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Here are some pictures from Mexico.... enjoy!

My fat foot, I got cellulitis...  and needed to get a shot (GHEW!!!!)

The leadership team going on a taco run at midnight.  (Super Taco)

One of the ministry sites

Building 1 of the walls of the house (we built 4 houses durring the trip)

Gabe Fuller.... AHHHHHHHH!!!!

House building

Dump ministry (we went to the dump 2 times)  I have never seen so many flies in my life.

One of the almost finished houses

The project (103 people)

I just got back from Mexico Matamoras on a missions trip… I am still realing at the trip. Part of it is because of lack of sleep and trying to keep track of 100 students, but mostly because I am still chewing on what God did in my life.   I had a big anticipation for this trip and I wanted to see God move.  He did… but I am still trying to figure out how he moved.  I know that he has planted something inside me but I am not sure what it is yet. I feel something is different but I am not able to put my finger on it.

My life runs on an August to August schedule because of my job a Teen Mania, so this new year I started in Mexico.(great way to start).  When I was in Thailand in January I found out that the people believe that how you start the year out is how you live it.  I pray to God that I will be able to live this next year like I lived on this trip to Mexico.  I want my life to shine, not so people can look at me but so that they will see God through me.

2 Corinthians 4:7 says “ we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us.” I want the treasure God has given me to show Gods power.

My life is so up in the air right now, because I am not sure were I will be working, what school schedule will look like, but I have a peace… because I know that God is orchestrating my steps, he is in control.   I know that this coming year is going to be different, I cant wait to look back on in next august.

So I am taking summer school…  what was I thinking? For the next month I will be taking 2 ½ hrs of Statistics every day.  Plus for some reason I thought I could handle an online class at the same time… what was I thinking?

I just got done with my homework and it is midnight… not ready to go to bed because my brain is still reeling about standard deviations, sigmas, cumulative frequency distributions, stemplots, and histograms. Sounds smart doesn’t it.

Sometimes I forget the crazy life God has blessed me with… The awesome opportunity becomes common place. But today right before class I had one of those moments that God just showed me what I really do have. I got a phone call as I was walking into my Statistics class from work, there was a crisis… we did not ticket enough leaders for our trip to India (we needed to find a solution in the next 30 mins to reach the deadline). Before I could hang up the phone someone else called me with some questions about the day. No one around me know what I did or even new what the conversation was about, all they heard were statements from me like

“… What do you mean we did not buy leaders plan tickets to India…”

“… Can we move the Team Leaders off South Africa or Costa Rica?...”

“… I will have a supervisors come to your office to help sort this out…”

“… We over sold Honduras and we were able to find an extra seat…”

“… I am going to be meeting with the project directors for Italy/Spain and Germany/Poland on Friday…”

“… no our deadline is tomorrow, can you do a list audit tonight…”

When I finished the conversation, I hung up the phone and looked up… there were a couple sets of wide eyes staring at me. It was then that I realized, I do not have a common job. I truly am blessed to be apart of an awesome organization that is changing the world.  No matter how crazy it gets, I truly am blessed to have the influence that I do.  

Then the teacher walked in... now I am ready for statistics

Ecc 9:10  Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

I love the old testament,  I am not sure why that is?  It is not that I dislike the new testament (don’t get me wrong, I love the bible) but I always find my self reading in the old testament. There are so many practical life lessons or great stories, but there are also tons in the new testament… so I am not sure why that is.

So I just to happen to have been reading my bible…you guessed it in the old testament… in the last couple chapters of 1^st  Kings and the first part of 2^nd kings.  About Elijah and Elisha.   It just struck me that we serve the same God as they did.  He is the same yesterday today and forever. Check out the things that Elisha did

• Parts the Jordan River - 2 Kings 2:13-14
• Makes Jericho spring drinkable (it was killing people) - 2 Kings 2:19-22
• Sends bears to punish irreverent youths (watch out kids) - 2 Kings 2:23-25
• Floods ditches to confuse Moabites - 2 Kings 3:1-27
• Multiplies widow's oil (I would never have to buy groceries) - 2 Kings 4:1-7
• Shunammite woman bears a son - 2 Kings 4:8-17
• Resurrects Shunammite's son - 2 Kings 4:18-37
• Purifies poisoned stew - 2 Kings 4:38-44
• Heals Naaman's leprosy - 2 Kings 5:1-14
• Gehazi struck with leprosy - 2 Kings 5:15-27
• Floats lost axhead (I would never have to worry about lost items) - 2 Kings 6:1-7
• Gives special sight to the king's messenger - 2 Kings 6:16-17
• Blinds the Aramean army - 2 Kings 6:8-23
• His bones resurrect a dead man – 2 Kings 13:20-21 (Elisha was dead and a dead body was thrown on him, which then jumped alive).

Everywhere Elisha went he was just doing crazy things.  Not just exceptional miracles when they were needed, but practical things. A prophet accidentally threw an Ax that was borrowed into the water, Elisha made it float so the priest could get it. I would love having this guy as my friend,  better yet I would love to walk so closely with God that I could do those things.

We serve a good God, who says we cant do all those things?

P.S. are there any other old testament lovers out there?