Sorry for the long delay!

I am not sure if anyone is continuing to check this blog. But sorry if you have been. I have not really had much time to write. School keeps you kind of busy.

But i can spare a couple minutes right now and give you a very brief detail. I love giving specific details, but you wont be getting many details here.

The past couple months have been excellent. School has been going well and i see area's where i need to work harder in to do better. A big thing for me is starting to study for tests a bit earlier. And not waiting till the night before. But i am being helped in regards to getting things done earlier so the work doesn't pile up so heavily.

In regards to hockey things have been good there as well. We started to have games about 4 weeks ago. We have played 6 games so far. Its weird not playing as many games as i have in the past. I am used to playing 50/60 games in a season. And here we will only be playing about 30 if that. So each game is very important, you cant really afford to loose any. So far we havent been doing that well. We have only won 2 out of the 6 games. And we just lost the other night. I didnt dress for 3 of the games so far. So i have played in 3 of them as well.

A couple things the Lord has shown me just over the last couple weeks is. He reminded me that me playing up here and doing all this is a Service to HIM, not me. I go around trying to look how i can be helped, but the Lord has shown me that each day i can go around thinking, How can i serve the Lord today? And i take that on the ice with me, how i can i serve him out there and around my teammates, and how can i serve my teammates? I has helped me tremendously.

Another thing the Lord has shown me is, He said to me the other week in practice, "you ask for much, but you dont receive what you ask for." - That hit me hard, but i was very thankful for that. The Lord was showing me that i am asking for help with this or that or favor for this, but when i am asking it, i just ask it and then thats it. Im not asking and THEN receiving. My mom said this the other week, when we receive something from someone we simply say thank you. That has helped me very much in regards to receiving from the Lord. After i ask i simply say, Thank you Lord! And thankfulness has been an excellent key for me to use. Being thankful and having this, service attitude, has helped me when i didnt get to dress for games. I continued to be thankful and was thankful that i had another way to serve my teammates off the ice.

The last thing that the Lord has shown me, just the other night after our game. He told me to step out of the mindset of lack. Thinking i need this or that continually. But be thankful for ALL that i have given you, because it is much.

"The young lions lack food and suffer hunger, but they who seek (inquire of and require) the Lord [by right of their need and on the authority of His Word], none of them shall lack any beneficial thing." - Ps 34:10 (amp)

The says i dont lack any beneficial thing, so i believe Him!

The Lord has been kind to keep opening my eyes to things and He is faithfully working with me and conforming me to the image of His son and i am very thankful for that.

Also i have found a tremendous church up here. Its called, Reigning Miracles Ministries. I am being fed, both spiritually and with physical food as well. ha. Each sunday someone is having me over for food after church and i love it. They are really nice. Its a very small body, but i am thankful to be there.

Thats all i have time for now. Sorry. I have a good amount of work to do tonight. Love you all, thanks!

I am on an Adventure with God!

Off to another year here. Thank you to you all who faithfully read my blog. I dont usually update it throughout the summer, but now it is fall again and i am planning on updated it some what regularly.

This year i am playing Hockey and attending school at Cortland College. Located in Cortland NY, near Syracuse. Its about 5 and a half hours from home. So its definitely the closest i have been away from home so far. I am living with a bunch of guys on the team in a hockey house. Its a really big house with 2 floors and a basement apartment. There are about 13 guys living in the house. Each floor is like its own apartment. It has a kitchen, bathroom etc.... So its not really crowded or anything. I have my own room. I dont have to share with anyone, which i really love.

I arrived here on Saturday. I left my house and said bye to my family around 11:30 and arrived here at school at about 5 o clock. It was an extremely easy drive. I do miss leaving home again though. I get so comfortable being home and i just love being there. But i know i have work to do here for the Lord. I am being sent out for a purpose and working together with the Lord i plan to see that accomplished. I moved in all my things on saturday and got unpacked. And then sunday afternoon i went grocery shopping for a couple hours and i stalked up on a lot of things i will need. Sunday night i hung out with a couple older guys that live in the basement apartment. We got a movie and it was a lot of fun.

