16

I was 16 going on 17…. Yup

I just got back from a two week outreach a couple of days ago and waiting for me was a package from the wonderful Jaylene, and in that package was a mix Cd of music she listned to when she was 16 years old. That got me thinking how much a person musical taste can change with in a couple of years, cause i know mine certainly has changed from back when i was 16. So i made a Dropbox Mix for her of the music i listened to when i was 16, and it was weird t see how much it my taste changed and in ways how much they stayed the same. I wish i could tell you more about Jaylenes taste i only know a little and what i do know is that her musical taste have changed since then to. Why did we listen to the music we did at that age? why did we like it so much?

Jaylene’s Mix

1. Three days Later – Fm Static

2. I Need You – Relient K

3. Fight Inside – Red

4. Move – Thousand Foot Krutch

5. Is Forever Enough – Hawk Nelson

6. I Will Go – Starfeild

7. More Then Useless – Relient K

8. Definitely Maybe – Fm Static

9. Part One – Wavorly

10. Rebirthing – Skillet

11. Simply – Pillar

12. Hold Me Twice – Fm Static

13. I’m Taking You With Me – Relient K

14. Breathe Into Me – Red

15. Shut Me Out – Kutless

16. Up And Up – Relient K

17. Turn It Up – Pillar

18. Nice Piece Of Art – Fm Static

19. Never Be The Same – Red

20. The ONe I’m Waiting For – Relient K

21. Inhuman – Thousand Foot Krutch

22. Mystery Of You – Red

Nate’s Mix

Mini Intro 2007 – this is the introduction i made for our soar team this year, there is choregraphy to it and it i right here for you to enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cN-B-i1S7E
Second Chances – Stellar Kart
High of 75 – Relient K
Serial Sleepers – House of Heroes
More Than A Revolution – Eleventyseven
Burn Out Bright – Switchfoot
Friday Night – House of Heroes
Odds And Even SOS – Eleventyseven
The Next Big Thing – Fm Static
Feelin’ So Fly – Tobymac
Comatose – Skillet
Boomin’ – Tobymac
I’m Not Alright – Sanctus Real
Sorry’s Not Good Enough – Mcfly
Hero (Red Pill Remix) – Superchick

 

 

Happy Birthday!

Today is jaylene’s birthday!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY LOVE!

 

This year has been pretty crazy for us as a couple, hehe. we started dating this year back on october 12th, it seems like so long ago. so much has happened since then, well i guess a lot did actually happen since that cold night.

IN honor of Jaylenes birthday i decided to look up some events that have happened through out history on the great day.

First off in 1981 Matt Hoopes of Relient K was born

In 2005 YouTube was launched in the United States

IN 1965 A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.

A few random facts as well.

In 1959  Brian Propp, a Canadian hockey player was born.

IN 1942 During  World War II Singapore falls to Japanese forces.

In 1946  Esko Seppänen a Finnish politician was born into the world.

 

 

This is 50 words/things that remind me of you my love. I know some of these wont make sense to everyone, except maybe our India team. SO if you have questions you could ask about a word and we might tell you, it all depends on the word, hehe.

1. India
2. Hawaii
3. Queens Bath
4. Eyes
5. Red Plaid Shirt
6. Dramatic
7. Europe
8. Yellow Dress
9. Mail
10. Dropbox
11. Music Mondays
12. Spackle
13. Pink Paint
14. Ooty
15. Narration
16. Orange Juice
17. Swimming
18. Singapore Flier
19. Odd Frozen Yogurt Combinations
20. Genuine
21. Creative
22. Planning
23. Disgustingly Cute
24. Diana Mini
25. Texting
26. Sunset
27. Poladroid
28. Late Nights
29. Soundtrack
30. Pride & Prejudice
31. Black Framed Glasses
32. Beautiful
33. Purple Shirt
34. Skype
35. Dictionary
36. Ocean
37. Miracle Photo
38. Love
39. Pinkish Indian Silk
40. Stars
41. Picnic
42. LoveBirds
43. Sanjay
44. Japan Airport
45. Sharing Food
46. Matching Clothes
47. Ipod’s
48. Dharma Puri
49. Packages
50. Running

 

I love you jaylene and i hope you have a most wonderful birthday in sunny hawaii.

 

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hehe

Brazil.

