This last week Fred Blackburn, a worldview teacher at San Diego Christian College, was our speaker. This awesome short round man with a beard who reminded me of Santa taught us all about Hinduism, Buddhism, the Tao and Atheism. However it wasn’t just the content that kept us intrigued, but the way he taught. He would assume the role of whichever belief he was teaching and would be that person for the rest of the night allowing us to ask questions and defend our own faith as if it was an actual Buddhist or Hindu.
Adjusting to a new roommate has been interesting, but I like Matt a lot and we get along really well. It’s just nice having a roommate who is as clean as I am.
This weekend I worked in the Ponderosa dish room and surprisingly had alot of fun. The two girls I worked with stretched my patience but I think it was a good growing experience and a great way to be a servant leader from the bottom.
It was the first weekend of winter camp and everyone was excited about the cool stuff to do, and the great thing about working at Hume is that on your breaks you can do all that cool stuff! So Friday afternoon I went snowboarding for 2 hours then back to work, Saturday I rode the mechanical bull in between shifts and played paintball, and at the end of the day was able to test the tube run and watch the Box Sled Blitz: where the campers build cardboard sleds, fly down the tube run and off a jump. Pretty crazy stuff. I’m not to sure why Hume still lets them do that….

NEW YEAR!

I arrived safely back at Hume! It was snowing pretty hard but was not bad to drive in. It has been snowing non-stop since we have been home and has made for a really fun weekend of work. This weekend we ran paintball in the snow and tandem screamer. Throwing two people off a 45 foot cliff into snow and watching kids slide around while playing paintball made for a great weekend. Friday night the Joshua students worked at the dining hall and threw a New Years party for all the conferees. We learned the pizza train, where all 56 of us lined up and ran out of the kitchen carrying pizzas and dancing. The whole new year party was a lot of fun and it was awesome that we could welcome the new year with all of our Joshua family together.
Sunday morning we had a family meeting where Rich announced that we would all be changing rooms and roommates. We spent the rest of the day moving into our new rooms and getting situated. I have room 211 no which is on the 2nd floor, has a great view, a loft, and 2 windows- pretty much the best room at Joshua. My roommate is Matt Waters and we have been getting along really well.
Here’s the view from our room…