Everything

Probably the most powerful skit i've seen, i cry everytime.

You know you're a Minnesotan if...

You measure distance in minutes.

Weather is 80% of your conversation.

Down south to you means Iowa.

You call highways "freeways."

Snow tires came standard on your car.

You have no concept of public transportation.
75% of your graduating high school class went to the Univ. of Minnesota.

You know more than 1 person that has hit a deer.

People from other states love to hear you say words with "o"s in them.

You know what and where "Dinkytown" is.

"Perkins" was a popular hangout option in high school.

You have no problem saying or spelling "Minneapolis."

You can list all the "Dales."

You hate "Fargo" but realize that a lot of your family has that accent.

You get mad at people who think Fargo is in Minnesota.

Your school classes have been canceled because of snow or cold.

You know what Mille Lacs is and how to spell it.

You assume when you say "The Cities" people know where you are referring to.

You know what the numbers 694, 494, I-94, 394 mean.

You have tried boiled fish in lye at Christmas.

You know the 2 sports-related reasons why we hate Dallas.

Nothing gets you madder than seeing a Green Bay sticker on a MN car.

You know what "uff-da" means and how to use it properly.

You can pinpoint exactly where each scene in "Untamed Heart" was filmed.

You can spot the three-second cameo appearance by "The Artist formerly Known as Prince" in "Fargo."

You're a loyal Target shopper.

You've licked frozen metal.

The only reason you go to Wisconsin is to get fireworks or to fish.

You own an ice house, a snowmobile, and a 4-wheel drive vehicle.

You wear shorts when it's 50 degrees outside in March, but bundle up and complain in August when it goes below 60.

You know people that have more fishing poles than teeth.

You remember WLOL.

It feels like the Mississippi is everywhere you go.

When you talk about "opener" you are not talking about cans.

You have gone Trick-or-Treating in 3 feet of snow.

You know that when it comes to AM, there is only WCCO, besides, what else do you need?

You know what the word SPAM stands for (in more ways than one)

You carry jumper cables in your car.

You drink "POP," not "SODA"

There was a time when you were SO proud that Soul Asylum is from MN

In a conversation you heard someone say "yah, sure, you betcha" and you didn't laugh.

Everyone you know has a cabin.

You get sick of people asking you where Paisley Park is.

You know that Lake Wobegon isn't real and you know who made it up, where they live, and exactly what to do about it.

You have friends who schedule their wedding in the middle of January without a thought about weather conditions.

You may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of Lutefisk.

Someone mentions Old Hubie or the Humph, and you know exactly who they mean.

You like the Winter Olympics better than the Summer Olympics.

You beam with pride when some King or Hollywood super star comes to the Mayo Clinic to save their lives.

You have ever worn shorts and a parka at the same time.

You have either a pet or a child named "Kirby."

Your town has an equal number of bars and churches.

You know how to say Wayzata, Mahtomedi, and Shakopee.

You grew up thinking rice was only for dessert.

You never had to rewind any part of "Fargo" because you missed some of the dialogue.

You always believed that vacation meant "going up north."

Your bank has the name of your town included in its name.

The temperature in March is above freezing for three days in a row, and you think it's summer.

You laugh out loud every time you see a news report about a blizzard shutting down the entire east coast.

The first time you saw "Grumpy Old Men" you thought it was a documentary.

Your state's pro football team beats San Francisco, but loses to Tampa Bay.

You've been made fun of for your northern accent.

You've been to an ice hockey game.

You've been snowmobiling.

You know how the wind chill factor works.

You constantly make fun of Iowa.

You keep an ice scraper in your back seat.

You call the childhood game "Duck, duck, gray duck."

You've ever built a snowman.

You consider 50 degrees in March a warm day.

You make fun of Wisconsin people.

You know where yellow snow comes from.

You know at least one person in your imediate family hate the "Packers."

You "go to the cabin" on the weekends during the summer.

You've ever taken a family vacation to either North or South Dakota.

You're still mad at the LA Lakers for not changing their name.

You or your family owns a snow blower.

You, your dad, or a close friend has a snow plow on the front of their pick up truck.

You expect school cancellations and delays to happen at least twice a winter.

You still hear/tell stories about the "Halloween Snow Storm" of 91.

You've been in, on, or near a lake within the past week.

You know the names of the Twin Cities.

You've been to the city of Duluth.

Heidi and I

Here is a picture of Heidi and I at the Presidential Inaguration this last week.

Qualifying Exam

So i found out yesturday that i passed my LeTourneau Qualifying Content Exam! which means i can now take the state content test (which has a lower passing score and is said to be easier!) woo hoo!

The Return of the Blogger

So after killing some time this morning i've decided that i miss blogging. Now, i hate writing, but for some reason i enjoy blogging and sharing what's going on with my life. So i'm going to try to make more of a concious effort to blog more often when things happen.
Right now life is pretty busy and fall break couldn't come at a better time. It's mid-term week, so i have a lot of tests to do, but most have passed which is good. Now i just need to make it to Christmas break and get home and enjoy some rest and relaxation. Well, hopefully i keep this up, it should be fun!

