I know this post will be a tad bit late on the time line but I'm new at this so whatevs.

For Valentine's Day this year i took Sara to spend a weekend in Malibu. We went hiking, exploring, surfing, running, and biking all over the place. The best part of the weekend had to be our dinner on Valentine's. We went to a super fancy place we stumbled on that was right on the beach. The people working at the restaurant were very rude to us thinking we couldn't afford it. They seated us in a dark corner of the restaurant. Sara and I were laughing so hard at how ridiculous we were treated. i told Sara to give me her gum and i proceeded to stick our gum under the table. That'll show um!!!

The day i leave for Mozambique draws near. Exactly 59 days until i leave for Africa. Lets get excited people. I would appreciate your prayer and support! I am going to take as many pics and videos as i possibly can so anyone who is interested i will post them all when i get back! Less than a 2 months. I cant believe it has come this fast.  If I am captured by an extreme rebel group, contract malaria and internally compose, eat something bad or get eaten and do not return my stuff is to be distributed as follows:

Nate - to you I leave my TV, surround sound DVD player, and my car. (love Helen but she's got to go and your the best you deserve it)

 Brandon - any alcohol i have left is yours plus my beach cruiser. Also you can have my phone it contains Randi's number......your welcome

Perry - You can have my clothes, and the bunk bed, and the PS and all the games

Sara - You have my heart and my trump card. this means that any of those things you want you can take. (Sorry guys you know how it is). also al my money to adopt as we discussed. to keep a memory of me.

Well guys will and testimony aside i love you and am excited to have new stories to share

           

This is Victoria Falls on the border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The Zambezi River runs through a series of waterfalls and dumps into the Indian Ocean. I am heading to the beautiful country of Mozambique for a missions trip. I a serving at an orphanage 30 miles outside of Maputo the capital of Mozambique. I can't wait to adventure in the jungles, charge on safari's, live off of minimal food and water, with a high death rate, AIDs in 52% of the people, some of the most ferocious land and sea predators in the world, un-nameable diseases, densely populated with rebel militia, and much more. Rugged does not begin to describe this trip. I will bring everyone back pictures, videos and memories to last a lifetime. I do not plan on saving the world or making a difference in Africa.......these things are laughable dreams of rich men and women who never follow their money or the tree hugging social activists who feel better about the latte's they drink and the expensive veagen foods they eat when they semi support a cause. I am simply going to experience love cross culturally and learn from a people who do not need conformity, warm coffee, or airbags to feel safe and comfortable. I want to love and be loved in a place that i have never been with a people who i do not understand. This is proof that love is God's language and every one will one day speak God's language. 

If you don't want to eat your peas i have a more efficient way to put them to use

How To Catch an Elephant

1- Dig a giant hole

2- Throw as many cigarette butts in the hole as you can find or make. (elephants are attracted to the toxins in the second hand carbon monoxide)

3- Line the hole with Peas

4- hide in a near by bush

5- when said elephant comes to take a pea kick him in the butt hole

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences

I think in a lot of ways we as man have lost our desire to experience new, dangerous, exciting, challenging, risky, and maybe rewarding things. This last month i went on a backpacking trip through the Oregon coast. With little food and only water i could find from the land i set out on a three day trip from Seaside on the northern coast to Manzanita, a small fisher men's town 32 miles south of Seaside. When i started the hike I thought that nothing could stop me and that i had complete control over nature and the things in it were not as strong as i was. I was relying on being strong in mind and soul only to realize how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong. Strength only goes so far but belief in yourself when you have run out of water, are low on food, and are lost in the middle of the night can save you from worry and trouble. To feel strong is to allow the heart and mind to co-enter epitaph or a euphoria if you will of self awareness and compatibility with your surroundings. I think ever man needs to step into the wild and allow themselves to be lost, feel strong, and to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your own hands and your own head