Today marks the official end of week two in the Academy! Woo hoo! According to the instructors, the recruits have completed 7 classes thus far! Constitution & Amendments Class: check...Multiculturalism Class: check...Stress Management Class: check, check...Class 4,5,6 &7: check, check, check &check. The moment of enjoying the success is brief. Class 8, 9, 10, 11 await.
David's been working hard hitting the books and hitting the gym. PT happens 3 days a week now - Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On these days, David's up "at the crack of butt" (aka: 4:30 a.m.) getting ready to head out to be yelled at (aka: weird form of encouragement) and beat down (aka: built up). Since I'm not able to sleep once he leaves, I too get up at the "crack of butt", mosie-on down stairs at around 5:30 and lay on the couch for a good 2 hours (aka: waking up). By the end of the day, we're like two old people - David with his aches and pains and the both of us ready to hit the sack at 8:30p.m. Sigh.
While David's away getting beat down and crammed with information, I'm still getting our little place just right and taking the occasional visit to near-by shops. Today, I witnessed the take down of a store thief by Wal-Mart security! It was quite the scene! Security personnel apprehended the guy in the parking lot and walk-wrestled him from the door in the garden center, through the store and to the office near the doors by the pharmacy. Koodoos to Wal-Mart security...they are not to be messed with!
God is good all the time! I praise Him for caring us through these weeks of mind and body overload. God got us to where we are, and I know He'll carry us through! Please continue to pray....we appreciate it!
Friday, July 22, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Howdy Ya'll!
We've been here in Lubbock, TX for a little over two weeks, yet it feels like a whole lot longer! David and I were joking that the first week through the Lubbock Police Academy felt like a month's worth of life had been squeezed into 5 days! I guess it was the anticipation of what was to come along with trying to digest all the information being hurled our way that landed us crashed on the couch by the end of it. Imagine that!
Life is full and, in a way, fast here in Lubbock! My goal is to keep you up to date on Texas happenings; in particular, David's journey to becoming a police officer. It's such an honor to be witness to God working in David. It wasn't that long ago that David was at the end of his rope.....he felt directionless with no success in his career attempts; he was tired of trying so hard with no desired result. It was hard to see David fed up with his faith. But God is amazing and takes His relationship with His children seriously. David may have been giving up, but God was gearing up to be alive and real in David's life.
Coming to the realization that trying really hard doesn't work was just where God needed David to be. It wasn't an overnight transformation, but a steady working in David's heart and life by our Father that brought David into a living relationship with God. Fast forward 9mths, here we are in Texas! We took each step of this journey in prayer, so I have to believe that God wants us here and David in the academy. It's not going to be easy......It's going to be a long 5 months with a lot of study and discipline. We are dependent on God everyday for everything, and we covet your prayers!
Now for the up-dates! Last week, David's first PT day was rough. His calf muscle seized up and caused him to fall out of rank. As he limped to catch up with his team mates, he found them doing push-ups until he caught up. Not good! On the bright side, he wasn't among those who threw up that first day! Muscle pain cream, Ibuprofen, stretches, Google searches, lots of prayer..........we did everything we could this weekend to make sure he didn't elicit negative attention again. Today - success! It was still rough, but he made it through! Woo hoo!
I've been working on getting the house in order, and I'm pretty happy with the result. I continue to "fiddle" with stuff in the endless effort to get it just right. I haven't shrunk into a homesick lump. Instead, I kinda feel like I'm on a extended vacation (sort of). If I do find myself getting overwhelmed with a new town and a new routine, I head to Target or Wal-Mart or some other store you would find in CO. I guess the familiar setting of these stores gives me pleasure.
Life is full and, in a way, fast here in Lubbock! My goal is to keep you up to date on Texas happenings; in particular, David's journey to becoming a police officer. It's such an honor to be witness to God working in David. It wasn't that long ago that David was at the end of his rope.....he felt directionless with no success in his career attempts; he was tired of trying so hard with no desired result. It was hard to see David fed up with his faith. But God is amazing and takes His relationship with His children seriously. David may have been giving up, but God was gearing up to be alive and real in David's life.
Coming to the realization that trying really hard doesn't work was just where God needed David to be. It wasn't an overnight transformation, but a steady working in David's heart and life by our Father that brought David into a living relationship with God. Fast forward 9mths, here we are in Texas! We took each step of this journey in prayer, so I have to believe that God wants us here and David in the academy. It's not going to be easy......It's going to be a long 5 months with a lot of study and discipline. We are dependent on God everyday for everything, and we covet your prayers!
Now for the up-dates! Last week, David's first PT day was rough. His calf muscle seized up and caused him to fall out of rank. As he limped to catch up with his team mates, he found them doing push-ups until he caught up. Not good! On the bright side, he wasn't among those who threw up that first day! Muscle pain cream, Ibuprofen, stretches, Google searches, lots of prayer..........we did everything we could this weekend to make sure he didn't elicit negative attention again. Today - success! It was still rough, but he made it through! Woo hoo!
I've been working on getting the house in order, and I'm pretty happy with the result. I continue to "fiddle" with stuff in the endless effort to get it just right. I haven't shrunk into a homesick lump. Instead, I kinda feel like I'm on a extended vacation (sort of). If I do find myself getting overwhelmed with a new town and a new routine, I head to Target or Wal-Mart or some other store you would find in CO. I guess the familiar setting of these stores gives me pleasure.
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