Monday we started classes and i had 3 right in a row. They went well. It was a little bit of an adjustment for me, being out of school for 3 years. But i am expecting to walk right into the grace of God this year. For everything i need. More grace for school, hockey, studying.... Everything i need. God with me! Yea! Then i had 2 classes today. They were longer than my classes on monday. So it felt a bit long sitting there. It seems like a lot of work already right off the bat. I have chapters that need read, a small paper due already for tomorrow and i have to stay on top of these things or it seems like it could easily pile up.

One thing i remember Elder Harry Carnahan saying before we left was, We will need to use our time wisely, but when i first give my time to the Lord then my time will be profitable. So i choose to give Him first place each day, even its for a couple minutes and He certainly makes my time studying and doing other things profitable.

A couple things i am asking of the Lord are: That He would be bigger to me each day than all these other things. Things like school, hockey, how much studying or homework i have to do that day. I want Him to still remain bigger than all that. "Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you"

The other thing i am asking the Lord for is this: That the Lord would help me to focus my attention. When i am studying to be focused on studying, when i am playing hockey to focus on that, when i am spending time with the Lord to focus on that. I am finding that when i am spending time with the Lord my mind is thinking about the homework that i have to do or the professor i need to talk to or whatever. So i am asking the Lords help to focus.

Thats where i am at right now. Thank you all for reading and standing with me in prayer. I love you all truly!

"Apart from Me you can do nothing." But i am not apart from Him anymore! "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!!"

I'll write again soon...

Not walking by sight!

   Hey everyone!  Just wanted to throw you a quick update.  Well right now its monday night and i am hanging out at my house.  I live with 8 other guys on the team.  Its a fun experience, living with a bunch of other guys.  Plus getting to live my life for the Lord every day right in front of them.  

I wrote last week and we had just had 2 games.  We had practice all week last week and practices were so-so.  They are MUCH less competitive and focused than my practices at Bay State.  So i continually need help from the Lord to stay focused in those practices and i need to be diligent to work hard in those practices, even though most others are not working hard.  

This past Saturday and Sunday we played the Bay State Breakers (my former team).  It was fun.  Getting to see them again.  I didn't let it be weird.  I played pretty good on saturday.  I thought i made some good plays.  I made a couple bad passes, but overall i thought i did good.  When i got to the game on Sunday i found out that i wasn't dressing.  I was really really surprised.  I thought i would be playing in every game till the end of the year.  It was great that my parents and Carol Affolter were able to come up this weekend.  They got into town Saturday morning.  I met up with them and they watched me play the game.  Since the game was at 3 in the afternoon we are able to hang out for a long time Saturday night.  We went to the Outback Steak house afterward and had a great dinner.  Then we hung out at my parents hotel room all night.  It was great to get to see them.  

Sunday after i found out i wasnt playing i went to my car and just needed to be with the Lord.  I was just sitting quietly and listening for the Lord and i heard the Lord say "This does not hinder My plan".  I was thankful to hear that from Him.  My parents showed up and i told them i wasn't playing.  Obviously they were very supportive and they were all very encouraging too.  Giving me scriptures.  Carol said she has this one from the Lord,  "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding" - Prov 3:5...

So they stayed for part of the game and watched it with me.  They left about halfway through the 2nd period.  Yesterday (sunday) i didn't feel well either.  My nose was runny and my throat hurt as well.  Today my throat feels much better, but my nose is still runny and i feel a bit funny.  BUT the Lord is my healer.  Thats the whole truth.  I am expecting to be completely better by tomorrow.  

So even though i only played 1 game this weekend i saw the goodness of the Lord in every area.  I am not expecting to not dress for any of the other games.  We have games this Saturday, Sunday and monday.  Then wednesday of next week and 2 that weekend.  

