almost home!

good evening from a landscape with rapidly diminishing snow...so sad! ahh yes this past weekend has been one filled with snow, and just when it got to a good amount, turned to rain and washed it all away.
Last week was Church Ministries class, the first time we've had a class in a long time. The week was somewhat hard to pay attention to the prof, David Lee, pastor of Sardis fellowship baptist church, had interesting content, but the delivery and way he talked made things boring to me. Not that he's a terrible guy, I loved him, he's awesome, but yeah that's just how i felt. This week was also my first week of (yes it's hard to believe, even for me) having a girlfriend. In case you haven't heard, I'm dating a girl named Kelsey Poetker from Edmonton (seen in the picture at teh Ladysmith Festival of Lights). She's a pretty awesome girl and we've been getting to know each other; it's kindof exciting!
Youth last week was somewhat hectic. On Wednesday night we had four leaders including me (also the youth pastor, and two people who work at camp) and a ton of kids, and they just were not in teh mood for listening, or respecting for that matter. Bit of a gongshow,and when we made it through we just kindof looked at each other and went "phew". Friday was somewhat better, only had 5 kids and had more leaders than that. We had somewhat of a Christmas party, watched a movie and pretty much just chilled together which was sweet.
As mentioned, we were in the Ladysmith Festival of Lights this past week, on Thursday. We were perched on a float affiliated with the Ladysmtih Baptist church and sang christmas carols as we paraded down the main street. it seemed like the whole town came out, it was pretty sweet. then there was fireworks, a fight on the street, and we were done for the night. anyways thats a look at the week that was, coming home in 10 days!