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Personal Evangelism, What I Want To Do

July 27, 2010

How many times in the past week have you seen people walking down the street on a side walk in the area of where your church is located at? That’s a question that I asked myself and realized that I hadn’t really paid any attention to the surroundings of me. But wait! Had I really ever had a desire to care? I should of! But sadly I didn’t. Sadly I didn’t seem to care about what was happening around me and who I was ignoring and possibly cause of me they would never get to hear about this gospel.

Thursday night alter call

As some of my readers know (those who are my friends off the internet and have talked to you recently), this weekend I got back home from another youth conference and this time it was PEAK. I’ve heard about this conference before and mostly I’ve heard bad about it because it’s such a big conference and many of the people who had sad bad things about it have never gone it to, but had heard about it “through the grape vine”. I, myself, had heard bad things about it but I had also heard it through the great “grape vine”. But I had also heard a ton of great things about it from people who had actually gone, and what they said over-road what the other people had said, in my mind. So, I had decided that if at all possible I was going to try and go to it. I’m very thankful and grateful that I was able to go!!! Even though I only got to go Thursday night and all of Friday, it was awesome! The focused a lot on the preaching and less on the worship since there was so many people there that when we did worship, you barely had much room.

The service was Friday night. The preacher was Bro. Cody Marks. The place was PEAK 2010, Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Spirit Bank Center. The message was for me and was awesome! The part that got to me the most was when he asked the congregation some questions and some of there were “Stand if you believe in one God”, “Stand if you back and support your pastor”, and a couple of other questions and most times almost everyone stood up. Then he asked this question “Stand if you are currently active in teaching a Bible study” and man that question hurt. Why? Because one I couldn’t stand up and two only about 1 out of 75 people stood up. Then the next question hurt so much that I cried because it hurt and all of a sudden I had a huge burden. He said “Stand if you have won someone to the Lord and discipled them and they’re still in church” then when he saw the amount of people who stood up, he cried like I’ve never seen a preacher cry while preaching. There was only 1 out of 150 people that stood up then (the ratios aren’t 100% correct, but they are my best guess)… It was horrible cause that was only a small amount of people compared to the 3000+ people that were there!!!! I cried and wept and began to pray cause the burden started to really press on me.

He preached for a little more, but had to stop cause the Holy Ghost was moving so strong. After a couple of other things happened and as many people that could fit in the front were down there, he asked for all the preacher’s sons to go on the platform and pray with each other.  I left where I was standing and praying with a guy in my church and went on up there. I started praying with some guys who I didn’t know, but then a couple minutes later I saw a guy who I was friends with and we started praying together. This went on for a while and then I don’t really remember what happened because some preachers came and prayed for me, and I became completely filled with the Holy Ghost all over and more. The next thing that I do really remember was laying on the ground and speaking in tongues, but my mind was going over a plan and ideas for outreaching for young people and teaching Bible Studies. I knew this wasn’t from my flesh because I had never really thought about this and honestly had no desire to do anything of the sort. Well the service ended a while later, or could have been a short time later cause I honestly don’t remember I was so out of it and full of the Holy Ghost.

After the service was over, I found a young man in my church who has brought some people from his school to our church and one of them is actually seeking the Holy Ghost right now.  I talked to him about trying to get a youth outreach together and learn how to teach Bible Studies. He was all ears and more than willing to do it, so I went away from our conversation feeling good! Well I got home Saturday night and was dead tired, in fact I went to sleep very shortly after getting home. That Sunday night when we was having youth service, two visitors showed up for the youth service. We had it and later I was to find out that they had actually been there before when I was out of town one time.  Then regular church service was going on and pastor was preaching really awesome, one of his best messages in a while (probably cause I haven’t heard him for a while, but needless it was a very AWESOME message!!!). But during his message they got up and left cause I found out later that one of them were “uncomfortable”, I could see why they were but I don’t know if that was the true reason why they did. But after the regular service ended with a awesome alter call (or after preaching), I sat down and talked with my youth leader about a ton of things. One was youth outreach, another was youth Bible studies, and another one was a name for our youth group.

