MMTR

Last week I got registered to participate in the 2009 Mountain Masochist Trail Run. It will be on November 7, 2009. No lie, I'm a little scared about it. This race is about 52 miles in length, and I will be running it with my brother, Aron, and my cousins Travis and Alyssa Wildeboer! I'm really nervous, but excited to do it at the same time. Time for some more running! This is gonna' be a challenge!

Nuevo Mexico!

Had an amazing trip to New Mexico last week. This was our team. We did three services and had a wonderful time. I got to help lead one service and speak at the end of it. I am very thankful for the opportunity to speak and just be on the trip altogether. I made some awesome friends out in New Mexico and am really looking forward to seeing them again! So much stuff happened on the trip I can't begin to write about it all!

Deep Ellum

Went downtown yesterday with a couple friends and enjoyed a little of the city life. We got to see many things. We enjoyed Cafe Brazil, walked around in Deep Ellum, went to Catholic Mass at the Cathedral, and just talked to people. It was a fun time. Here are a few photos of the city, and the art of the buildings in Deep Ellum. I thought the Hub City sign was pretty sweet, considering our youth group at Relevant is called The Hub.

Back in the Atmosphere!

Well I made it back to Dallas on Tuesday. My plane actually made it in early! It was awesome. I made it in about 2 and we met for the first time this year at 4! This week has been titled "Back in the Atmosphere". Declaring that we get together and have a lot of fun, and do a lot of team building stuff. It has been an amazing time. A few highlights have been breakfast with Pastor Joey, service with Pastor Lloyd, service with Ben, a couple evening prayer times, and MC Olympics. I loved all the events, but must make a note about the MC Olympics. MC Olympics is a bunch of games that we played and competed together with. We were divided into teams and played these games. Games like Ultimate Frisbee, water balloon volleyball, some relay races and other random games. Well in Ultimate I had an amazing experience! I was in the endzone and a friend of mine had the frisbee and I pointed to the opposite corner for him to throw it and lead me, well he did and I turned and ran after it keeping my eye on the frisbee, and since my eye was on the frisbee, I didn't see the tree right in front of me and ran smack into it! Scraped up my ear and arms, not too bad, but wish I could have seen it on video! Then in one relay race we had to put a sleeping bag on our head and run down the field around a cone and back while being told where to go by a teamate. Well, I'm a runner so I took off as fast as I could, and well somehow got off track at the get go. I ran straight into my friend Sean, then James, then fell a few more times not sure who I ran into! It was a good time and I bet it was quite comical to see!