A Little Arizona Sunshine

Something I've decided to do (as of last night) is to let you follow in my Health adventure. While we're learning how to help other people to reach their health goals, we ourselves are encouraged to reach our health goals. I'm going to post my original stats and then at week 8 I'll post an update. In the meantime, I'll let you know what exactly I've been doing to reach those goals. If you would prefer me to tell funny stories to make reading this new train of thought easier and more enjoyable, then I shall. Today we walked 3 miles from 6-7 AM and ate a hearty breakfast with lots of fruit and beans. Yup. Beans. They put beans in everything here. The gravy, Sloppy Joes, the oatmeal... just kidding. Not the oatmeal. But they sure do love the beans here! While on the walk, I felt it would be easier to roll down the trail as opposed to just walking. Didn't turn out so well. -_- In addition to breakfast, we eat once more at 1:00 PM and that's it for the ...

HEALTH. Amazing. I'm enjoying my classes, my classmates, the trails on Weimar Campus, and the outreach! We are blessed to have the class with: 1. Extremely cute kids 2. THE cutest dogs 3. Funny people 4. Annoying people who may turn out to be funny later... 5. And good teachers. See my priorities? Yes. They're in the correct order. lol. We went to Elmshaven as a class yesterday and was guided through the home by Dave Fiedler (author of Hindsight, D'sozo, and Tremble) and ate yummy food provided by the Hamiltons. Great day. Great times. As there was an earthquake to arrive in the area, we decided to leave and be back at Weimar before 3:30 AM. Just kidding. We didn't know it was coming. But CRAZY right??? The epicenter wasn't far at all from Napa Valley.

What do all of these things have in common? They're all incredibly sweet things? Maybe. They're all in Spokane Washington? Yes! I flew up to Spokane Washington on Wednesday for an interview at Upper Columbia Academy for the Evangelism Director/Chaplain for the school. After interviewing on Thursday I was offered the job and said yes! So I'm moving up here in January! It may seem like a huge "what just happened?" to many of you, but I have definitely been praying about this for weeks and I see a good fit here for me to work and minister at this academy. I like the faculty and (right now) I like the area really well too. We'll see how I feel when the snow makes an appearance. Before Washington, I was in Texas for a week for my good friend Mary Jo's Wedding! It was quite a fun event with all the Warrens and Houghtons and their families there. I enjoyed reconnecting with old family friends and making some new ones! (Shout out to Bonnie and family... n...

Which is why I'm procrastinating and blogging about it instead of actually packing. lol 24 hours from right now I need to be boarding a plane in Los Angeles for Spokane Washington. In that 24 hours I must: -Complete the process of unpacking from Texas (Blog about this last week to follow soon! Here's a sneak peak) -Laundry -Re-pack for the week in Spokane plus iShare and Souls graduation -Write a song -Just kidding about that song -Pack for the 4 months at HEALTH -Sleep.... -Drive 9+ hours to LAX and get there in time to catch my flight You're jealous of my exciting life. I'm jealous of the fact that you're sitting here reading this because you have that much time on your hands. We're even. ;)

You can do a LOT in 50 years. Here are fifty things you can do in 50 years: 1. Learn to ride a unicycle 2. Live in a different country 3. Host an annual 4th of July Barbecue 4. Teach someone how to drive 5. Donate Blood 6. Own a Fish 7. Jump in the car and take a random road trip 8. Live in West Virginia 9. Learn to bake bread 10. Go furniture shopping. And not buy anything. 11. Buy flowers once a week to send to a stranger from the phonebook 12. Write a song 13. Quit drinking soda 14. Do an Ironman Triathlon 15. Renovate your kitchen 16. Create a training school to teach others how to have common sense 17. Be sad that no one thought they needed your training school 18. Lead at least one person to Jesus and teach them how to do the same thing. 19. Rebuild an engine 20. Volunteer 21. Switch up careers 22. Go skydiving 23. Travel to all 50 states and visit a historic Museum in each state to learn about the country 24. Save $1 each day in a coffee can 25. Figure...

ATTENTION ALL SOULS TRACK 1 STUDENTS IN THE HEALTH PROGRAM!!! Okay, now that I have EVERYONE's attention (because really, who didn't want to keep reading after that intro?) I'd like to disclose some information. Remember that line in the canvass about your friend who has followed the principles in these books and has only been sick once in the last 15 years?? ... then that said friend got sick during the practicum...? ... and that said friend said it was "allergies".... IT'S TRUE!! When I got home to Bisbee recently, I started feeling sick. Sore throat, coughing, congestion, headache, etc. It didn't get better after a few days and I was resting and drinking lots of water and doing all those awesome things that should make me feel better but it wasn't working. So my beautiful mother suggested I go visit her at work when Dr. P was in so he could check out my illness. After going and telling him my symptoms and him observing the insides of m...

Helloooooo Friends! Wow, I'm a horrible Blogger. :( BUT! Here is an update on my life! 1. I am sick. 2. I am home in Bisbee. 3. I am not home-sick. . . lol. To make this easier to read, I'll break it into 3 sections! 1. What I've been doing ( including a FANtastic testimony towards the end ) (80%) 2. What I've been reading (15%) 3. What I'm about to do (5%) * The above percentages are to encourage you to not give up reading just because you get to the "What I've been reading" section and you've already been reading for 10 minutes. haha What I have been up to since you last read an update: I was in Central California helping with the Youth Rush teams for 5 or so weeks. BUT! Before I started work, I went on an epic backpacking trip in Yosemite with some good friends! In this picture (going clockwise from my face...) Ranela, Kasee, Amber, David, Shama, and Hope! (I think this is while we all had our own packs on in the beginni...