Young Adults Group

Well, we finally seized the opportunity to join the young adults group at our church tonight. We were both quite nervous and found ourselves trying to talk ourselves out of going all day long. But once again, we put ourselves out there and God made it worth our while. :) We had a really great time and met some really nice people. It was a pretty small group but it was kind of nice b/c it allowed us the chance to visit with people more.

The group is made up of singles and lots of young couples between the ages of 21 and 39. They meet just about once a week...they do social events, theology nights (like tonight) and service activities for the community. We already got invited to a Thanksgiving dinner this weekend and I have a girls night on Monday to go out to eat with the girls of the group.

In addition to the social aspect of it, it was nice to have a group to share our faith with and an opportunity to discuss and grow in our faith. We had a leader who is one of the faith formation teachers in the church and we discussed the difference between Dogma and Doctrine in the Catholic Church. It was definitely challenging and lead to some deep conversations...so it was good!

I felt a bit nervous because the group is already pretty established, so I wasn't sure how open they would be to two new people. But they were very glad we were there and talked a lot about how they feel they are ready to start growing the group a lot more. So I think this group will be really good for us here!


*Oh, side note: We did get some snow flurries on Monday! They didn't stick of course but it was fun to see them blowing all around. :)

Date Night

Friday night, Michael and I had a fun date! We started the night with dinner at a restaurant called Bonfire. It was really yummy and neat to go some place new. It is located on Grand Avenue in St. Paul which is a really neat little street in downtown St. Paul with lots of unique restaurants and good shopping!

Then after dinner, we went to the 10:00 show of the Jeff Dunham "Spark of Insanity Tour" show! Jeff Dunham is a comedian/ventriloquist that we saw on Comedy Central. We're not normally into comedy acts, but he is so funny! And with the puppets he uses and stuff, they each have such a different personality and the jokes are hilarious. It was super crowded and a really fun audience. So, we had a really great evening and it was nice to do something sort of different!

Tomorrow, Michael heads to Wichita for an overnight trip. Luckily, he'll be back Tuesday night but he has to leave here tomorrow at 4:30am to head to the airport so he's not too thrilled about that. :P Then Wednesday night, we are going to the Young Adults group at our church, so hopefully that will present a new opportunity for us to get involved at church and to meet new people!

It's still supposed to be pretty cold this week with a chance of some snow flurries. We went shopping for some more clothes for Michael today, so slowly but surely we are getting prepared!