Body Shop, oh boy have I been working out and killing my body.  This week, we have been working on our endurance, stamina, and our strength mostly in preparation for the trail.  We worked on our endurance nonstop, this week was pretty much a leg week.  So Tuesday we ran in the morning with pastor Tim. Then after the running we did little circuit that worked on our strength, and muscle gain, shift of terrain during the trail.  Later that Tuesday, we figured that we might as well work out and get the most out of our day.  So all of the guys except one, and a former mission student decided to play some basketball, just to continue to work on our legs but to have a little fun at the same time.  Then Thursday, we ran about a total of 2 miles and did 200 ball push-ups as a team while we were split into

God is Always Working

Hello everybody, I’m back again this week to come and talk to you about what I have learned this week.  This week was really busy, and really tiring at the same time.  We had this, we had that, this, and that.  Pretty much this week, the whole time we were having something to do, well besides sleep that is.  Well Monday after one of my classes I had a conversation with one of the ladies from our church.  Having a good ole, time talking about how the Holy Spirit communicates and connects to others and I simply asked her did she need any help working outside or any yard work done at her house.  She looked kind of shocked, and then she went into detail, about how she needed someone to work on it this week, so she could be able to go to an important meeting. That she had been praying and I told her that I just felt led to.  Later that week, I had told her that our school had decided to go on a tour with Reggie Dabbs, and that I more than likely wouldn’t be able to help.  She said it was ok because earlier that day they had postponed that meeting so she could work and I could help go minister.  God is always working.

Never Too soon

Hey guys, It’s me David, back again this week, here to talk to you about what I have learned.  Ok, so last week,  I talked to you about how we learned to work together as a team, through the 5,000 pushups.  Well this week, I going to talk to you guys about the negative of not having good teamwork and how valuable teamwork is in the community that we live in.  Saturday we had body shop with Robert (guy house leader), and we played soccer first.  The soccer teams were highly uneven but when you work as a team, you can make progress, which is exactly what we did, and we kept the game close and had fun, yet we lost, we used teamwork.  Now for the negative, after our game of soccer we kept the same teams and played ultimate Frisbee.  Now, I would have to say that I am one of the athletic people here, but Frisbee is just a no go.  I terrible at it, and everybody had attitudes and didn’t work as a team.  It was like everything that we were taught just got thrown down the drain.  So no matter the situation you have to always remain as a team.     

Body Shop 2.0

This week, was more of a challenge in body shop.  For the simple reason is that I was tired and was super sore.  Sore from the week before that is, but this week was pretty cool, because as we running with Pastor Tim, and all of a sudden some of the former mission students decided to come and run with us.  That made it more fun, but at the same time gave us a little more motivation.  So, the first hour that we ran, we ran in intervals that totaled up to be about 1.5-2 miles.  That didn’t seem as hard as the first week with Tim.  We had this body shop on Tuesday and the wind and the cold air just didn’t mix, then you add in the running against the wind, made our run a little intense.  We had to run a lap, do ten pushups and run the bleachers with a partner.  My partner needed support, so I was there for him.  Thursday, we did a lot of mixtures.  Really worked on our endurance, and our short distance running intensely, we hopped the bleachers, and then ran them, and it worked our leg muscles.  Later that day, a few of the guys also decided to later right after, go play a game of basketball with Sam Bradshaw.  It was Ricky, Nathan, Josh, Sam, Justin, and I, we all went to Piney Run.  We played about 6 games, and that somewhat worked our cardio.  Kind of a second wind type of thing, because we had already ran for an hour earlier that morning.  Friday, we also had it pretty easy, we warmed up with a few laps.  Then we did a total of a hundred ball push-ups as a team.  Then ran a mile with a great team effort and that completed our body shop.

Weakness leaving the Body

Body shop, this week we did all of our body shops with Pastor Tim.  I have had some intense body shops here, but never back, to back, to back , to back.  Now I will admit that was something that I problaly would have never done on my own.  I liked his body shop because they were chanllenging and it did our body good even though we don’t see the benefits now, we will see them in the long run.  We ran miles, which worked our cardio, and we did a lot of push-ups that worked our upper bodies to the max.  Our arms and abs were also worked.  Then he combined them for us to run with medicine balls that were 10 pounds each.  That was ok until later that day were everything was sore.  We also did lunges, curls, dippers, hops, jump-ups.  I think this week we worked every muscle possible.  We worked out Tuesday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.

Teamwork with Tim

What a week, so this week as I talk to you guys about what I learned don’t be surprised about how much it is.  This week I learned a lot about teamwork and leadership.  Here  at Mission we leave in a tight net community and teamwork is almost a necessity to survive in such a small place.  We had a challenge given to us by our director to complete 5,000 push-ups but we were split up into three different teams.  My team was kind of difficult to work with, and this is where the 17 laws of teamwork really started to show and kick in.  Throughout the year some laws seemed to stick out more than others, but this week during this challenge all of them became apparent.  The law of the bad apple and the law of the price tag hit our team heavy; we had some players who just had a bad attitude throughout the whole challenge and it ultimately affect our whole team.  Because one selfishness and bad attitude it kind of rubbed of onto others, and then some of the team had to push out way more pushups so our team didn’t fell to reach our goal.  Law of Mount Everest didn’t happen which states “as the challenge elevates teamwork escalates.”  If that would have happened our team would have completed the challenge much easier.  Nevertheless, I team pulled it out and completed the challenge set before us. 

Personal

Ok guys.  Here I am once again back to share with you some of my personal ministry experience for this month.  For the end of this month we were on Spring Break and I stayed busy helping a lot of people.  Whether it was helping my youth pastor, after school program, or elders in the church, I spent the whole time volunteering over break.  Tuesday when I got home, I helped the churches preschool and helped serve with the little children.  Then Wedsenday Clarence and I helped with the church, we cleaned it and dugged up the weeds around the building and starting laying down molch.  We also we to our best friends house and worked on her yard.  Dug up old stuff and layed down new soil.  Thursday, we helped out with the Churches program with the kid’s all day, and for Friday I to the youth group and the drama team to another church and we did ministry work speaking, doing drama and etc.  It feels so good to come back to the start and you see it progressing like the way our group has done.  They seem to be doing good, and our youth pastor has seen a seed planted in us and they see the change that has begun to take place through God working through us, and it feels good to do work for the Lord.