Joel Engelsma

So my best friend jayden came over for two nights and we had a ton of fun. We went and played basketball we played hockey and like a lot of spike ball we played till twelve o'clock at night the first night. The second day we went to culvers because we where going to big b but it was a drive through bib b so we couldn't so we went to culvers instead and got stuff all by ourselves its was really fun then we went home and didn't eat dinner because we ate at culvers so we went to a parking lot and played hockey until we went back watched a movie and went to bed.

Christmas has finally come and gone so has Andrew birthday on Christmas day we had my  moms side of her family over for lunch a big lunch then we opened an Andrew presents because Christmas it technically his birthday he was a day late then on Sunday we went to church and ads preached his first two sermons at the new church then on Monday we went to my grandpa and grandmas house on my moms side and we opened presents me and Noah presents hasn't come yet but i get a set of spike-ball with different size ball which is fun we used that like a lot.

So i am reading this book on the twentieth century not world war two but world war two is coming up because they cant just bypass that so hitler has come to power he is killing or sending Jews of to factories or concentration camps and they just recently got this whole area of Germany free from jew they think thats an accomplishment or something. About fifty thousand Jews have gone to live somewhere else besides Germany and their are 450,000 people with intentions of doing that very thing there have been assassinations all over the place like this person named dollof he was this leader of this place and Germans are like making the whole place revolt they shot dollof in the neck and wouldn't give him medical aid until he died.

 I am reading this book about like the founding of our country and it is very clear and kind of hard to put into a blog because I barely knew what I was reading and their are tons of dates so lets say we are going to start when the English had a missive wool trade and their where many different laws until this new type wool came along and this wool could make a lighter cloth than English wool therefore bypassing almost all the rules while this is happening Antwerp in the nethertherlands has become one of the richest port cities in the world. Because of it placement and both Spanish and English merchants came to sell and buy goods their it became huge other cities that had become big was the Spanish city solver or something like that and Bristol which England made into the shipyard for there new and improved fleet.

Tomorrow we're going to start living in our new house. Its going to be hard because we won't be close to anyone. Well be and hour or fourty five minutes away from every one. But there is a big b that is pretty close that will be fun we'll have to unpack all sorts of stuff and its going to be hard work. Because we have to build our triple bunk bed and a double bunk bed and our dinner table and mom and dads bed its going to be pretty fun though and i have to do a test this week i studied for it today.

moving we are moving lots and lots of stuff like tons we rented a twenty foot u-haul truck they are so big on wednesday  we are going to rent a twenty one foot i think or another twenty food we are going to take everything in our house and move it to the new house hopefully its going to be pretty fun our house is so empty we don't have one of our couches and any chairs and our matressess its almost empty we still have stuff like shoees and the whole garage so we have to do that sommetime.

We have started moving into our new house an i am way behind on my business i have to get flyers maybe a website set up stuff i can put out on other pople lawns maybe if they want me to i go to get like everything so they cant sue me which is kind of cool if i do a job that they dont think is good and they sue me they cant its great so i have tons of stuff to do and we are going to rent trucks well one truck a big truck a huge truck.

my dads like quiz was yesterday and their is a large array of topics they had to ask him. This quiz is kind of like to make sure like he is okay to be the pastor of this church. So he had to wake up at like seven o'clock and drive all the way to Kalamazoo we didn't just he did and it took like all day and he got home when we where eating dinner and he was like really mentally tired and we where trying to build a sled out of wed that yoyu pull people on on the icy roads they work really well and mine was from two by fours and dad coudltn help me.

Kit carson is someone that is not brought readily to  ind because there's not much known about time was a trapper that fought in the mexican war and was a trapper in the mountains of mexico i think in one battle these people where using spears as like lances and they where being extremely deadly so kit carson took a carbine and some bullets calmly sat behind a rock shooting them down as they came in range. That battle was lot because the weapons they used where wet and bullets where soaked including they used extremely poor health horses they where destroyed and our army had to retreat.

For our nre churches sunday school i am with the little kids again and its kind of annoying but cool at the same time because we have to bring our Bible do our chatechism question and some other stuff and we get candy if its dones its great so next week i am going to get a bunch of candy i and i can put it like in a box and keep it theire and hoard like a very largeamount its going to be great and our teacher is named mr pols and we use a diffrent type of Bible which i like.

Isobel khune went back to the lisu people after her furlough and she got permission to start a Bible school. Kind of like a starter for preachers these people from the school would go into the lisu mountain ranges to preach the gospel that so many wanted. The Bible school was three months long and there where many hymn singing and things like that. There where many who where bad at one thing but good at another. One could preach so to keep you riveted on the sermon but couldn't do something else or someone that couldn't preach but knew the apostles creed and thing like that by heart.

 Isobel khune finally got to go back him this is after she had to deliver that baby they whent to America and first they whent to see isbels mom and dad they whent theirs and theirs dad had gone in debt three hundred dollars and they where afraid he would die because of it so they all went on a family vacation to a cottage on an island then they whent to Pennsylvania to see isbels husband's family

 norman stumbled into a medical treating trench here they bandaged him up and set him on a stretcher to a hospital. There he met a chaplain he and he became good friends. Norman stepped out of a train he was 12 and he was going to spend the next five years at a school he had never been to. A man stepped up you are normal Grubb I presume he said. Yes, sir said norman well come on said the person I am your headmaster the school is half a mile walk on the pleasant quayside follow me. As they walked the headmaster asked him questions on the land around them. As norman soon figured out they learned a lot about things like that.

 Norman Grubb was with his platoon it was zero hours. In world war one they were going over the top as they had named it. To go he ordered they went over the top and machine-gun bullets let loose like lead r, ain he watched almost every single one of his friends he knew where shotgunned down he and another private took cover in a bomb hole then the private slumped down shot dead then norman heard a thump and a stinging pain down in his leg he looked down to see blood welling down there he got his gun as a crutch and hobbled away as his friends saw him they yelled lucky for norman he has got a blimey. Meaning he most likely has a wound that took him out of the battle but won't kill him.

