christian + dog= better Christ living

sorry if i havent blogged lately, but i will be starting back up now. for some of you that dont know i now work at tails of hawaii, in hawaii. its a boarding place for dogs and playcare place for dogs to hang out. its an awesome job for me cause for those who know me know the passsion i have and the heart for dogs. i love all and any kinds of dog.  So here whats been on my heart lately. We call our self christians but at times ( for some of us all the time) its hard to go up to a new person and talk and get to know that person. For pastors its pretty simple but for helpers its either a discomfort for them or just not the "thing" to do for them. But since ive been working at tails of hawaii, and watching these dogs interact with each other, we should become like our loved pets. no not licking your butt or eating poop. lol. but in the way they love you and me. You ever get home and your dog not run up too you happy? of course not their excited to see you. I play and met new dogs every week, and they dont sit on the side of the room waiting for me or someone to "talk" to, no he/she runs up to you and in dog ways says hello and wants to play. 

John 14:2-3 " In my fathers house there are many rooms; if it were not so, i would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. And if i go and prepare a place for you, i will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.

Heaven has many rooms, unlimited rooms for us and others, and its our job to fill these rooms with friends family and Gods children. let us act like a dog acts, it loves everyone, it does not pick out whos the coolest or whos got money. it loves everyone, as long as you love it back.  this is just a side note, i was reading a story on foxla, a man and his wife was walling there dog at a camp site, the man left the wife with his dog to go to the bathroom, while tuning the corner he spotted a mountian lion about 100 yards off, the lion for no reason rushed the man, but about 20 yards of the man, the dog met the lion and attacked the lion, to protect his masters. After 70 seconds of screaming and just a violent fight, the lion ran off leaving the dog with its side ripped open the man rushed the dog to the vet and after four hours of sergery the dog came out with over 50 stitches happy. a dog was willing to lay down his life for his masters are we willing to lay down our status life? being a cool guy, being popular. any ways more next time, i hope this made any sence. love you guys thank you taking time and reading. more to come soon

Busy Busy

Well let's see the last time I left off I was helping out at the new church, well I've been doing alot of the demo and been there from 9 am and the last one to leave working all day long. I now just got a new job it's called tails of Hawaii, it's so amazing,I play and baby sit dogs I work Thursday and Friday nights, from 6:00 P.M till 8:00 A.M the next morning I watched tv or talk to my friends LOL I wake up at 5 am and let the dogs out clean up and play with them it's so amazing! What else... Oh they have me teaching pre school kids and now Jr. High the jr. High kids really like me so it's fun. Ok well other then work and church nothing much really new , when I have time I'll blog about what Gods been showing me and tugging at me lately and it's pretty heavy stuff so stayed tuned in

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Life in Hawaii

A poster I found downtown

Aloha friends and family,

Well I am alive and have been settling in for about 3 weeks now. For those of you who do not know, I live with Sumo & Diane Sato and i have my very own semi private room. Its the game room, and i share it with the dog. But still grateful for a place to stay!

For the past few weeks I have been just hanging out and trying to figure things out. I've been doing a lot of walking around since I don't drive. I actually needed to get out of the house one day that I walked around for 3 hours and as soon as I got home it poured down rain! But when Sumo goes to work I go with him. The Church is about 5 minutes away and the beach is about 15 minutes away(driving, not walking). And today I just got a job at the church HCWO:Hope Chapel West Oahu (located in Waikekee, Hawaii) as a facilities. Thanks Jim for the practice. The church is moving into a bigger location so they will need help with all kinds of things.

Since I've been here, I've seen a lot of very different things. For starters, the children's pastor Brian has some rather unusual pets...7 ducks!! And 2 dogs that they have to keep chained up (oh, so sad!) so that they don't chase and eat the ducks! I also met some high school guys and went to North Shore to do some witnessing, worship and asking people if they would like some prayer. It was awesome! And that night we ran into the most amazing thing ever! ELMO! Elmo was chilling downtown begging for money! It was soo cool! haha.

The college group here meets on thursday nights and is called Thirst. I've met a couple of people. Church services are saturday at 6pm and sundays 7:15, 9:00, 10:15 and 11:45 we get there at 6 am and don't leave till 3! It's a loooong day! I have begun to work with the 5th and 6th graders and this week I get to teach! Yay! The kids here are different. I miss my 56th streeters!

I finally got to got to the beach yesterday! It was soo beautiful! Crystal clear waters and sooo sunny! I went with Sumo, Brian and Randy (all Pastors). It's funny cause all the pastors here make up their own hours, so we went to the beach! While there, Brian and I were the only ones who caught a fish. But my fish swallowed the hook and so we had to throw it back and it was hurt and I'm pretty sure it got eaten by now! :( soo sad! But while at the beach i got a killer sunburn and I now look like Mr. Krabs from SpongeBob!

Life here at Hawaii is awesome! But I miss everyone soo much and pray for you everyday! Please feel free to email me, text me or just leave a comment.

I am waiting for my good bye present to get here and then I can share my pictures with you!

Aloha! Ricky!

Time to FLY!!

Well it's that time...time for me to FLY to Hawaii!!

As I'm sitting in Shayne's office I am reflecting on all the things that I am leaving. I'm leaving my friends...family...and Roxy :( my beagal. I will miss all these things, but KNOW that the Lord has soo much in store for me as I move to Hawaii. For those of you who do not already know what I will be doing up there, well...neither do I. But the plan is for me to work at HOPE CHAPEL West Ohau in the children's department and helping out where ever with Pastor Sumo Sato. And yes, i do plan to learn how to surf (with real waves) and speak some Hawiian. I will update as much as possible, but with not knowing what exactly I am doing I hope it is often :).

Thanks for all the prayers, messages that I have revcieved over the past few weeks!

Aloha!

Ricky

P.S. Shayne will always be lame :)