Let me catch you up some on life since El Paso. I told my boss at Stanley Steemer that I would be able to stay till about mid-august while most everyone else came back on August first. I let the peeps who went back on the first borrow my car because they needed an extra car to go back and the few of us that stayed were going to be able fine without it. Well, I didn't think to check the oil and neither did they and so my car died. It blew a piston rod and is no longer useable. We sold it for what the body is worth and going to save that money for a new car. Well, new car to me...probably used. Because my car died, my parents and I are going to be a two car family until we get another one.

I am still doing sound for The Rock (www.rockrevolution.com) and for Summitview (www.summitview.com). We just had out first service last Friday....and that seems to be worded wierd. Anyway, it was freaking awesome. The service was great and God did some pretty awesome stuff. The week prior, I was working to get out new place ready, which turns out to be an awesome venue. Last Friday though, before the Rock, it was seemed like chaos all around. Partly because we have a pretty young crew as to what they are doing in their ministries and so I had to help out all over the place. I felt like I was being pulled in a million different directions. But with God's help and strength, I made it through the night. By the time I got home, my legs just ached and I was ready for bed.

Instead of working nights at the church building as a building attendant, I am now working days there as Chris's side kick, the facilities guy. I just started this week and I worked on sprinklers with Chris and Greg, our boss. It was much fun.

I am also now on a new team...or rather a combined team. The discipleship team that I was on just joined John Larsen's team to make a huge team. We had our first team yesterday and it was fun. We are going through Philippians and we started with 1:1-18. We are finishing out the rest of chapter one next week. There are now approximately 20 or so people on our team. I am super excited to be on the team. I think God is going to do some awesome stuff with our team in ways that we probably won't see or understand.

I am taking classes out at Front Range again this semester and I have to say that I am kind of excited for some of my classes. One class that I am excited for my Audio Production class. I get to learn about recording sound and all that fun stuff.

So that is Zach's life as of right now, I'll keep you post for later things

Drumming in your sleep....????

So I was at band practice, and it is always a great time as always. I love listening to the band figure things out and get it down for The Rock. I get to sit there and try and figure out what sounds the best and make sure things aren't overlapping eachother, blah blah blah. You don't want to hear about what I do at band practice. In fact, I think most people would consider it boring. But as they were practicing for a song, Ryan closed his eys for a sec and he some how thought that his new puppy was jumping on him because a tom fell therefore waking him up....while he was drumming still. It was hilarious :)

This is fun

This is something that my uncle sent me....and I have to say, that is pretty awesome. And even if this isn't real, which I have a feeling that it is fake, it is still pretty cool.

Response

So my sister had my nephews look at my blog and all the pictures that I posted on here and they liked it so much that they drew a picture for me. And well, my sister...haha...took another picture and sent it to me. I have to say that I love them too!

My Nephews!

My sister recently got a Blackberry and has been loving it. She sends photos, it seems almost everyday. Although I don't get to see them very much, I get to see them via pictures from my sister.


































































































































































































































I do have to say that I love them lots and can't wait to go and see them in a couple of weeks...

El Paso thus far...

Once again, it has been quite a while since I have written on here. I have been super busy with work and have barely been able to even get on the internet, my main mode of communication is through the phone which is really weird considering I don't even really talk on the phone that much anyway.

I am working for Stanley Steamer and if you don't know what that is, it is a carpet cleaning company. I'll tell you a little about how I got the job. I remembered that one of my friends that did an infusion a couple of summers ago cleaned carpets and I figured that I would give it a try. I emailed as many as I could find, I think that was on a Thursday. On Saturday morning, I got a call from my the regional manager and he told me to go and have an interview on Monday morning and fill out an application. So I go in Monday morning and it turns out that I get hired on the spot and started that day. Circumstances turned out to be that by Wednesday of that week, I was in charge of a truck and had keys to the shop. Which also means that I got a pay increase within three days. I also have been working essentially 40+ hours a week which means that I have been really tired. This week starts my 4th week working down here in El Paso