Wedding Webpage

For those of you who still look at my blog Heidi and I have a webpage where you can find all of our wedding information. I update it whenever we figure something out for the wedding. The web address is:
http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/AdamPautsch&HeidiSchondelmeyer

we hope you find it informative!

From the Inside Out

So i heard this song at chapel today and really liked it, so i looked around and found it, here are the lyrics.

From The Inside Out
by Hillsong United

A thousand times I've failed
Still Your mercy remains And should I stumble again
I'm caught in Your grace
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame

Your will above all else
My purpose remains
The art of losing myself
In bringing You praise
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame

In my heart and my soul
Lord I give You control
Consume me from the inside out
Lord let justice and praise
Become my embrace
To love you from the inside out

Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart
Is to bring You praise
From the inside out
Lord my soul cries out

Gas

Got this email from someone...thought it was pretty good.

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer, gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.

2. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank so you're getting less gas for your money.

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)

4. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.

Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'

haha!

A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land, for $150." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home.

The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?"

The man replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."

John Waller "The Blessing"

I heard this song on the radio today and really liked it, so i bought it on itunes and decided to share the lyrics with you! Enjoy!

John Waller - The Blessing
From the album The Blessing

Chorus:
Let it be said of us
While we walked among the living
Let it be said of us
By the ones we leave behind
Let it be said of us
That we lived to be a blessing for life

Let it be said of us
That we gave to reach the dying
Let it be said of us
By the fruit we leave behind
Let it be said of us
That our legacy is blessing for life

This day
You set life, you set death right before us,
This day
Every blessing and curse is a choice now
And we will choose to be a blessing for life

Let it be said of us
That our hearts belonged to Jesus Let it be said of us
That we spoke the words of life
Let it be said of us
That our heritage is blessing for life

For your Kingdom, for our Children
For the sake of every nation

CRAZY WEEKEND!

Ok, so here's how it started, we leave Longview around 10:30, and what do we find...SNOW, in APRIL, in TEXAS...already a weird start to the trip.

Then we get outside of Dallas, have lunch with Phil Taylor's G-pa and on our way to hang out at a mall we get rear ended by a girl who doesn't have insurance, doesn't have her driver's liscense on her, isn't wearing shoes, and was already late for a job she was going to get fired from anyways for being late too many times. Much to Phil's dismay, he was very pleased that the interior of his car would forever smell of dunkin' dounuts coffee.

We then go to Target and sample stuff from the febreez/lysol isle and get some window wipes to clean up his car.After all of this we uneventfully, thankfully, head over to the ball park at Arlington. We find our seats, second deck, second row from the top (not gonna happen). At the start of the game they announce that today was the coldest starting game time temperature the Rangers have ever had at that stadium, 38 degrees, and that was while the sun was still out. So we sit in our seats for an inning before we move down.

The game ends and the Rangers win!On our way back we stop to get gas. Phil fills up the car and as we're about to leave his car won't start, nothing, no noise, nothing! So, phil says he knows what the problem is, it's just that it's under the hood, and he can't pop the hood. So on a whim we start opening doors and turning the key and in the end we get it running. The rest of the trip is uneventful and i'm just thankful to have made it back in one peice and alive!