For school today i did the exact same thing we normally did just today was after thanksgiving break and evryvody seemed like slow from all ther turkey they ate like evrybody in gym class just walked around me and my freind hid in some pine trees and they left like evrybody just left and we just sat theire and we didnt know about it it was kinda funny. For math class we have to get a calculator in science class we started a space book it looks pretyy fun and out operation christmas child box whent out that was cool.

 Tomorrow is thanksgiving day and today is like a preparatory for thanksgiving my da has to preach a sermon at our church then on actual thanksgiving we have to go to the burning bush church and dad is preaching there.  tonight will be like the last time my dad preaches at our old church after that it's just the burning bush church and the Kalamazoo church then soo it will just be the Kalamazoo church. Tomorrow it's going to be thanksgiving day and we're going to have lots of fun. We4 are going to go to church then we are going to have like some close relations over for lunch or dinner I don't know which one.

 I had my cousin overnight on Friday he came home with us after the engelsma get together and then we stayed up for while then went to bed the next day we had to do tons of leaves we did like like our whole from yard then me and my cousin had to go over to my grandpas and do leaves their but our uncle was there and he brought his backpack blower and we did it really quickly it was pretty fun then we went back to outhouse and played basketball and had a lot of fun played some basketball at stuff.

 today we had some people from the burning bush church come over I just sat up in my room writing a book then I found a book and started reading it it was kinda boring and I was just being lazy I guess tonight we re going to go to this place and have the engelsma get together of twenty twenty-one its going to be super fun because like a bunch of my friends is coming to then my best friend that is my cousin is coming to stay the night at my house then we will probably have to d leaves tomorrow.

 The Engelsma Christmas get-together is this a bunch of engelsma and other relatives come to the high school gym and lay around and have fun and then there is this presents thing where everybody gets something for the younger kids. I m too old to do it last year or two years ago was my last year we couldn't have it last year because of covid but now we are going to do it tomorrow night and it's going to be really fun because my cousin is going to stay overnight there at our house and we are going t blow leaves.

 For two nights I got to go to my friend's house I just stayed like an extra night, I don't know why but it was fun and we helped them two because one of the days we were there we went to one o the flip houses they were flipping to sell they are actually renting that one. So we did some pretty normal stuff taking stuff out into their trailer that they are going to take to the dump there was so much stuff we swept and taped up for painting ad I earned some cash while I was at it. 

 The house was removed into is this really cool-looking house with these two massive rooms I think we are going to use one of them as a playroom and the other like a living room and ur dining room is going to have carpet with isn't really nice because you cant spill stuff nd you have to be pretty crefull and the kitchen has this oven that is an oven stacked on top of each other. Our room I think is going to be upstairs and I don't know if our triple bunkbed can fit in it. My mom and dad have the biggest room.

 we went working for my other grandpa today this time I didn't do much fu work besides blowing some leaves it was just odd chores around the farm like winterizing it cutting down plants digging up tulip bulbs stuff like that. I blew the driveway then it all came back and I had just blown it it was fun though. the grandpa we worked for to we both times to paid quite nice amounts of money. and I have been getting it all in this box until can put it in the bank. Which should be soon. this grandpa is the one with ongoing cancer.

 so i worked at my granpas house once on saturdat and once on tusdays it was pretty hard the first time because I had to work with concrete and their where tons of these like foot long pieces of concrete that we had to move. One fun thing we did was when we tore down this shed . We pushed the shed down it was so col their was this massive cracking sound. The second day it was more or less the same thing just e had to rip up the floor. That was fun because my granpa brought his chainsaw.

for sermon Sunday today I am g0oing to talk about the burning church Sunday dad had to do communion today so we are going to go there every night and so we are going there twice today where not going to go to our church once in like 2 weeks my dad has to preach in Kalamazoo for three weeks in a row i am pretty sure we are going to e moving by December seven

 Isobell khune his best freind and fellow missionary had toleave to see her husband and then casually as she went out the door this one girl is going to be in lbor any day now you can read these books to find out how to handle. It bye then the labor came and she had no ide it took one day and two night on the second night he figured out quinine will rush birth so she got omeand gave it to her and the next night she had the birth and everyone was extrmemly happy because this was their first babe that didn't die

 Football is a very dangerous sport to play. Wherein other games you kick a ball in football you're the one getting kicked there are quite a few places to play other games have a few but it seems every single person on a football field has a special name there are two wide receivers and like a lot of linemen these linemen or hopefully big and beefy. Because if you're the quarterback you want really big and beefy person protection you that is the job a lineman has he makes sure no one gets to the quarterback. Quite a few times linemen resort to violence to do this.

 we Blew leaves today it was great until ur blower ran out f gas. We have a gas push blower that I think is bout one hundred and fifty miles per hour winds s it's super powerful and we ran out of gas so we had to rake like the whole front yard. It was very hard at the end it elt extremely tired then we got to burn like all the leaves that were fun because leaves are like the top natural thing that smokes a lot and ut fire smoked so bad and it was like really really. Late when we went inside.

 So my dad I a preacher and he was looking for a church that would have him as a pastor because he got his pastorate ot whatever its called and their was ne church in the UP or one in Kalamazoo and their was another one but my dad so no to that ne because they believed something different. Then finally the up church decided to not call my dad and the Kalamazoo church did so we went their and dad expected the call and because Kalamazoo is about an hour away we had to move into their parsonage we are going to be moved in on December 7 2021.

 Today I went to school and  was kind f mad becuse I wasn't able to bring in the assignments one was from math and another science I somehow lost them or one of my brothers threw it away by accident so i was mad about that but we did a bunch of homework in class like ho to interpret this type of weather set or whatever in math we had three assignments. My math teacher has this mini quiz at the start and their was only problem and i got it right it was a super easy problem. In gym we played freeze flag.

 The list people both types live in the Tibetan mountains I am pretty sure they are like the largest mountains in the world. They are always extremely cold but the list doesn't live up that far. There houses are literally sitting on the edge of the mountains being supported by stilts they have their livestock under the house and they use one hundred percent no nails on the whole build they only use strips of bark to tie everything together this was one random house in the middle of nowhere the next three houses they came to one o the houses were this missionary that stayed up there and it had been more than a year when she had seen another white person.