The discussion with him was long and very good. We discussed youth outreaching and asked him what he thought of a different style of youth outreaching. I liked it because it’s not the norms of what we do on our regular outreach and you’re very sure of talking to someone (and they can’t slam a door in your face!!! lol). If you wanna know what he suggested, email me at: bradley (@) greywolf336 (.) com (this email is a different one then my personal one, so if you have my personal one email me there and I’ll answer the same). Then we discussed youth Bible studies and came to the conclusion that this was a must and we talked about different ones that we could do. We’re yet to make our final decision, but I’ve got one coming in the mail sometime soon and hopefully it’ll be a good one to do for the youth. As far as the name for our youth group, we’re undecided on a couple. But I can’t tell you, or it’d ruin the surprise on the one we finally did decide on and if we have something special for the launch of it. :)

Last night (7/26/10) I got a call around 5:45 asking what I was doing and if I was doing nothing, then did I want to go on some outreach. That call was from my youth leader, so since I wasn’t doing anything last night I agreed. We went to a pretty rich neighborhood in Lansing, KS and did some outreach there. I was starting to get discouraged because we didn’t have very good results. Nobody seemed to be answering the door, a couple told us that they had their own church and then didn’t want anything to do with us, and one person treated us like we were trash. I almost was ready to stop but then thought “that’s exactly what the devil wants us to do” and so we kept on. The last house that we did was worth the whole time we spent out there! This family had just moved into the area and the lady that answered the door seemed very interested, she seemed even more interested when we told her that we had somethings for our youth group. We told her that she’d have to see for herself what our church and church services were like! I’m praying that she and her family will come sometime!!!

Then tonight (7/27/10) I was driving home from youth prayer and some fellowship with some people in our youth group, and then that question I first asked at the very start of this blog post hit me. I started looking around while I was driving home and realized that were a ton of people outside walking around. Something in me stirred and I wanted to stop and invite some to church, but sadly my flesh and it’s “shyness” kicked in and I didn’t. When I got home I felt very sick because I didn’t stop and the thought about maybe because I didn’t stop, someone would never hear this gospel and not have a true chance of going to Heaven. I made up my mind right then and there that I was going to try and do as much personal outreaching and personal evangelism as possible!

How? By overcoming my flesh and my “shyness” and talking to as many people as I can about church and about God. Inviting them to church and then if they like it or even show a little bit of interest, ask them if they would like a Bible Study. Where would I do the Bible Studies? I want to try to do them at public places, like McDonalds and other public places like that. Why there? Because more than likely they’re gonna be more comfortable there and who knows, someone might be sitting behind and act like they aren’t listening but they’re straining to hear what you’ve got to say cause they see you’ve got a Bible out.

I’m ready to start doing personal evangelism and with the Lord’s help, I would like to win at least 10 people within 2 months! But I need your help! (You my readers!) I want your suggestions on some other things to do to help me in outreach and personal evangelism! Have any? Contact me or send me an email at bradley (@) greywolf336 (.) com – If you do send any, I’ll be in great thankfulness of you!!!

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

P.S: Sorry for such a long post! It’s probably the longest one I’ve done yet! Lol – Also why does everyone think my birthday is Friday?? Lol I wasn’t born on July 30th….

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Effects of Stress

July 13, 2010

Many of days now it seems as if everybody is under stress, whether it be good stress or bad stress. I know that I am usually under a whole bunch of stress and a majority of it isn’t the good kind. I’ve noticed that while under stress, there are many things that happen to me. Some of those things include pimples, gray hair, not talkative, deeper concentration, and patient.

Pimples are a major effect for me. (pictures) Before camp I was all stressed out and my face was full of them. As camp dates got nearer, I got even more stressed out because some things happened. My face was looking very horrible and I almost didn’t want to go to camp because it looked so hiddious. I decided that going to camp would do me a huge favor and I would get closer to God. I’m very thankful that I did go because it was a blessing and I had so much fun there! (As will soon be described in a blog post.) While I was at camp, I wasn’t stressed out or stressing out about anything. In fact, I almost had a care free attitude and I was a very different person down there. People who met me down there didn’t and couldn’t believe that I was actually a shy person cause I was that different. That was all fun and good, but when I had to start heading home stress hit me. When I got home around 4 (or so) I looked in the mirror and could see three pimples already forming. I wasn’t happy about it, but that’s when I realized it was an effect of stress.

