People would have entire forests of these trees to produce rubber.
WOW! I totally just realized it's been like a long...... time since I last posted! So I thought I was due to write a little something. I have been so busy, Honers Western Civilization is a collage course I am taking as a sophomore. I am in Band, Coir, And hand bells. That and other school Projects have been keeping me busy. Also our church had a huge Yard Sale and raised over $700 for our trip to GYC(Generation Of Youth For Christ) last year. This past July I took a trip to Guatemala. It was Awesome I had lots of fun. I help a Evangelistic series there 19 sermons. God Blessed and got me through even when times were rough. I had 25 Baptisms in all which is good. I had over 600 People at my meetings so it was a big event. I was the answer to the peoples prayer. God truly did bless in enormous ways. I even got to go to the pacific ocean. If you know me I love the ocean. I actually am going to assiteague and chiggiteague in less than 11 days. In the spring I am planning a trip to Jamaica with L.S. (La Sonnette). Ma-be this coming summer a trip to Africa if God allows. Please keep me in prayer I am go wing through some hard times. But as always God blesses a cheerful giver. I will try to write more often. Lets see how it goes.
Bma were on our way. This is not all I can say. We have six more days! Till we get to the next phase.BMA all the way. Soon there we will be day to day. The seinors of 2010 are gown, But we are on the lawn. Sunday we regrister for BMA. O what a fun fun day.
This dragonfly was not afraid to let me take a close picture of it! It is Awesome how God designed the Dragonfly to be so complex. look at the green and blue on it's head and how detailed the wings are! We truley serve an amazing God!
Finally it is here! I have always enjoyed coming to alumni weekend at BMA. Listening to the band play Battle Hymn of the Republic dreaming I was playing too! This year at BMA I have been playing French horn in band and love it. I will be playing as I dreamed tomorrow. If you have never heard bma play, then you are in for an awesome treat! We also have a marching group. They march in with the banners of the honor classes that have graduated from bma. It truly is amazing!
Recently While researching about bees I found this out! I thought it might interest you!
source: http://calitreview.com/1512
Flowers are the sexual organs of plants. Most contain both pollen (plant sperm) and ovaries. For a plant to reproduce, it needs to somehow transfer its pollen to the ovaries of another member of the same species. For hundreds of millions of years, plants used the wind to do this. It’s like Internet spam: send hundreds of millions of flyweight grains of pollen in all directions, hoping that just one or two finds its way by chance to the right ovary. Many plants, such as pine and birch trees and the dreaded ragweed, still use wind pollination.
But about a hundred million years ago, one class of plants hit upon a revolutionary idea: Why not use insects to transport the pollen instead of wind? That way, you can make much bigger, heavier, more sophisticated pollen packages. And you can make far fewer of them if you can rely on the insects to travel more or less directly to another flower of your species. The showy flowers we see all around us are the strategy for making that happen: They are designed to attract insects through form, color, and scent, and they have wells of nectar for the insects to drink when they visit. The insects swoop in for a few pints, get sticky pollen all over their hairy bodies, and inadvertently transfer some of this pollen to the next flower they visit. Wham, bam, thank you, ma’am. The fertilized seed becomes a fruit or nut.
Bees are the world’s pollination masters; they have developed sophisticated sensory apparatus for finding flowers, special bodies designed to collect and transport pollen, and complex social intelligence that allows them to share information and allocate their resources so that a single hive of honeybees can cross-pollinate 25 million flowers in a single day. A good bit of the flowering world (and the animals that rely on the fruits made by this flowering world) have come to depend on them.
I was shocked! A friend of ours Lost over 100 Hives this winter and is buying 100 new ones! I wish him the best of luck!
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
This is my favorite poem! It was in Akeelah and the bee!
~http://skdesigns.com/internet/articles/quotes/williamson/our_deepest_fear/~
It finally is Sabbath! Time to rest. I am so..... thankful that we have no school on Saturday! Today in Biology Mrs. Bechtel the Bio. teacher had her workers including me help her do a really cool germ experiment! We put glowing powder on our hands and infected all the kids! It was funny to see the kids reactions when she had a special light and said lets see all the germs you have? Most of the class had picked up some of the glow powder off the Door or from the quiz we handed them! God has so... many cool and exciting experiments that help us to better understand science.
Yahoo! I have been approved for the Guatemala mission trip! I will be going July 6-26 , and raising 1,500.00$ to go! Pray for me as I need to raise all that money!
I decided today that my love for the Ocean is ginormous! Ever since i was little i loved collecting shells, but hated the ocean water till one year my dad took me into it and i became in love w/t the ocean. I was to the ocean 7 times over 15 years! Now I have a longing to go so ... I decided to go this summer! I am praying that my dad will take me for a week! But if he only takes me for 3 or 4 days i will be a very happy young man! I want to go into marine biology! I hope some day to live close to the ocean for i never get board of being there! I hope I will be able to go! I will take pics and post them when i get back!
La Sonnette members: Bianca Barbosa, Maddie Bornman, Levi Collins, Bridget Darmody, Kristen Engen, Jacob Fowler, Courtney Harvey, Maile Hoffman, Sarah Jamieson, Kelsey Landa, Michael Marr, Andre Salva, Cynthia Smith, and their director Eric Engen.
I was an attendee of this past years GYC 2009-2010. God truly was leading the sermons were awesome! The seekers were on fire for Christ. The night meetings were based on Romans1:6, to not be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.During the day we had a plethora of meetings to choose from and go to! I had a very hard time choosing! I ended up going to 2 different ones David Assecreck,and Nathan Reynolds. As I sat and listened to the presentations I was unAshamed to tell others. On Friday January 1, in the 23degree weather,with a huge wind chill, I went door to door with my new friend Ru. It was a long road, but by Gods grace every home that someone answered the door the person accepted a bible study card! I was truly amazed! God may have a plane for you're life just let him lead you! Hope to see you at GYC 2010 in Baltimore MD.
