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Hello from the other side.... OFTHEWORLD that is! hahaha! no? Well, I thought it was funny. I also thought I would be doing a multimedia themed update, but time, resources, and intercontinental lag are in the way of my achieving that lofty goal, so you all will have to settle for purely text format for this time. OK. Things are really starting to get into the swing... er, of things? And we are already working on our third book. We started out on Galations, then moved through Titus, and now we are on Ephesians. If you know your bible, you might be thinking: "Those aren't so bad! The biggest out of those three are about 6 chapters." Let me take you through what work that we are doing step by step: 1. Read the book from beginning to end without stopping, out loud. (this isn't so bad, for the larger books we can do this in a group.) 2. Color code all the who's places, times, trinity (God, Jesus, Spirit). Plus any key phrases, or words that repeat. (th...

So. I'm sitting here right now on the couch of our apartment in Dan Shui, just chillin' updating my blog. Woah. Let me tell you how I got here. Well my last day in the states spent hanging out with my sister which was cool, I don't get to spend a lot of time with her so, I got to chill with her while I got my hair cut, and some stiff for my mandolin while I'm here. We left for the airport about 8 or so, and got on board the plane around 12:30. I had a good flight and I had the whole freaking row to myself, and directly resulted in about all 4 hours of sleep I got out of the 14 hour flight. For me that's quite a bit for a flight. I almost never sleep on the plane. When I got there I had no problems through customs and a couple of the staff were right there waiting for me. I arrived around 6 and we got to our apartment at about 8 or so. It's pretty nice. We have two bathrooms, a kitchen with a working stove, couches, and were right next to a bunch of good places ...

I'm doing video updates to supplement my blog. I have my first one up. look ----------------------------------------> Just click on the little camera on the stickam box. It will say view movies, click on it and you can select what update to view, though I only have one up right now.

Well, were down to the final days. I have five days left in this country for the next 9 months, and I can't help but not feel all that excited yet. I don't know what's wrong with me. I must not be getting enough sleep or enough vitamins in my diet. I don't know. While most of my close friends and family are like this crazy guy. But right now I feel pretty "meh". To tell you the truth, at this point I'm taking it one step at a time because it helps me not to get stressed out about all the details. If I get tied up in all of that, I feel I might miss out on some stuff. well, this is a short update, I'll have much more to talk about in about a week. Peace

Well Now it's down to about 22 more days until I leave for the longest overseas trip I've had since my DTS, and I'm freakin' a little. There is so much stuff that has to happen before SBS can happen. I have to get my car taken care of, I need to do a yard sale, I need to take care of all my stuff due to a subject that will be addressed in a later blog post ( just because I don't feel like getting into it right now). This is just me being a worrier. I'll be fine and I know it somewhere under all the anxieties and stuff I'm feeling right now. On a slightly different note, I've decided to take the mandolin with me. I've been teaching myself how to play for the past 4 months and it's and optimal travel size. I'm still debating whether or not to take my bass with me. I just recently got my chops back, and I don't know if I want to go through a huge slump like that again. I'll pray about it. maybe playing the mandolin will keep my musicali...

If your reading this that means that you, my friend, are reading my first official blog post leading up to, and during my trip to Taipei Taiwan. In case you haven't heard the reason for my prolonged departure, I'm attending a nine month biblical studies coarse, but if you want to hear more about it and you haven't by some chance gotten a support letter from me, just ask and I'll fill you in on the details. In a nutshell I'll be in deep study of all 66 books of the bible to help equip me for my future in some kind of vocational ministry. Once I get there I'll start doing video updates over to the left side of the Page over there, so you can see my shining face on a daily basis, and if I'm online when you are reading this, you just might see me. I don't know if there is going to be Wireless access at where we are staying, but if there is, look forward to a almost 24 hour broadcast from Taiwan. Well, I must be off. See you on the internets. Josh