Some people would laugh if I told them that I have gray hair at this young of age, but being 100% honest I do. How? Because of stress. Back before I started running the sound system, I had a nice one shade of brown hair color. Now you look at me and you’ll see that I have gray hair inside of my brown hair. I look a lot older now but I’m not complaining!

When I’m under a lot of stress and pressure of things, I tend to talk very little! In fact I would rather not talk at all when I’m under tons of stress because I might release some pressure out and yell at someone, not really meaning to. If I want to communicate with someone and not have an worries about telling, I write things out or type things out.

Since I’m not very talkative when under stress and pressure I do a lot of thinking and tend to have deeper concentration. If you look back at some things I’ve posted, you might notice that they tend to be a little deeper (*cough* Brianna *cough* :-p lol) and easier to read. One of those articles I think was the “What Will It Take”.

One of the last things that I’ve realized stress does to me (there are many more, but these are the main ones) is I can be very patient. To some that can come as a surprise since under stress and pressure, people tend to lose their patience and explode. I have been told that I’m one of the most patient people someone has meet, and especially an IT guy. I’m praying that the Lord helps me keep my patience and not lose it, especially when I get under a ton of stress and pressure!

Please don’t be grossed out too much by the pictures posted below, as they are pictures of pimples right after I got back from Camp! Shows how much stress does effect my face and looks.

God Bless,
Bradley

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How I Wanna Be Remembered

July 8, 2010

I saw a billboard on my way home today from Guitar Center that was from a company advertising how much they charge for complete funerals. This thought crossed my mind and started the gears in my head to turn. I started thinking about how I would want to be remembered as and what I wanted to be remembered for doing. It’s an interesting topic that really has made me think and that’s why I wanted to write about it.

How do I want to be remembered like? I want to be remembered by people in the world as someone who was different then everyone else, and there was just something about him. What do I want that “something about him” to be? That I was an Apostolic young person (or just an Apostolic). To the world I want to be remembered as someone who was nice, you could tell him something and not worry about it getting spread around, dressed nicely no matter what the event or place was (like no shaggy look), and loved church and Jesus!  I also think it’d be cool to be remembered as someone who could help out with computers problems and be a patient person.

How do I want to be remembered in the church/Apostolic people? Mainly someone who was on fire for God and knew how to pray and worship. Those last two things are something that I need to work on if I really want to be remembered for those. Some other things that would be sweet to be remembered by is that for church I was always dressed top of the line no matter if I was just at my home church or I was at a church camp or at a conference. Another thing I would like to be remembered by is that I could figure out a sound system and help a church sounding good.

There are some other things that I would love to be remembered for doing, but they aren’t as high on the list of things as above. Being able to code almost any website design thrown at me would be something neat to be remembered by, but it’s such a small thing that it’ll probably be the last thing remembered of me. Being a good photographer would be something else, but I haven’t taken many pictures in my life to be remembered of it.

I know this post seemed to be mainly about me and it’s very rare that I’ll talk about myself this much, but that thought really was stuck in my head and I had to get it out. Later I will be making a post about a little phrase Bro. Ben Weeks said when he was preaching at a night service at Camp Niangua, “Don’t judge me by my snake bite.” Very good meaning behind it and I’m praying that God helps me write it and do justice to it. Hopefully it’ll be wrote by a week from now.

God Bless,
Bradley

P.S: Brianna, was this “deep”? :p lol

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One

May 26, 2010

One can mean a lot. It can be 12 or .5 + .5. It can also mean other things and those other things are pretty awesome!!! Let me explain…

One hour till I leave for prayer at church and tonight I’m playing the bass during church.
One Lord, One Faith, and One baptism – Ephesians 4:5
One more day of school!!!
One more day of school food
One way to Heaven
One more year of high school for me left! :)
One year till I graduate from High School
One more month till I leave for Camp Niangua 2010!!
First year of going to Camp Niangua! And yes i’m 100% excited for it!!!

