April 18

Twas a great day. When you wake up early, you have more of the day time which means you can do more! great lil deal isnt it!
Woke up at 8:30. loaded my bike in may car, which, since it had rained, had rusty rain water that definitly splashed me in the face, and headed to Walmart(bike needed a new chain) with my friend Liz. Yep, i didnt really need to bringmy bike but oh well....whats done is done. I got my bike chain, WD-40(amazing stuff) and some flowers and Liz got a fishing pole (only $5, it was a bamboo one, really simple, just a long piece of wood and a string with a bobber and hook. which is all you need for good ole Lake Albert!)
on our way back to graceville we stopped at a farmers market and got some Fruit and veggies (4 bell peppers for $1, mangos were a buck each, kiwi 4/$1, AMAZING!!!)
right before getting back to school, it was Spring Festival in Graceville so we stopped by to see what was there and to support the South East Asia team from our school by getting a burger. There was this lil old man who makes art from pressed flowers and magazine clippings. ill have to post some pics, he was so sweet. he sells the framed work and then he has a ton of 5X7 size pics that he had created as a ministry. most of them are the scene of the crucifiction with the empty tomb somewhere in the pic, then he has others that are Jesus calming the storm. He give those out free as a ministry opportunity. they have scripture written on the back of them. Pretty much amazing!
when we got back to school, our task was to fix my bike. AFTER spraying the gears and everything with WD-40 we began to remove the chain, quickly realizing that 1. we shouldnt have sprayed the WD-40 yet, and 2. we didnt know what we were doing. so we youtube'd how to put a chain on, it was very educational, but it didnt tell us how to remove it. THUS ENTERS THE TOOLS>
we decided to begin removing parts...realizing later that that was and unecessary move...finally I let go of my stubornness and Liz began calling guys to help us. two came over and helped us get the chain off, after much debate, they decided to remove the chain by busting it with a hammer, it was really funny watching this because all we had was this lil girly hammer and they were struggling, they wanted a sledge hammer, twas great.
After they removed the Chain, they but the parts i had take off before, took a minute, they couldnt figure it out, and right about that time, another guy came over to help us but the chain back on.
We then thanked all the boys that helped and after cleaning up the bike of the excess WD we hit the road for a ride to the cemetary. yeah i know, why the heck did i go to a cemetary. Well Liz had been telling me how cool it was and that the grave were mostly just a praise to God with what was written on them, one in particular that had a poem on it. straight up witnessing from the grave. I still think its weird though, but i can see the cool part of it i guess.
after that we loaded up some things we wanted to do and went to the dock. It began with me potting my plants and liz fishing. but potting plants doesnt take so long so i joined her in the fishing effort. pretty soon this family showed up to fish too and their lil boy was so funny. some ducks showed up around where we were and he helped me feed them. then the dad started sharing fishing tips with us cause we werent having any luck. after that, Liz caught one fish and i caught about 6....apparently i know how to fish and didnt even know it....
after fishing for a really really long time,we headed inside to make dinner. Liz and i have Mastered the art of Gormet College Cooking. NO JOKE. once, using only a small grill and a microwave, we made a full course meal of steak, veggies, mac and cheese, and toast. Yesterday, we made stuffed peppers with rotel, rice and beef hot dogs. and speghetti squash with someleftover speghetti sause that i had froze.
it was great.. we had dinner and a movie! and then, on our way back from taking out the trash, we went out to the dock and just sat there staring at the sky and then began to shout out questions to God that were on our hearts.
it was awesome, funny at times, serious at times. Liz joked that if anyone was able to hear our conversations then they had just got a glimpse at our soul's