The Weimar Experience... Boy, life is great when you are having fun I've decided! That's what I'm having here at Weimar College. The quarter is now in full swing, and I can officially say I feel at home now. I'm sharing two dorm rooms with four of us Witness for Lifers (WFLs), one room is supposedly dedicated to sleeping, and the other to all of our accumulated junk in general. I have my class schedule all lined up, I'm taking Massage/hydrotherapy, Into to Cooking School, Christian Writers 15th-17th centuries, and Christian Marriage, Family, and Children class. I'm enjoying the classes for the most part, I seem to lose track of all of my time here. I'm working for the grounds department and so far all we've done is split wood, each day, I'm glad I only work Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The WFL crew here is great, I've gotten to know each and every one now, and they are all cool. There are thirteen of us this year. We've been able to hang out and do all sorts of things together: hike on the trails here, go to town and do fun stuff, snowboard, play games, and generally hanging out. Fun stuff! We hail from all over the U.S. from Louisiana, Indiana, Georgia, Washington, New York, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Kansas. Weimar has been a different experience for me than Mission College, but both are great in my opinion, one focuses on Bible work and the other on Health Outreach and Evangelism. Soon we will be doing some health expos and a cooking school before an evangelistic meeting takes place nearby. I hope and pray that all goes well for us in these efforts. I definitely glad to be a part of the program here at Weimar! It has been a blessing. Pray that all goes well with the outreach we are doing here and for our Witness for Life group as a whole too, that we may be true witnesses for Christ in all we do and say!

From Mission College to Weimar... Wow, so much has happened since I last posted! I was really bummed to have to leave Mission College and all the great friends I had made there. It really hit me how much I missed the atmosphere and the friendships I had gained when I was driving the eleven hours home by myself. I am very glad I decided to join the crew there at the last minute even. All the plans I had layed out for myself were nothing like the plans God had in store for me! I grew so much in my personal walk with God, like I had never grown before. I definitely encourage those of you who read this who desire to have a closer walk with God, and share the awesome message we have as Christians to all around us to go to Witness For Life, for those of you in high school, or Mission College of Evangelism, AFCOE, or ARISE, there is nothing more important than our walk with God, so why not strengthen it? I had a Christmas at home with my family and my grandparents. We had some good food, and then opened gifts on Christmas Eve, I'm not sure why we didn't do it on Christmas, oh well. Christmas break was great! I was able to visit people I hadn't seen in a while from MLAJA, Rio, and others in Sonora. I was able to hang out with Rob Erich, who I hadn't hung out with since Rio's graduation. One of the highlights of the break though would have to be GYC, General Youth Conference, in Baltimore, Maryland. A group of us from Sonora flew over there on December 27. There I attended some awesome seminars on entertainment, changes in the political world that are affecting Adventism, and others. It truly was a blessing. Just walking around at the Baltimore Convention Center I would see so many people I knew from Mission College and from other places too. I was able to meet three of the WFLs, Shannon, Allie, and Ricky, that were at ARISE, so it was great to meet them finally. The whole thing as a whole was such an uplifting experience, there were like 5000 people there on Sabbath, yeah, whoa buffalo is right! The speakers were great, and the messages definitely hit home for me, challenging me to be more and more Christ-like in all I do. We all were able to do a mass outreach event with about 30 or so bus-loads of youth going out into the surrounding areas to knock on doors and witness to others, giving them the chance to have Bible studies, I had a blast! Soon, though, It all drew to a close all to quickly, as fun things tend to go. We flew home on New Year's Eve, on the plane ride back four of us played something like twenty-five or thirty hands of Rook, best card game in the world! We finally got to Sonora like an hour and a half before New Years. My sister, Alison, and I went to the McMurry's house where there were a group of people and hung out till about 1am. Fun stuff! Then I had to pack up for the next part of my Witness For Life adventure, Weimar College. I drove up to Weimar on January 2, got mega lost on my way there, but made it eventually! I moved some of my stuff into my dorm room, and hung out in the dorm with Wezley, one of the WFLs I got to meet, he's a character alright! By the end of the night I had met most of the WFLs. In the morning I met the rest, they are a great group, I'm pretty much excited. We had registration and orientation and tomorrow classes start! Boy, with a group like we have here and the nice campus here, we're bound to have tons of fun!