lately

been super busy.
this weekend went to zhongshan to visit the girls there. They are always super fun to hang out with. After that, jeff and i took off to HK early in the morning. 4 hours of buses and subs later, we arrived at the HK temple and rushed into the meeting. We after went to a mall and walked around looking for mexican food. That was false. No mexican food was nowhere to be found. We hit the regular fallback in unfamiliar and expensive territories, Mcdonalds. A spicy chicken sandwhich later, we walked around and looked at cool stores. We went to a crowded street market full of fake rolexs and gucci glases. Most people i've ever seen. Super uncomfortable. Lots of nasty travelers there. Funny to see cultures mix and the way that the chinese interact with foreigners. They know exactly what to say. Then we came back and got a hotel by church in GZ. I lost my wallet in a taxi along the way. Little bummed about that but its pretty much spilt milk. Only had 150rmb in it, like 20usd. canceling all my cards soon. so it will be ok. life is too good to worry about little things like that. but it did point out something that i've always been terrible at, losing things. i've got enough money to hold me over for a few months here, so no worries about that.

Project sprouts is getting bigger and bigger. I guess if you wanted to say, you could say that it has sprouted. Some high rollers at church are going to lay out alot of money. woop. Everyone wants to help these kiddies but doesn't know how. Sprouts is going to be good way to funnel that desire. I don't know how many, and i really don't care about numbers, desks will be collected, but that we do something when we can and should do something is more important to me. It's not going to start here, so why start counting at all. We know where we need to be eventually, and whether that is now or later is the only question.

Its been funny to see my blind and sometime naive optimism pitted against the pecimism of many of sprouts' supporters. They try to get me to see all the negative and i try to tell them to forget it and be excited. So far i think its a tied game.