What a day!

Started the day off great, had some quiet time for devos. Always a great thing to start the day with is waking up early enough to have some devotional time with God.

Devo-
-Focus on God, worrying about life, money, and "other things" only push us away from a right relationship with Christ, Mark 4:19.
-As a Christ follower let's just believe in FAITH that God will do miracles, so that friends, family, and people will get to know Christ because we believe! Stop procrastinating! Just believe, John 20:19-29.
-The truth will always last, Prov. 12:19.

Great start to the morning!

Work- Ran a little late to work due to some personal stuff but hey, no excuses! Got a lot of things done at work today. Packed away most of the sandals, the sale sandals we kept on the floor and the 50% off sandals we put in our sale room. Rearranged different brands and cleaned up shelves.  Got a "Brand Focus" table, for every sale of the week, we will highlight one brand on the front fixture to draw attention to the brand.   We will see how it works. Trying to get rid of boxes so trying to figure out a way to get someone to come get them.  Put in ad for anyone moving or just needing boxes.  Was in need of getting rid of shoe boxes but found someone that is willing to take them! Man it is crazy how God works, while looking for ads that might already be in craigslist for people looking to get rid of boxes i come across a lady that is needing some shoe boxes for a project she is wanting to do.  Now check this out, she needed exactly 24 shoe boxes! i went to work today and we had exactly 24 shoe boxes to give away! mannnnn GOD IS AWESOME! im just so happy we could be of service to this lady! She will pick them up tomorrow!

Side note- Was supposed to go watch one of my students play softball but couldnt make it because of work but there is always next time! Found out there was a terrible accident in St. Joseph again, 3 people died? or so? man that is so sad to me! That isnt the first time that has happened at that same place!

Real Estate- went to go show a home for a friend, things seemed to go well.  Im excited to help my friend find a home and also maybe sell his home. Things are going well, just one day at a time, in the process of getting my name out still! I know things will be ok, the Lord will ALWAYS provide.

Meeting- After showing the home to my friend, i went to go meet my cousins peps and keng and friend paul at Jupiters 2 to have some pizza and talk about some soccer stuff.  It was a productive meeting, went over some things that we needed to make sure happened next game. We will be ready for this next team! I'm just so hyped that im back on the field! Also excited that i have a solid team of leaders and talent! BIG UPS to CHAM-BANA DIVIDED!


Lesson of the day- Be happy for the small things in life.

Blog Time!

Man, this is crazy! I thought i would never do this but now i find that i type faster than i write so this is pretty cool. I never thought I would journal let alone blog, but here goes nothing!!!

Had a great weekend, kicked it off with going to the "Sweet Corn Festival" in urbana, illinois with some of the group from Excel (which is our young adult/ college group that meets every monday @ 7pm at the Hub (located on springfield and gregory) just thought i would let you all know :)

The corn was amazing! i sprinkled some salt and pepper on mine and it was GO TIME! it was delicious! we then heard some really funky music and naturally im drawn to funky music so we walked towards the area where the music was coming from. it was now party time! one of the band members came down and started a train and somehow a circle got formed, at that point i couldnt contain myself so i jumped in and got loose! following me naturally my youth students popped in one at a time! it was amazing!

After that, we went to our all night prayer chain.  We split up in groups of 4-5 people and walked on campus to pray for the students and campus.  I was in a group with my students.  We prayed for the Henry Administration building, students and also the administration staff.  it was absolutely awesome to pray with my students for the campus! so much growth!

Saturday-
had a youth leaders meeting about the coming up events and the plans for the next few months. that was awesome. then off to work. after work went to meet some of the fellas to get down on some FIFA 2010! that is the most fun game ever!!! we played 3v3 !!! it was absolutely awesome, it got pretty intense. but after that we went to go eat some apple bees. half off appetizers! lol man what a way to end the night!

Sunday-
helped out with the Excel booth, the school season is just starting so we have the Excel booth out front of the church to create an awareness of a young adults/college ministry.  then church, pastor Grogan had a good message about unity! not a bad way to start the week!

all i could think about is my soccer team and teammates! we had our first game sunday! played a good game, some few things we need to work on, had some bad calls but bottom line is we did our best. we ended up losing the game 2-4 but not bad for a team that has not played more than 2 games together against the 2nd place team. we got a team full of talent, now just going to get things fine tuned, i will be more prepared for the next game! cant wait to see how the season unravels.

Today-
Work- Started off the week with a team meeting! it was great! starting of the meeting with a teaching on loving one another, stop worrying, encourage one another, and unity!  then went into the basics of the meeting.  we closed out the meeting with a positive exercise.  i think the response was great! something we all have to learn is we are a work in progress, change doesnt happen over night, its a process! then had a  great meeting with the owners of the company. it is always a pleasure to meet and discuss business with them! great people!

after work took a nap before going to Excel! it was awesome! Excel was awesome! great message from pastor Terry!

WOW! what a busy day? i love it! living for Jesus is an adventure!