God’s Preparation

God has prepared me in many was, and this has helped me get through those times.  One experience that God gave me was when we moved, because it was hard and I didn’t want to move but I think God planned it because I like my new house and I have new experiences there that I never would have had before, including getting a golf-cart, barn cats, having a zipline to my treehouse, and playing airsoft.  Another good thing about moving was meeting my friend Justin, whom also has told us before that he is glad we came because there are some other kids to play with, but they are not very nice.  There are a lot of things that are beneficial to moving.

Some gifts and abilities that God has given me are my compassion and wanting what’s right.  He has also blessed me with being athletic and having a great loving mom, dad, brother, extended family, friends, dog, and future kittens.  God has blessed me so much and one thing I want to mention is how he has blessed me with health.  I take health for granted too much and I realized that last weekend when I was really sick.  There are about a million other things I am thankful for, but I am going to wrap up know.  I need to thank God more for every thing I have.

Marshgetti Tower

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Everything went well in our building and display etc.

One thing that was kind of bad was that we couldn’t fit the egg in its area well.

My favorite part was surviving 21 seconds and my partner, Ethan S.

Least favorite part was eggs not breaking in other peoples towers, not to be mean, but it just would be really funny.

My Mystery Story

Jake Leenstra

Mrs. Roskamp

L.A.

February 16, 2016

 

The Case of The Missing Dog

It was a Saturday afternoon and Joe was just arriving home from his vacation out in Michigan, which is very cold.  Joe was excited to be home in the warm weather in Queen Creek, Arizona.  Joe lived in a nice and rich neighborhood just across the street from a nice middle school.  He lived in a 2 story house about 3-4 houses in.  He had a nice pool with a waterfall and a basketball hoop outside.  Joe had been gone for a week and was ready to defrost and then jump in the pool.  But when Joe walked inside, he was in for a big surprise.  His house had been ransacked!  His 54” inch TV was gone on the main floor, and so was his 56” TV upstairs!  His pool was trashed and colored pink with food coloring!  They even dared to steal his dog, Kitten!  Joe had typed 91 into his phone and was about to call the police, but decided against it.  He would start by investigating his neighbors.

The first neighbor Joe would talk to would be Policeman Franco.  Policeman Franco was part of a K9 unit and had a huge German Shepherd named Ares to prove it.  Joe wondered if Franco would steal Kitten so that Ares could have a friend, or, even worse, a dog to practice his police dog techniques on.  Just a Joe was about to knock on Policeman Franco’s door, he decided that the law enforcer wouldn’t do that.  He was too nice and was a high ranking officer in Tempe, Arizona.  As Joe was walking away, he realized that Franco had a DJI Phantom drone and that he might of caught an aerial view of the robber/kidnapper.  Joe went back and knocked on Franco’s door, and the policeman let him look at his recordings.  Sure enough, there was a person in a brown hooded sweatshirt holding a huge pink plastic dog bone in their hand and going into his house.  The video was even taken that morning!  Joe became excited and continued to watch but the video cut short a couple minutes later because the drone had run out of battery.  Joe said thanks to Policeman Franco and ran out the door to interview some other neighbors.

The first neighbor that Joe interviewed was a middle aged man wearing a seemingly familiar brown sweatshirt.  Joe wanted to drag the guy to jail right then and there, but decided to talk to the man.  Joe introduced himself and the man told him that his name was Matthew.  Then Matthew proceed to sneeze, then sneeze again, then sneeze again.  Matthew seemed surprised at all his own sneezing and said he didn’t know why he was sneezing.  Joe decided it was his chance to take Matthew off guard and asked him if he was allergic to fur, like a cat or dog’s fur for example.  Matthew said yes, but then proceeded to say that he did sell purebreds while taking a special pill to combat his allergy.  Joe said thank you to Matthew for his time and said and that it was nice to meet him and left.

The next neighbor that Joe visited was a scowling lady that seemed angry at everything.  He introduced himself to her and she said her name was Vanessa and that she had a pedicure in 25 minutes so he had to make it quick.  Joe started by asking her if she had any dogs and she said no.  Then he asked her if she owned any old sweatshirts that she could donate to the animal shelter, and she said she would be right back and she gave him a brown hooded sweatshirt to donate.  Joe said thanks and left.  Then he went straight to Policeman Franco’s house and told him who it was that stole his dog and TV’s.

 

SOLUTION:

Joe knew that Matthew wouldn’t have stolen Kitten because he was allergic to dogs, and also because Kitten was a mutt and not a purebred.  He also knew Matthew didn’t steal the TVs because he saw into Matthew’s house and saw he didn’t even have a TV, just a bunch of cords sticking out of the wall.  Joe knew that Vanessa had stolen his beloved dog and TVs because she said that she didn’t have any dogs, yet there were fresh scratches on her hardwood floors from claws and he had seen the end of a pink dog bone sticking out from behind a corner.  Vanessa was trying to get rid of the sweatshirt so that no one would know she had had one.  She was arrested that night by Policeman Franco and Ares and the beloved Kitten was returned to Joe along with his TVs.

Why is it important that we study Christian persecution?

It is very important to study Christian persecution because it shows how lucky we are to not be persecuted.  It also shows how we need to pray for other Christians because they are dealing with very hard things.  We need to remember that lots of people die for Jesus and that we should pray for them and know that we can sacrifice parts of ourselves for Jesus.