weekend at the V pt. 2

Sunday we went to our beloved Southeast church. The message was so good. Pastor Ray talked about loving God. How do we show God our love? He preached on Mary, the sinful woman who came and anointed Jesus' feet with expensive perfume. He asked us, "when was the last time we brought Jesus and expensive gift?" and it made everyone think. When was the last time I really sacrificed something for Jesus? I mean really? I have my quiet times w/ Him just about every day, and I love it. But when was the last time I brought Him an expensive gift, something that cost me alot of time or resources? Christ has sacrificed everything for me. I want to give something of value back to Him...

Sunday afternoon Josh and I played foosball with Daniel and Hannah Witten. They're so cute :) Afterwards we went and played Dutch Blitz w/ 6 others. That was alot of fun. That evening we had prayer & praise. We sang and worshiped the Lord and prayed together. It was a wonderful time of worship and fellowship.
After prayer & praise, I met one of the '11 students. She said she assumed the guy I was with was my brother. I was like, well, not exactly. lol. I told her Josh was my fiance. She said that we looked alike, which I took as a very nice compliment :)

Before we knew it, it was time for the super bowl party. They had awesome food there! All kinds of goodies. "Adam and the Chipmunks" (Josh, SamJo, Peter & Adam) sang Brighten the Corner during half time. It was awesome! Everyone loved it and I was so proud of Josh ;)
After the surprising turn out of the game, everyone milled about and chatted for a while. Then the '09ers gathered in the lobby and reminisced and talked for a couple hours. We finally went to bed around 2:45am.

Monday morning we all got up to see Darren and Nathan off. Then we got some coffee and went to chapel. That was fun. We talked in the hallway for a while after that while all the students had their accountability groups. Then we packed up, said goodbye to our dear friends and headed out.
A little ways down the road we decided to go to breakfast and called Rhett and Sarah and had them come join us. It was great just chilling and talking. Then we got on the road at 11 and headed south.

We weren't too far into the trip when something went wrong w/ the car. :P We stopped for gas and noticed the car was smoking. We had noticed this the day before and checked it out, but couldn't locate the problem. After a bit the smoke died down so Josh decided to drive to the next exit and look at it again. This time he found the problem. The upper hose by the radiator was leaking. It was so good. We saw God at work the whole time. We had stopped at a diner, and right across the street was a little shop where this nice old guy repaired and sold used cars. He tried to fix the hose, but it was old and really needed to be replaced. His name was John White. John drove us all over town and we went to 3 different stores before we found the right part. It was only $10 :) As we drove around town we were able to talk to John and share the gospel. He said he believed what the Bible said, but that he believed that he was a good person and was hoping he'd get into heaven some day. We shared with him that he could be sure of his salvation, but he only replied that he hoped our God was the right god. :( He needs prayer. We believe we were sent to share that with him, and are praying that God brings someone else along his path to continue to point him to the Savior. John drove back to our car which we had left at the shop, and put the new hose on. All in all, it took an hr of our time and cost $10 for the part. We gave John a track and something for his trouble. God was definitely with us and worked everything out for good. It could have been alot more complicated and we were really grateful to the Lord and to John.

The rest of the trip home went pretty well. We stopped to get the car washed (from all the salt and snow and slush that was caked on it) and we stopped for dinner. We got home at 11pm. It was a great trip and our friends made it so worth it! We love you guys! Hope to see you again soon!