Sorry for the delay

It's so hard to keep up with class, activities, sleep, showering, eating, AND this blog. So I apologize for not keeping up. I have been keeping track with some notes of everything everday, don't worry! It'll just be chunked instead of daily.


Day 14
- perspectives…how to outreach to international students
- got my credit card and debit card in the mail
- remembered California rock slide and evacuation of van on Zuma beach day…[on the way back from Zuma beach, we were driving down this mountain, and traffic had almost stopped, as people were taking turns driving around the pieces of rock in the road, and we were debating inside our van whether or not to go out and pick up the rocks. but this couple in front of us gets out of their car, so Brian was like “EVERYONE OUT NOW!!” and we evacuated that van like a bus on fire. And we were all just running back and forth picking up rocks, and then got back in the van just as fast, pumped up from that. Then the cars were honking in thanks, and we were all glad we were a part of it.]
- lunch with Christine (a girl from my Perspectives class)
- Pablo (paul) and prayer
- after Paul talked about prayer, we got in groups of five (just like the 5 guys praying by a haystack). But my group was slow, so we were in the girl’s lounge until we got kicked out by an asian woman who wanted to watch tv, so we prayed in Jill’s room
- effort to go to bed early

Day 15
- perspectives with Steve Shadrach
- hour and a half one-to-one (hour long prayer walk)
- walk to rite aid – dollar cups (really cute!!)
- start on homework
- penguin stolen for “whose stuff is it” ((see conversation below))
- steve shadrach talks again to IT Project group
- logan came to the girls’ floor with cookies, Kevin with a guitar, and tracey just for fun
- “anywhere, anytime, anything” discussed w/ Katie…Steve discussed praying that God may use us anywhere, at anytime, to do anything. Not only that, but to actually mean it. Every word. It was a good discussion with her, because she and I had a lot of the same worries that hold us back from really meaning it.


Me: ok, so the penguin you got me for xmas was stolen today
Jess: WHAT?
Me: yeah. kat stole it for our game show "Who's Stuff Is This?"
Jess: oh geez
Me: and he's describing it, i'm not listening, and no one knows wat he's talking about
Me: and then he continues describing it, w/ like "he arrived 2 weeks ago, over dressed. he's got a plaid hat, and has occassional bursts of dancing"
Me: and i'm like "did you guys take my penguin??"
Jess: lol
Me: and sure enough, there he is, sitting next to jon (kat's brother) and i've got to sing the Prince of Bel-Air rap to get him back
Jess: lol
Me: however, idk the song, so I was able to get amber to help me out to sing it. a hairbrush was our mic
Jess: very classy

Day 16
- perspectives
- tennis w/ amy terry and curtis (one of three sons of one of the Perspectives speakers)
- not much time for homework before errands
…Best Buy for Sara’s camera (her’s broke on her. But she got a new one for $30 extra dollars, brought down from $70)
…Wells Fargo (to activate my debit card to finally have some cash on hand! Yay!!!!!)
- mini golf…we were going to do it in small groups, but instead we counted off, and I was in group 3. We played the 9-hole course twice. Your score from the first game determined which group you were in the second time around. Kaboom! (4th of July event with monster trucks – there are 8 front-row tickets available we have competitions for) tickets went to Amy Terry and Josh from Illinois.



