Day: 28 - 38 Past Couple of Days

The past couple fo days have been a series of diffrent events and growing opportunities. During daily mass Friday morning, which wast the only day of the week where I won the struggle against sleeping in. I was sitting waiting for mass to start, one parishinor who needs aid in getting up and sitting down during the mass parts was sitting by himself. I knew fully that a diffrent parishoner always sits near him to help him, although there was no one near him today. I was going through the decision in my head, than something came over me and I just sat closer to this parishoner, aiding him throughout the Mass whenever he needed it. That was one of the most peacful and heart warming Masses i've ever attended. This mas when helped would always thankyou after each time he was helped for every little thing.

One the same day that evenign we played a game called ultimate cabbage, which is like ultimate frisbee but with a cabbage. It is a very intresting game as the cabbage slowly decreses in size and becomes more wet and slippery, until it reaches the stock. After this game, the some of the guys came back to our house and we had pizza and wayched Goodwill Hunting, which was an awesome movie. hortly after that we were talking about builiding climbing as two of the guys with us had never been building climbing before, which led to us climbing one of the libraries on campus and then entering the library from the roof and leaving it like we've been in it the whole time.

Today we had our first youth group event which took place around a Lord's Day which is a gathering for Christians of any denomination, it involves some prayers and a formal dinner where we enoy eachothers company and the time for fellowhsip. The event went really well and the youth are very involved and cool.

God Bless

Day: 25 - 27 The River

Part of living in a UCO men's household includes morning prayer for 4 mornings every week (Mon - Thur).  Usually we have a diffrent person lead a meditation, sing 3 - 4 songs, and have a time of intercession and thanksgiving. Today we went outside for prayer on a whim, and we had it beside this river. It was colder as it was 8am in the morning, but what was cool was just being on this cold park bench with 8 other guys near a river with the sole purpose of saying prayer. It was inspirational to my thought of prayer only when it is comfortable to myself, as there is nothing comfortable about being outside at 8 in the colder weather, but it was one of the more fruitful and peaceful prayer times i've had. You're in my prayers

God Bless

Aaron

Day: 23 - 24 Brotherly Bonding

Today was just a normal day in the life of a Gapper, I went to the office and helped out with some financials, went home made some bacon sandwiches, then went back to the office helped with some grocery shopping then had dinner at a men's house in Ypsilanti. Overall the day was busy with obviously more details involve. Although one detail resonated more through my mind. The living room in our house of 9 guys is this room with four couches and a t.v, and every night the majority of us who were available would just hang out in this room. By the end of the night it would usually end with someone saying that they should have gone to sleep earlier, and this is something that has and is still going through my mind every night since I have arrived. So I thought it was this nice living room that we had that attracts us all there to spend the last hour of the night where we could be getting early rest, although the room has nothing to do with it.... The people inside the room is what makes it worth the sacrifice of rest, and creates an enjoyable and relaxing atmosphere. This kinda of brotherly bonding is something that I thought I would be used to, considering I have 3 brothers, but the feeling is brand new to me. one of the reasons I think the Lord has brought me here is to experience this community life, and I hope to indulge in this experience as the days go on. You're in my prayers.

God Bless

Day: 20 - 22 Some Building Climbing

Part of the night entertainment that takes place here in Ann Arbor is some late night building climbing. So Thursday night we found an abonded construction site near our house and climbed it.  Here are some pictures from the top of the construction site.

God Bless

St. Thomas the Apostle Parish

This is the parish I  regularly attend every Sunday, it provides 24 hr adoration on Fridya's, daily mass at 7 am  and confession alot :) Here are some pictures...

Day: 13 - 19 Busy Bee

Over the last few days i've been un able to blog as much due to the fact that because the school year has started, so has the majority of my activities. I'm going to try and blog every day and try to put a bible verse or quote that really strikes me as important and relavent to this year. This last few days i've been forming my schedule. Some of the event that have been going on is the first UCO prayer meeting, the first meeting of our men's house, and house cleanup. There will be many pictures coming!!!!!