Are you standing or sitting?

Well well well everyone I am sure you are wondering where my blog was last week, you see the thing is, I didn’t do it but I have a good excuse, I was off battle bears who were carrying sharks and throwing them at people, the town of crofton needed to be saved and I was the one they turned to. That’s my story and I am sticking to it. Last weekend I went off to go shred some more gnar (snowboard) with my youth kids it was a lot of fun and I got closer with a lot of them, I need to remember to keep them in my prayers I realized that weekend that I have kind of neglected to pray for them but they really do need the prayers. The rest of the week was pretty laid back just did homework and got prepared for the Olympics, and now were here. Ive worked the last four days and finally have today off it has been a lot of fun meeting people and having some good conversations, god has opened a door for us there and I think we are taking full advantage of that. One man I met was a little bit socially awkward but he was asking so many amazing questions about God and what we believe my heart truly goes out to this guy, if I can just affect this one guys life and no one else’s I will feel good about what I did here. I pray that I am going to be able to talk to him again and that he is going to ask some sweet questions I gave him my email I hope he sends me something soon with some questions. I feel like he is a camper at camp again, I honestly love when he asks me questions and I have the answers just pray that I would be able to give the right answers to them. The other day he started asking me about martyrdom, which isn’t exactly the talk you want to have when trying to lead someone to Christ. I had the day off today and I think I am getting sick so if you guys could all just be praying that I would stay healthy so that I can continue to work at the Olympics thanks a lot :)
matt

"I am off McDonalds" "hey could you get me a Big Mac? I can pay you back"

Well this last week in Kaleo was rather uneventful but youth on Wednesday was quite exciting, I had to lead a group al by myself, there is usually on other leader there who I help. I was really worried about it cause the kids in my group are usually crazy but they actually listened. I never expected that it would go so well; later that night me and one of the kids played the game together and I think we bonded really well which should be good for him. We also had our last day of Camp Ministry this past week it was a pretty easy coarse but I enjoyed it, I have always enjoyed going to camp, so although I knew a lot of the concepts I think it was good to have them refreshed cause I haven’t been to camp sense 2008. We are going to be going to the Olympics soon and I am pretty nervous about going not only about what I am going to be doing there for God but even just working there its going to be really busy and I am going to be really tired. My schedule has also been pretty difficult to get so I still don’t know what it is going to look like I hope I have a fair amount of breaks but I am not expecting that from what I have heard of other people’s schedules. I had to write a one page paper this week about my belief in God it was pretty cool cause I had to explain why, I never really thought of it before I just always have known God was there. I chose to use the complexity of creation, answers to prayers that I have seen, and listening to gone.

My belief in God comes from more than just one thing, firstly when I look at creation and its complexity I know that it could not have been a coincidence. Second, I have seen answers to prayer and to me, this is enough evidence that God exists. Thirdly, God speaks to people who listen and I listen. The popular scientific belief is that the world came to be in some sort of “Big Bang” and everything just sort of started working together, like the moon and the sun the oceans tides, out perfect food chain. This just does not make sense to me, I guess you could say I know God exists and is our creator because everything else to me does not make any sense.

That is just a little piece of what I wrote basically everything I said just not expanded upon. I guess the only hard part of that assignment was making it short cause there is so much any Christian could write about why they believe in God. Anyway I think I will leave you with that cause its time for me to go to bed :)