so i hung out with aaron, joe z, callie, leah, igl and joe's family on friday night. fun stuff. joe's family are pretty much the nicest people ive ever met. his dad loves classic rock. they made us pizza's and offered us as much dew as we wanted. this totally brought me back to the days of stayin at their house for daycamp and nights of battling evil around the galaxy with joe on starwars battlefront. that was the life. i also had a talk (on the phone) with a kristin wollenzien who even though i cant spell her name, is a fun chick. we had some good talks about jr staff back in the day, hangin out, watchin family fest performers. shed be cool to work with on staff. anyways reflections was pretty good. i stole the question from matthew, but its one of my favorites. afterwards Leah said, "wow i really needed that" which made me think of how fortunate ive been to hang out with camp kids so much that reflections has become a regular occurence. speaking of which were goin down to wisco for band wsma. everyone should say hi to us and give us hugs. i keep forgetting when it is but ill tell ya later, or aaron will. or maybe youll just see me in the hallways with my band clothes on, carrying a tuba and ill play you a polka.

i had my forensics meet. i qualified for state. i almost wish it was a big deal, but ive done it 4 years in a row and everyone on the forensics team qualified. i talked about intelligent design and something else that i didnt remember. i do remember that i almost had to go up for a third round even the rules say i dont have to if i get two scores of 20 or higher. i got 25 and 23 respectively. i ended up just sitting in the cafeteria for a while. the meet was juneau high school. that place needs to be closed. the best part was definetly being invited to be in grafton high schools forensics picture for their yearbook. what an honor. bassically i had been hangin out with some of those kids and they had their picture so i just kinda stood in there with them. they took 2 without me and then invited me and nate lisko in for the third. fun stuff.

saturday night my church hosted a karaoke dance for jesus cares. that was fun. they had a dvd slide goin and had some pictures of the jesus cares at camp phillip. i was workin concessions when one of them went up to me and started tellin me about this girl he danced with, kissed and wanted to marry. this girl was none other than little freshman meagan woldt. of course the guy eventually met her sister and began dancing with both of them and by the end he said he liked amanda better, but he definetly had to think about it.

me and aaron weightlifted for disc golf. crazy. i hope it helps, we just did basic stuff, except aaron refuses to squat cuz last time he tore his groin. i gotta find a regimen more specific to muscles you use in disc golf. something to procrastinate on.

its so cool to have a friend who ends every conversation with the phrase, "ill pray for you tonight" or always something like that. ive been thinking alot about how powerful prayer is and how amazing it is that i can go to the creator of the world and ask him to do the littlest things, or the biggest things, to help those around me. and how more amazing is it that they would do the same for me. i dont think we always give prayer as much focus as we should. oh sure we pray before meals and in church alot, but i always had the attitude that God's plan is gonna happen with or without my prayers. this may be true in a logical sense, but is in no way backed by scripture. luke 18: 1-8 tells this amazing parable about a woman who kept going to this deadbeat judge for justice. now the judge didnt care about her but since she was so annoying he granted her request. how much more amazing is it that we can pray to God who actually cares for us? we should pray all the more because we know with certainty that our prayers will be answered.

1 Thessalonians 16-24 Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.
Do not put out the Spirit's fire; do not treat prophecies with contempt. Test everything. Hold on to the good. Avoid every kind of evil.
May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.