This list could do on and on, but since I’m leaving in about an hour (1 hour) for before service prayer, I had better start getting ready. I’m thinking of wearing one of my new shirts that I just bought, but can’t decide which one to wear… Guess we’ll see since they are actually going to be taking pictures tonight and I was told I have to put them up online. So, I’ll make a blog post about it after I get them uploaded to my church’s website.

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Recent Happenings

March 18, 2010

Wow it has been a long time since I have posted anything to my blog!! I’ve just honestly been so busy with life that I’ve rarely had any time to do anything. My life has consisted of going to school, going directly to work after school, and church. School’s been some what a drag because it’s so much harder than the first semester of this school year. They didn’t put me into an English class the first semester so then they had to place me into two English classes this second semester. And let me tell you this much, it is insanely hard!! Plus taking PreCalc doesn’t help make it any easier, it actually has made it a bunch harder!! Then there’s work.. Actually work isn’t all that bad since I enjoy what I’m doing. I work for Summit Solutions and I am in the FRD (fix & repair daily). Basically what we do there is repair computers and remove viruses (and any other harmful things on a computer) for people that bring their computers in. I enjoy doing it and I also do it as a side job/hobby. So if you know me and want your computer cleaned for a cheap price get a hold of me and we’ll work something out!

Then there’s awesome church!!! I love my church (Truth Tabernacle) and love being an Apostolic young person! I wouldn’t and won’t trade it for anything this world has to offer!! As most of my readers know I am my church’s lead sound man. What does that mean? It means a lot of different things, but I’ll summarize it for you.. We have a very nice sound system and a very nice mixer, there are areas of it that we could improve on but you have to have money for that. We also have a very nice piece of equipment that let’s us record professionally. This was a somewhat expensive too, but it wasn’t too bad. In fact here in the next couple of months we (the other sound man and I) are thinking about adding onto this so that we can have all the drum mica recorded separately and not remixes like we are doing now. We make preaching CDs and we record all the special singing so that we can make a special singing CD and sell. We’ve made one in the past, but it was all remixed and so we couldn’t really make it sound better and more professional. (As a side note, if anyone wants to buy the first special singing CD please let me know.) Back in the sound booth during worship service we control the projector that displays the lyrics to the songs that are being sung. We also display the first scripture that the preacher reads. I personally am not a fan of this because some people no longer bring their Bibles, but that’s why we only do one scripture so that if someone really wants to follow the scriptures that the preacher is reading they will bring their Bible.

I’ve learned a couple things since I’ve made a blog post. One of those things is the fact that if you give God your tithes and then more than just the 10% that he requires, He will bless you. I’ve experienced that first hand. Ever since I got my job I’ve been getting paid every other week (I think that’s how it is) and so I get to pay my tithes to the Lord. Well the other week I was going to put the money into the offering and realized that I had money the a spot where I usually keep the money for tithes. I was confused by this cause I was pretty sure I had paid tithes last time.. Well just to be sure that I did pay it I put it in the offering. That week I got some side jobs to do that are earning me some extra money! It’s a total blessing from the Lord!!!

I’ve recently been getting some thoughts for articles. The thing is though that I’ve yet to have enough time to actually sit down and collect my thoughts together and write a good article. I want to do this so bad!! I’ll have to make some time to sit down and write an article. One that I really want to sit down and write badly is “What Will It Take – Part II”. I’ve got some other thoughts running through my head, but I won’t want to share them with you cause you might steal them. Lol :p

That’s it for right now.. I’ve got to start studying for a practice A+ test I’m taking tomorrow morning before I head out for a youth service that I’m going to in Guy, Arkansas.