 Last time did we get cached up I think we did because the newest thing s that they go to the list of people for a mission trip inside the mission trip and of course on her wy Isobel got sick from dysentery and had to focus all her senses to staying on they mule she rode her husband jhon would yell the attitude once in while stuff like eight thousand feet and 12 thousand feet rather high don't you think they reached like five different rivers coming out of one big river and I think they had to cross it. 

 for Isobel khune they made it and the Buddhists that came over were told about Jesus and they got that but they wouldn't get them could worship any other Gods even their ancestors which they have been doing for an extremely long time they had a few converts but it wasn't doing extremely well and Isobel couldn't figure out why the women where so illiterate and didn't even know what was outside the walls of the valley they lived in other than that they rented  bigger house outside of the village with more privacy they hired a carpenter fix up he walls replace and replace the floor.

 Isobel khune finally is getting closer to the Lisu the people he thinks she is called to they went to this place called tali but while she was on her way she got a sickness called dysentery. It took her two weeks to get better from it and when they reached tali she had to lay on the floor because she was too weak to do anything else and their furniture hadn't come yet they stayed there for a while until they were told to go to a new place it was even closer to these people but in a smaller house where Muslims and Buddhists lived. 

 Today I went to school today I have three classless pre-algebra and gym and science we didn't do much for science today we tried an experiment that won't work for some reason and we got some homework t to be signed by our parents for math we have a test and we have to get ready for it pretty easy stuff besides that last lesson but we are now working on graphing and stuff which I have a; ready done before. For gym we had to stay inside because it was raining outside my team won capture the glag four times in a row.

 Isobel khune soon learned something for their house their servant was extremely lazy. They had this tuff called bean curd every day and when she went to the market there were tons of different types of vegetables and one day she was having some visitors when she told her servant to get them the cole heater. He brought a smaller heater and when Sobel went to his room to ask what happened to the big heaterand asked him he was using it and it was full to the brim with coles and his room was extremely warm so they fired him. But she couldn't keep p with all the household chores so they hired another woman and she did it way better.

Isobel khune is finally in china she actually got engaged to this boy named Jhon and he is also a missionary to China. So they both came but they had to stay a year before they could get married so they both went to work on learning the Chinese language well job didn't because he was already a missionary just he went back to get another degree or something like that so he went to his village and she stayed in the capital learning Chinese until they could get married and in Chinese marriages like you have invite people on every street corner so you have huge amounts of people you barely even now like one thought it was going to be small affair bu it got real big real fast.

 Emily Geiger was this southern women. it was after the battled of Lexington and their was a message to give to a fort and no one wanted to do it so she said she would. So she got onto her horse ad rode off. But she got captured by British troops and when she got locked up she took the message read it carefully and then ate it fret they searched her and found nothing she was soon set back on her way and made it to the fort and was able to give them the news because he new what the message was.

 I have been working for my grandpa and grandma for maybe like a month and I love doing it and I get paid a pretty good sum of money to but the 2 funniest jobs are working on the electric fence. To fixing that one wooden fence that I had to do it was fun because I got to screw in a lot of stuff with my dads impact driver and working on the electric-like stringing it and recoiling it kind of hurts but its fun taking out the posts the last time I went there I weed waked and I got so much grass on myself that sprayed roundup.

 Nubian archers you have probably never even heard of them before weal now you are and it sparing that you haven't these archer where feared as much as the English longbowman. Probably because of their similarity's each used massive longbows 2 to one and a halve a meter long the one difference was the Nubians had a reflexed tip on the top and bottom of the bow giving more power. Another difference is that the Nubian didn't have a notch for their string to go into they used like a leather thong to hold their string into place reducing the reduction of power> There arrows where made of cane and two different types of wood there points where most likally primitively posioned and most likely theire heads would have had barbs o the heeds of the arrow as well.

For sermon Sunday my dad preached on Zachariah 11 and this chapter seems out of another book because it says that they are breaking bonds and giving the flock off to an evil shepherd. So first my dad took the chapter and talked about it and like broke it down and after that, there was some time to or for him to talk about some points that help us in regular day to day life there where two staff one named beauty and another band and God first used these staffs to help his people see the right way but time and time again they rebelled until after a while he just left them to his own devices.

Isobel khune had problems with prayer she seemed never enough time to pray so this is what she did she got up at five-thirty and went into the broom closet and had an hour of prayer. One day she was in class and after the class, the teacher told her to go see the dean so she went to see the dean as soon as she walked into his office. She could tell something was wrong he read a telegram aloud saying that her father had been badly injured in an elevator crash they were up to four floors and went all the way down into the basement.

 Isobel khune went back to her mother's house and they still were extremely sad and while she was going to moody college her mother cried and cried all the time and then while Israel was at the college the first semester she herds her mother had cancer and she tried having surgery but it didn't work and she died on the operating table. Isobel later heard her mother had always in here heart that Isobel would be a missionary to China and she said if she lived through the surgery she would try to help Isobel get hire. Moody college was built by Dwight l moody.

 Isobel khune with her meeting with this person something amazing happened this woman had enough money for Isobel to go to a moody college or something like that for one semester. She went back home and tried gently broaching to subject about being a missionary and her mom hated it was is extremely backwards thinking because they waved goodbye to missionaries all the time and they worked hard in their church. After that, she went to this place called the firs which is like a Christian gathering amongst a bunch of fir trees and someone had a talk about living in the lands of the is a people.

 Isobel khune wanted to become a missionary. But her mother was adamantly not allowing it she would go into fits if she brought it up or just cry but that was behind her now she had to go back to teaching people third-grade math. This time she knew her way in the material so she was able to get it down much faster. She joined Bible class I am pretty sure then she got this call from this girl she had only see like twice in these reunions for a church or something like that they met each other with hugs she said we have something to talk about.

I went working for my grandpa and I did a lot of work i strung like electric fences and stuff like that The first thing I had to was cut up some boards to reinforce some of the fences I did that then I rewired a bottom part of the electric fence it was pretty easy to do you just unstrung it from the spool and hoocked it on the insulators i did the whole thing now thiere is electricty able to go through theire now i am peretty shure.

