De is for Me

Hi All, just letting you know that I am leaving for Germany in a few hours!! Coolhuh?? Ya my family and I are going to be with some Americans for the Holidays, so I f I do not get internet access befor the 25th have a totally wicked Christmas!!! Eat lots of food and junk (go for a run to burn it off) have tons of fun with family and friends, wish Jesus a happy Birthday, and do not forget why we are celebrating. Tell someone who does not know about jesus how to get saved, give more gifts then you could ever get, and remember our troops overseas. Ya, our spiritual troops overseas too!!! :) Have fun!!! And sorry to anyone I have not sent a card to yet, as you can see between Christmas, Dealing with stuff at church over the weekend, and taking a long excersion to Germany you just slipped through the cracks.

Courage is being able to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill

Anyone out there seen the Northern Lights in person?? I have, once. It was totally awesome!!!!

Devil?? "Brethren"?? Ice?? Cold??? Windburn?? Whatever, Who Cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, life is cool, seriously. We have been having really nice warm weather, but tons of mud. Ua mud!!! I'm talking, scrape your shoes off every 8th of a mile while running, mud; but thank God he cooled it off last Friday and yesterday I did my coldest run so far this year: -17, or -4 for those of you in the W. Hemisphere. Ya, it was an awesome, all be it, short 5.5 miler. Hey, serious running is the only kind, all others are joggers!!! The Creator made our bodies with amazing adaptivity!! The Devil has been attacking on all fronts, but hey, God is Bigger!!!!!!!!!! Please pray for my brother as he is going through a very hard spiritual battle right now. This morning we had a great victory at church!! Praise the LORD!! Last Saturday I taught our kids club and I taught Sunday school last Sunday too. Nothing like hands on training. Speaking of the cold, it started snowing last Saturday and kept going for six days straight and at the moment we have between 12 and 16 inches. Cool huh?? I got to go. Encourage yourself in the LORD!!!!!!

Pics Again

Here are some more photos from our climbing trip. It was totally cool. I can't wait for Moldoveanu!!!!!!!

Latest Pics

Here are some pics from my recent climbing trip with Dad. We had three nice days of climbing in the Carpathians. The first one from the bottom to the top is scouting on Goverla the highest mountain in Ukraine day one, two climbing Pip Ivan one of the highest in Ukraine day two, three climbing to the summit of Goverla on the red trail day three. It was Awesome!!!!!!!!!!

Really Back!!!

Well, there you have it, I guess now I have to post after posting that quote!!!! So, like what has been going on in my life for the past three months??? Since my last post I was in a wedding at the end of August, got a little sick afterward for a day or two. Next, my Mom's twin brother came to visit for eleven days at the end of September. That was totally cool, we had a great time and did some sight seeing in both Romania and here. In October I did a lot of stuff, although at the moment I can not remember anything specefic, (short term memory loss!! I hear it happens when you get old!!!) I did some climbing at the end of the month, cleaned up our garden and yard, and the other day the plow came. Obviously, I have been doing school and keeping the kids at church in line!!!! Also, A guy at church has been trying to cause some problems, but my God is BIGGER. And please pray for that kid name Eugene that I asked you to pray for in my last post, He sooo needs God and his saved father is not helping with that. Thank the Lord for All of the souls we have seen saved so far this year!!!! I can not wait for more!!!! Oh, ya and I turned old!! Eighteen, oh boy now I get to fill out my own long imigration form every time I cross a border. Which is all the time. By the way, please pray for all of us as we have all had a touch of the flu this past week. Right now it is freaky, All the schools in Ukraine are closed down and the police are not letting people across the state borders very easily. Almost everyone is walking around with face masks on and the village pharmacies were cleaned out for a few days, it is a Swine Flu scare. Things are getting better though, but I tell you, it is freaky going into a restaurant in the city and seeing all of the staff looking like they are about to go into surgury!!! Give me the Blood!!! We are being careful but reasonable, no fifty mile weeks for a while. Signing off. Don'ty worry I won't be gone so long this time!!!

Update... Finally!!!

Wow, I feel really out of it. Yes, I know I have not posted in like a month, but to put it in Maine terms,: I have been Wicked busy!!!!! I love it though, It gives me less time to do crazy stuff. Let's see, well I will not give you a full update @ the moment as I have to be at soccer practice in a few minutes, but life has been awesome. Praise the Holy Father three people from this village have accepted his Son as their Savior since I last posted!!! Normally the work in this area is very slow, but recently both the trials and the blessings have been picking up. At the beginning of the month I was able to help out and do some translating like I wrote about a while back. That was cool, and it was nice to be around some USAians. They were a real blessing to us as were the UA people that came from the Chercasa oblast. I got to spend some time with my friend Vinamin too, which was nice since I had not seen him for a while. At our last in city Bible study my friend Eugene almost got saved. please pray hard and fast for him, he all but asked Christ to save him, but he is not ready to give up some things in his life. Please pray that he will accept Christ before it is too late!!! I'll Talk to ya'll more later. Cast your nets on the other side!!!