iPod, Urbana and More!
Whoah... it's been a while since I've updated this blog. It's been a crazy winter (thus far) and lots of activity since... not just in my own life, but in the lives of others around me. What a joy and a privilege to be a part of people's lives and to see the way He is working in them!!! A beautiful sight indeed =)
Christmas 2006 was a hectic time. With church activities, social gatherings, meeting up with people and family time, it's been a whirl-wind of stuff... Our church has been really into euchre/mafia/monopoly these days and though it's a really great time of getting to know people at Faith church (you can always find out how people "really are" by playing competitive games with them!). Man... so much fun... and I love how everyone gets so into the games! It makes it much more intense and fun (muahahahaha).
In terms of family, it was the first Christmas without Steph :( She's with Dennis now... :0 ... anyways, we did meet up a lot, but with our seemingly busy schedules, it's been pretty difficult to meet up as often as we'd like. For our family Kris Kringle thingy/tradition that we have every year, we ended up meeting at our parent's cafe and celebrating the fesitivities there (Sara and I missed another euchre night... but priority is priority!).
Since everyone knew who had who (this happens every year too!), I knew that Mike had me and I hinted to Jenn who ended up telling Mike that I wanted a gift certificate to go towards my iPod fund... I know... I'm so selfish and particular, but I just didn't really need anything else this year and if I was going to get a gift, I wanted it to go towards something that I'll actually use. Since my mp3 player (that I got for free by the way from Shannon) can only fit 15 songs, I thought it would be good to have an iPod for an investment. Anyways, Mike got me the gift certificate and Wayne pitched in for the rest... I got my first video iPod!!! yay!!! It's so awesome I sleep beside it every night (ahhhh! idolatry idolatry!). Anyways, that's the iPod story and anyone who wants to watch an episode of Heros can look at it on my mini portable screen =D
Dec. 26th, I headed to Pearson to load Air Canada Jazz to get to Urbana... Even though I got there an hour and a half earlier than my departure time (90 minutes earlier for North American flights), I missed my flight. Don't ask... I got stuck waiting in line at US customs and missed it by 15 minutes... They put me on stand-by the next morning (thank God I made that flight!) and I got to St. Louis by early afternoon on the 27th. Overall, it was good to be at Urbana 2006 =D Met lots of great people and had great conversations... it was a privilege to pray with and for them :) 
The seminar that I gave was good and it felt really amazing to be used by Him. With the over 120 contacts to be followed-up, it'll be pretty busy in the next little while. When I asked Sara what she thought of the whole Urbana hoopla, she said... "I didn't realize the urgency of missions until now." Neat to see changes in my little sister and the way that God is becoming more and more real in her life =D My parents are a bit worried that she might turn out like me!!! Hmm... if I'm becoming more like Jesus (ie. sanctification) and sara is becoming more like me... would Sara be becoming more like Jesus too? This sounds like a pretty controversial statement (definitely an arrogant one!), but somehow... weirdly enough, it makes sense to me. Anyone agree?
(sorry to end a post with a question)
Christmas 2006 was a hectic time. With church activities, social gatherings, meeting up with people and family time, it's been a whirl-wind of stuff... Our church has been really into euchre/mafia/monopoly these days and though it's a really great time of getting to know people at Faith church (you can always find out how people "really are" by playing competitive games with them!). Man... so much fun... and I love how everyone gets so into the games! It makes it much more intense and fun (muahahahaha).
In terms of family, it was the first Christmas without Steph :( She's with Dennis now... :0 ... anyways, we did meet up a lot, but with our seemingly busy schedules, it's been pretty difficult to meet up as often as we'd like. For our family Kris Kringle thingy/tradition that we have every year, we ended up meeting at our parent's cafe and celebrating the fesitivities there (Sara and I missed another euchre night... but priority is priority!).
Since everyone knew who had who (this happens every year too!), I knew that Mike had me and I hinted to Jenn who ended up telling Mike that I wanted a gift certificate to go towards my iPod fund... I know... I'm so selfish and particular, but I just didn't really need anything else this year and if I was going to get a gift, I wanted it to go towards something that I'll actually use. Since my mp3 player (that I got for free by the way from Shannon) can only fit 15 songs, I thought it would be good to have an iPod for an investment. Anyways, Mike got me the gift certificate and Wayne pitched in for the rest... I got my first video iPod!!! yay!!! It's so awesome I sleep beside it every night (ahhhh! idolatry idolatry!). Anyways, that's the iPod story and anyone who wants to watch an episode of Heros can look at it on my mini portable screen =D
Dec. 26th, I headed to Pearson to load Air Canada Jazz to get to Urbana... Even though I got there an hour and a half earlier than my departure time (90 minutes earlier for North American flights), I missed my flight. Don't ask... I got stuck waiting in line at US customs and missed it by 15 minutes... They put me on stand-by the next morning (thank God I made that flight!) and I got to St. Louis by early afternoon on the 27th. Overall, it was good to be at Urbana 2006 =D Met lots of great people and had great conversations... it was a privilege to pray with and for them :) 
The seminar that I gave was good and it felt really amazing to be used by Him. With the over 120 contacts to be followed-up, it'll be pretty busy in the next little while. When I asked Sara what she thought of the whole Urbana hoopla, she said... "I didn't realize the urgency of missions until now." Neat to see changes in my little sister and the way that God is becoming more and more real in her life =D My parents are a bit worried that she might turn out like me!!! Hmm... if I'm becoming more like Jesus (ie. sanctification) and sara is becoming more like me... would Sara be becoming more like Jesus too? This sounds like a pretty controversial statement (definitely an arrogant one!), but somehow... weirdly enough, it makes sense to me. Anyone agree?(sorry to end a post with a question)
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