A short break that I was able to have was to go back to Colorado for Ryan and Christy's wedding. I was one of the groomsmen in the wedding and I so I got to get all dressed up and have an awesome time. I drove up with a group of people on the Thursday before the wedding and had Ryan's bachelor party which was a blast. I also met my mom in FoCo for dinner that evening just so that I would be able to see at least her while I was in Colorado. Then we had the rehearsal and dinner. I don't think I have seen or ever will see again a rehearsal dinner so elaborate as that one again, it was super fun. Then the day was upon us. They got married in Estes Park and so during the morning we went and played disc golf at the Y there and then got ready after we had finished that really fun course. Took some pictures and then I got to help solve some sound problems which is always fun! And now for the big moment, after dating for 5 and a half years, they were finally at the time. We had gone through everything and all was ready. Ryan was up at the front with the rest of the wedding party and Christy was on her way down. You could tell that Ryan was trying to not make any funny faces as his beautiful bride was walking down the isle. John Meyer gave a great message and then it was time to celebrate. We all had fun dancing and hanging out. We had to head back down to El Paso on the following day, so we went down to my parents house to sleep and then head out from there. My parents made us a Father's day breakfast and we left from there. Thanks again Mom and Dad!

Today I went with my boss and three other people to the Guadeloupe Mountains in Texas. The hike was not all that long but super fun. I took some pictures but my camera died soon after we got on the trail which was epically sad because we saw some amazing sights that I would have loved to take pictures of. Hopefully I will be able to get back there some time soon and take pictures for real this time.

God has been awesome down here and I feel like this is a time of trusting God this summer. Keep praying for us!

Psalm 146:7b-10

Life...

It seems as though it has taken forever for me to update this thing. There has been so much that has been going on, it seems as though I have not had any time to do anything on the computer.

I am current in El Paso, Texas and have been here since the may 24th. I am down here to tell people about Jesus and help a sister church that is down here. I am super excited and can't wait to see what God has in store. I am taking a break from looking for jobs, so that I can finally update this. Most of the places that we have been to keep saying that I have to go online to apply and so I spent pretty much all day in one spot applying for jobs. Maybe I will go backwards in the timeline of Zach to update you on my life.

So I am currently in El Paso and we came down here on the 24th and I totally just repeated myself here. We have been looking for jobs ever since we got down here but still haven't found any. There are two people who had jobs before they came down and then only one other person has found one so far. So there are still 17 of us looking. Hopefully we will have jobs by next week or some of may have to start looking at going back home for the summer. Not something that I want to do and I trust God will get us jobs.

I went to Disney World recently and had a blast there. One of my high school friends has an intership there right now so he works at Splash Mountain. We were able to cut the line and just go to the front for splash mountain and thunder mountain because Andrew (my friend) has conncetions. So we went on those bunches. Here are some pictures...

The Magic Kingdom!!!








Splash Mountain!!!








Thunder Mountain!!!








Hollywood Studios Tower of Terror!!! I have never really been a big fan of this ride, but is is great to try and make some good faces at the camera...






EPCOT...which stands for Every Person Comes Out Tired according to one of the cast members.










We had dinner and a show at this really cool place. They cooked the food infront of us and then it we were celebrating my birthday and Andrew's birthday and so we got hats too just like this cool guy...






I didn't like my hat very much...








This ride was awesome! It was a super huge centrifuge and it would spin you around and put I think it was 2.5 G's on you. I had a lot of fun on that one yelling and pushing buttons and landing the space ship!





School ended and I didn't do as well as I wanted to but things are still good. Something to do with school though, I have decided that I am just going to get my A.A. and then decide what I want to major in. I am about half way through it but and I am taking a super exciting class next semester! It has to do with sound.

I think this is all that I will write about for now, partly because I haven't written forever and even writing this one I paused for like a week and have forgot more that has happened and also I just can't remember right now.

Be praying for jobs for everyone here in El Paso for the summer!