God Bless,
Bradley

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Week Review and Saturday 9/19/09

September 18, 2009

In my last blog post I told you that I would post again before the weekend and tell you what was going to happen. Well, here it is and I’m really surprised that I actually did what I said I was going to do! Lol

This week has been an interesting one all things considered. Monday at school my P.E. teacher wouldn’t accept the letter that my mom wrote to excuse me from working out since my hands weren’t healed yet. He told me that I had to have a doctors note to fully excuse me from working out. This then caused me to have to go to see a doctor, so that Monday night I did go. CIMG0209The doctor said that I bruised my bone and that my wound(s) were infected. She gave me some medication to take to get rid of my infection and then wrote a note to excuse me from working out until the CIMG020621st. Tuesday another day of school and long one at that, posted a blog post, and then that night I went to puppet practice and meet up with my friend. Yeah that’s him pictured to the left, me and him are really good buddies, we’ve done I think too puppet shows together and we’re really good together! Ha-ha. Wednesday night was a another day of school, but it kind of went pretty fast which felt good. That night I got surprised because there was a visiting preacher, Elder Eldon Eckles. His preaching was AWESOME, but he had a young apostolic lady with him. I was wondering who she was because honestly she was pretty good looking. So, service went on and Pastor Chalfant introduced the preacher and then said that it was Elder Eldon Eckles’ grand daughter. Knowing me, I haven’t got the guts to talk to her because I’m too shy when it comes to talking to girls and meeting new Apostolic people in person… I’m determined to do it though! (I’ll tell you my plan here shortly.) Thursday was a pretty good day because it went by pretty fast, and I learned that I will be paid $600 for working 60 hours, working for USD469 doing technical work and things related to that. Also, Thursday night I worked on converting a website layout and designCIMG0124 that I had done a while back into a Joomla! template, I got a good amount done, just got a whole bunch more to do. Friday (today) wasn’t the best for the first half of the day, but after school things got a ton better! Got home and worked on the Joomla! template some more (fixed some bugs here and there), then left for prayer meeting. After prayer meeting was over I stayed to practice a song for the youth service that is coming up the 23rd at Truth Tabernacle. As we was practicing, they asked me if I could lead song service. What could I say, besides yes? So, I’m leading youth service song service on Wednesday night. That’s been this week. What about this weekend and my plan of me trying to talk to Elder Eckles’ grand daughter?

My answer is as follows. Tomorrow there is a Youth Rally at New Life in Olathe, KS. I’m excited because it’s the first one in a long time and I’m ready to be in a service with other young people that is directed to young people. I’ll try to post some pictures of it if I take any… As for my plan to talk to Elder Eckles’ CIMG0213grand daughter, I’m planning on getting or making myself talk to her tomorrow since they are going (my dad asked Elder Eckles). If any of you read this and are going tomorrow, want to maybe help me out or give me any pointers? Ha-ha

That’s it, except the picture to the right is the starting of what I hope is my second to next blog post. And if you’re wondering, yes I do actually write down some of blog post because I get ideas at school and can’t really type them up on a computer or on my phone. If you click on the picture you might be able to read what my title might be, in case you can’t I plan to title it “Me, Myself, and You?”. Thanks for taking the time out of YOUR day to read my blog!!!

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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School Schedule

September 1, 2009

School has been going for about two weeks, and it’s relatively easy. My schedule is:

  1. Strength and Conditioning
  2. Spreadsheet/Database/PowerPoint
  3. Earth Science G
  4. Marketing
  5. Pre-Calc
  6. HTML
  7. Working at USD469 District Office on the websites

My first hour is just going to the weight room on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Then on Tuesdays and Thursdays we do some conditioning workouts (basically running for a while). I’ve set a couple of goals for myself, one of them is by the end of September I will be doing 45 pound dumbbell flys. I’ve set a couple other goals for myself, but I can’t really remember them right now.Microsoft Excel 2010

Second hour for me is pretty easy, except we are just reading a book and the teacher does nothing. I’ve learned a little bit so far, but not very much since it’s a computer class. Right now we are just ”learning” the spreadsheet part, which is we are actually learning Microsoft Excel 2003. I think it’s kind of pointless because I’ve got Microsoft Excel 2010 on my personal computer. I’m sure the techniques are about the same, but getting to all the options isn’t very close. The image above is a screenshot I just took of Excel 2010.