 Today I went to work at my grandpas house. I brought my impact wrench whit me this time because grandpa didn't have one and they put a screw in like butter. The first thing we had to do or the only thing we where working on for the whole day was working on where the cows where going to be. Their was this old wood fence so we got some pine boards and worked on switching it out taking out some of the old boards and replacing them with new ones. We used my impact wrench today and it helped a lot because it ratchets getting more torque. After we did that we screwed in a lot of insulators for the electric fence and we where able to wire the whole top we where doing a top and then we where going to do at about the cows thighs to.

We went out with my grandma and grandpa for our birthdays. Me Andrew and Noah it was really fun we went to one of the biggest areas of the dunes and it was really fun. We went on the macwoods dune rides it was super fun because it was pretty fast and at the end, there is this massive hill at the end and its super steep. It's so fun to go down and to one side there is a place where you can go and bring your own dune buggy and stuff it's in a third of all the dunes I think. It would be fun.

 Isobel Khun was now a teacher in that time you had to have a specific amount of time or something. Like that to become a professor so she taught the same thing over and over again in this school never seeming to go anywhere and she decided she wanted to go to this teacher meet maybe she thought this would get her more interested in this job but she was staying with some friends of her mom and dads and while she was out on the day she met one of her friends and she was having one of those people that read like the size of your heads and stuff to find out what you calling i.

Isobel Khun was waving to these two missionaries who were going to go be missionaries in china and as she wondered why you would go back to such an awful place she was going to grow up and go to university and become a professor and teach English because that was her favorite lesson. She wanted to do it while she was growing up there were many questions like why should I believe in God when my mother and father told me to I am not under their control anymore so she became someone that believes there is a GOd but there is no divine intervention or something like that.

 The garden of Eden people wonder about was it destroyed in the times of Noah what plants did it grow what  has become.

 Today I read about two brother whos father died and to get everything drawn out equally they had an auction and a Gold watch came to auction only one in the surrounding area and both brother started bidding on it it hit 50$ and one brother before he bid that he knew that his brother couldn't go over that but still bid 50$ even though he knew his brother couldn't bid that much and once he said that his o ther brother yelled out 100$ and my brotherhood and left and was about to mount his horse and ride away when the other brother trying to make it all up gave him the watch they didn't speak for years but they did finally after years (before the auction they had promised to be fair in the auction)

 I have been working for my grandpa for a while now and I have been actually learning quite a bit of skills that are maybe important I don't know yet but I really like doing like outside work that why I like blowing leaves and mowing I like blowing more but mowing still has its challenged because you have to cut a straight path another I gets really annoying to find the cut line. Then seeing how much grass your mower can take before it dies to the thickness of the grass. Did you know weed waking is very difficult to do right usually I just put it on the ground keep it level and just rip everything up but if the grass is tall you start from the top and go down.

Dl moody one day he was working on a shelf of shoes when his Sunday school teacher came and said will you accept Christ.  Dl moody changed that very day he still doesn't know this day why he accepted he just got on his knees and prayed his teacher I think said you're going to do special things after that everything about dl moody changed. He enjoyed going to church he liked Sunday school he started getting interested in stuff with orphans and stuff like that dl moody never thought himself a speaker but one day he would talk to over three thousand people at a time.

 Today I did some work at grandpas place he has a hobby farm. I had two saw down three big branched with a hand saw the first one I had to use one arm the other two I had both arms and I blazed through those two. Those where the biggest branches i also weed wacked a lot I counted a count of about seventy bails of hay in the hay mow because the cows go through like eight bales of hah every week it pretty cracy and their is only three of them right now the last time grandpas saw them he said th3ey where doing real good.

On the first day of school, I and my brother were the second ones in math class. One kid asked me if I did jujitsu i don't know the other end of that question i said no because i don't. Our math teacher is assumed she doesn't give us absolute loads of homework and she is really nice she gave us a fun test. Like what was the highest mountain before mnt Everest was discovered guess what t was still mnt Everest I dint just make itself when we found it was already there but there is a terribly sad problem with her she liked Ohio state.

 9/11 what was that this is a random date that is remembered for a very specific reason it was a normal day pretty much like today bright sunny not extremely warm-cool I would say. To start we have to go back a little bit there were radio calls from 2 planes one after the other people say it was hijacked it was a passenger plane a BIG passenger plane we don't know exactly how many terrorists it was but my guess was about five to three they hijacked the plane at an airport where that plane was one hundred percent full of fuel you ask why did they do this one reason when they hit the building it would start a fire so hot I could melt a skyscraper. Which is exactly what they did on 9/11 2 planes smashed into the world trade center.

 Dl moody went to his uncle's shop because he wanted a job and he was pretty sure his uncle was a pretty high-end place and he was right but his uncle wouldn't have him. Because he said he would ruin the sales so he went to another uncle and lived with them for a while until he finally got his uncle to let him work in the back under a few conditions. He went to church and he stayed at a respectable boarding house dl liked this job he said because he sometimes was allowed to go up and watch the people and try to get them to buy shoes. He even put up a nice-looking window display.

We went to family camp and it was really fun. I was able to play with my friends wyat Trevor and Tyler it was super fun. There was an aqua park with a  slide like this dome thing it was super fun we broke the rules slightly. I didn't everybody else did though so the rule was you don't jump off the place on any aside but everybody was like doing flips and dives and stuff it was from super high up to so I seemed pretty fun I just didn't want to get yelled at so I didny also everybody Brough their bikes so I could bike around with my friends.

 On top of that Dl,s big brother the oldest one ran away because of the pressure. So here they were they had to hire themselves out so their mother didn't have to feed the first time he was out he got extremely homesick and ran to his brother's gorges farm and gorge just said go back there you will get used to it. He did after a couple of years of that happening he decided to run away to a big city and he would become a wealthy city man and his first step was going to his uncle's ho shop.  

D L moody Dwight Lyman moody that's a name most Christians and a lot of atheists know about. correct me if I  am the wrong D L had d a hard time growing he had to hire himself out to farmers so their mother didn't have to feed all of them. One day they were at school they had to go home they wanted to know what was wrong with their dad when they came everything was wrong their mother was a widow. The father a big strong stonemason came home one-day complaining of a stomach ache he lay down when the mother went to get some soup he was dead I think it was appendicitis.