Spring Break 2007 Video

Spring Break 2007

Dear Friends and Family,

First off I want to thank you all for your support and prayer during this journey I went on! God truly moved not only in the lives of those we helped, but in mine as well. My team and I accomplished many things, but none of that would have happened had we not gotten there.
My journey begins back here in Longview. We were supposed to leave around noon on Friday March 9th. We were first told that the buses would be late, which was understandable, then a little late turned into 2 hours, which turned into another 2 hours, and so on. Finally around 11:30pm the VP of student affairs came and said “look, the buses aren’t here, so why don’t you guys go back to your rooms and go to bed, we’ll figure this out in the morning.” So we went back to our rooms not knowing until the next morning that the buses had shown up at 12:30am. After basically what turned into a 24 hour delay we were on the road!
The trip to Guadalajara was uneventful which was good. We made it there in about 30 hours, that’s one long bus ride! We arrived to the place where we thought we were staying; a very nice church in what I was told was the richest part of Guadalajara. So, as you can imagine, I was pretty comfortable with this; a nice safe neighborhood, we each would get a mattress, and Starbucks was just down the road! So, after we had everything moved in a lady came out and said that we weren’t staying there. I was pretty disappointed, not only was the place really nice but we had moved all of our stuff inside. So after talking with some people we loaded everything up into 3 trucks and drove to the place where we would be staying in the slums of Guadalajara. If you recall I wanted to get out of my comfort zone on this trip, the first place didn’t do that, this place did. It was a two story pieced together house the church was hoping to use to house groups such as ourselves; we were the guinea pigs. Just the guys stayed there. We ended up sleeping 5 guys in a room about the size of a dorm room all on the floor in sleeping bags. There were two showers in this building, but little water pressure and no hot water, but plenty of cold water (I am now more grateful for warm showers!)
Once we got settled in we went down to the church to see what we would be doing. The church was only a few blocks away from the missions, which was nice because we wouldn’t have to drive to the church, we could just walk. The pastor showed us what he wanted us to do; build a bathroom. There was already an existing men’s bathroom, they wanted us to build a women’s bathroom. He also wanted us to start working on a sitting area/pastor’s study next to the church. We ended up putting in a new window and getting the roof nearly complete before we had to depart. But the bathroom was our main goal.
Working on the bathroom consisted of digging a couple of large holes for footings, pouring a foundation, and slapping concrete onto styrofoam and metal framed sheets. Working on this project was frustrating at times because I don’t know Spanish and I don’t understand engineer language, so there were parts of this project where I just stood there and wondered what the heck they were talking about as the engineer major in our group talked to the translator who talked to the Spanish speaking pastor. Then all of a sudden we were doing something. But, in the end we completed the project and it is now ready to be painted and plumbing put in!
We were supposed to do VBS but that never happened because something wasn’t communicated, which was fine because we still got to interact with the kids during lunch, random breaks, and after we got through for the day. The last night we were there we also had plenty of time to play with the kids.
Our last day there we got to go to downtown Guadalajara and do some shopping. While in downtown we had a guide show us a couple of buildings before we went to the market. The market was a three story building filled wall to wall with any and everything you can imagine. It was intense! But at the end of the day I walked out with a t-shirt and a hammock which I’m still trying to figure out where to put.
After our time at the market we went back to the church where they had dinner for us. After we ate and played with the kids some we gathered in a circle and the pastor and the people of the church gathered told us how grateful they were for us and all the work that we had done. It’s always touching when you can see how the people you help react to the work that you do, even when it’s something like building a cement bathroom.
In the end God taught me a lot. While I didn’t necessarily get the spiritual mountain top experience I was looking for I did gain a lot more respect for the blessings that I have. Having a government regulated roof over my head and walls around me is truly a blessing I never really thought of (they don’t have building codes in Mexico). Having a water system that filters out all of the bad things that made much of my team sick during the trip is another blessing I’m truly grateful for. I’m also grateful for hot showers! I think if anything God gave me a gut check that showed me how blessed I was to live in America, to attend a Christian university, and to be surrounded by an amazing support system of friends and family. I am truly blessed to know each and every one of you and I am so thankful for your support not only in this trip but in my life!

In Christ Alone,





Adam Pautsch

Please feel free to contact me with any other questions or comments you may have, you can contact me through:
o Email: adampautsch@letu.edu or Apautsch@comcast.net
o AIM: theonlyamp12
o Phone: 651-269-6450

View Pictures (facebook photo album) & Video (you tube upload) here:
Album 1 : Album 2 : Album 3 : Album 4

Video

Have you ever tried this?

Missions Trip: Guadalajara, Mexico

Below is a sample support letter for my spring break missions trip to Guadalajara, Mexico.

Temperatures

60 above zero:Floridians turn on the heat.People in Minnesota plant gardens.
50 above zero:Italian and English cars won't start.People in Minnesota drive with the windows down.
32 above zero:Distilled water freezes.The water in Bemidji gets thicker.
20 above zero:Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, and wool hats.People in Minnesota throw on a flannel shirt.
15 above zero:New York landlords finally turn up the heat.People in Minnesota have their last cookout before it gets cold.
Zero:All people in Miami die.Minnesotans close their windows.
10 below zero:Californians fly away to Mexico.People in Minnesota get out their winter coats.
25 below zero:Hollywood disintegrates.The Girl Scouts in Minnesota are selling cookies door to door.
40 below zero:Washington DC runs out of hot air.People in Minnesota let their dogs sleep indoors.
100 below zero:Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.Minnesotans get upset because they cannot start the Mini-Van.
460 below zero:ALL atomic motion stops. (Absolute zero on the Kelvin scale)People in Minnesota start saying...."Cold 'nuff fer ya?"
500 below zero:Hell freezes over.Minnesota public schools open 2 hours late.

I'm still Alive

To the few faithful readers i have i would like to let you know that i am still alive and kicking. I just simply forgot about this blog and haven't really had time to update it.

Anyways, i've started my second year here at Letourneau in Longview Texas and so far things are going well in the spring semester (yes, i skipped the whole fall semester and summer). Summer and Spring were fun, i water skiied in the summer, and took classes in the fall.

In the fall i was an RA in the honor's apartments here on campus which has been a blast! I've been able to use some of the gifts that God has given to me in a way to help out others.

During Christmas break i had something exciting happen. I got engaged to Heidi! It was a very exciting day for me and i'm also very excited to begin planning a wedding and getting married.

Well, that basically summs up my last year or so. I'm scheduled to graduate in May 2008. So that's another day to look forward to! I'll try to do a better job of keeping this updated with various things that go on during the course of the semester.