This past Wednesday we were working on taking a transmission out of a Chevy Suburban. My middle left finger got smashed between the transmission and a crate. The doc, 2 nurses, pre-med student, a common person, and me put in 9 stitches! The the cut was the whole way to the bone. Gave some freshman at cedarville some practical experience. It was legit. :)

Theo at work

The whole crew :)

made it so worth it! got fed many cookies :)

you got to have fun in all things!

i thought this was extra cool. :)

all done!

 got to have fun when you work!

 yummy!

 amazing cooks!

 israel food :)

blood face!

 The Mission Sign!

 much fun in the snow :)

 so much fun!!

beautiful day after day...

A long afternoon...

Yesterday we spent the whole afternoon taking off the rotors on my truck. They finally came off with a bang with a large puller and heat! :)

truck repair!

The last 3 weeks have been devoted to taking the engine out of my truck and doing repair. Just yesterday we got it running again! :) very thankful! Here are some pictures of that process.

 our main

An absolutely beautiful hike to a waterfall!

I wanted to give you a small snibbit of my hike yesterday. I hope you enjoy the beauty of Gods creation! 

let it snow!

Wow! such a busy season and now its kinda all over...it is so good to be back at the Mission nevertheless! The Lord has been so good to me and I am so blessed. A much appreciated polaris hawkeye 300 was donated to me for the next 7 months that I am very grateful for. I have almost driven it 100miles already in this past week. That probably is a little more than a normal week but I thought it was essential to "break it into the Mission!" In the last day or so it has snowed about 2in and 10+in are on the way! This makes to be alot of fun with 4wheelers,snowboards,tubes,sleds,etc on the mountain.
Ok, so time to get serious...i would like to say once again thanks for all your prayers and support! I believe that this year is growing me in many ways that I hope to use to glorify my Savior in the days He allows me to serve Him and his people! This coming 2 weeks we will have intensive Biblical Counseling classes Lead by two pastors that are flying in. All morning we will be in Counseling class and mechanic technical class will be in the afternoon. Which reminds me that the practicum for the past week has been pulling the engine in my truck! This is the first engine that most of the guys have pulled and we are learning how the whole process works. We will be replacing both exhuast manifolds(rusted and bolts broke off), and a few minor other things that are much easier to replace when the engine is out the the truck.
Tyler(my roomate ) and I have almost completed our 3month shopping. We just need to stop by Sams and pick up some meat and sir fry we shall be done with shopping for a long time! FOOD :)
Todays sermon was on Habakkuk 3:17-19

Though the fig tree should not blossom,

nor fruit be on the vines,

the produce of the olive fail

and the fields yield no food,

the flock be cut off from the fold

and there be no heard in the stalls,

yet i will rejoice in the LORD;

i will take joy in the God of my salvation.

God, the Lord, is my strength;

he makes my feet like the deer's;

he makes me tread on my high places.

the the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.

May we rejoice in the LORD as Habakkuk did! 

Have a great year!