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Sorry So Short I Just Watched a Spawn Episode and am Now Tired. So yeah this will be a short update.

I just wanna start by saying it's been rad getting a hold of people when I can. I just want to say it brightens my day when I get to talk with any of you for even 5 minutes. I just want you to know how much it rox my day.

I had a cool last couple of days! We put on our first official program for non-teamers. That means training is over, I'm an official YE trained professional in puppetry, skits, programming (as in a program of music etc.), music, relational ministry, peer cooperation, and the list goes on. There's some really funny things on the website that YE claims we can do for churches once we are done with training. Can't think of what they are off hand. Anyway, wow "what's up tired."

So, yeah first official program. It went alright. We had some sound issues and I couldn't get the projector to work so we had to make up some spiels that normally would be automated for us by the computer. And then the next morning we led a worship service that YE had mistakenly sent to the church. It was a worship service that bands were trained to do like 2 years ago. It was a Lost and Found worship service! Yes it included Oh Them Lions. It was a cool service, but we all had to learn it in about an hour. We pulled it off, but it was majorly stressful. The following night we had another family night program. This one couldn't have gone better. I got the projector to work and the sound was amazing. It was just cool.

We had a day off today and I did a lot of vegging. I watched Spaceballs, read, worked on grad school stuff, worked on stuff for my job in the band (media coordinator). Then my teammate Corey and his host family picked me up and we took a tour of Worthington, MN. They have a place much like Midway Village with old town buildings and stuff that was very cool. And I went to ShopKo to see if I could convince them to sell me Eternal Sunshine a day early (it comes out tomorrow yo, I'm so psyched). They wouldn't sell it to me, so I bought Jerry Seinfield stand up, and all three seasons of Spawn the animated series on HBO for $7 a piece. Then tonight I went out with Corey and his host sister Sara. We had a lot of fun. We went to a cool bar and played pool and Golden Tee. Then we went and met up with my teammate Sarah at her host home for a bonfire. It was fun to have freedom for a night.

(The following is a run down for those who are not understanding these terms. Don't read this if you understand everything. All of us team members often stay in different host homes. We are housed in any combination from solo to all seven off us on a gymnasium floor. Also as far as the jargon earlier about the family night program and worship service, here's some info on that. We are typically asked to do any of five things that I can think of. We lead worship at a sunday morning service, we put on a program for families that includes music/skit/puppetry/ministry info etc., we lead sunday school for little kids, we lead a workshop on a topic like puppet ministry/song writing/bible study etc., we lead youth in games for a game night. This can take place in many settings like churches/prisons/retreats etc. So theirs a little info)

I love you all and that's all for tonight.
in Christ,
jason