Settled in

I got moved into my apartment this week and have spent 2 nights there. My roommate, Ben, seems like a really good Christian guy, and I look forward to getting to know him better. The apartment is small, but meets my needs. It's one room with a loft, small kitchen, a very small bathroom and the smallest shower I've ever been in. Ben has the loft and doesn't take up much space, so I've got plenty of room to store all my books, workout stuff, fly fishing gear, snowboarding gear, clothes and food items. I've actually got a 5 door dresser which is really nice. Even in the place I've been for the last month, I was still living out of my suitcase and had half my stuff still in m car. Anyway, I'm very thankful for it. I also joined the local climbing gym last week. It's really nice and has a fair amount of exercise equipment, so I don't have to join another gym just for that. The class at the Bible College last week was very helpful. It was Survey of th Old Testament taught by Dr. Benware. I didn't get to attend all the classes but found the first three helpful (I'm almost completely ignorant of the OT). He comes from a hardcore Dispensational Premill perspective, which I'm pretty sure I don't agree with, so there was a lot of his interpretation that I probably will reject, but factual accounts and for a summary of the story of the OT I thought it was good. I don't know how many more I'll be able to attend now that I'm working.

I've made a fairly good friend here, Luca. He's from Sardinia (island west of Italy). He was working at the Four Seasons, but for the winter he works as a snowboarding instructor (which is nice for me). He's also a fairly accomplished photographer and probably the most well traveled person I know (travel for leisure at least). It's interesting because we get along well and have much in common, but he is at best agnostic, more like antagonistically atheistic. I am yet to meet someone who shares my devout, fairly orthodox religious beliefs and worldview and still seeks adventure and unique experiences. And that's just anybody, much less a girl like that.

I am quite undecided about what I will do in the future. I plan on staying here for roughly a year at least, but after that I don't know. Washington, Oregon and Montana are still very desirable to see at least, and southern California is still a place I may want to live for awhile. Going back to Denver is also an option that has more than a couple things going for it. If I can become a server at one of the nicer restaurants here in Jackson, I can work summers and winters, have the springs and falls off to travel and still make really good money. The opportunity to travel globally is incredibly appealing to me and now looking like an actual possiblity. Spending the rest of my life in Jackson is attractive as well. I try not to think too much about it and ruin the amazing opportunity I have right now. If things work out as it looks like they will, this year I should be able make more money than ever before, learn to snowboard, get back in shape and grow closer to Christ than ever before. Why ruin that by worrying about the future? And in truth, because I know God is directing each of my steps for my good, every possibility I imagine and even those I can't think of, are so appealing that in some ways I don't care. It's like being anxious about whether I win a million dollars in $100 bills or $50 bills. Who cares, it's a million dollars.

Well, that's it. Hope all of you are doing well. Love and miss you all, specially Radnor and Caleb.