Tyler’s Blog

Wow, I have been wickedly busy as my friends from the northeast would say. Between ministry and preparing for break I have been going non stop but I love it. I do actually have pictures but I need to get them off my camera. We have been doing a lot of work to the Jeep and after that is done work on the 53 Chevy and 29 Ford begins again. It is a never ending job but I love what I do. I have been doing it all my life.

I need to run now but I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving! God Bless!

- Tyler

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Well its true, it is snowing again but that isn't why I am super excited about today.

Ministry is superb, I love being a youth director and I love being the ministry leader of my 4x4 ministry. Those are two things that God has truly blessed me with. On Saturday with the 4x4 ministry I will be going on a trail ride, and it looks like its going to be in the snow! SWEET!

Sunday is Youth Group night and we are doing a workshop on how to evangelize and share our faith. This is very rad because we needed some extra help and a few PBU students who are doing other ministries decided they would lend us a hand for one night! How AWESOME IS THAT?! This community is awesome, but I need to run so I can get ready for both ministries.

Oh and its snowing pretty hard out and its only 7:10am, I am so stoked!

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Wow, what a weekend. One day I was wearing shorts and a T-shirt and the next time I had a jacket and long pants on. I am so excited, it is about time that winter shows its face around here. I think the fact that so many people were caught in the random snowfall without so much as a winter jacket or gloves they must have scared winter away with fist shaking (which was only because they were trying to warm them up, not to do an angry fist shaking towards winter.)

This first basketball game was on Saturday against Eastern, sadly we lost but it was a really good game and the guys played well. The girls volleyball team got knocked out of the brackets after four games in nationals and the guys soccer team were knocked out of nationals after two games but played extremely well.

Ah! Class is about to start so I have to run I hope you have a great day!

-Tyler

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Today is veterans day, which has always been an important day in my family. It meant car shows in the afternoon and a steak for dinner. On campus there is a slight buzz going around about it. In chapel on Monday it was brought to everyone's attention and talked about. So its nice that the school recognizes the sacrifices they have made.

This Friday is the Opera workshop it is ALWAYS awesome so I am rather stoked. A lot of my friends are in it and they are amazing! It is $8 and well worth it. And it is finally hitting the cold streak that I have been waiting for! Waking up this morning to 30 degrees, I love it!

I hope you all have a great day I need to run to class,

Tyler

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Something that is really cool about being a senior is that most of my other friends who are seniors are all in roles of leadership in their church and through that we get to see a lot of cool things happen.

Right now a few of my friends who are youth pastors, youth directors or just youth leaders are planning a youth group Olympics for the upcoming spring with multiple churches involved. The fact that we have this connection between one another is awesome and things like this are possible because of that.

Anyways another cool thing is that my buddy JJ who is a youth director at a church brought one of his youth group kids to check out PBU, its always rad to see one generation helping out the next and laying a godly path before them. PBU teaches us how to be examples for the next generation so that we can in turn be just that to our youth group kids or younger siblings. very rad.

I had a strange thought this morning. You see, I get up every morning at 5:45 am to go running or to do circuit training or something as I prepare to leave for the military. I learned that though my body is sore from the rest of the week so it takes on the more literal left brained argument. But then my right brain kicks in with my a rendition of my Mother's argument as she used to wake me up for school. This morning the conversation went a little bit like this.

- What? Was that my alarm? Its 5:45 already, you have to be joking. It is raining outside, geez I have PT this morning time to get up.
* Well I am extremely sore right now and the weather said the rain would let up in the afternoon, maybe I should just sleep for 5 more minutes and if I forget to set the alarm and sleep past 5 minutes it isn't my fault.
- Come on, running is good for me, today is slow long distance running its not as bad as yesterday, I will enjoy it once I start.
* Maybe I am burning myself out, crawling into my top bunk did stink due to being stiff.
- (here is where it really reminded me of my Mom) that's it I am just going to roll out of bed and then you wont want to get back in *rolls out and hits the floor*
* AH COLD!
- Thats what I get, now time to run.
*Fine.

I ended up enjoying the run by the way, I always do its just getting started that takes a while.

- Tyler

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The student body has many views, democrats, republicans and libertarians on campus. I, myself, have read the news every day through out the entire election. I have read the candidate's stances, watched their debates, watched their speeches. The fact that Obama is president left me speechless.

I sit at breakfast with multiple people who are avid news readers, watchers and researchers. One news station is never preferred but rather multiple major and local stations to get the full stories rather than parts.

I am opinionated but I wont say anything that isn't in Scripture:

2 Timothy 4:3-4 NASB
(3) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,
(4) and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

Now is the time to pray for our country fervently. This is a hot topic on campus, in dorm rooms, in lunch rooms, in class rooms while waiting for the profs and in the hall ways.

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It was a crazy day today but I am very excited. I love voting, I love taking part in my countries' leadership. For those people who didn't have cars on campus PBU made a shuttle available to go to the voting station 3 minutes away from school. I jumped on one of the shuttles after my morning class and casted my vote. I am excited and waiting impatiently for the results!

It is now up to God on who He wants to have in leadership of the greatest country in the world.

- Tyler

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