Well I survived Paul's visit with flying colors. Mostly 3's and 4's on the eval so that's a good thing. He'll be coming back in May (my 11th month here!) with Margie for his final visit.

Other than that things here have been nuts. I'm getting ready to go home for Thanksgiving on Tuesday so this week has been filled with prepping lessons for the subs when I'm gone. I have a Jr High Lock-In tomorrow thru Saturday morning, for which I have yet to prepare my lesson. Sunday is Children's Message/Children's Church and I have yet to figure out how to fit Christ the King into it... HELP! And on top of all of this stuff, I'm getting sick and I literally had NO sleep last night for reasons that I could've controlled but didn't want to. (If you really want to know, IM me!)

I guess it's just that time in the internship where things are starting to get hectic and you start questioning things... or in my case, a lot of things. Like Hannah's blog says, I just need a hug from someone other than you-(probably)-know-who. Not that those aren't GREAT hugs... sometimes it's just important to have a hug from an old friend!

Would you guys just please pray for me? Pray that God grants me courage and words to deal with situations I need to deal with before they get any worse. Pray that really hard and continually until I ask you otherwise. Thanks...

I should get back to work. I love you guys! See some of you in January in good ol' Seward!

P.S. My friend, Sue Dimza, did pass away this week. The funeral was held today in St Louis. Please continue to pray for her family, fiancee, and especially her friend, Kelly, who is having an especially hard time with this.

AND... The Dinner Auction went well, for those of you wondering. We ended up making around $3,100 from it. It's not the best but it's not the worst. Not bad for my first auction ever!!