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Hey Everyone!

I haven’t really updated my blog in a while. A lot of the time it’s because I feel like I don’t have anything to say. It could also be the fact that I have a lot to say, and I can’t put it down all in a few paragraphs. I’ll try to be better about blogging though for those of you who have been reading but haven’t seen anything recently.

Work is going well. I guess with every job you have periods where you have a lot of work, some work, and then little work. You can never really tell when that is going to be. Typically I’ll have more work on Mondays and Thursdays/Fridays. Then again that is not always the case. It depends on what checks come in the mail, if I need to set up anything, help with anything, or do some filing/catch up work. Either way, it’s good because it’s steady and there are several things I can do/help with and I am given a little more responsibility which is good.

The two classes that I teach or co-teach are going well. The first grade class I’m helping with this year is almost all boys. We have 1 or 2 girls that have come, but they don’t come every week. I enjoy this class though. We have some really smart kids in there and we don’t have any kids that really misbehave. The teaching this year is pretty cool too because we’re teaching through the Bible chronologically. The past three weeks we have been teaching on the Patriarchs. We taught on Abram, Isaac, and Jacob and next week we teach about Joseph. There’s a song we sing that goes with it and it just got stuck in my head as I wrote this paragraph! As for the 6th grade Lifegroup, it’s going well. It took a while for all of us to adjust and we are still getting there. They are getting used to being in the youth group, the way that classes are put together, and also just having a new leader and being with some new kids. I have to think differently when I teach now because I was used to teaching a group knowing they knew certain things and I can’t assume that with this group. It is kind of exciting though because I can be the one to teach them about those new things. It’s still a learning process though and I feel like even though I’ve done this for a while, it’s pretty new.

I am also in a Bible study called, “Men in Training” and we are going over Proverbs using a commentary book written by Warren Wiersbe. It’s been very good. I was one of those people who never really wanted to study through proverbs. I knew it had practical wisdom and was important to read, but I like the narratives better and I also wanted to be sure I knew the NT well enough. Digging into this study though has really taught me some cool things though and I have enjoyed doing it. It is a little more difficult than previous studies. I’m taking notes throughout the chapters because there is so much there. Weirsbe doesn’t even go through every verse but he goes through sections and themes. The group I’m in is good too. It has some of the guys that were there in previous years, but we got a lot of newer guys (or some that have returned) to the group. I’m the youngest in the group. It is an intergenerational study, so there are lots of benefits to it.

My friend Tom just graduated from the Navy a couple of days ago! I watched the dogs and house for his parents while they went to see him. He’s going to Charleston now for school, but hopefully he will be able to visit soon or vice versa. I’m very happy and proud of him, it’s just a little weird for me because he was one of my friends that I would hang out with and now we have to make an extra effort to keep in touch. It’s no big deal. We were writing letters back and forth while he was in boot camp, and now he has e-mail and phone so it shouldn’t be too much harder.

Well, I should be going. I will be sure to blog more. Have a great rest of the day!