Why is life so twisty? One thing that is really hard for me is making decisions because I agonize over them so much. many times they aren't that big of a deal but for me it's like making a decision between life and death. One of the first times i experienced this was in high school senior year. I was on the cross country and i absolutely loved it. I wasn't good or anything but i enjoyed it and i loved the family atmosphere. Our coach was really amazing because he knew everyone's strengths and weakness and he designed individual plans to challenge each of us. Also our team had a spirit of cooperation that i'd never experienced before. While we were running races our number 1 runner (each time she passed you) would shout out encouragements! At the beginning and end of each race we would share all our food, even stuff like yogurt, juice- same spoon, cup everything. Senior year came and Mr.Bennett- the academic decathlon coach invited me to join the team. I was so torn because i taught decathlon would help prepare me more for college academically, as well as look attractive on my applications yet cross country made me feel really, really good physically and emotionally. In the end i decided to do decathlon cuz i felt i would excel at it and i was only mediocre in cross-country. If i had it do over again, i'd choose cross-country. The thing was i spent approximately 4 months agonizing over it. Each week i would convince myself to go with one and the next week i'd change my mind and be totally committed to the other. I just couldn't decide. Or i'd decide and spend so much time thinking it over that i'd reconsider.

I feel like that's the way i am about using which church to attend. I decided to leave my old church and now i'm thinking of going back. I started going to Faithful Central which i love but i feel that i have unfinished business at my old church. I'm having trouble deciding if it's more important to be happy and spirtually fed at a church or if right now i need to be working on reconciliation with people and other stuff.

I love how people get passionate about the musicians they love. My sister loves Ron Kenoly- only his old albums. When she lived in Nigeria she was able to buy one of his tapes.(only one) She listened to it so much that it started malfunctioning. So she opened it up, fixed it and kept listening to it for a few more years. but for a few years Ron Kenoly was the man. We had to do everything in our power to get those out of print tapes/cds. For a while i was really into Babyface. I thought he was the best thing that happened to music in my lifetime. but since i don't have any of his cds and i don't listen to the radio i never hear his songs anymore. Anyhow lately my brother has been walking around the house extolling his praises of Snopp Dogg. He's say's it's impossible for Snopp to produce a bad song. If i walk by his room and start nodding my head to the music- he believes that confirms his theory. It cracks me up. Cuz it seems kinda of strange to think of Snopp as a genius.

check this letter out.

Dear friends!

How are you? How does it feel living in the new millennium? We are lucky having electricity, gas, heat and water. In the last couple weeks we had our annual conferences for students and staff of our organization from Central Asia and some of the cities in our region don't have either gas or water or heat or electricity. Not because of Y2K, but because of the condition of the economy there.

For many people life is really difficult over here. A lot of people can not find jobs, at some places people don't get paid or don't get enough salary. Even though our contry is rich in mineral resources, etc. our legacy from communism is not great. A lot of factories don't work and the corruption is very high. It makes me really sad for my peaople and especially students, becaue they will have to build the country, they will be leading it tommorrow, but they don't have a good foundation to start with.

Two weeks ago we had a conference for the students from all over Central Asia. I was excited that many of our students could go. They were very motivated from the lectures done by one of the nationals and it was great to hear them talk afterwards. Here are some of their comments.

"I am grateful to God for preparing me as a leader and a servant"
"I am grateful to the Lord for taking the fear out of my heart and giving me a chance to share the truth."
"I am grateful to God for encouraging me and now my relationship with Him has become better"
"I am grateful to God for being so wonderful! At this conference I understood that i live for myself and now I want to live for his sake. Please pray about that"
Some students shared for the first time with students from other schools and I can tell that it enflamed their hearts. I hope this fire will help them to tell their peers about the love that can change them and give a new meaning in life. The main the of the conference was "NO OTHER NAME" and I believe that we will see many students in our city who will come to him.

Please pray: - For the students from our group to boldly tell the truth to those around them in classrooms, dorms and homes;
-For theirs spiritual growth and close walk with the Lord
For our wisdom in leading and helping the Word to be spread among all the nations.
With much love in him,

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