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The past week has been very eventful. full of sadness. learning. hope and perseverance. but most of all perseverance. God has been teaching me the ways of perseverance lately by continually placing constant obstacles in not so much my own, but the life of my family. These obstacles are not simply ones that can be leapt over in our life but more over a staircase that when it seems we can stop climbing because we are at the top, but another set is laid before us where we cannot stop no-matter how sore we are feeling we must push forward until we get over it. It is hard enough to be stretched everyday by the people around me but to have that constant pull from home added on top of all that is already happening is probably the strongest shaping force in my life. For God to have me long to see my family, to long for there faces and touch, i feel closer to them now more than ever and am very excited to go home in two weeks. The past week in school we had another Professor come out to teach us yet another aspect of our faith, and that aspect happened to be Church Ministry. David Ernst definitely made the class an enjoyable one to sit through and the learning easy to absorb all the information that was bombarded onto our simple college student minds. our latest topic for an essay happens to be on whether or not women should be allowed to have a leadership role in the church. it is a controversial issue and an essay topic that i will not readily share because i do not really like having confrontations with any one of any-sort, so ill just leave it as it is. we are now moving into a week which will be filled with quietness because most of Kaleo is heading out to vancouver for the convention for youth workers for 4 days. but before that on friday night Bo, Emma, Abby, and myself all came together to run our youth service. the amount of time we took to plan this event was quite crammed compared to the amount of time it took to do youth. Youth consisted of a competition between the guys and girls for who can pickup a cereal box with there mouth from the floor. but the catch is that after every round we cut the box about 1-2 inches shorter until it was no more than a centimeter from the ground. i was astonished to see the guys surpass the girls in this competition by being able to pick up the box off the floor. following that was a popcorn eating competition that has 4 students eating a total of 16 popcorn bags and the PK ended up puking at the end of the competition. but after that Emma and I led a worship service which the students desired soo deeply to have because since we have been at Bethel we haven't had a worship service until last friday. all in all youth went over better than we thought it would and was a success. next friday the youth-pastor prospect is coming to youth and Bo and I are going to meet him and see what he’s all about. well thats all from my end. I’m signing out. and craving some LOST.....