The Cry of a Wolf

I heard one of the most beautiful but scary sounds tonight, a wolf howling. It must have been very close to the house because I was sitting in my room trying to pick a movie to watch when all the sudden I heard it. To be honest it sent chills down my back and I froze just listening in awe and all I could think was oh my gosh that's awesome.I wish I could take a picture of a wolf howling holding its head high and letting out his cry. As I think of the outdoors I cant believe I am going to get to go moose hunting with my new friend. They have a camp a little south of Fairbanks and they go every year and asked if I wanted to join them hunting one of the largest land mammals on earth. I know we will get one and none of the other guys going do anything with the hide so I plan on trying to turn it into a pair of boots for the  cold winter or maybe even a jacket um maybe just a rug for my house when I get one. So tomorrow is Easter and my new friend and roommate and her mom asked me if I wanted to join them for their Easter dinner that way I wouldn't be alone so that should be nice and I'm sure my parents will be happy to know that I will not be alone on Easter. Well I am off to bed I hope everyone of you have a very blessed Easter. Good Night.

The Beauty of Alaska

So the other day I had the opportunity to go take a snow machine out for the first time. We went up around the Chena Hot Springs and that was an amazing site to see. While riding we came across an old trapping camp. It was so cool to see how they just cut down the trees they needed to build their home. I don't know how old they were but they had grass roofs on them to keep the warmth in. My new friend and I rode about 25 miles all around there and one thing that amazed me was seeing the mountains it seemed they truly popped out of nowhere, one minute there was only flat land then a straight up mountain they were beautiful.

The whole time we were riding I could only think WOW God you are truly spectacular, and Thank you for the wonderful gifts you gave us to look at. The other thing I saw for the first time was Moose and oh my gosh are they hugh. I would have taken a picture of them but the camera we had couldn't zoom in enough to get a good picture. But there was two of them, I think a mom and a yearling that couldn't have been to old. They were just walking down the road minding their own business soaking up the sun. While riding I had the chance to drive, it was totally different than what I am use to, a 4wheeler, it seemed you had

to fight the machine the whole time to keep it going the way you wanted it to go. I don't know if that was because we were on a mountain or if thats how it is but mo matter what it was totally fun. While heading back we had a little spill nobody was hurt we were not going fast enough for that but the snow gave way to the back end of the machine and we rolled off I kinda enjoyed it, it was funny we got a good laugh out of it so its all good. Another neat thing that we found was a cabin that you could rent from DNR for cheap its a dry cabin so it doesn't have much but a bottle of Jack Daniels which I thought was funny it

made me think of a St Bernard with the whiskey keg around its neck to rescue the stranded people in the cold winter days lol and the day we went sure was cold it was 20 degrees when we we out there but no I didn't drink any to warm up I was having to much fun to even think about it. Thank you Jesus for helping me make a new friend I have been praying that I find and with your help I have and its wonderful. I have somebody to talk to now during the day and go and do things with. I am so grateful for all my friends that have gave me the support back home and now here. Without you I would not be where I am today and so I want to thank you as well.

The WOW Factor

One of the many things I have seen around
town. I am attending the Church in the back
right Immaculate Conception.

 I'm Here!!! I arrived in Fairbanks on Sat. the 2nd of April and that same day I found out that there was a Catholic Church within a half mile from where I am living so I thought that the right way to start my adventure would to go to church. I found out that they have confession before mass on Sat. so I went to that before hand, it was wonderful I still feel like a new man. Before church started I pulled out my mass journal and asked God to show me one way in this mass I can become the best version of myself this week, then I pulled out my note book and wrote down a little prayer "Jesus show me the light today at mass, shine your glory on to me so I can go and glisten and pray that people ask me how do I glow so bright and I can tell them about You and all the wonder-us  gifts you have gave me. Amen. Matthew Kelly was the one that told me to ask Jesus to show me that one thing to become the best version of myself and during the beginning of Mass it hit me like a ton of bricks  I felt like got truly wants me to do more to get the message out to others the one main word that kept hitting me through out the mass was light. Jesus kept presenting that word to me over and over all the songs had the word light and the priests homily was about it also.

Immaculate Conception was established here
 in Fairbanks when the town was back in 1901

For the past few days I have been getting out and exploring Downtown Fairbanks, its a nice little town, they have 3 restaurants and one small block for shops but everybody I talk to tells me welcome and hope I like it here. I have not yet made any friends yet but I think that will change soon. I have an HR orientation on Friday where I can meet some people I will be working with so maybe we can start hanging out. I have a meeting with a lady over at the Diocese of Fairbanks building tomorrow after 2pm which should be nice my parents and I were in contact with her before I left SC to maybe meet some people out here before I got here. So that should be fun she has also made her Cursillo weekend so I hope we can try and have group reunion each week that would be cool. I haven't ventured out of the city limits yet I hope to be able to do that soon I would love to see a moose or even a bear or something, anything would great. I cant wait till the people I have been talking to over the phone that I will be working with get here at the end of the month and early May.