Hey All who read this if anyone,
Well things are well they are moving. this year has gone by fairly fast... can you believe  I have been in virginia now for one year? the navy for a year and a half 2 and a half more years... can't wait :)  well i have become very involed with my church. the young adults bible study here is awesome and man God is doing osme awesome things making us grow like no other, I did not know we could have twice as many people in the bible study than we had before half of them left for college in other states... that is impressive to me. right now there are about 25 young adults in the group. a God fearing group that has a strong love for Christ. reminds me ofthe fellowships back at western. as far as work goes I like the job, but not so much for the navy, when i get out there is a mk 48 shop in washington that i think i would like to be a contractor for doing the exact same thing i am doing now just getiing a slightly biger paycheck. I am learning to listen to God and where he wants me to go and what he wants me to do... finding it a bit harder than one would think, but I am finding that With God one my side i almost feel like i am Cheating in life yet as I read about David or gideon or other battles you know i guess they cheated a lot more than i have I am just thankful for what oportunities God has given me to serve him and others. anyways I am goingto try and get the two pictures of me in a uniform on here... heres to it working

With Christs Love

first off happy fourth everyone. I hope you all have a great day and maybe get to watch or play with some fireworks tonight.
Just a few thoughts I have I do want to praise God for this wonderful country we have. I constantly hear how hoible our country has become how it is just a horrible place to raise chilren any more... Ok people rampage for me now WAKE UP!!!! If you are one that is thinking things Like this I am not here to stomp on your toes this is just one mans oppinion. I want you to go to euope, or germany and try to raise your kids you complain about the iolence or the sex on tv, or I hear you it is not a good thing but we have so many more restrictions as to what can be watched and shown on t than most countries if not all others. you don't like the langueage or the freeedom of speach. Then why am i in the military along with millions of others who are or have served? I am helping that right. if we took away their right to say bad things or do things about blocking religious matterial than what is there that they can take aay from us... might I ask what makes us so special from everyone else. granted they are taking away some of our beliefes but we are still able to believe them right? go to the middle east where you get killed if you believe what we do. paul was thrown in jail and eventualy dies cause of what he believed. the disiple killed most in unpleasent ways. do you get stone. or hung, or sent to prison for what you beliee... or so it depeneds on what kind of action you are taking but for the most part no most of us don't we get picked on, and people walk away from us. but is that really all that bad compaired to what coud be done...? I don't agree with what was justpassed about the ten comandments or all the different things that you hear about in the court of law or the schools. But honestly I think I woud rather live here where i can freely live for Chirst. still spreading the Gosple to my co workers, not having to worry about going out side if i am going to have to run from the police cause of what i believe. ok so the president makes mistakes just likethe rest of us all.  Like I said i don't have back up material for all this this is just one mans oppinion.  I am not here to stomp on anyone at all.

just trying to gie a different persective. and with all that I hope you all have a wonder forth and trust me I will :) I do love this country

Ok so I have only been in the navy a year and i am already getting myself into trubble. well ok for most they are getting into trubble well be fore that but this is me we are talking about. I told you about my two tickets.. i think, so I went to the traffic court to pay my fine except i couldn't pay that day so I was getting an extension till I get paid to day. I return on tuesday afternoon to work and I am told oh my LPO was suposed to come with me and represtent me... why I am only pleading guilty and goingto pay the fine....? still not to sure on that one i understand the letting them know part which i didn't do till just a few days before hand.so then my chief had to talk to me about that... blah blah blah yada yada yada.. same thing I have been told already... well my senior chief got word of that sorry the "comand master chief" who is only a senior chief.... got wind of this yesterday adn calls me into his office. shut the door he says, he has never done that before to me, :(  and is all guess what i heard about you today.. as the smart thig you don't offer out info, what senior i hear you got a wckless driving ticket.... no senior you didn't get a ticket in excess of 20mph no senior ... oh that was not good to say you would think i just slaped him acros the fae after that. so I had to explain to him the story which was definatly not the same one he heard but yeah a speeding ticket i want to plead guilty to and i still need a representative... BULL C*&@. so should i tel them about the other one... I think i am going to mail that one in but i do need to tell them... they arn't going to be happy. and the yesterday we had a bunch of stuff ail testing and machines breaking oh bother what a day it was yesterday thank goodnes i was out at 1030 so i could go golfing

I lvoe house sitting for people, even if I am not getting paid for it, I like helping  out where needed. I am not so sure about the dog and cat any more i feel like i have my own kids now, young ones at that, the fight and I yell they get up at 445 in the morning wanting to be let out. who knows. well i went golfing  again today. for some reason that is a crazy sport. work is work I jsut got moved to a new area so I am in a learning stage and it is quit slow lately. not so sure i like  it that much being slow when we acually have a lot to do. but we in a way are a head of scedual so I guess that is good.
well that is about all going on here.
take care all

Well ok I love golf, it is a fun sport.. i know some disagree that it is a sport, but any ways It is suposed to be relaxing most  say they do it to relaxs then how come if it is suposed to be so relaxing do we get so frustrated with it.. i had a 54 and a 49. yet i was happier with the 54 thn the 49 even thought 49 is better and I had a desent game. was only 6 over par before the 18th hole. well I starte thinking about that and applying that to my life as it is now do i get too frustrated over the smaller things that i lose the bigger picture in life? well i have looked back and notie that I do get upset oer minor things that arn't all that affeting in the bigger picture I just want everything pefect but i know it can't be.
ok so also we are way behind or some of the devisions are behind, and i don't have to work thankfully like they do on sat. and sun.  sorry guys but do your work, i am house sitting for one ofthe offiers as well for the next two weeks, and i am starting to like the dog nad cat.. wait that is not supose to be happening to me. LOL oh well life is good and for the time being going good:)