We went to the o,p again this time we stayed the Sunday we came Saturday then all Sunday and left on Monday. It was fun because the way nt there we got to go to KFC then this time we brought our ripstiks. We had a ball going down this hill in the church parking lot on the way back we went and stopped at mackinaw island. It was fun we biked around saw mackinaw fort and we got in free because we had gotten like this membership thing on the mainland. The other time we had gone up to u,p. After that we went to the little boot diner and they have super good food. I got the butch Cassidy burger which is about a quarter pounder. Oh and we of course but mackinaw island fudge is was good.                                                                                        ...

 There is this one story when Jake was young and he got a new pair of bib overalls. He went to Sunday school now and his Sunday school teacher reprimanded his other he said that bib overalls weren't proper and these where the best clothes that Jake had ever had when he was young. He wondered if these aren't good enough what are Jacobs deshazers plane went down in china he was soon afterword's picked up by Japanese soldiers and brought to a prison staying their for a while he moved on to a hotel that was turned into a prison.

 A bunch of my relative and i and 2 of my brothers whent to the beach yesterday. We when to a new place that small its on north beach. But the sad part is i got my pupils dilatied so i saw a bunch of light and had a small headache like the whole time. But it was fun becauswe the waves wher qbsultuly assive its was asueam but me and my freind my cousing well he wasnt alolowed to out to the sandbar which you have to swim to and i wanted to go but it wouldnt have been any fun withput him so i just stayed.

 We are going to the up agn saturday night we stRT than dad will preach a sermon on sunday. We will have a picnic have some fun then stay a hour maybe on monday then head home then we might do it the weeck after that because dad will have to preach agasin and i going to be fun because we are going to arbys on the way up or go to some fancey restuarant its going to be super fun we are bringing the computer i am typing on now to maybe whatch the lord of the rings i dont no yet .

 Sermon sunday zacharia nine an dad talked about how in this oassage zachiriah it actually talking about something that isnt going to happen for over a hundred years. What was he talking about? he was talking about alexaner the great and theire is a funny stoey about that becasue theire is a story about alexander coming to jerusalem and seeing that prophesy and this propehsy was actually really really close to what he actually did they ta;kled about tyre and its strongholds and alexander destroyed it and then gaza and the phiistines shall fear the na e of this story is a hope for philistines because in the end philistines became christians or jews.

 Jacob deshazer was a world war two bomber pilot. It was at the start when America joined the war. This was the first attack Americans have ever made on Japanese's soil i am pretty Shure here was the plan their where about maybe six seven be twenty five Mitchell bombers these bombers ha d about a 200 mile radios in which they could fly without refueling meaning they would have to be let out extremely close to japan so they could actually make it to their target Jacob was a bombardier for the plane they named bat out of hell. Yeah they actually called it that well Jacob was two drop three bombs an incendiary  bomb and two normal bombs. They where to aim for anything that was of use to the Japanese and blow it up.

 Nabeel Qureshi met a lot of people that asked him to become a Christian but he had to many well thought out arguments. Until he met David, David put everything into light the first discussion was about the Quran and the Bible Nabeel pointed out that the Bible was changed through the years while the Quran stayed the exact same. Nabeel even brought up passages latke large portions of mark and a bit of Luke I am pretty Shure. Well David said that we just  don't count those as Bible passages. I asked my dad and he said they where changed yes but they still mean the exact same thing.

 So Nabeel Qureshi was an interesting person or Muslim i should say they where not of the western orgub meaning they weren't terrorist the terrorist's would be the Muslims in the west because they interpret a verse in the Quran a wrong way. It says one dsy Muslims will one day rule the world they think that means then so they fight to take control of almost anything possible because that's what they think that verse means. The people Nabeel grew up with the belief they would rule in the after life i think of the Muslims and Christians well they stay close enough to the bible to make it lookc good then peel off. If you think about it they believe in Jesus they just believe that Jesus was man not God.

Today I am going to about this amazing person. He was super smart and was a Muslim and converted to Christianity in college. I read it in his biography it called seeking Allah finding Jesus and under that, it says a devout Muslim finds christ. This means that when Nabeel was looking everywhere for Allah and was fervently worshipping him he found christ and he never could have done this without his inseparable friend David.This guy was a Christian and it was like David and Jonathan they loved each other a lot like even when they where both extremely on edge from debating christ and Muslim (which David always won) they would always stick to it. 

 For sermon Sunday today i am talking about Zechariah nine my dad is doing this bunch of sermons on Zachariah because he thinks that Zachariah isn't preached on enough so he is doing a bunch of sermons on Zachariah for this church he preaches. Chapter nine is packed with things such as tyre the battle of tyre and it literslly a story of wahat alexander the great will do exactly rmemerb in the battle of tyre it was on a mighty forst in the middle of island it was once said to bethe most imprganable fortrest in this time they where extremely tich and alexander threw the ruins of the old tyre thatbwas on the shore and three it in the ocean to make a bridge making it so he could defeat tyre.

 We went haying and this morning we picked corn and shucked it then boiled it then toock all the kernels off it toock a while because it was raining but i was pretty fun after we where done we where soaking wet. When we where haying i did the whole thing without gloves on so my hands where pretty bad afterwards but not extremely bad we did something like three hundred balls we where going to do kore today but the rain came and kind of made everything wet. I also saw my grandpa he has been sick for a really. 

Now he is finally moving to bigger thing she is going to start his own hospital, They bought some l;and from some Catholics for the exact amount of money they had twenty five thousand dollars in american dollars i guess dont ask me why because this is in Peru butthen they needed a house. Which they got it was in really bad shape so they hired a bunch of workers to work a bunch on it they liuterally had to raise the whole ceiling which is a massive job the railing where destroyed from termites the stairs where barealy usabul but they didnt wporry about it yet because after a while they whent back to germany to hire people for to work with them at the hospital. 

 Klaus dieter Jon is now stationed still in that very small village uin the middle of Peru. he has finally started to wonder if his skills could be used on a larger level they rarely had a lot of patients to work with because there was a bigger hospital in another village or city and it was more centrally located but know he has a another attorney coming to him and he would do something like halve iof the surgeries every year but they only did six hindered surgery's a year meant g he would only get 300 a year and he liked being busy.

