Sold Out!

FHSU Tiger Basketball had a big weekend in some ways and others not so much. The Tiger Men's team has been ranked #1 in Div II for a few weeks now and came in to Sundays game against Nebraksa-Kearney 25-1 and 18-0 in the RMAC. Sundays game was the first in school history to sell out in advance. The official attendance was 7,187. The place was packed and loud!!! It was awesome to see over 6,000 already there for the start of the womens game. The Lady Tigers(21-6) deserve a big loud crowd. They played well and beat the Loper ladies 60-52. The guys had established a 31 game home winning streak and had won 18 straight games. The men just had a tough time getting shots to fall. Free throw and 3 point shots were not dropping as the Tigers shot 55%(12/22) from the freethrow line and 17%(4/23) from 3-point range. Still they battled but in the end we all went home disappointed with a 70-66 loss to our bitterly disliked rival Nebraska-Kearney. The conference tourney starts on wednesday and continues on the weekend as the guys are the #1 seed and the women are the #3 seed. The women have got to possibly win the conference tourney or make it to the championship game to have a shot at making the national tourney as their region is very strong. The guys will have a NCAA DivII tourney bid locked up and should host the regional being #1 ranked in our region. Should be a lot of fun. Hopefully they will rebound from this loss and realize they have got to play better because now it becomes one and done for the season. I'll continue to enjoy rooting for the Tigers as long as the ride lasts.
Speaking of fun, this wednesday I am leaving for Park City, UT as my dad and I are going to go skiing Thursday and Friday at The Canyons www.thecanyons.com one of the top 15 best places to ski in North America. I am really excited! It will surely be a lot of fun. Its been a long while since pops and I have just kicked it so that will be really cool. I'm sure I'll have some good pics from the trip.
Thanks for your prayers for my mom as she had surgery about 4 or 5 weeks ago. Its been a kind of slow process as healing from surgery is but she is doing better and getting healed up. She had a bit of cabin fever but is back on her feet and getting in to a routine again. So thank you to you all...all 3 of you who read this. HA!
Monday nights I have a bible study and we are reading a book by John Piper called "When I Don't Desire God:How to fight for Joy" and I think its going well. If you haven't read Piper before he can be quite philisophical and I can't say it has been real smooth all the time for us all but tonight was really good. We talked about how joy is a gift and it is ultimately a gift that stems from God's grace and love for us. God's grace just is humanly very difficult to comprehend. (Eph.2:4-5,8-9) Why does He still love and pursue us when we repeatedly do stuff wrong and hurt our relationship? (Rom.7:13-23) I have no clue why in human reason to be justify or make sense of it. Thats love. We also talked about how we rank sins. In our eyes murder, adultery, rape, and homosexuality are among the "worst" but in God's eyes even though the bible says those things are wrong our "small" sins of gossip, lies or lusting are equal because they are sin. So if God loves us the same no matter our sin why the heck can't we love others whether they are homosexual or not. We should exhibit the same grace and love God gives us to others. Good stuff. Gotta be Sold out!
For those who may be wondering I will not be going overseas this summer. I know its became a trend for the last 3years but I am stateside this summer. I've got my sisters wedding on July 8th to celebrate and I know that God has got other plans for me this summer only not in Kenya. It is possible I could return there because I would most definitely like too for a longer period of time but thats down the road a bit. I am trying to search and see what this summer and next fall will bring aside from the knowns that I'm graduating on May 13th and my sister is getting married on July 8th.
Well I think thats it for now.....Until Dukey drops again....Much Love..........

Papa Johns, Papa Ross, and Mr. Philip

Here are some pics from the Papa John's Pizza Showdown on Thursday Feb 2nd at the halftime of the #2 ranked Fort Hays State Men's Basketball game vs Metro St. The first(at the top) pic you see all the contestants in 4 teams of 2 with their partner standing behind them. The guys on the far left of the group pic and in the background of the 2nd pic were the winning team...They called themselves "Team Mexico" and are on our cross country team here at FHSU. They ate 9 pieces of pizza in 3minutes, crust and all. I've heard a lot of people say they could do better but we'll see next time if their talk is walk. The one girls team pictured in three of the pics finished 2nd with 7 of 8 pieces in the given time. Sedera(left) and Heather(right) represented well. I knew them from Christian Challenge and knew they were savages and could hold their own. I wasn't disappointed. They got game.
The picture below is of my dad at Christmas time that I promised to post on here. I'm sure he'll appreciate it. He got in the fridge to get some OJ and got excited and wet himself. He really likes OJ. LOL! Just kidding...the lid wasn't on very well and he dumped it all over himself. I chased him around to try and get a picture and he wouldn't let me. Finally he gave up and took this beauty! Thanks Pops!
And Finally to Mr. Philip(not pictued...maybe later) and his wife Sandy, whom we worked with the last two summers in Nairobi, Kenya, were at Challenge last night and they shared with us. It was GREAT to see them. They have been such a blessing to know and work with. They are currently stateside on furlow for the next 6 or 7 months. Maybe I'll have to make a road trip to go see them? It was awesome to get to see them once again! I guess thats it for now. So until Dukey Drops Again......Much Love...........