January Newsletter

Move-In:
I was very happy to be moved in to my new apartment!!!! There was so much clutter in the house from having all the stuff of three people ready to move out. The move actually went really smooth and took me only four trips to move all my stuff and then 3 hours to put everything in its place and arrange the room the way I wanted it. I have a really neat set up my desk/ study area in my room takes up almost an entire wall. Then my bed and dresser takes up a wall, leaving the rest of the room open. I got used to sharing my room with someone and now I have a room to myself so my room seems so big.
Mission Term Orientation:
Now we have been asked to not tell future AIMers about Mission Term Orientation so if you plan on coming to AIM in the future jump ahead to the next section titled Camp Adventure Weekend/ Sunset Workshop. Ok I will start off by listing the rules that we will have for a couple of months.
1. No Driving - we have to walk or ride the bus or a bike to school (They let us drive half way because of construction…. But I’ve been riding my bike the whole way…)
2. No Texting or IM Conversations (Except on Friday evenings and Saturday)
3. No Internet (unless its email, or a site assigned by the school)
4. No Eating Out- (Drinks and Desserts only)
5. No T.V., Movies, or any form of electronic entertainment
The Sunday before our first day back at school we were given a sheet with all these rules. It told us to be at the school at 8:00… so me and the rest of my team walked to school. They had the doors locked and a white board with a time on it….. it said 8:30 so we waited and thankfully they came on time…. They took us in and had us gathered in this room. Then they introduced us to the President of Mbalal Land this strange made up country. Oh by the way they did all of this in languages other than English.
Right after they introduced the President there was a hostile takeover by a military coup. They came in with guns and took away the president. When we came back into the room they was only one or two lights that were on and we had to apply for these fake passports. I was done and in line and I was reading the application making sure I had gotten everything done….. and in tiny print and the bottom it said black ink only valid color I had filled out the form in blue ink so I had to start all over…. I was halfway through filling it out for the second time when one of the assistants started griping at me in French and ripped up my application… so I finally got it filled out and got to move on to the next part…. They stole my wallet so I got lucky that I had one of the assistants on my side and he got it back from me. So I finally got a passport and was able to just relax and wait.
Finally everyone got a passport and we met in the diner and Kris Smith (AIM Director) gave us a big long speech in Slovak… then they gave us this unflavored oatmeal… which wasn’t too bad… I really enjoyed the toast they gave us which had Vegemite on it. It was really good If you got a piece of toast that had it spread thinly, but the ones that had it thick were so salty. It was definitely an experience.
Next when we were done eating we met on the basketball court and in Slovak explain our next activity which will be something very similar to the Amazing Race… it was called the AIMazing Race. We were to work in our teams to obtain three envelopes that were spread out through Lubbock each of them had a different address and we had a time limit. The first envelope was at Kris Smith’s house, and it led to a house on Cornell Street... there are three Cornell streets. Luckily we got it right the first time, because the teams that didn’t, ended up in East Cornell which not the greatest part of town to be in. We got all three envelops but we got in eleven minutes late. We did a really good job though we were the second team in and the first team walked around for hours and found nothing.
Camp Adventure Weekend:
I got to hang out with Dustin and Adam for a couple of days which was really awesome. I miss getting to see them. It was a great weekend, we got to go to a place called carpenters church which is a place for homeless people to come get off the street and have some fun playing pool, or watching movies or just sitting around talking with buddies. On one of the mornings we got to hear Trey speak to us which was awesome… I love listening to Trey preach or teach. It was just an over all fun week end and im looking forward to the week long camp. So I can see Dustin again.
Thanks:
I want to thank my supports both monetary and prayer wise, Ive told yall this before but I consider yall to be partners with me in my Adventures In Missions and I mean it. I look forward to getting to tell yall about Mexico city next month It will be great.

AIMing to Fulfill the Great Commission,

Evan W. Williams

Family Pics

i just wanted to put up some pics of the people i love the most on here.