One thing i haven't told you guys about is,  i have joined this "gym" type place that is a training facility for Athletes only.  It is really really great.  One of my teammates was going there and he told me about it a couple weeks ago.  I have been going there pretty much my whole time here.  It has a section to workout at and at the other side of the building it has a small sheet of ice you can skate on.  I met a guy named Ron Kuhl who is a part owner of the place.  He trains guys in the AHL ( its a step below the NHL) over the summers.  He gives us a deal on the monthly payments for "joining" the place and then in addition to our monthly fee I can train with him 1 on 1 anytime i want to for 20$ a session.  So i have worked with him twice so far.  My times with him have been soooo beneficial.  I am really thankful to be taught these things.  He is just showing me little things that i am doing wrong.  Bad habits that i have developed over the years and its very beneficial.  I am trying to keep working with him at least once a week.  I usually do it on days when we dont have practice, like today.  But i go workout there every day during the days.  I am so thankful to have this instruction.  It is so helpful.  The Lord ceases to Amaze me.  I know a reason the Lord brought me out here was to get to train with Ron and receive that instruction.  Thats just one of the many reasons.  But its very great.  

If you guys could be praying for my coach i would appreciate that.  And also for me in dealing with him.  Most guys on the team dont respect him and it has been easy for me to fall into that trap.  When he yells at me and also since he didn't dress me sunday, he just doesnt seem to know much about hockey and he is not a good teacher.  But carol reminded me to watch over my attitude concerning him, because my attitude hinders me from receiving things of the spirit.  So i took the opportunity to just be thankful to the Lord for him.  Even though it doesn't seem like he is a help or anything like that, the Lord has placed him in my path for a reason and also in a place of authority over me too.  So i would appreciate prayer in that area.  His name is Jim.  

Also i dont have any schools interested in me yet, that i know of.  But i am completely trusting the Lord that He has the perfect school for me next year.  I am continually asking the Lord that He would open a door for me at a Division 1 school.  Even though it doesn't seem possible, it is possible with the Lord.  So if you could be asking that the right schools would be coming out to see me over the next 2 weeks.  I guess it only takes 1 school to be interested in me!  

I know a lot of you pray for me consistently and i am very thankful for that.  I love you all a lot!!  I will update again soon!

A LOOOONG break..

Hello!  Sorry that it has been a very long time since i have updated my blog.  I went home for christmas break, so i didnt take the time to update my blog.  

But now i am back in Boston Mass and i want to get you all up to speed.  

The week before i was to come back home for Christmas break my coach called me into his office to have a chat after practice.  He said to me "Adam you need to play thats the bottom line"  he was talking to me about going to another team.  He mentioned the team in New York that had wanted me towards the beginning of the season.  He told me about this on a monday,  he said think about it and we would talk the next day.  I talked to my mom after i left his office and she encouraged me to let go of my preferences concerning the situation.  I preferred to stay here and finish out the year in Boston, but i was instructed to give that up to the Lord.  So i spoke with the Lord and said to the Lord that i give up my preferences for the situation.  But i knew that i still wanted to stay.  

I talked with my coach the next day and he was looking around to what other teams would want me in the league.  Also he had said that if i decided that i wanted to stay it wouldn't be a problem, its just that it would be hard for me to get to play any games.  We kept talking after practice each day.  I didn't decide anything right at the moment.  I called Allen on Wednesday just to tell him everything that was happening and to ask him what he thought.  One thing that he gave me was,   "the peace of God, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus"      i chose to speak with my mouth  "Father i permit your peace to reign and rule in my heart and my mind".  I had to do that continually.  I had to keep using my mouth to speak the truth and not let my mind wander about and keep thinking about the decision i had to make.  Allen also asked me when i had to make the decision by and i said not till January 10th (i thought) so he advised me to just sit on it and see where the peace of God would lead me.  

So the next day i went in to see my coach after practice and i told him that since i didn't have to decide right then that i would wait and let him know sometime over christmas break.  

I went home Sunday the 21st.  We were supposed to be back on the 1st of January.  I got a call the saturday after Christmas from my coach.  He left me a voicemail and told me that he traded me to a team in Portland, Maine.  Its a Junior A team, but its really a step down from the league that the team in Boston is in.  He had mentioned that team the week before, but i had told him more than once that i would definitely not want to go to that team.  So it was pretty surprising to hear that he traded me there after i told him that i didn't want to go there.  I tried to call him right back and i wasn't able to get a hold of him all day.  I didn't have to go there, they couldn't force me to go there, but if i didn't go there we would have to figure something else out.  

