was and the kids where really excited to tell me about it. After that I took some kids home. When I got done with kids I went back to the Jones's house to watch a movie with some of my friends and hang out for a while. Overall it was a great night.

I have major exciting news about Young Life and me. I may be able to get a coaching job there as an assistant Cross Country Coach. I met the AD and think I made a good impression on her. She gave me an application, but I bet I am the only person that trys to get the job. It will be so great they will actually pay me to hang out with high school kids. I am so excited that I may get to coach. On a down side I'll probably have to get in shape again.

In general Young Life is going well for me. I am meeting a lot of kids and building relationships at this point. I think the hard part will be when I have to transition into more of a spiritual mentor to the kids. That will actually test my knowledge and dependancy on Christ.

Now for some bad news...A friend of my sisters growing up who was on the swim team with my sister for like 12 years and was in a car pool with her and whatever, well her mom was killed in a car crash by some freak accident driving home from dropping her kids off at school on wednesday. Some guy lost control on some ice or something and fliped his truck directly into the drivers seat of the van Mrs. Nyguen was driving. Like everything is fine except the drivers seat which has a truck sticking out of it. So it was pretty close to home as far as tradegies go. I personally didn't know the family or lady well at all, but it is deffinately a big deal for my community and my sister. Anyways the funeral is tomorrow and its a pretty big deal in town, a lot of people where close to this family and lady, so if you want to pray for something, pray for them.

As far as college goes I am having a rough time with deciding what exacly to major in. I am currently a Biochemistry major, but I just can't see myself working in a lab for the rest of my life. So at the end of the quarter I will be changing my major to Communications. Apparently you can do anything with this. In addition to that it is the easiest thing at UC. All I'll have to do it try to read once in a while and I'll do fine. So I think that will all work itself out.

At work I have been made permanent staff, but I'm not supposed to know about that yet. Its cool because everyone else that's part time is getting their hours cut except me. Also that means I get a dollar an hour raise. That says more money for minestry to me. I'll go more in detail about ministry financing later this week. Oh well so if you haven't put it together yet I have troops on a lot of fronts right now, and its not looking like its going to be getting better anytime soon.

Oh well I am tired of typing now I hope this catches you all up. Um one thing I could ask is that if you have any good ideas on how to raise money (35,000) I need to figure out some thing in order to discount camp trips for kids this year. Any suggestions are good so let me know. Thanks so much guys your awesome.


in Him
matt

Midterms Are Aweful ! ! !

Having recieved 3 out of 4 of my midterm scores back from the past week I can honestly say that I think I have never done worse on a set of tests. I was genuinely destroyed from every angle. I beat the class average on two, but not by much, and I still only got a 50 on the calculus exam and its my second time taking it. I need to change majors to something friggen easier. We shall see tomorrow how I did on the logic exam though I am confidant that I did well there really is no telling. Is was somewhat of a wild card exam. Comprised of an essay and two proofs I feel as though many people did very poorly. To my credit I at least knew how to answer the questions. In this particualr class thats half the battle. So I am not feeling to good about myself right now. I am not nearly as smart as the people around me and I have to work so hard just to be average. I don't know what I need to do, but something has to change for the better or i'll die. Ok I won't really die, but geeze I should be doing better. I will try even harder I guess and see how I do on the next exams. Oh well it is time for me to go to bed now, I can hear my Elton John cd finishing in my room and that was my time allowance. Sorry if I seem less than positive lately, I will try to write a devtional when I get this whole new internet thing worked out and have more time.

in Him
matt