From the Mind of Chuck

A Blizard in March !!!

Christopher Keeton — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:10:53 GMT

So it is pretty obvious that their are a few differences between living in California to living in Washington, like the beach is not as close, or it rains more in Washington, and yes it dose snow in Washington, so it snows more in Washington but i did not quite realize how much i took this picture about 3 pm and by the way the date today is March 9th so much for the global warming because i am pretty cold

Im Back

Christopher Keeton — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:13:54 GMT

no but seriously I AM

trip to grandpa's

Christopher Keeton — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:18:58 GMT

so this weekend i went up to visit grandpa (he is doing very well) on the way home we took the ferry mostly so when it is nicer out i will be able to get up there on nice days with my bike since i can cut to the front of the line and pay half the price of all toughs big cars ha ha, so here are some pictures from the trip

the mighty vessel Chelan that took me to the Island another ferry that i assumed we were racing at the time

the front of the ferry the most important thing to know on the ferry

Back in California

Christopher Keeton — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:11:13 GMT

well back when i was in California all of us went to a monument, Carrillo National monument it was so cool and free to return with in a week so i went back to take some pictures and well to ride my bike in beautiful weather. but any ways to learn more about the monument go to http://www.nps.gov/cabr it was set up for a Spanish guy that came to California a long time ago, here are some pictures from the visit the first few are from the monument but in addition to it being a monument for Carrillo it is also a functioning military base back along time ago and now and there are few things that i find beautiful by mans creation, and military cemetery are one of them the people and lives and stories behind each one of these stones and the neatness, organization what ever it is i find peaceful and beautiful so there are some good pictures of this as well.

                 Cabrillo cliffs                                                                 Cabrillo light house very old

                  Cabrillo cliffs                                                                       same cliff different angle

        inside a light house                                                  light house bulb                                       more cliffs at Cabrillo

                  Mr. Cabrillo                                              cemetery down town San Diego from monument

                 Cemetery                                                             cool light at cemetery

      the ocean beyond the cemetery

god is amazing

Christopher Keeton — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:08:11 GMT

So sorry I haven not updated any thing for a while about staff retreat and all that it was amazing and now we are in the middle of serve with 300 youth from around Seattle it is very cool and god is working in all of our lives in amazing ways but on top of all this I wanted to let my mom know this that tonight during the service there was a tarantula walking threw the worship tent and it was captured and one of the girls that is really scared of spiders got over her fear and held the cup that the tarantula was in so not really being afraid of spiders I though I would try it out and held a wild live tarantula in my hand so that was kind of very crazy but it was very cool god is awesome and working in all of us down here, thank you all so much for all the prayer and support you guys have been giving me and god, life is so very incredible.

Potros

Christopher Keeton — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 07:59:18 GMT

So tonight was a fun night we went to a Potros game that is the colts in Spanish we watched the game it was a win 6-2 and we caught three foul balls and the whole time we were making a lot of noise it was so much fun and then at the end of the game I went down to the dug out and got a bunch of the player to sigh a ball so that was very fun and cool to meet some of the players even though I couldn’t really say a whole lot to them it was a very fun evening

prayer request

Christopher Keeton — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:06:01 GMT

Hey guys sorry it has been a while since that last up date I want to thank all of you that have been sponsoring me down here first off and let you know that we are really busy down here summer has started so I am pretty much swamped trying to keep the cars running but any ways the main reason for this letter, please HELP ME IN PRAYER Alicia is home right now with kidney stones she has already passed one of them and the doctors tell her that she has one more, for those of you that don’t know to pass them is extremely painful so for now she is waiting at home to pass the other one, so please lift her up in prayer for comfort and that threw antibiotic and what ever other treatments there are she is healed from this, thank you all again for the support you have given me now please support Alicia with your prayers

fun in chula vista

Christopher Keeton — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:49:50 GMT

So today was a sweet day of playing in the states there was off road dirt track racking in Chula Vista today and we were able to go so a few of us headed out this morning to watch four wheel trucks with 800 horse power motors race around the track we saw some cool jumps wrecks and we even saw two drunk guys and their girlfriends get in to a fist fight so was kind of crazy, but any ways it was a very fun and relaxing day, I do have to confess that I envied a little well most of the day, but we did make it out not buying any trucks or any thing, so it was a very good day, but tomorrow back to work hopefully all the cars get fixed one of these days, on the other side of things can you guys keep Alicia up in your prayers one of her friends, from school just lost her mother, in the middle of the night while she was sleeping, just keep the family and Alicia covered with prayer thank you all

life really makes you think

Christopher Keeton — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:00:28 GMT

Ok so today was a very interesting day, Mexico is still considered a third world country and I learned that first hand today, it was not much different from any other day I needed to go and get some mirrors for two of our trucks at the junk yard about ten minutes from the dorms now as you would expect the junk yards are a little different down here there are no safety codes so there are fork lifts driving cars around and dropping them where ever there is room so you kind of have to be paying attention and they are not clean by any standards no oil is drained out of the cars, the only safety thing that I saw the entire time I was there is that they punch a hole in the gas tank so the fumes can escape, so like I said it is a little different by not having all the laws that we do. So I was walking around the junk yard looking for mirrors when I guy came up to me and asked me what I was looking for, he spoke pretty decent English and did not look like he was born in Mexico and talking to him he said that about 40 years ago he was in Washington picking apples and now his daughter lives there so he is hoping to go back soon, so any ways he helped me remove the mirrors off of a van and while he was helping me that is when it happened, now I had noticed trailers laying all over the junk yard but it was a junk yard so I didn’t really pay any attention to them until Ruben the man that I was talking to said that one of the mirrors was kind of broken and would get me another one from his trailer and pointed to one of the trailers in the junk yard, now I don’t know if stays there full time but the way some of the trailers looked I would not be suppressed to find out that half the workers of the junk yard actually say in the junk yard in peoples junk trailers so that really made me think of how fortune we really are

discipline

Christopher Keeton — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:16:31 GMT

So I really haven’t been keeping you up to date on our disciplines this week is a good one I done know if you all will be able to do all of it but I would definitely challenge you to try as much of it as you can, so the harder part for you is that we cant spend any money this week, and we have one pair of work cloths and one pair of relaxing cloths for the whole week, but the part that would be a good challenge is to fill a five gallon bucket and take your shower with just that it can be worm but just one five gallon bucket since a lot of the world dose not have running water any ways you all have a great week and keep the prayers up I love you all

the work out

Christopher Keeton — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:16:07 GMT

Ok so two days ago we went on our hike and bike it was a fund raiser to raise money for Micah who a previous staff member that will be going to school for long term missions shortly so we walked a little over 12 miles and then biked back, I was very tired the day of and then when I woke up the next morning I could not move that day we helped a family in San Diego move they work for a church and another missions organization down here so that was pretty difficult moving all day long but we made it threw it is now two days latter and I can walk with out it looking like I am in pain but pretty much all of my muscles from my lower back down still hurt pretty bad but it is nice to get to sleep long nights in my own bed again, we do have a group coming in tonight which pretty much kicks off summer we will have people pretty much in the dorms constantly until the middle of August that that is going to get hectic and crazy but I have plenty of work on cars to do we have ten builds on Saturday so I am going out and building and hoping that all of the cars run the entire day so that is a little scary especially not having the parts needed to fix some of them, but the lord will take car of all of that well any ways that is a great prayer request for this weekend thank you all