For sermon Sunday my dad preached about the last chapter of Romans. If you read it interesting because you see that the writer goes amen and then paul takes up the pen because paul doesn't write these letters himself. He has someone that can write better than him but most commonly at the end of his letters he would pick up the pen and write a little bit more like at the end of romans also he didnt juast right a letter like i didnt juat take an hour or so but it tock something like day weecks to right letters this large at this time.                                                                                                                                    ...

 Where going camping next week we are leaving Tuesday morning at like eleven o'clock i might be able to go with my cousin on Monday though they are going a day early because our sight was onlu opena day late its going to be really fun though. My dad dosnt really want to go becauase he says its so much much work so all the kids are going to help hitch evrything pack stuff and all that so dads dosnt have to do as much. We are going swimming at two diffrent beaches a lake and well another lake one of the lakjes is lake michigan a lot of our extened family ios going its kind of a family tradition for all of us to go up theire.

 So this German guy is one hundred parent done with being a doctor he was twenty six and married he went to America for like 2 years to train their. He want to an internship for all types of country's and know he is stationed in this small hospital with like twenty five beds. It was pretty old fashioned but he did do like surgeries like every day one time he was doing this surgery and somoni came in and he was told that he had to do this c section if he didn't do it then she would die and the babe to and this was the first time he had done a c section in like four years.

 John now has a girlfriends but it was a bit shaky because she liked going dancing and to disco so they went to church youth group one Sunday night and in the next night they would go to discos with her friends he did not like discos all their flashings light and loud music and his type of church also hated dancing they thought it was evil and should be avoided at all costs bolth theire parents didnt like this but tina and john made it work somehow next thing you know they whent to this festival and it was from christians all arounf the world in one place all talking about the new types of music it was held by london i think so tina a john bouth a rally junky care welded some metal plates on the floor and they drove all the way thier.

 Sermon Sunday galations four the fruit of this spirit. The first part was focused on this man or women coming out of prison he is free but what does he do. Does he go to life of crime or does he go straight for the rest of his life. Secondly where does he go he is out their without anything maybe a little bit of money remember they had nothing when they went in they didn't have anything anyway so what do you do. If you are a christian you come out one hundred percent changed he would go to church get rif of all those bad freinds and influnces. He would follow the law that is another thing paul said he is dead to the law. But he brings it back why here is the reason when you are not a Christian the law traps you in a cage the law was designed to do that to drive you to your knees. But when the Holy spirit changed you, you know longer hate the law you want to follow it and you like a lot more than you used to.

 We are going to take a brake on William carey and i am going to tell you about a doctor his name is German and i cant spell it but i think a bit of it was Jon. So that what where going to call him. Their family was pretty poor his father owned a bread shop and would wake up at two o'clock in the morning and roll bread and fire up the oven. This man is still alive also in this year 2021 he own one of the best hospitals in Africa or Peru. I haven't got that far in the book yet but as long as he could remember is that he wanted to be a missionaries doctor. He knew he would be twenty six by the time he could fulfill that goal but he was willing to try this. Also  that meant getting top marks in class sapriasngly he was already doing that he was an extremely smart person. 

 Today I went to my friend the kleyns house we had a ton of fun. Because we are going to go to their house and camp in their backyard for a night we are going to have a campfire and toast marshmallows and have hobbo pies it's going to be great we got some supermassive hotdogs that are quarter pounders their really cool we are going to do that tomorrow but today I had my friend over but before that, we went swimming and made debt and stuff it was pretty fun they had snacks to and a lot of cookies.                                                                                                                                            ...

 What is progressivism economics is what is called value-free science meaning that it answers questions without any consideration of politics or ideology? A good economist can show the benefits of the free markets or the consequences of socialism. There are people called progressives who say there is a third way between capitalism and socialism. But this acts the same way as cronyism giving all of the benefits to the big firms making it almost impossible for smaller businesses to compete. Also, these people think that the market should be made up of a group of so-called experts that have a big influence in politics or are extremely smart and if they are extremely smart they would see the terrible planning they were putting forward. 

 Yesterday I when over to this sheep farm and i met my three friends their Trever Tyler and wyate i am older than Trever and wyted but i an  not older than tyler. He is like three months older than me we had fun because theire was a slip and slide so we wood slide down all at the same time and try to wipe out ther people going down and that was fun and we swam in the pool for a while. Then got out and ate lunch then we whent on the slip and slide and houng around it was really fun we whent to the farm because carolh ines had her birthday and we where celebrating it.

 What is socialisms. One market is made by innovations and seeking profits. Whith cronyism the government influences market outcome with intervention. A command economy rejects markets entirely in favor of central planning. This is socialisms under that central planners control what is made who makes it and who benefits while markets reward those who best serve costumers. Sociliast promise that evryones needs will be taken care of equally. People are provided what only the central planners have chosen for them profits reward and encourage innovation and efficiency if You are the first to create a new products the individual who risks capital is finacnally rewarded. under socialisms their is know incentive to innovate.

 William Carey desperately wanted all of his dissenter friends that where ministers see how important going out to be a missionary was. But many of them just said God would tell the heathen we were supposed to be doing what they were doing then so William Carey wrote a book it only had five or six chapters and he diddnt has the funds for it be he tried very hard to and he finally meets someone named tom pott s and he was enthoustiacn about it so he paid for the book and it sold for a shilling a sex pence.

 what is cronyism? cronyism is technically very bad but it has to be in hear. So I think it when the government gets in the way of free trade and capitalism when the people that make things are blocked by rules and regulations from the government people think the government interfering they think that helps but that is the complete opposite of what they need if you own a small soup market the government keeps investing money into really bog soup markets and you get nothing because you are small another thing so the government only recognizes the big business almost destroying the small business.

 William Carey had been invited to the dissenter's church which was the church that nobody liked because it wasn't the true church as everybody said at the end of the service William decided to become a dissenter. After that, he moved because he lost his job and became an apprentice Shomaker somewhere else. Next, he got married and they had a young child named ann and then ann died because of the poor damp condition of the small cottage they lived in. But what was worst just as she died he got a very serious sickness from the damp in the cottage also and his wife dolly was sure he was going to die too. But his mother came and she scrubbed everything down so there was no more mold and then she made a huge pot of soup and she slowly nursed William back to health after a while they accepted charity and built a cottage on higher ground so they wouldn't be as damp.