I am in Brazil and am safe. It is very nice here, a lot like the Dominican Republic weather-wise, the city is a lot bigger though. The base is a lot smaller then what I have been on in the past, but its nice. It is right out side the city so its kind of in its own little world, there are walls all around it. Today is only my second day here.  We all slept in then got put to work at around 9 this morning. Getting here went pretty well. I almost lost my wallet on the flight down to LA. It fell out in the plane and I went up to the Virgin America desk and asked and they had found it so I just had to go pick it up. Then it wasn’t that hard to check in then I just had to wait.  I talked to Jaylene on the phone for a bit in the LA airport. Then I got on the 11 hour flight; it wasn’t  bad Korean air is really nice with lots of leg room. I was sitting next to an older couple.  I was sitting for 11 hours strait that was hard. But I slept maybe 4 hours on the flight.  I watched a couple movies. It was good i got two meal a dinner and a breakfast and it wasn’t bad for airplane food.  i would tell you about the food here but I haven’t actually eaten a meal on base yet so i don’t know how it is yet .

Nate

 

Isaiah 41:13

“For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.”

Jesus Wen Born.

the story of the birth of jesus, in Hawai’i Pidgin .

Enjoy.

Dat time, da king fo da Rome peopo, Cesar Augustus, wen make all da peopo sign up fo find out how much peopo get every place. 2Dis da first sign up dey wen make wen Quirinius stay governa fo Syria. 3Everybody wen go back to da town dea ohana come from fo sign up.

4So Joseph wen go from Nazaret town Galilee side, to Betlehem Judea side, King David’s town, cuz he come from King David’s ohana. 5He go ova dea fo sign up wit Mary, da wahine da ohana wen promise fo marry him. She stay hapai. 6Wen dey stay dea, da time come fo her fo born her baby. 7An she wen born her numba one boy, an wrap him up inside some cloths, an lay him down inside one ting fo hold da cows food, cuz no mo room fo dem inside da small hotel.

Da Sheep Farmas An Da Angel Messenja Guys

8Dat nite, ova dea inside da fields, get sheep farmas taking care dea sheeps. 9Right den an dea one angel messenja guy from da Boss Up Dea Inside Da Sky come by dem. All aroun dem one awesome light wen shine from da Boss. An dey wen come real scared. 10But da angel guy say, “No scared. I come fo tell you guys Good Stuff From God dat goin make you guys an all da peopo stay good inside. 11Dis day inside King David’s town, one boy wen born dat goin take you guys outa da bad kine stuff you stay doing. He da Christ Guy, da Spesho Guy God Wen Send. He da Boss. 12Dis how you goin know him. You goin find one baby dat stay wrap up inside plenny cloths, lying down inside one ting fo hold da cows food.”

13Right den an dea uku paila angel guys from da sky wen show up wit da first angel guy. Dey saying good stuff bout God lidis:

14“Up inside da sky wea God stay,

He stay awesome!

An ova hea on top da earth,

If God like wat peopo doing,

He goin make dea heart rest inside.”

15Den da angel guys wen go way from dem an go back by God inside da sky. Da sheep farmas tell each odda, “Eh brahs, we go Betlehem fo see dis ting dat wen happen, dat da Boss Up Dea Inside Da Sky wen tell us.”

16So dey run an find Mary an Joseph, an da baby stay dea, lying down inside one ting fo hold da cows food. 17Wen dey see da baby, dey tell everybody wat da angel guys wen say bout dis boy. 18Everybody dat wen hear dat, stay tinking bout wat da sheep farmas wen tell dem. 19But Mary wen put all dese tings inside her heart, an tink plenny how spesho dey stay. 20Da sheep farmas wen go back, an dey tell everybody how God stay plenny good an awesome, cuz all da stuff dey wen hear an see, was jalike da angel guy wen tell dem.

 

Luke 2:1-19

I’m Back…

I just got back from Mexico, and Disneyland…

I would say it was fun, it was fun i was just sick basically the whole time.

I got sick friday after i got back from Hawaii, and then just continued on a downward slope until yesterday or so. I lost around 5 pounds from saturday to monday, i am pretty sure that is very unhealthy, oh well. Monday and Tuesday i was sick all day, sleeping with a fever in a dark room under 4 different sleeping bags.

Wednesday i was slightly more active, but still not able to a lot of actually work so i just worked in the nut house and the print shop sorting things.

Thursday i was alive, barely…

i actually worked all day, then baby sat that night, i still was not completely there, you know?

Friday we didn’t do anything really, we worked in the morning, but i don’t remember what we did, but we got off early, and then layed down in the field and listened to th pride and prejudice soundtrack, it was a perfect moment. I felt kind of like i was flying, literally.

Then we left to go to the little market in town, i really didn’t buy anything because it is the same stuff every year. i got ice cream, because that was one of the only thing i could eat that didn’t feel like my throat was being ripped to shreds. oh i also had a fish taco, that was surprisingly good, it’s weird i am begging to like fish, i never have before. what is going on?

saturday was a whole ordeal, that i don’t want to go into a whole lot of detail about. I will just say we took 3 hours to get across the border back into the us.

Then came Disneyland!