Ok, so it has been a very long time since i have posted anything on here... kind of wondering if anyone even looks at mine... well besides Larry and katrina beings i just now found out that they both do. ok any way where am i, I am curently in yorktown Virginia taking apart and building up torpedos.
they navy itself is ok, there are a few things i am not too thrilled with but for the most part it has been a great experience. even though I will not be going out to sea for about 2 more years... well 1.5
My parents came an visited my brother and I last week, we had a good time. went to D.C. ok that was a pain in the butt because of all the traffic. did busch gardens and saw Batman!!
Wow so long and what do I say? I am at a lost for words, I have found a small church that i really enjoy, with a singles bible study i attend regularly and and I also work with the middleschool/ highschool biblestudy as well. I have stummbled in a few areas with my walk with the Lord but i am working on getting back on track. I have a lot of encouragment through the church and help. they are a great family.
ok so I get my first speeding ticket a month ago... while my family is here i get a second... what is going on that is very very very bad ok so the first one I deserved, I knew it and everthing, the second one I thought was 65 but it was 55 and I was doing 68 so yes i deserved it but it was mistake :-(
ok well I am going to get going and start updating some more areas.

take care all

With Christs Love

Brandon

talk about boring weekend. well friday I didn't do much saturday i had duty, sunday i went to the mall and bought shoes and saw hero, monday I stayed in the barracks while we all watched ( we i mean those who had duty and I) 6 movies. yeah pretty much a weekend of nothing but it did give me time to contemplate my life where i am at, where do I want to go, and where does God want me to go. It is hard to see where God wants you to go when he has give about 20 different opptions in your path right now. I guess that is where patience comes into play, well i am getting better but I still have very little, lately i have been drained emotionally and mentally, learning alot in a little time I am now in gun school labs, yeah no more 6 hour computer watching hoping to learn something. well i got other new too. I am now schedualed to go to two different places. one set of orders say USS yorktown in pearl harbor and the other says Yorktown Virginia. Please God give me USS Yorktown. that is my dream and were i have wanted to go since I joinded. the only and i mean only good thing I can see in going to yorktown is my brother is in virgina beach 50 miles away. but even then i don't need to be that close to him for so long. ( no offence if you read this Barrett but I think you know what i mean)  so that is were i am at right now. I will keep updating this periodically and i will hope to see alot of you in 4 weeks.

With Christs Love 

Tm Axmaker

Well ok I know it has been a long time since I have been one, the computer system at the baracks are not all that great they don't like this site and won't let me sign in to write.  so where to begin wow I don't know. right now I am with some friends in chicago, have I told you all how beautiful this city is, would I want to live here not so much but I could deffinatly take several trips here.  I made phase III liberty so i have been away all night that was cool. I am almost done with my CBT class and moving on to labs I should be out of here in about a month, after that..... I am going to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.  after I got done telling my brother I was joining him in virginia they say that they made a mistake and I am not going to virginia but i am on the USS Yorktown, stationed in HI. yeah I got were I wanted to go but my brother was a little disapointed, I called him the next day to tell what had happened and he was happy for me but he had things aready planed to do (Wow that was a side of my brother I had never seen before. ) I have stop attending the church my roomate was going to nd currently have not found another one. I think that it will probably be when i get back home when i start church services.  So far I am glad to be in the navy, people are still asking me if that because I am out of boot camp if I still like because i freaked some people out including myself during boot camp, I was not sure what I was doing at first and was misserable, but now that i am out things are pretty good.  I bought a digital camera the other day so hopefully i will beable to put up a new picture page and show you what I have been up to
I need to get going though and i Now that i Know it is not me and it is the computer i will try to write a bit more often.

I love you all miss you.

With Christs Love

TMAxmaker

Well I started classes last week wednesday, first one was called att ( aprentice technical training) one class a day from 0615-1215 so not too bad I can if i want take breaks it is all self paced I should be done by wednesday granting i don't trip up on any more test like the one i failed four times yesterday. the next class will be cbt computer based training, that will be from 1200-1400 so a little shorter hours but there goes half my liberty, oh well what was I going to do with it any how except on friday. welll bummer i have to make this short i just got told the library is closing so i need to get going. but i will try and keep in tourch here

Christs Love

Axmaker

Well i made it through Boot camp, pain full but what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger right?
I am now starting a school it is a totally different enviroment from boot camp, and half of what we learned is false and they are teaching us something different, not too different just a few minor things.
Technically i have liberty i am one phase one which mean i am not aloud to leave the base, well let me tell you what is one base: a store the size of wall mart, a club, bowling ally, paintball, beach, gym, library, chapel, subway mac donalds, taco bell, pizza, theater, swimming pool, and the list goes on, ok so not so bad, now on phase one i am a little more limited as to what i can do in some of those areas but all around it is a heck of a lot more than i had at boot. well I know this is short and hopefully i will get back on later but i need to go. I missed you all

Christs Love

TMAxmaker