 In the olden days, the king or other person in power told people what to make. If he wanted horseshoes they made horseshoes. If they wanted beets the farmers grew beets capitalism changed all of that is made it so that the people chose what they wanted making the people that make things be influenced by what the consumers buy. The rich people took advantage of what people wanted to be made the products cheaply and sold them at a higher price making what we call a profit but when the government interferes you don't get capitalism you get something else.

That is a profit is many things you can volunteer at a cause that you think is right and you will see that as profitable. Antrpuneurs are the people that usually make the profit. They buy raw goods and add thing to them and sell them for a profit-making a little bit more money then they spent making a profit. These things are controlled by the consumer because whatever they want the entrpunears have to get. So if a lot of people stop liking chips and start liking candy it is likely that more candy factories will be made and the chip companies will lose money. This is also good for the worker that is working for the entrponear also gets a profit to buy earning money. Unfortunately the government has to make laws and regulations making it so they fund money to companies that are making something the consumers don't want thus getting rid of the resources on our planet. Which will one day come to an end.

 This time William Carey found a book with the Greek language in it he didn't know it at the time though and he couldn't read it at all so he came to a preacher that did and the preacher asked him if e wanted to learn the language and William already intrigued decided to take up the offer after the teaching he could read and write the language he also did not know this but he was one of the smartest men in his village at that time. He also enjoyed debating religious topics with one of his friends in the nanglican church at this time America when to war and won.

 Many people say money is the root of evil. In a way, it is if you lock at it right but money is one of the greatest idea men has ever made because think of everything you want to have a new game a nice house a new phone all of that cost money. In a bit of the niten hundreds you used to be able to pay your dollars greenbacks to get the money behind it the dollars were worth nothing the gold thing it was though but that got rid of it in the nineteen hundreds. Also now your dollars are more or less worthless and money now does grow on the tree went the government funds wars or large projects they either make more money or they use the money from taxes.

 What is economics it's more or less the choices you make every day of your life? So I will have bob he is trapped on a desert island and he has choices to make does he make shelter does he search for food or water and time does he just laze around what does he do with his time so okay there are many things that influence your decisions like if theire is a spring nearby is theire coconuts economy is just making the decisions that influence your life and these don't involve money most people will say it involves money when I was using bob he never had yo make a decision about money once.

 This time william carey is gone about four miles away from his house to be an apprenti. Which was a very serious byuiosiness indeed he was more or less owned by the person teaching him for seven year. Then he would formaly become a tradsmen that is how he would become a cobbler or somone like that he made shows out of scrap. But it being his first time at stuff like this he was given all of the hard jobs like dilveries and boring holes hard work stuff like tht tgeire was one time when he was guiven a whole shilling which he spent ona wuil pen.

 There was a flitting in William Carey's house I don't exactly know what that means but from what I can tell it moving they had to move to a different house. Because his dad was becoming this person that took care of stuff at the church. that is not all of it this church as the only church known to have agreed with Charles the thirds belief or something like that also he would be able to got school. This school was one of the very few free schools where twelve lucky boys get something of an education and of cores William Carey was one of them because his father had a rather high status in the church.

So the person I m going to talk about was a part missionary but that wasn't his goal kind of his goal was to bring the radio to places where the radio had never been hearing before. this person name was Cameron Townsend I am pretty sure he grew up in a Christian family like most other missionaries he also when he was on this remote island this hurricane had destroyed almost everything and after that, they were rebuilding he got ord that the Christians giving him money for that year couldn't do it suddenly .So he was left stranded on the remote island with eh natives some supplies.

 The ball turret gunner is the most dangerous place why because you are cramped and it's extremely hard to get plus you need help to get out and the parachute is nowhere near you. then you have to buckle everything on and it's extremely dangerous for belly landing because you are so close to the ground if the landing gear wasn't out and you were in that spot there was no human way possible to make you survive at that time it was extremely dangerous but besides that, it was dangerous because the enemy planes almost always came up from the bottom secondly that was where antiaircraft guns were shooting also and he had no protection no armor noting.

we went to Brouwer camp it pretty close to our house in a pretty big campground there just isn't much to do there besides bike the same bike trail we did that like 13 times it was really fun then it started raining though so we came back because we where sick of it but we did go tubing and that was fun because It was my first time I fell off seven times in that week and we only went tubing twice I think I did pretty good for beginner thou they say once you get the hang of it you can hang on better.

 William Cary was a missionary to India it really cool because he was going o go on an earlier convoy to India. Than that like left without him or something so he couldn't go and the next conveys that happened he was all ready to go when he remembered something he was unlicensed meaning he couldn't go on any ship meaning head to stay there he could have gone if everything was quiet but the captain just wanted nothing to do with it so theire he sat sitting there on the harbor with his oldest son he was still to young to understand this thing how long would it take for another convoy to come.

 We want to the up the upper peninsula of Michigan. Part one the trip. It was hard going at the first four hours of sitting in a car or our van which was really bumpy because of its length but we were able to pack everything in the back of the van mattresses backpacks clothes and fishing supplies the first time we went fishing was on the trip actually we stopped at this handy little park nearby and fought a whopping ONE fish than we kept going for a while until we got to a go on a two-mile hike that dad couldn't finish so we just turned around and headed right back we were not extremely tired we were hot and hoping that we wouldn't get tick because the further up we go the more tick there is it seems. Part 2 their. When we finally got there we have welcomed the pastor preaches at the church until the church can get a normal actual pastor he lived in a barn actually more like the top of the barn that they made in a sort of room or rooms up there so his wife and dog and I'm a...

 For the sermon On, Sunday ii am going to talk about the baptism we saw today. It was four children and my dad did it we did it in a gym it was a really nice gym because this church didn't have a building to actually do stuff like that in so they rented the Jim for s time and did it there they had to rent the Jim also because they had a different place they rented but a lot more people came so they had to switch to the gym the service was about the length as normal it s nice group of people all farmers mostly or at least they live in the country so yeah.

