The Beginning of the End

Well, somehow it has come down to the last semester of my college career. Hopefully. It seems to be hard to get a straight answer out of anyone when it comes to graduating on time. But I definitely don't want my family to pay for an extra semester at Biola. So, we'll see if I can pull this off. 24 units is a lot!

It's been a long time since I've written anything on this thing. I guess I'll kind of just give a brief update on what's going on in my life.

Like I said, I'm taking 24 units. 18 at Biola and 6 online. It sounds like a heavy load, but I think it's going to be fine. I enjoy my classes so far, which is always a good sign.

I'm still leading a high school small group, although I have a class on Wednesday nights that I have to take, so I can't go to normal youth group. This is the first night that I won't be there, and honestly it's sad. I don't like it. But hopefully we'll be able to meet a different day and still be together!
I went to Winter Camp with the youth group a few weekends ago up at Alpine near Arrowhead. It was a total blast! We played in the snow and listened to a great speaker, Dan Perkins (the college pastor at RHCC). I got to know my girls who were there so much better, and also got to know a lot of the other kids I had never met before. There were a lot of injuries (including me separating where my ribs connect to my breast plate and inflaming my rib cage!), but the tube sled run was really fun! All in all it was a great weekend, and I'm bummed that I have to be kin of separated from the group now.

Something else in my life related to RHCC is that I'm co-leading a mission trip to South Africa in April! I'm so excited about this!! The other leaders for the high school team are my boyfriend, Chad McNicol, a really close friend of mine, Whitney Vidlock, and a new friend & really neat guy, Jordan Munde. We have 14 high school team members, as well as a college/young adult team of 6 students and one leader, Ronnie Marinkovich. It is such a solid team and we're really excited about our trip together! We've just begun meeting regularly and really planning things out. It's going to be a lot of work but we're really looking forward to seeing what God does with this team and our time there. Be praying for our preparation and that we can get the sufficient funds in time! This is our blog if anyone is interested in checking it out...

www.RHCCSA2009.blogspot.com

Here's those of us who went to Alpine:

Well, that's a good update for now. I'm sure there are lots of other things I could talk about, but I have to head off to class now.

Oh, last thing! I'm really sick right now. So for whoever reads this, if you could pray for me, I would appreciate that :).

Love,
Erica