Lock In Night:

The lock in last night was really the first thing we could have fun at this year, and even though it turned out to be a bust (since no one showed up besdies some of the guys from last year, minus Aaron, and Danny Joe and Tyler). Even though no one new showed up so our plans for explaining the mission was sort of ruined it was still fun and helped to get everyone excited for missions again. Especially after the group building games, that was when we all started to come together better. I think Danny Joe and Tyler are excited for it too so we must have done something right.

Our Schedual:

Group goes to the O'Hara Play
Icebreaker
Intro Prayer
Create Prayers for later
Group Building Excerise
Prayer/ Movie - The Power of One
Night Closing Prayer

Wake Up - Breakfast - beans, chileqias, tortias and coolaid
Church at Regis
Closing and Going Home

Failure:

This was supposed to be the day when the first payment was due, I think it was the payment for plane tickets, but it turns out that almost everyone who wanted to go suddenly dropped out. We have maybe five from last year and two new ones. Danny Joe and Tyler. It seems like it is going to be very hard to get interest in missions for some reason this year. CBC had more than seventy-five applications last year alone and we have seven...

I don't understand why people don't want to go, maybe they are scared by Brother's amazing man beard. Or, maybe they just need to be made aware of the mission opprotunity by a more reliable source. It can't sound good to have two seniors come up and ask you about whether you want to run away to mexico for a couple weeks... Note to whoever takes me and Trevor's place next year. Make sure you get the administration involved in promoting this mission. Obviously kids need more encouragment to commit to leaving the country than I can give them.

First Parent Meeting:

Our first parent meeting was tonight and we had quite a few parents show up. So far it is looking okay, we had maybe ten new families here so we should have a decent turn out for the mission this year, better than last year anyway.

But even with all the parents that showed up we only have two new guys committed to mission. Danny Joe Adams and Tyler Fratzke. We were hoping for at least three from each grade... Not what we are looking for so far.

The people that are interested though are Kevin Hogan, Matt Mac, Teddy Dujokidivc (misspelled quite badly), Anthony Liggit, Brandon Weshe, and a couple others that are even less involved than those ones.

So this could end up being fantastic or it could be a waste of time to try and plan... We have nine committed if everyone from last year still wants to go.

Applications

I just finished re-typing the applications for this years missions, all the dates are right, and hopefully all the misspellings or grammar errors are fixed.

This week is the first time that underclassmen have shown some interest in missions, asking for applications, talking to me or trevor and aaron about what we would do in mission, things like that. We have also talked to some teachers about students that would be good in missions and talked to indivuals that the seniors think would do well. But all of that might not matter too much if none of them show up to Lasallion youth tomorrow morning. So far we have had meetings with just me and trevor and also a few with all of the returning missionaries minus Joe Volz.

Surprisingly the application took a quite a bit of time, and effort. I didnt expect it to be that difficult to check all the dates and things. Got a lot done today though.

Porfolio Entry 1

Today we worked on our calendar dates which are due toady. Set up online calandar with google, and started our blogs that will become our journal for our senior projects. At this stage, we are learning how to use this system and doing our planning for our individual projects. The initial idea for my weekly mission preparation is worksheets to be handed out at Lasallian Youth meetings. The worksheets would be anything from useful spanish phrases to examples of the unique mexican prayer style.

When we get the applications and start to select students to go with us on the mission then I can start the real planning on the date of the Retreat between all the schools. Until we have at least an idea of the number of students going then the best i can do is get the worksheets to everyone at the Lasallian meetings. And it seems like Brother Chuck is serious about only taking the people that decide going to the Lasallian Youth meetings is important so maybe i can start thinking about planning for about that many people. Brother also mentioned taking around 15 people this year. Either way, right now the focus is the worksheets.

People that attended last week's Lasallian Youth meeting:
Chance Norton
Trevor Gudde
Kevin Huber
Aaron Braun
Trevor Krasowsky

.... and none of the possible underclassman. Not a very good way to start off the year