 The hobbit the battle of the five armies first the lves the dwarves and the men stood off the dwarves having a fare supiror force then the men and elves combined and they where combined by the wy byt they are said to bed different armies as they backed of in front of erebor the mountain a rumbling sound happened a where worm or three I should lounged out of the sie of a nearby mountain and out of it a host orce as many as the sand of seashore. A great battle happened the elves the men and the dwarved teamed up to take down the force even berorn the great skinchanger epread in the figure of a bear destroying the bodyguard of blog the mghty worrior hand they won it wasn't a nice victory though many many many people had died the slaughter was terrible thorin himself died taking down the head orc azog the deifier.

 The battle of the five armies is the last part or sector of the hobbit a starting point for the lord of the rings. Which I could do more on later but the battle of the five armies one army are he force the bad guys as you may call them. Another army are the elves and men another army are the dwarves from the iron hils. These dwarves came to rescue thorin oaknshield and company because they where being besieged in the seventh wonder of the dwarves the mountain with its vast treasure of gold jewls and the arkenstone whoever owns that stone is king under the mountain. Sadly thorin became deranged from all the money he got dragon fever a yourning for more and more gold you get it very quickly when yu can fill countless ollymipic sized swimming pools of money but the one thing from stopping him this one hobbit a small foclk stole the arkenstone and gave it to a wise old wizard named gandalf the gray. Later called gandalf the white.

 Okay here is the deal roundabouts are not as safe as a normal stoplight. However though a roundabout is safer how you say well if you crash in a roundabout it is a usually less fateful crash also the smaller the roundabout the safer it is there is massive on in England and it is very dangerous it has 10 lanes which are a lot don't you think. Also a roundabout is faster it goes fifty percent faster and you use less fuel I kind of knew this already but I watched a video in jhon Stossel ad he cleared everything right up.

 I got a job I am super excited because I am only twelve I should lave to wait at least 2 more years to get a job but turns out lawn care is very flexible. I got a job at twelve and I will be doing stuff like weed whipping blowing some because were going to be doing like really nice houses I have to be careful but also it will be good for them because they don't have to do whatever I did the person am working with will first give me some training on how to weed wack I already know how to blow maybe some pointers on that would be good so it's going to be pretty grueling but also quite fun.

 Betty greene went and livied with a small village in a small mud hut cooking in tiny small mud huts and they actually did fly out their but betty didn't fly out their her friend did. Their is this person that owns this one small shed like thing and all the block said is that it was going to be a very big problem that shed was going to be don't yet no I am not that far into the block yet but I hopfeully will find out soon so I can tell you my guess is he is selling drugs.

 Betty Greene npq is finally getting into her knew Grumman duck that is what it was called for some reason. So there were a lot of people in Mexico that didn't think women ould fly a plane over the Andes mountains because those mountains were very dangerous but she did it on her second flight. In that same plane she got across them with this man and Cameron Townsend you might have heard of him he started some type of mission in Mexico or somewhere I have to read his book after I am done with betty Greene.

 Betty Greene is known in the land of Mexico a bit down in South America and the first thing she seemed to see was that when we she met the group they met in this absolutely lavish hotel and it seemed interesting but when they asked where what types of stuff she wanted to see she said everything that first day she saw many castles and important building the next day though she met this person called Jhon and he knew how to fly so they became friends. After a while she went to a small village up in the mountains and worked there with a team.

 Okay, betty Green today he knows has started this nonprofit organization called camf. Theire were four people in this one was betty green the other were two boys and one other girl betty was the treasure and it seemed she did most of the work but she said she put it on and did it all chefrull my guesses where that came was this organization for helping people she worked six days a weak and something like eight hoiurse a daywhile she was doing all this the battle of the bulge happened in world war two and after Christmas she threw herself back into her work.

 So I am going to take a day off the biographies and tell you about this grueling thirty-three-mile bike trip we did with these people. All of these people are like professional bikers one he raced two others just liked doing stuff like that and the other two one was you know like me and my brother but the other one he liked hunting snd fishing and he biked over a hundred miles in one day. His longest in a week is three hundred so we started out and after a while, our backs started getting sore because you have to bend over the hand bars but if you stand up it worked just as good as getting off the bike so we could keep going. We biked the Kal haven bike trail from Kalamazoo all the way to Lake Michigan in the south haven that is one long bike trip and I only had to go to the bathroom once on the way which is kinda surprising because it was a three-hour bike ride At the end lets just say we were happy to stop and get off our bikes.

 The first questions on the Heidelberg catechism the first question is what is your only comfort in life and death,  we are talking about the question, not the answer only means what is consolation what is making you calm for death. The answer starts you may know parts of it well you have to go to eclesastites and it says their it was all vain under the sun. As many think Solomon might have written this if he did I could understand how he said everything under the sun is vain he had more opportunity and riches than America has in for Knox so e could have tested all the different ways and he found all of them vain.

By now they Nazified the church. They made everything as the nazis wanted it this person called bishop Heckel wanted everyone to sign their name onto this paper telling them that and threatening them to have their german names gotten if of so they weren't german and he met with this bishop Heckel in private and he forcefully tried to assert his beliefs to the actual real-life Christian church he would not join the church that they had made appointing officers and they just messed everything up completely destroying the reason to come to church because you would just hear stuff about the nazis.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer is now in the midst of it the nazis have completely taken over Hitler the dictator and the first thing he started was whining about the jews he started segregating them from other people. If they were pastors they were told to leave. He made almost everyone hate the jews Dietrich and his other pastor friends still kept a calm head about it though which was good anby d hen Hitler started making military forces bigger which he technically wasn't allowed to do but everyone had military training because before this all citizens were given military training so if they went to war there small army could be backed up buy all the people that got trained.

We are going to take a rest on betty Greene today so Dietrich Bonhoeffer is the main event today he was the person that would even pull the trigger on the future himself he was actually also a pastor he tough theology did many things in Germany. When he was young inflation was very high. It took about four billion marks to buy a loaf of bread that was very serious indeed he went on vacation to Rome like once that was where he actually started researching the church like the meaning of the church and what it supposed to do.