Sorry for the Delay

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Amazingly my last post was a month ago. This month of July has FLOWN by. I apologize for the absence.

I will take partial responsibility, haha. For one, I have been completely swamped with the Prestonwood choir and VBS the past two weeks respectively and then my grandmother passed away on July 22nd, so I have been unable to get on here much. Additionally when I have had time to post I haven't been able to because I don't get internet from my apartment and my laptop decided it will not recognize the church's wifi anymore. So I have been without internet for the last 3 weeks or so. But I'm not complaining.

In order to keep this post as short as possible I will hit the highlights of the last 3 weeks.

The Prestonwood high school choir was here from July 19-23 and the youth group from the North Campus helped out around the church repainting our massive columns and various other projects like remedying our "flood" problem. (I have cleaned up and waded through 3 downstairs floods this summer)

My good friend from Prestonwood student ministry (and really since we were about yea high) Nathan Reynolds and his dad were both in town while the choir was here and they bunked with me in my apartment. It was a lot of fun hanging out with them.

While the choir was here we also had a youth group of about 35 from a Nepalese church from New Hampshire stay at the church the same week as the choir. For various and sundry reasons which I will not mention here for the sake of time I will just say that I had to babysit them and it was Hell. If anyone is interested as to why, I can write another post on that.

The week after the choir was here we had VBS and I was in charge of the 3 year olds. I lead the Bible story time with them and told them several famous Bible stories and also the word "plethora". They seemed to like me and my Bible stories. It was a lot of fun. Very tiring, but a lot of fun.

VBS lasted from Monday through Friday and my grandmother passed away on that Tuesday and my mom made arrangements for me to fly down for the funeral on Friday and Saturday. So I missed VBS on Friday. I typed out a post after coming back but was unable to post because of my internet woes. I will post that as soon as I can. I then flew back to Boston on Sunday.

This past week Jillie, my best friend and girlfriend of almost 2 years, was able to fly up to Boston for 3 short days. It was great getting to see her and spend those days with her. Now that everything is over for a couple weeks I was allowed to take those days to spend with her and show her around the city. The first day I took her to see the Freedom Trail. The next day we ate breakfast together and headed out for Boston College but before we got there I surprised her by saying we were going to go see pastor Jan Vezikov, a church planter in the area. He was painting his new apartment and we hung out for a little while. After that we had planned to go visit the New England aquarium but didn't make it back in time because we had to be back at church to help feed the homeless that evening. We did have time to see a 3D IMAX movie narrated by Jim Carey at the aquarium which was fun.

At Streetlight (the homeless outreach) Jillie and I talked to a man named Billy. He had some mental health issues but she and I had a good conversation with him and Jillie got to see what it's like to just hang out and talk to homeless people. She said it was a great experience. The last day we went out to Salem, MA which is famous for the Salem Witch Trials. We have both always wanted to go there because it's supposed to be a spooky haunted town. Turns out it was just a big tourist trap and so we went back to Boston and walked around the Common and I got Jillie a Dustin Pedroia t-shirt (he's the #1 google search result when you type "Dustin"). I got her a RedSox hat as well because she liked mine so much :)

We went back and got her stuff and watched a little "Shaun of the Dead" before we went to the airport. It was sad but I will see her soon!


So now as I sit here it is my last full day here at the church. We just had our monthly meal in the church for the homeless. It was great and I got to talk to a man named Christopher.

So tomorrow I will go to church here for the last time (for a while) and then hop on a plane to Texas, much to my mother's relief :)

It's been a great summer and I have learned a lot and grown a lot as well. I'll write a post to further explain those things as well.

Thanks for reading,
Zach