Earth Science G is easy right? Correct. Except the only problem is with my teacher and the way that he approaches teaching. My class is overfilled (which means that there’s not enough seats [desks] for all the students) and my teacher acts like he has a small class. He doesn’t teach much, yet when he trys to he spends time with one table and by the end of class he hasn’t gotten around to everyone which means a table (usually my table) doesn’t get taught. He also raises his hands whenever he wants everyone quiet. Well, that doesn’t work our too good because usually everyone isn’t looking at him, they are either talking to someone and/or looking else where. Also, his appearance isn’t the best and I don’t think he acts like a great teacher. His beard is very non-kept and doesn’t look like it’s been trimmed very much (or at all for all it matters). Overall I think that I’m not going to like that class… Sadly I have it all year.

I took marketing as a filler class and wish that I wouldn’t have because it’s hard and all we do is read and take quizzes. I’m not a fast reader so I don’t get the whole chapter completed before we have a quiz. Which means I haven’t been doing very good in that class. :( Tonight, for example, we had 6 worksheets to do. He only gave us a couple of minutes to do it in class. Thankfully I can do it before that class so I didn’t really have homework.)

Probably my hardest class of this whole year, is my 5th hour. I went into this class knowing that Pre-Calc would be hard and that I would have a lot of homework from it. That has turned out to be true and we have our first test tomorrow. So, we will see how I feel about how I did. I honestly hope that I do good since it is our first test and if you get a low grade to start with it’s kind of hard to get it back up. Please pray for me!!! Lol

Sixth hour is the EASIEST class that I have had and probably will have. It’s also the most boringest class that I have taken because the whole class is like a review for me. Want to know what’s funny/sad? It’s the fact that the teacher looks to me for help when a student doesn’t do something correct. A couple of people in that class told me that I would be a better teacher than the one we have now. I don’t know how true that would be, since I’m not a very good teacher. Mr. Wessel would tell me to shut up because he thinks other wise since I showed him and three other people how to update a website using Joomla!.

You’re probably wondering what in the world my 7th hour class is. Well, do you remember me posting a while back about doing a website for my school? If you don’t then you can read the blog post here. My seventh hour class is devoted to managing and updating the High School’s website (http://www.usd469.net/lhs/). It’s also a time period where I can learn more about Joomla! and other web applications. It’s a fun class (if you could even call it that), there’s only four people (excluding the teacher/leader). So far I’ve done the High School’s website and the Lansing PTA’s website. Both are using Joomla!, thus I don’t have to worry about updating them myself. All I have to do is train someone on how to use Joomla! to post articles and such. Very useful web application for people who know ZERO HTML!!!

After reading this long blog entry, what do you think of my first semester or my junior year? Leave me a comment or if you want, do a @b_hilton on twitter.com with a comment. Thanks for reading!

Bradley Hilton

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How Noise Affects Cognition and Mood

August 19, 2009
Picture for the article of Noise and Health

We subject ourselves to ‘acoustic startle response’ each morning we’re roused by the unpleasant sounds from an alarm clock. This abuse can, in the long run, induce cardiovascular and digestive distress.

We also become mentally combative when we’re pummeled with noise, such that the World Health Organization notes aggressiveness as a health risk of noise. Additionally, other cognitive functions are sacrificed in the presence of noise-induced anger.

Psychologist Arline Bronzaft’s research has shown that, in the case of a school located next to a train track, students’ performance is hampered by noise. On the quieter side of the school, students performed at a reading level higher than the students on the train side. When measures were taken to insulate the noise-affected students, their performance evened out.

Beyond this, stroke victims have also been reported to have increased visual awareness when listening to preferred music, and surgery patients have reported less pain while listening to nature sounds.

The takeaway? Take measures to calm your mind and body by using more soothing sounds to wake you up in the morning. And whenever possible, try drowning out noise by listening to something pleasant. Your brain will thank you!

I take no credit for writing this article! I give all credit to www.lumosity.com because they sent me an email with this and I thought that I would share this with you all. It’s a very interesting article and has some cool information.