Finally i was able to get a hold of him.  We talked about it and he said that he just had to make a move.  And i told him that i wanted to go to New York and play for that team instead of going to Portland Maine.  He was fine with that and said he would talk to the other coaches to workout a deal.  The coolest thing about all of this is...  When i heard the news about the trade i was perfectly fine.  The Lord has prepared me beforehand.  I had a moment when i started to think about it and worry and me and my mom just prayed right then and gave it up to the Lord.  But it was amazing.  Allen had talked to me about Peace before and he had mentioned that it was this  "life way" of peace.  Not just an experience of peace every now and then, but something we are able to walk in every single day.  So i was very thankful that the Lord had prepared me beforehand.  

So to make a very long story a bit shorter.  I ended up being home until the 9th of January instead of leaving on the 1st.  I had not heard anything about the trade yet.  They were still trying to figure things out.  Basically the coach in  Maine didnt have a problem trading me to NY, but he wanted someone in return.  The coach in Ny didnt have anyone to trade him for me, so my coach in Boston was trying to see if he could trade someone for me, so my rights would go back to Boston and then he (Boston coach) would trade me back out to NY.  I know its pretty confusing and complicated.  But thats the simple version.  So i left the 9th of January to go back to Boston and wait up there.  Plus i would get to see Mike and Nancy again and get to spend some time with them.  

I ended being with Mike and Nancy from the 9th to the 21st.  I tried to keep skating everyday.  Twice i went up to Rockland (the town where the breakers are in) and i skated with the Junior B team.  When i went up to the rink i was thinking before that the situation would be awkward.  But my mom helped me and told me that i shouldn't let it be awkward.  So i choose to go to the rink and see everyone again and i didn't let it be awkward.  It ended up being fine and it was nice to see everyone again.  On days that i didn't go up to the rink i skated at Mike and Nancy's neighbors house.  Right across the street the neighbors had built a small outdoor ice rink that i was able to skate on anytime i wanted to.  It was the perfect provision of the Lord.  I thought it was too cool.  So i usually went out there each day for a couple hours.  

I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Mike and Nancy, also getting to spend time with their son Guy and his family too.  On the 20th of Jan i went into the rink in Rockland to talk with my old coach and when i got there he said that he thought that the trade was all taken care of.  He said that Jim (from NY) had gotten a kid to trade out to Maine for me.  So the next day Jim called me and said it was all taken care of and i could come out that day.  I woke up early in the morning on the 21st to say bye to Mike and Nancy just incase i was going to leave that day.  So im glad i did because i ended up getting the call to go that day.  I got all packed up and left that afternoon.  I already knew a kid on the team because he had played in Boston with me the whole year.  I practiced with the team that night at 9.  

So now i have been here for a little over a week.  This team doesnt have a chance to make the playoffs so the season will be over on February 22nd.  Its not very long, i'll be here for a total of 4 weeks.  And i will play 11 games with them.   But my expectation is that the Lord will cause the right school to see me play, even in these 4 weeks so i can go there next year.  

I still desire to play Division 1 next year.  Each coach i have had has said that i cant do it.  But with my God ALL things are possible.  I have to keep remembering how BIG my God is because i could not play Division 1 on my own.  I couldn't play Division 3 or anything else for that matter.  But i know that the Lord can get me there.  I would be fine with playing Division 3 next year, its still very good.  But i do have a desire to play the best.  

I have played 3 games with the team so far.  The first game i played good,  i hadnt played a competitive games since right before Thanksgiving break.  So i was pleased with how it went.  Then today and yesterday we had a game.  I played good yesterday, and today i had a bad first period and i thought i played really well in the 2nd and 3rd period.  I got an assist today as well.  

I know this was pretty long, but its been a while since i have written.  I will write again soon!  Love you all!!!!