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...
