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1000 Days

I noticed today that it has been over a year since my last blog post, so I figured it was time to post an update. A lot has happened in the last year! First of all, I moved from Saipan and accepted a job working for the Micronesia Mission office in Guam. Second and even more exciting, I have a girlfriend! We met in Tennessee this last summer and I am so thankful that she is a part of my life. There will be future posts with stories and lessons I have learned in the last year, but for this post I want to focus on my last 1000 days as a missionary. It is hard to believe that it has been just over 1000 days since I first landed in Saipan almost 3 years ago. When I hit that milestone on Monday, I thought back to my first day on the island. The people were friendly and the trees and water were beautiful. There were brightly colored flowers everywhere! The sun was shining brightly and the air was fresh, and the only thing on my mind was….. How can I get home? Oh how I wanted to leave!...
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Trust in the Lord Always

How many of you have ever had issues trusting God? I have had issues with trust in the past, it can be very hard to count on people, especially when people keep letting you down and you keep getting hurt. But it isn’t supposed to be like that with God, however as ashamed as I am to admit it, I do have issue trusting God at times, even when He gives me every reason to trust Him. It is terrible I know, and while I am learning, those of you who have read previous posts know, its I not a lesson that I have learned quickly. Here is the latest story of how I KNOW that God has everything in his hands, and I can trust him no matter what. A few weeks ago, the school here lost internet, I talked about it in my last post, but for those of you who didn’t read it here’s a “quick” recap, I had been doing some updates to our network equipment, trying to prepare everything for when I leave. In the process of that I lost all internet for the school, there were some settings that got messed up and...
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2019 Update

Well it's been a few months so I guess its time for another update. Sure glad I got rid of that expensive WordPress account, since I clearly do not have to motivation to post regularly. A lot has happened since the typhoon. But the big news I will put at the beginning for those of you who like to only read the first few sentences. Most of you know that I signed a two year contract to work in Saipan. And you may know that this June the 2 years are up. I had plans to come back to the states most likely Tennessee, find a job, buy some land, or a house, and start my life. Back in December, Shortly after I had decided I would NOT be staying in Saipan for a third year I got a call. It was from the president the GMM. They had been after me to come work for them but I told them I had to finish my contract with Saipan first. Many months had gone by and I hadn’t heard from them so I figured the position had been filled. Well turns out they had not filled the position and they wanted me...
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Yutu Part 3 Getting Back to Normal

I am sitting here in the office/ my current house, looking at all the great black Friday deals that I will not be getting this year, Home Depot, Best Buy, So many missed opportunities, So much money saved… Its depressing… I was looking through Amazons deals a few good ones but mostly junk. Then my eye caught a picture of a cat on one of the items, now I know Amazon does not sell animals… yest… (Coming summer 2020) so I looked closer and noticed that it was an automatic cat laser, you know how you taker the laser pointer and make the cat chase the little red dot. It got me to thinking about how automated we have become, I mean seriously! Can we not even torture our pets anymore? I mean play with them? We have to have. A robot do it for us? I mean as a Tech guy I always love seeing new technology and playing with the latest and greatest computers or new software, but I mean come on. I feel at some point we crossed a line and that line was way before robot cat torturing dev...
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Yutu Part Two

Thursday (Oct. 25) After spending the night mostly wide awake waiting for the storm to be over, I was overjoyed to be able to venture outside and see the damage. I knew it was going to be bad, but what I saw shocked me. My neighbors homes were gone. Almost nothing left. A piece of my neighbors roof was in my yard, trees were down, and as I walked toward the street I could see power poles down in both directions, no way to get around by car. After checking on the other teacher who lived at the school compound, I walked to the apartment where many other school staff had spent the night, they were all doing well and after connecting with them and exchanging a few stories, I walked to the school to see the damage. Praise God the main building was undamaged, but our porch roof, had blown away, some of it was smashed, other parts were gone. We later found out the the main part of it had been blown off sailed over the top of the 2 story school building, across the small patch of jungl...
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