Day 17
- Jewish sedar gave the Bible an additional viewpoint. We tend to forget Jesus was Jewish, but it’s so essential to understanding how true it is that He is the fulfillment of the prophecies. Plus, how different Jesus was to everything around them is so understated…
…The fishermen who became Jesus’ disciples? They were fishermen because they had “failed” being a disciple for a rabbi. Boys 6 – 10 MEMORIZED the Torah. Then, the child would seek out the rabbi whom they wanted to become a disciple for. The rabbi would constantly testing them about their knowledge, saying a verse from the Torah, and the student would have to respond with the verse before or after it. Then the rabbi chose a small group of boys saying “Come, follow me,” to the students, while the rest were told to go back to their father’s profession. So the fact that Jesus WENT to the disciples was HUGE for the culture and it was an even bigger privilege when he said, “Come, follow me.” The point of having a disciple, was to make a carbon copy of yourself, to have someone be almost identical in your beliefs and habits and abilities. Cool, huh?
[**Jacci - I impressed him with the knowledge of the difference between the two feedings of the crowds --> Jew versus Gentile. =D Go Mark I!!Day 18
- Messianic Jewish church was not as big of an experience as I thought it’d be, but it was cool. Jewish people are fun people to talk to, and I just love them.
- we went to Venice beach this time. It was kind of weird to be on Venice Beach, and see the Pier from Santa Monica because we were there two weeks ago (with the cast and crew of Monk!!)
- evangelism with Amy Terry was good. We were supposed to be with roommates, but my roommate felt uncomfortable still with the whole process and wanted the same partner as last week, so Samantha’s roommate and I joined together. We talked to this one guy who was really knowledgeable in a lot of areas – vegetables, politics, world religions – that it made discussion really good, for me at least. It was a lot for Amy, and most of it just went over her head, but he and I had a good conversation. He’s in agreement with some things, and he was just glad we were sparking conversations like that. And then we talked to two girls, one with a 4 year old daughter, and not even 20 herself. She seemed like she wanted to be back in a relationship with God, but not because of her family, and didn’t know how to do it. She wasn’t seeking after it that much, so I’m praying that she will remember Mosaic church, and get plugged in again to a fellowship.
- I got to eat dinner at a place called Sean’s Café. It was nice, and little, and priced pretty well. Under $10 for dinner, so it made me happy. It had REALLY good hamburgers and fries. And then walking back to the group, we saw this man with one arm, that’s it, on a skateboard. No wheelchair, no friends around him. It was kind of sad, but he was moving around really well. He was moving around the streets, and then was over by the bikes, and we passed him. I was the only one who said, “Hi,” and he straightened himself up, brightened up, smiled and said, “Hi,” back. It was really touching for me to see the difference in him just from a simple act of saying hello with a smile. It really made me feel blessed that I could reflect Jesus in that moment.
- perspectives homework
- only one van (10 people plus Brian and Justin-the Jewish man who talked to us about the Sedar) went out to dinner at a Mediterranean restaurant and a movie afterwards
- half of us saw Evan Almighty, the other half Pirates III. I saw Evan Almighty, and it wasn’t the best movie, but they did a really good job with what they did.
- because our movie was a lot shorter than Pirates, we went to Cold Stone and asked one another a bazillion questions…
- nancy drew fan!! (Katie from across the hall) So I’m totally addicted to Nancy Drew, the books, but ESPECIALLY the computer games. And I have found a fellow nerd! Haha. I was talking about the movie I saw, and how I wanted to see the Nancy Drew movie, and it turns out we are both really addicted to the computer games and really want to see the movie. Yay for bonding!



Day 18
- Messianic Jewish church was not as big of an experience as I thought it’d be, but it was cool. Jewish people are fun people to talk to, and I just love them.
- we went to Venice beach this time. It was kind of weird to be on Venice Beach, and see the Pier from Santa Monica because we were there two weeks ago (with the cast and crew of Monk!!)
- evangelism with Amy Terry was good. We were supposed to be with roommates, but my roommate felt uncomfortable still with the whole process and wanted the same partner as last week, so Samantha’s roommate and I joined together. We talked to this one guy who was really knowledgeable in a lot of areas – vegetables, politics, world religions – that it made discussion really good, for me at least. It was a lot for Amy, and most of it just went over her head, but he and I had a good conversation. He’s in agreement with some things, and he was just glad we were sparking conversations like that. And then we talked to two girls, one with a 4 year old daughter, and not even 20 herself. She seemed like she wanted to be back in a relationship with God, but not because of her family, and didn’t know how to do it. She wasn’t seeking after it that much, so I’m praying that she will remember Mosaic church, and get plugged in again to a fellowship.
- I got to eat dinner at a place called Sean’s Café. It was nice, and little, and priced pretty well. Under $10 for dinner, so it made me happy. It had REALLY good hamburgers and fries. And then walking back to the group, we saw this man with one arm, that’s it, on a skateboard. No wheelchair, no friends around him. It was kind of sad, but he was moving around really well. He was moving around the streets, and then was over by the bikes, and we passed him. I was the only one who said, “Hi,” and he straightened himself up, brightened up, smiled and said, “Hi,” back. It was really touching for me to see the difference in him just from a simple act of saying hello with a smile. It really made me feel blessed that I could reflect Jesus in that moment.