Approaching my victory lap at State

Classes are right around the corner, but in the meantime I've been catching up with all of my friends here in EL. This past week has been pretty sweet to be honest. It's been my first time that I have been able to be at school for welcome week. I normally have had to work all the way up to the friday before classes started thus giving me only a couple days to get settled in/buy books/shower.

Moving in this year definately has been less stressful than in the past. Couple reasons why that is. First, I'm living in a house so I didn't have to carry all my crap up 3-4 levels of stairs. That was super sweet. Secondly, I am far enough off of campus to avoid large crowds. Yay, that was fun. I did give an extra hand helping to move the freshman onto campus though. That was good. It kinda shocked some people when we asked if they needed help and it was completely just to serve them. I've learned to really enjoy doin' those kind of things lately. I guess it kinda goes along the whole "becoming like Christ" thing. To be honest... I never was really a person to enjoy community service, but I guess you have to understand love first before you can really give it.

Well, I am 22 years old. I've attempted to compliment may age by coming back to school and managing to turn a few heads with my newly acquired facial hair. Yep, I have a beard. I was kind of surprised to see how well it came in.



People keep asking me why I decided to do it. I have two reasons. The first reason is because I ran out of razors with 2 weeks left of project and I didn't buy any. The second reason was to have something different coming back to school. I've actually been getting more positive feedback than I thought I would have about it. I guess that means that hairy men do have a chance....... someday I will be a hairy man. The Shannon family is.

Crusade gathering tonight at 547 place. I helped load some sound equipment into the place before-hand and WOW, it looked weird being empty. We aren't renting the place this year, so that is going to be a challenge for our movement. I've been really praying that God will provide some place or way for our movement to socialize after our Real Life meetings. 547 was perfect. It was big, freshman felt welcome, great location (walking distance), etc. But the cost was getting to be too much and we couldn't afford it. It's ok... I'm trusting God for this.

If you read this, have an awesome day; if not, have an awesome day.