Jason's blog!!! life...

My life has sped by so fast. it seems like yesterday that i was holding my new little baby sister. now we are already dealing with boys and what to bring for show and tell. it seems like i was just doing that but i am dealing with middle school. there is gossip, Lot's of drama, the occasional trouble maker in your class! I remember when i was little i would watch television shows about junior high. It was always crazy and stuff. I never thought that it was really like that. stuff that you see on the shows really happens! On the other side of life, the good one(ha ha!),me and dad go fishing every Sunday! it is really fun. we go to this spot that is on the Beach and we fish off of that. It is fun to look around and see jellyfish and find little strange creatures that i have never seen before. Speaking of creatures!!! the Roaches here are unbearably large!!! on our first night here we went to our parents bedroom and there were like 3 or 4 big roaches!!!! And one time my mom went to her room to put on her pajamas and when she came out she was picking up some of Joslyn's toy's and she stepped on something, thought it was a toy, picked it up, and realized it was squirming!!!!! then she saw the tail of the lizard on the floor, and the lizard body in her hand!!!! she screamed and jumped on the bed! we all rushed in and it was camouflaged into the carpet and we found it. We put it in a cup and set it out free in the backyard. That also reminds me of when our computer teacher was trying to print something in her printer and it wasn't working and she reached her hand in and pulled out a chopped up lizard! YUCK!
Any way's ( sorry i got really sidetracked for a while) every day i think about something that we did in Lubbock. it seems like the other day we were just there drying off from swimming in the pool and watching TV in the living room. sometimes if i think about it to much it brings me to tears. sometimes i wake up and before i open my eyes I hope and pray that i will be in my room in Lubbock and that it was all just a bad dream. but it never is. =( but God's word says to consider it pure joy when you go through trials. so i guess it's a good thing that we moved?.?.? Well i have to go. Thanks for reading blogger people!!!!!! have a wonderful and blessed day! BYE!!!!

Blood, Sweat, and No Tears- Josh

The Lock-In at Bay Area Fellowship

As some of you know, I've been playing at a large church called Bay Area Fellowship and it's been amazing. I actually kinda stumbled into their worship team at Element Student Church (they didn't want to call it a "youth group" but an actual "church for students"). Their worship team is definitely pretty big. We've been asked for autographs and pictures like we're rock stars. It's pretty weird. What's also new to me is that these people have some serious chemistry between each other, which I found to be pretty helpful when working together, not that we didn't have that at our last church or anything, but it's just that we're all pretty close to each others age (ranging from like 16-19) and we all hang out and joke about the same stuff.
Anyway, just recently, I played at my first major youth event... CoreWeekend... That was insane... over 250 people and we did nearly 20 songs and played up until like 1 in the morning. The set list had a lot of Hillsong United stuff and Planetshakers (love the Stand bass solo...) and New Life Fellowship, the church that had the pastoral drug and prostitute conspiracy in 06' (Their story was really interesting to me) and most of their songs are products of their suffering, which made for really moving peices... I was very excited to see what God was gonna do, but I honestly believe that there needs a worship revolution in that church. They have tons of mission trips, outreaches, and, if you've seen the place and the production they have, you would think that they probably have a good heart for tithing. This church is AMAZINGLY blessed, it's just that everybody comes for a concert. At Coreweekend, when we started playing the faster songs, they jumped and got crazy, some people crowd-surfed (I just thought they might've been lifting him up to God or something), but I was too busy swinging around my Vintage 70's Fender Jazz Bass while Eric, Cory, and I did synchronized jumping and barely sticking the landing to notice that a giant duck floaty and a beach ball were being tossed around the room (which I occasionally had keep from tripping over when they flew onto the stage). I can understand praise being radical and all, so as odd as these things seemed to me in a worship envirnment, I was cool with it. It was when we started doing the slower songs when things got a tad frustrating. They did the cellphone thing... where you wave your cellphone around in the air because you're too young to carry around a lighter. Joe, our main youth worship leader, actually had us hold the song for a second and said, "If some of you guys have cellphones out, we really want you to focus on God right now, so, uh, could you just, um... put them away for a minute?" NO ONE DID ANYTHING. HEAVEN FORBID. I tried to focus on worshipping and all, but I almost blew a fuse when I saw this girl holding one hand up to God and the other texting away... and her friend, who had both hands raised, was trying to read it... I heard the cell beep, they huddled to the phone and they looked at eachother and said, "AW! He's so sweet!" THEY BETTER BE TALKING ABOUT GOD... But surprise, surprise, they weren't. Then, for some insane reason, I decided to pan the room for more texters. I saw people sitting down at the tables and talking, TONS of people texting, a couple guys were in the back joking around, there was a whole cult of Jr High girls trying to take my picture and to top that, we were playing an amazingly emotional New Life Worship song and no one was listening!!! Then I caught myself not getting into the worship either! When we got off that stage, I was mad... it seemed like they didn't care... Then Jason, our youth pastor, wanted us to do a 45 min prayer and devotional time. He was pretty He got up and said, "We're going to have a prayer time for the next 30 or 45 min or so, so just find a place away from other people and just let the Holy Spirit take control." We got into our places and after about 10 min, people started talking, then Jason got up again and said, "If you don't want to engage in this, please just go in the atrium right outside the Element Room." Within say, 20 min, half the room was gone... you could hear the people talking outside of the room, and then the worship team tried to start a Holy Spirit-driven worship set and it was hard to do with 50 people out of 250, so Joe ended it after two songs... It broke my heart.... No spiritual movement, not a tear. Not even from me! My point is Jesus sweat blood for us and took OUR PLACE on the altar, the least we can do is awknowledge it. Although we'll probably never be able to fully give back what Christ gave to us, it's the heart that counts.... We're not perfect.... no one is... but I'm pretty sure that blackberry was not genetically embedded in that girl's hand.

God bless...

"Keep it simple, some people just aren't as quick as you..." :)

New to the Blogging Scene

I've often wondered...why do people type about their lives online? Why not just pick up the phone and let people know how you're doing, but then I moved away from my home of 20 years (give or take a few) and realized, if I tried to call all of my friends and tell them everything it would take forever...so, I have become a blogger. Only for the sake of keeping in touch with everyone, of course. In any case, I hope you will enjoy my blog and keeping up with the Salazars. I know I so enjoy the blogs of my friends...it's nice to feel a part of their everyday lives even when I'm so far away. I'll be blogging more, soon...and I'll always be bragging on the wonderful weather down here in the South, while my friends in the North freeze their booties off!!! LOL