I was once asked, "What is success?" This is my answer:

There are two kinds of success, the first is worldly success and the second is Godly success. Worldly success includes a large amount of money, popularity, power, and good looks. On the other hand, you have Godly success which includes pureness of heart, charity, a close walk with God, and fulfillment of the great commission. All in all, I think that the worldly version of success is all about me me me me, whereas the Godly version of success is all about God and other people.

If I won $1,000,000.

First, I would pay my tithe ($100,000). After tithe I would pray and, if God agreed with me, I would earn a bachelor's degree in business ($22,000), buy a 2010 Dodge Charger ($39,195), a good engagement ring ($5,500), and two gold rings( who knows when you're going to need one (; ) ($330). I would also build a small castle in Texas ($500,000). I would then go on a ton of mission trips ($36,000). after that I would take fencing classes ($80), acting and voice lessons ($200). With $286,695 invested I would have $100,000 left to start a restaurant.

Bad weather story

Are you sure that you want to hear this? I've told this tale to many people, and they have collapsed with serious chest convulsions which caused them to laugh uncontrollably, but if you think that you are brave enough to hear it then I will tell it.

I was driving home one day when all of a sudden out of the east came a mighty wind driving before it a huge storm cell. The first thing that hit the area was the lightning. It came out of the clouds like Zeus himself was throwing them, striking the great pine trees around me and starting a crown fire. Trees started to fall. One of them landed on my car. I got out before it blew up, but just barely.

As I fought the forest fire, the rain hit. Luckily it put out the fire, but unluckily it caused a flash flood. So I tied two pine trees together using human hair from my back and stayed afloat on them.

As I sat there waiting for rescue there was an earthquake that was so big that it cracked the nation from Florida to Claremore, OK. As the sea rushed in the tidalwave struck me and carried me all the way to Kansas, which is where I met Toto, and I asked, "Am I in Kansas?" He said, "Yes," so I got off my raft.

That's when the tornado came. I thought, I better get out of here, but the tornado caught me up. It traveled all the way down into Texas then hurled me into the Carribean. I landed in the water near an island.

Once I got on land I found out that the natives were cannibals. Luckily, there was a hurricane, so they didn't have time to eat me. The only problem was-- I was stuck in a hurricane. So I went and hid in a cave. Well, caves fill up eventually, so as I ran away from the water I found the treasure of Cortez but didn't have time to grab any because at that moment the water caught up with me and sent me through the roof of the cave. I was happy to be up there again until the water shot out of the mountain as a geyser-- BOOM!!!!

Well, you can probably guess what happened next. I ran for my life as a river of water chased me to the sea. So, I started to swim for all I was worth (which is pretty good I might add) and got picked up by this guy in a speed boat. He said that he was fishing, but I'm not sure whether he was doing that or selling cocaine.

Well things where looking up until ashes from a valcano caused the sun to be blotted out causing a snap freeze. The ocean froze up and us as well, so I got out and started to walk, but I walked south instead of north, so pretty soon I was lost somewhere in South America where I had many adventures, but I won't go into that now.

I walked all the way to Antartica where I got stuck in a terrible blizzard. Luckily, I found a science base and got a helicopter ride out of there.

That's when the aliens envaded, but that's another story.

I AM FIFTEEN! Yeah.
OK, has any of you ever herd of a Gerber? It's a very good multi-tool, and I got one for my birthday!
I'm sick :( The whole family has had it except for Samuel, which is no fair.
I tested for first brown. It was really fun. I broke three boards with a round elbow:)
Me, Ethan and Samuel did a demo for are church. Ethan and Samuel did a simultaneous four board descending elbow, which was completely awesome.
By the way, I am sorry I have not posted in so long.

I just heard this realy cool song called Indestructible by Disturbed. It's awesome. I would suggest that you look it up with the lyrics.


I HAVE A JOB!!!! I'am now working for a elderly gentlemen from church named Archy that needs his lawn mowed and his home cleaned. I'm also mowing another elderly gentlemen's lawn too.

Me and my dad went over to Archy's and looked over his mower and vaccums, and found that the mower's air filter needed to be replaced; that one of the vaccums belt to the beater bar had broken, which explains why it wasn't cleaning properly; that the other one's (which kept quitting without apparent reason) filter was so clogged that no air could get to the engine so it would overheat and turn off. But I think we got all of those problems fixed.

I lost my job to a beauty queen who looked imploringly at her parents and asked to mow the lawn for money to go to camp :,( boo hoo.

So, now that I'm done complaining about the job market, on to politics.

I HATE WHAT OBAMA IS DOING TO THE COUNTRY!! AHHHH!! I'm afraid that we conservative freaks are the minority in both the House and the Senate, but we are putting up a good fight.

Good news on healthcare: Obama and Pelosi said that they would have a bill by the end of July, but the Democrats are so divided on healthcare that they still haven't decided on how to write their bill. Which is good news because, when they do decide on a bill, some of them probably won't like it, and we might be able to get them to vote against it. So, basically, pray that we can hold them off on healthcare until the Senate elections in 2010.

I HATE POISON IVY!!!!

Now that I've got that said... I got in 6 and a 1/2 hours of work this week, and took care of our yard too! :)

So, as you probably guessed from what I've already said, I got poison ivy last Sunday, and it has been bothering me ever since. But I do seem to be getting better.

This is actually a post from the week before last, but better late then naver.