A Wonderful Blessin

   First and foremost, I want to say THANK YOU! To all my supporters. Without you all, I would not have had this very incredible and life giving year. Saw three friends come to know Christ, been challenged and have grown immensely in my personal walk with Christ. This semester I've been out of town a lot, and my printer died, had my internet go out for a while, and my awesome desktop computer went down. :/ very frustrating. And it was all hard to fix or work around because I kept going out of town. But despite all that, I have traveled to boulder Colorado for a new staff field training. There I met with about thirty other new staff like myself and was very encouraged. On the first day we split into teams and wrote down what tough stuff is going on in our lives. And then categorized them. Was encouraged because I found that im not the only one having a hard time in specific areas. And the next day we had an amazing devotional and one of the regional staff talked about boundaries and how we can better prioritize our time. (where my main struggles were. Lol) we also had a 24 hr challenge. I was on one of the evangelism teams. We were given a location and some stats on the population of our location, and we got an idea and started planning on how to reach the students in this location with the Gospel. We built a giant chalk board for 12$ and set it up on campus the next day. We wrote a attention grabbing question on it: "How is your love life" we chose this because valentines day was very close. We also had surveys made up that asked relation ship questions and the questions led to whether or not one believe in true unconditional love, and if There was a God that loves unconditionally would they want to know Him?... I shared the gospel with 5 students and got 3 of them plugged into a local bible study. Two people on my team also prayed with a student to receive Christ as their savior. :) this all happened in an hour. One night and one morning of planning and one hour evangalising on campus..... It was amazing to see an impact one can make in a short amount of time. Christ really encouraged and lifted me up that week. There was a lot of other talks and such and heard a cool testimony by Andy Armstrong. On Thursday that week we went snow shoeing up in the mountains in 50 inches of snow. After three miles we got a group picture and prayed and thanked God for the day and each other...... when I got back I felt super recharged. Like I was on a month long vacation.... this was just one awesome week among many this year. God has blessed me and has used all of you supporters to do so. So thank you again. I really really really am thankful for all of you.

Heart Stuff

My hearts been all over lately. There has been a lot of options before me. Basically an infinite set of options. I easly let myself get overwhelmed with the possibillities. Dwelling on which direction i should go. Trying to list pros and cons.... Ive done this before and I ALWAYS come to the same conclution... To stop, shut-up, and listen to Christ. Keep my eyes on my Father. I always feel freaked out on the uncertainty of the future. Yet Christ has never let me down... Im the one doing the letting down. Im still young, and super flexible as far has health and ability. So yeah, I can just about go anywhere and do anything. But all I want is Christ. My Father God has brought me countless blessings, including my abilities and flexibility..... I pray that God will make clear the path He wants me to take, and I know He will. In the mean time I will just focus on the mission before me. Focus on where my feet are now. The lives that are around me now. Everytime I look and dream elswhere I rob my mission feild of my atention and calling. Im not here on accedent. My mission feild is always where my feet are and my tools are whats in my hand at the moment. One of the worst things I can do is to allow is for the Thoughts of figuring out a future to consume me. I know for a fact im in Gods hand. :) no better place. So I must keep my eyes on Christ and keep in prayer and persaverence, what the Lord has in front of me at the moment. If he calls I follow.

Tough break

Since I wrote last I have been to Albuquerque and visited with family for a while during Christmas. Then on the 27^th I headed up to Denver CO for DCC. Cru's Denver Christmas Conference. As staff I made it on the video team. This was my Fifth DCC and my first as staff. On the video team I recorded any short videos they needed and covered the events like the flash mob and Haiti meal packing. On new years eve in particular, I recorded all 1200 students going out on 16^th street and doing the flashmob and using that to get into spiritual conversations afterward. Here is a link to the news coverage of the event : http://www.kdvr.com/videobeta/?watchId=9c2061ea-024a-40cb-9ca1-2e9bc6b25069 .. after that I then recorded about two thousand people doing a wave all the way down 16^th street. Again it was used to get into spiritual conversations. After this second flash mob I recorded the fireworks going off in downtown Denver, then all the student went back into the main ballroom in the hotel and we heard a talk from Scott Nickel then had a very awesome worship till the countdown to new years. Once the new year hit we worshiped and danced and celebrated. This all was recorded as well. After Nick and myself finished recording all we needed to we then went into the video room and edited everything we shot and put it into a re-cap video to be shown first thing that morning. We finished recording everything at 1 a.m. And finished the video at 4 a.m. Went to bed at 4:30 and woke up at 8.... this was one of the tougher nights at DCC for me. But I helped make about 5 videos that were shown in front of 1200 students. And one that didn't get shown. I was in Denver working on the video team from the 27^th to the 2^nd. From the 2^nd to the 4^th was the staff conference. As you probably have an idea, working att dcc was tiring and a lot of work. So the staff conference is for the staff of cru only. Its after all the students head home and its a chance for us to sit in on our own seminars and not have to worry about work and videos.

I was approached by our campus directer recently about leading a spring break trip to east Asia. Cru at NMSU partners with East Asia as a mission field. We go there for spring breaks and have summer project opportunity there as well. So currently they had no one available to help lead the students there for spring break. I prayed about it and decided I will go ahead and lead a group from NMSU. So please pray for me and the students that will be going to east asia to share our faith and learn and experience experience a different culture.

I am currently looking for another part time job and would ask for prayer to find one. Please pray i get more consistent on getting news letters out and my blog updated. I am excited for a new semester and excited to see the Lord continue to work and transform lives at NMSU. Last semester was incredible. Pray this semester is more so.

Sweet

Hi! everyone. So sorry it took so long to update this.... again... The semester has ended here NMSU, Last week Cru had 20+ hrs of meetings for the staff to evaluate the semester and plan next semester. I also want to say THANK YOU! Thank you to all of you who has given me support. Without you I would not be doing what I do with Cru and growing in my faith in a astonishing way. This semester was my first semester working for Cru and any ministry for that matter. Every week we have intern training. Through this training I am challenged to take bigger and more uncomfortable steps toward the great commission. Through these steps, I am learning better on how to hold on less to myself and more on Christ. Most everyday I get to hang with college students and talk about Christ, through bible studies, disciple groups, evangelising, and our many social events. So thanks to all of you supporters out there. Cru grew a great deal this semester. We are averaging about 50 each weekly meeting, and three people have chose to give their lives over to Christ, and many have rededicated their life's, and turned from their current life's direction and turned to Christ. Its been a good semester, but we are all human and in need of constant growth. We are far from perfect. So please pray we continue to do Christs will and not our own. I would also love to have a job like this for as long as I can. So if anyone out there would like to support me on my mission to serve and witness to NMSU, I would appreciate the help, and feel free to tell tell others who may be interested in what I do. I love talking about it.