I have to say that God is totally awesome! The last couple of weeks I've been learning some new things about Him. One: He is forgiving. Two: He's always there for me. Three: If I let Him, He'll use me as a conduit for His Spirit. Four: No matter how I feel, He has a plan for me.

I was thinking of going into detail of how He's been working on me, but I think that's something I'm going to share with personal friends - not the world.

Classes
Greek - yes, you heard right, I'm taking Greek. I've had two classes already and I'm convinced it's what God wants for me. There are so many issues out there that I can find the truth about and be able to share. It's a tool that I know God is going to use in my ministry.

Intro to Native American Lit. - A Ms. L. course that I can use for Intro to Lit I. After one class I'm thinking I'm going to really enjoy it. Yes, I'm a little skeptical of the whole Native thing, but I think it's going to be good for me to get some of their point of view. We're not really going to be discussing the culture. It'll be more like the point of view and literary style and that sort of thing than the culture.

Principles of Sociology - now this one is going to be rather difficult. I'm thinking that the whole science thing really isn't me, but I do think this class will help me to understand people better. It's a big class though. Most of the Sophomore class is in it.

Music and Worship - Now I tend to think this may be a pretty easy class. However I may be mistaken. It'll mostly be talking about Davidic Worship and then we'll be hitting different types of worship. It should be fun. I don't think we'll have too much homework.

Speech I - Communication is vital and in this class I'll be learning how to speak in front of people. I'm pretty excited about it, actually. Even though it's something that I really don't do too well I know that it's something that I really need to learn! The teacher seems nice too. That is always a plus.

So all in all I think this term's classes are going to be very good. I have a drive to learn that I don't think I had last year. I had the desire to get through classes and achieve, but I don't think I had the desire to really know the subjects. This year I'm excited to learn and I have strategies to achieve that. I want to retain the majority of what I learn and to be able to ace tests because I know the material, not because I cram. It's going to be a challange, though, to keep up this attitude. I have to keep up with devotions or else everything is going to crash.

The thing with taking Greek (which made me decide to change to Pastoral Studies with a Lang. Minor) is that it's totally messing up my class schedules. Greek is a Junior class and is going to be second period all year. That of course makes me have to skip certain classes. I'm looking at my schedule and i'm thinking that at least two classes are going to have to be taken independent study. which is a bit more expensive than the normal classes would be, but it's going to be the only way to fit them into my college career if I want to graduate in 4 years, which I do. So this summer may be filled with school.

Friends

It felt so good to see all my friends after a summer of no friends around. I visited Elizabeth in WA for three days before coming to Eugene. Steve from Canada was there too and the time we all spent together was incredible. God has something for all of us, I know it!

getting into Eugene and seeing all the returning students was great. I never realized how much I missed them all until I saw them again. It's going to be a really good school year!

Church

Well, last year I attended Calvary Open Bible, but started to feel like this wasn't where God wanted me. so this year I have started to search for a new fellowship. I went to a new foursquare plant on sunday, which was really fun. It's at least 100 people and that was on the 2nd service. It has come from a bigger church that had a lot of commuters. However, I'm thinking this may be the place. I'm thinking I'll go next Sunday and see what that's like and then pray really hard.

Well, I think that's enough for now... If you talk to me regularly and have my email address, email me for my new cell #. I don't have my address book online, so will need your email addresses again.

God Bless!

Yes, I know, it's been a long time since I've updated and if Yaccs was working you, my darling fans, would be screaming for a post. *grins* Well, here ya go, though I don't know how it's going to turn out.

Summer is over! I thought it'd never end. It's been nice being home, but I've changed and the home lifestyle is and isn't comfortable for me. I've been struggling spiritually because of my laziness and tendancy to let my flesh take control. And of course, my independent self has clashed a bit with the parents. It's something I regret and I apologize to Mom and Dad for my attitude. But I do know that I'm my own person and there's things that I do that we're going to conflict on. Guess that inevitable when you have a college boy returning for the summer.

Work was good, but I'm glad it's over too. Fast food is definitely not what I want to do for the rest of my life. Hopefully next summer I'll be able to get a good job with better pay. T-Mobile is putting a call center in at Redmond and if I can, I'd like to get a job there. Got the experience...

But then again, I can't really plan for next summer... God tends to do things that I don't expect and totally changes my plans.

hmmmm.... well, Freshman Orientation is next week and I'm going to go and give them a hand. It should be fun. I'm leaving tomorrow for Seattle area to spend a couple days with some friends and then head down to Eugene on Sunday.

I found out who's going to be in my room. We're going to get #304 which is a four man room. Josh L. (the Celt!!) and Ryan W. are going to be in the back and Jason V. (a freshman) and myself are going to be in the front. While I'd really like to be in the back, I'm happy about the room and the roommate selection. Ryan and Josh are too guys that I got along with last year. We're all three pretty mellow and shouldn't have issues with loud music and etc. Don't know about Jason, but hopefully he's the quiet sort as well...

Man, it's going to feel soooo good to be back in Eugene.

Classes that I pre-resistered for:
Native American Lit. with Ms. L.
Music and Worship with Mr. B.
Beginning Greek with Mr. B.
Speech I with Miss. K.
Principles of Sociology with Mr. O.
Learning Skills with Ms. L.

Going to be a very interesting class schedule. I'm looking forward to Greek and Sociology the most. We'll see how I do with the homework. I'm really hoping for a 4.0 this term, but who knows whether I'll get it or not. My schedule is going to be jammed. I probably won't be able to do any extracurricular activities and that makes me sad. I really want to do Element X.

My family is letting me have the digital camera for a couple weeks so I should have some pictures to upload when I get the chance. Enjoy this one for now.