What a wonderful happy place it is. this time though it was raining the whole time, which is ok for us folk from washington, and that also means all the lines were very short because people did not want to stand in the rain. It also added a new level to some of the rides, like california screaming became a water ride the felt like you were getting hit with a sand blaster, and the Matterhorn had nice puddles that you got to put your feet in. i had a lot of fun over all i wasnt feeling great the whole time though.

I just got home to washington today, and i am exhausted. Oh well i have a lot to do before i head out to brazil on january 5th.

i am currently skyping with jaylene in Hawaii. I just have to say i love skype, i truly do.

We just opened our christmas present with each other, it was a lot of fun, mine had all sorts of fun surprises, Snow flakes, and nice sequins filled the box. I now have a four page note i am very looking forward to reading, and i am looking forward even more to the end of august when we will both be in europe together.

 

– Nate

 

update.

nate is currently in mexico on a missions trip with his family and so that is why we have been a little more quiet these past few days.  i have been working on some big projects in my school so also have not had the time to write.  thanks for reading though, and thanks for loving us.  

This is Nate…

What a way to end a Month.

While we were in India we stayed in Valore for two weeks, and from our nice blue house we could see a rather tall mountain in the distance. So we decide we wanted to climb said mountain and the next day he said we could climb up the mountain if we wanted to.

On July 27th he sent Ness-Kumar and Jay-Kumar over to lead us up the mountain.( I just have to note both of them were dressed in nice shirts and slacks, so this greatly confused us) We started our walk toward the mountain we thought we were going to climb that day, walking through a small village and to the base of the mountain. As we walked closer we started to ask them what mountain we were going up and they just look a little confused and just pointed ahead of us, so we assumed we were going up the one we wanted to. next we started walking up this stone path up a hill next to the mountain, and we when we got to the top, they asked which way we wanted to go. So we just pointed of down a road an started walking. That day we did not end up climbing any mountains, we walked to a village and then left 5 minutes later than sat on a bridge and waited for a bus to take us back to the city. A little disappointing , so a couple of day later on the 31st we decided to take matters into our own hands.

That morning a group of 9 of woke up around 4:00 in the morning to hike the mountains we wanted to and see the sunrise from the top. Our group consisted of Zach & Laura, Me & Jaylene, Kat, Lindsay, Scott, and Jason. Getting out of the house quietly was our first challenge, as soon as we stepped over the mass amount of beds in the rooms we crept down the stair to find a whole group of dogs sleeping i the street outside our house. As soon as they saw us jump the wall they started to bark at us. So we quickly all jumped down and ran to get away from them and avoid waking up more of our neighbors. We took the same path as we did on the 27th but this time instead of taking the road we turned and went straight up the mountain, no path at all. It was still very dark at this time, so we all had head lamps and were walking very carefully, taking turns at leading the group up the steep slope. It seemed like we would make it over one hill and then there would be another bigger hill to go up on the other side. As we got to the bottom of the tallest and 1st slope the sun had become to rise a little. So we decided what to do and a few of us started to run up this last hill to catch the sunrise from the top. At this point i felt a little sick so i climbed about a quarter of the way up the hill and passed out on a flat rock for a while, to reenergize myself. Our whole group went up except me and Jaylene who sat down a little farther just looking out and taking pictures of herself. Eventually i built up enough strength to continue up this very steep slope, and as soon as i reached the top i was met by the cheers of the rest of our group. Jaylene followed a few minutes later, that made me very happy that we all made it to the top of this mountain to enjoy the view. And what a view it was, it was so beautiful looking out over the morning sky at all the little villages tucked back in these Indian Mountains. We all gathered to take a view group photos then we got in circle and just prayed over the whole city of Valore below us. It was so beautiful to be up in the wind and grass completely surrounded by Gods glory. Later we built a small altar For future teams to Worship the one and only true God at.

This is just one of my favorite memories from India, it was so much fun to go on this adventure with the people i love, and just worship God on the top of the world.

One more note this was also one of the longest days of my life because the night Me and Lindsay and Zach and Laura took a bus back to Dharma Puri, holding all of our bags on our laps. We did not get home till late that night completely exhausted.

miracle photo.

 

i was thinking how just the other day got my hands tied to you anyway
Why should I be scared why should I be afraid there isn’t anything you don’t know anyway
I was thinking how there ain’t no place in the world, that Id rather be
Than having my hand, tied to your never knowin’ where we’re goin’

 

i watched everything change around me

Would someone please write this down
Someone please take a photograph

cause I am watching a miracle that I don’t want to forget

When it feels like were not headed, anywhere fast I know that your plans in motion
Like the great the pacific ocean
Looking out at the sunset we could run for it we could run for it
Why should we be scared why should we be afraid there isn’t anything you don’t know anyway

i watched everything change around me

Would someone please write this down
Someone please take a photograph

cause I am watching a miracle that I don’t want to forget

The first song, The song that started it all.