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It's a Wonderful March

 

Every year in March (well.. not the last couple of years due to COVID), some of our campuses host students from Western Washington during SSI (Spring Student Impact) week. It's a week where students from CCF (Campus Christian Fellowship, the ministry we partner with for SICM) come down during their Spring Break and get experience evangelizing on a foreign campus. Man, there are a lot of acronyms in this photo description. Every night, people in our community volunteer to host them for dinner. I was at the Lorenz house all day working and helping prep for dinner. This was the day that the tornado watch was in effect - the weather was going crazy but they had no idea what was going on around them. You don't get many tornadoes in the Pacific Northwest!

I've been teaching a lot of people how to play (Chinese-style) Mahjong recently, it's one of my most favorite games. It's a four-player game that plays similar to Gin Rummy and is super easy to pick up and can be played in 10-15 minutes. If you're interested in learning, let me know! I love teaching people - it means more people I can play with. :-)

Me and Steph got to go to a nice seafood restaurant using a gift card that her parents gave us for Christmas! She loves seafood, but hasn't had much of a chance to eat it because it's a little out of our budget. So we made it a date and ate surrounded by a bunch of business people who were probably eating on their company's dime.

Trying out Jollibee off of Preston in Plano. There are plenty in California and I've tried it before, but this one opened in Plano in 2020 and there was some big hype surrounding it. I remember thinking about trying it out when it first opened, but the line to get food was a few hours long so I decided against it and only recently thought about going back. All that to say, I wasn't impressed. I would say that KFC is better.

My good friend, Johnny, got married recently! We had to snap a photo of our gaming group (and to commemorate the beginning of wedding season 2022). A huge congratulations to them; they are both a blessing to our community - Johnny being an amazing drummer and small group leader and Kylie being a pastor with FOCUS!


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