I might continue to post articles like this along with some blog post about my life and some things I’ve been up to or doing. Leave a comment if you want,

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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New “Gadget”

June 26, 2009

This time I’m really sorry for all you people that read my blog for not updating it for a long time. I don’t really have a good enough excuse to put up except that I have just been putting it off and off and off. Well, I finally decided to post a new entry because I got a really cool gadget in the mail today that I ordered a while back. I bough this item off of Ebay.com on June 11th and I just now got it in the mail (today is the 26th). I’m sure that if it was you that ordered it and then it didn’t arrive until now you would be like I am, ant’s in your pants and the like… Ask anyone that lives in my house (my dad and my mom :p) about how I was acting and how I was only talking about if I didn’t get it by July 2nd then I was going to get a hold of the person and get my money back! Ha-ha

I’ve got good news now! It FINALLY arrived in the mail today!!! :D – Don’t get too excited for me now, cause that would be just a little bit weird. So I’ve decided to make this blog entry mostly about me opening the package and then charging it and then me wearing it… Here it goes:

Hong Kong!

Like I told you earlier in this post I ordered this off of Ebay.com because it was cheaper then any of the other sites that I could have went through. I didn’t notice until it was to late that this was being shipped from Hong Kong, China! (As you can hopefully see in the picture to the left. <—– ) This is the reason why I didn’t receive it until two weeks after i had ordered it. Here’s another picture of the back of it that says the postage people in China have the free will to look through the package!

"customs"

(This kind of scared me when I first saw it.) I’m now glad that we live in the United States of America! Even though our rights are getting taken away slowly but surely… Another subject for maybe not another time. If you click on any of these pictures they are HUGE, so you can click on them just like they are or you can right click and open in a new tab or open in a new window to see them better.

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After I had looked at the back (and took a picture of it —–>) I opened the package and this is what was inside ( <—- ). I then threw the brown (actually looks green in real life) aside and opened the bubble wrap packing. Inside of that is what I wanted and have been waiting for, for what seems like forever! But it was inside a zip lock baggy, so I opened this and there it was! My new Motorola S9 Bluetooth Stereo Headset has finally arrived! Here’s some pictures of it out of the package and charging.

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Well that’s it for right now, except to tell everyone that in ONE week I’m leaving for PA!!! Going to be gone for a week and half to just hang out and then the rest of the second week I’m going to a Akron Youth Conference in Ohio! Going to be fun and a blast and relaxing… Until next time,

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

P.S: I don’t look half way decent right now so that’s why there isn’t any pictures of me wearing this. I hope you all understand! I plan on making a new blog post (entry) whenever I get the chance to look half way decent and get the chance to take pictures. Thanks for understanding and be looking for the new post!

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Church02.5!

March 19, 2009

FINALLY I CAN SLEEP!!! Lol – That’s how i feel right now because I’ve figured out how to add a drop down menu to my template for Joomla! I told you guys in my last post that I would be posting here whenever I finally got my template with a MooMenu added. And that’s what I am doing, but in the process of doing it I thought that you guys might want to see my screen when I work on it. This screen shot is actually from whenever I was testing out the new menu and seeing if it would work in all the browsers I have installed. The ones open and up are Opera and Safari. To my surprise Internet Explorer handled the menu better than Firefox! To all the web developers you know that this came as a huge surprise!!! Lol – As you can tell I’m really excited (from all the “!”’s). Here’s the screen shot:

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The only thing that I have left to do is to edit the “templateDetails.xml” file to be up to date and to include all the files when installing. Then the next test will be to test the installing of the template and work out all of the errors that I get. Let’s pray that I can get it all working before I go to bed! :D

On a side note, I’ve been texting this girl since last week sometime, and then this past Saturday a local church had a youth service with fellowship afterward. I stayed for it and talked to someone about this girl and to find out she’s on fire for God which is AWESOME! This means that once I talk to my pastor about his rules for talking to girls, then I am going to move on from there and I’m praying that she actually likes me!!! Lol – I’m sure most of my readers don’t really care about this, but I just thought I would put that in there! Haha – That’s all for now, will update later some time, that ain’t a promise that it’ll be within a week, but I will try.

God Bless,
Bradley Hilton

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