NERF GUNZ RULE...jokes. there for kids not 24 year old asians

well i am back from my adventures on Mount Washington, and frankly i don't feel any ache in my body!, i feel like i could have gone for another week straight if there was snow and minimum amount of people on the hill but, with it ending as it did i am content with coming back. the sweet thing that ended the trip was going straight to youth from the hill on friday evening. one thing that has really struck me coming back is my love for going to youth. I felt such joy to come back and hang out with the Youth and i am starting to feel a love for them as people and long to be around them to show Christ to these broken children. We are getting the new youth pastor in february but i believe we will be gone before we see some large amounts of change in the youth program which i am looking forward to. on sunday Pastor Rob announced that there are Kaleo students in the church and that people should take them out for lunch! Finally! More free lunches that are home cooked!

My parakaleo Tyler come for the weekend prior to, and the week of snowboarding which was pretty sweet because how many students in my year can say that there para. came snowboarding with them for a week? just one and i think thats me.and on top of things he gave me a snowboard! a very outstanding individual ill say. not that he gave me free things, but because he is a rad man of God who is another ray of light shining into some grim realities.

We are reading christian doctrine and every time i start reading that darn book my eyes get heavy and all i want to do is sleep. i sure hope the theology teacher isn't as dry as this book because I'm fairly interested in theology of the Christian faith for a firmer foundation, But add some colour to your friggin book and dumb it down a bit because your average christian isn't exactly a PHD. in theology!!

But enough rambling, i got a name now and it isn't Nate.... well it is but i got another name! it is Mender. that blew me away because i am feeling like it is name that i have to grow into more than i already am. so i am guessing that there is more growing for me to do in the next few months which i am looking forward to doing but i feel like i have some very big shoes to fill.

Im out of here, got a whole-lotta homework to do but not a whole-lotta time and, some other stuff, like a special box that is going to be in the mail sometime. to a special somebody, well that just sounds creepy, its for Kaitlin. and i know your reading this along with the fam-jam and i miss you lots, three months Isn't that long.

XOXOXO

Nate Boyda.

a smoothie of life.

A sunshine with a splash of miracles, if this week (and a bit earlier-on) could be put into a blender with a touch of ice to cool things off, those would be the ingredients for the perfect drink. God is Great, and beer is good, and people are crazy but more emphasis on the first part out of three (it’s a song, stop scrunching your eyebrows). It blows me away to think that me, one of little faith, was shocked to hear the results of Kaitlins MRI (yes dearie your in here). To be honest I know Gods had is in this and masterfully working his magic (power) for good. But I didn’t think positive results so soon, I know of Gods perfect timing but it never crossed my mind that God could buy time. So slap my wrists for doubting God but I realize that he doesn’t rely on my faith to do what he wants. Its weather I am on board with his plan or not. And right now I want to give all praise and Glory to the one who can do the impossible. I take that back, about the use of the word impossible anyways, because this word does not apply to Christians when it comes to us asking with the lords Glory in mind. But anyways, I’m going snowboarding for a week as of tomorrow and its something that I am very excited about and am really praying for a big dump……..of snow. Combined with am impossibly cool play-list sick crew of people and a mountain for me to dominate for a whole week. I am torn between having a good time with people and riding in some sweet powder on a sweet board that is going to ride nice for once (thanks Tyler! (sweetest parakaleo ever)). What the first idea turns into usually is that the people who are not as good as you who you are trying to teach, tell you to leave them so you can go and have fun somewhere else! So here’s the predicament. Your on the top of a small hill and if you ditch at the bottom you feel kind of like a jerk but if you stay there is nothing really to do! Decisions, decisions. Well I’m out to sleep, ill check in sometime later.

Boyda.

return

2 days until a week of being back. These past five days have been eye opening and enlightening as to how much I have changed from my old self and how my old self was still clinging to my coat tail as I came back through the doors of the PWL. Coming back I see that barriers that were still up between me and some of the boys, are now significantly weakened or do not even exist at all. Although I had a fantastic break with my family and have seen very many victories for Christ, it was almost a big “slap in the face” to get thrown back into the realities of school. There is no doubt that I love the wisdom that I am receiving from Tim S. and my heart is moved by what he speaks on, to come back from battle in the world and go straight back to work without a meeting with the army and a call for celebration or a re-gathering on defeated front feels like something is lacking. I understand that we are here for school. I understand that some people here are planning their lives in bible school. But to come back with heavy things on your heart that hurts to tell on more than one separate occasion and wish to get it all out at once is hard to carry on day by day. This news may make me sound depressed or discouraged but do not be alarmed, I am doing wonderfully as day by day God points my mind in a straighter direction. It was my initial feelings but I cant imagine how someone else feels because with multiple personalities of a factor or 26 there is bound to be someone else. But that’s enough rambling on my part for this subject, lets talk about something else. This morning we had a men’s prayer time at 7:30 out on the dock, not everyone was able to make it but those who did it was a powerful morning. The sky was red as hot coals on a fire-bed and that reflected onto the still water that was only disturbed by occasional passing boats. The air was crisp but wasn’t overly cold. It is mornings like that, that fill me with desire to wake early and not waste what was given to us.

I know my family reads this and I hope they know that I was so content at home for Christmas and so happy to be back that I did not want to return. I miss you all every day and continuously pray for you without cease. But within these past 5 days I know I was meant to come back to strengthen my heart in many things. I look forward to April for you to come out here and see this side of the earth. I miss you all dearly and owe a sister a phone call she requested sometime ago