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Dear Those Who Are Reading,

Well a lot has gone on since I last updated my page, and it has been super busy. So this is one of my first spar moments when I have been able to gather my thoughts.

Graduation was a bitter-sweet day; as you can probably guess, approximately 400 people graduated. The service was like 2-3 hours, good speeches from the class president and Ron Luce and Dave Hasz. It was hard to see my friends that I got so close to leave, my consolation was that I knew that they were going where God wanted them so that makes me happy. Everyone was dressed up looking very snazzy, prom dresses and tuxedos were rented; the silver sashes that were theirs to wear over their shoulders looked very sharp (when ironed). As they brought in the flags from all that nations represented (7) those graduating followed and took their seats. There was a awesome time of worship, and then the ceremony began. The class song was played, I can’t recall what it was; and picture flashes were going off left and right. Afterwards everyone went and got some refreshments and said their good-byes for some it would be last time they would see some of these people, others knew they would be coming back in a few days or a few months for a second year at Teen Mania; whatever the plan there weren’t many dry eyes after it was all said and done. It makes me sad just to recall the occasion.

Well, after graduation all my friends left and that was a sad, sad day and you can imagine why I am sure. We had like 5 days to reset the whole campus and pack up to change dorms, and then there was Gauntlet week and then Pike’s Peak Training, so I moved out of my dorm so they could clean them up and make any repairs that were needed and they put us out into the Quansit Huts (a big overgrown permanent tent that hold 100 people and has a fan for an Air Conditioned, they are placed far way from civilization), that was annoying because I almost ran out of clothes! I was out there for 2 weeks. There were 3 days that we worked more then 12 hours straight, and then we had a weekend and the first part of the new class, they were here for about 3 days and then the rest of the class showed up on the 15th.

Then Gauntlet week begin, so we woke up at 4:30 to be ready for morning exercises at 5, the exercises wasn’t as bad as the time we were up, the horror stories that I had heard about this week weren’t nearly as bad as I thought they would be. So I got to meet plenty of people that week, talk to some of my friends that stayed. Now my Core Advisor this semester is my best friend, Rick Macbeth. (If you forget what a Core Advisor or CA is, it is a person who has 2 rooms which he mentors for the year and does weekly meetings.) Rick was my roommate last semester and is such a rockin’ man of God; with tons of wisdom and is going to rock this campus and then his City and State for Jesus! Go Rick! But yeah, that week I had some intense and deep conversations with him.

With Pike’s Peak Training we got back into the dorms, praise the Lord! We still wake up at 4:30 but it is much easier now. We leave for Colorado on Thursday the 5th, woohoo! I am excited about it the road trip is about 20 hours, and I will be getting to know a lot of people a lot better, and having so much fun! And then we will be hiking the Pike, 14000 feet! Wow-za! I will have sore legs, I am sure about that; but I am still very excited the group that I will be with is 2 of my roommates and 5 of my sister core, and we are lead by a second year intern. I am very happy about it and can’t wait to get started.

My new room is a great bunch of guys, I have 5 roommates. I have 1 other January Intern in my room the other 4 are Augusts. They are awesome guys! I love them all, and am so happy that I get to serve them this semester! The room is called, “The Cave” and it is just a great place for the fellas to hang out. It is a guy heaven, a rocking sound system and all we need is food storage devices. God has been showing me a lot lately and teaching me a lot through my roommates and just in my quiet times and I am so stoked about what this semester brings.

The one thing that I have been studying is the “Kingdom of God” the Bible says seek first the Kingdom of God, but really how many of us know what the Kingdom of God is? I sure didn’t and am still learning and coming to a realization of what it is. So I went through the Gospel of Matthew and looked and found all the parables where it said, “the Kingdom of God is liked unto this” or something of that nature and read it and tried to decipher what it best meant and see if there was any correlation between them. What I found was that the Kingdom of God is not a bunch of principals, virtues and regulations but it is a relationship with the Lord that you give you all in. That is what I believe the book of Matthew says the KoG is, I am stilling working through the rest of the Gospels to try to get a more complete picture of it.

Please pray for me and my roommates that God would change us radically this semester, for wisdom on what I am supposed to do next year and that perhaps God would give me a vision for my life, and that His will would be done in my heart.

Thank you all so much for your support and prayers, God bless.

Nick