Where is Tyler?

I am sure allot of you are asking this question. I am going to provide you with some answers, but first allow me to identify myself. I am a 'guest poster' and actually Tyler's dad. Due to the fact that he has no www access right now and barely any phone reception either, I have decided to post a little message to bridge the gap till his return, this weekend. Ok, fist of all we don't know exactly where he is, other than he is about 3.5 hours north of us ( still in the state of Puebla ) and he is serving with a ministry called Time for Christ . We 'required' him to go for the first week and prayed that he would survive.... God surprised us and he actually thrived, so much so, that he asked if he could stay the second week. Thus he is still there. He even decided to sacrifice his soccer training and possible participation in another tournament coming up in about a month. Speaking of tournaments, many of you know that his team won their age bracket in Acapulco recently. Well, we now have pictures AND a video that I put together of some highlights. I will include the links here and expect that once Tyler gets back and has opportunity to work on this page that he will embed the video maybe even replacing one of the scream-o ones............... well, maybe not. Thanks for reading and for commenting as well !!
Link 1 to pictures: http://lifebytheword.com/332224.ihtml ( about 30 pictures)
Link 2 to pictures: http://lifebytheword.com/332292.ihtml ( about 70 pictures)
Link to 10 minute video: http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3181547/9009517

enjoy!

Hey Yall

What's going on everyone? How are you all doing? Is everyone's summer going well? Well I hope that y'all are good and having fun this summer. Summer is like the coolest thing ever. I love it so much, do you? One of the reasons I love summer so much is because you don't have school, so you don't have to get up early. Another thing is because you have so much more time to hang with friends and just do sweet stuff. The sad thing is that since I am going to be homeschooled this year my mom thought that I should start school a little early. So Istarted on Monday, bummer I know. It's not that bad, but not that great. You all know what I mean, school is school.

Well anyway, things have been pretty good lately. Nothing much has happened, I guess. Soccer continues on, but training is not nearly as hard as it was before the tournament. There is another tournament here in Puebla that we are going to start training for; although I don't really know when it is, I can't wait to play in another one.

Another great thing is that we got tons of pictures from the tournament and hopefully soon they will be on the blog. There are some pretty sweet pics that I think you all will enjoy. I also want to remind you all to keep up the prayer, and say thanks for all the prayer you do. Without it we would not survive here, or anywhere.

I have also made some sweet changes to my blog that you should take notice of, enjoy.

Post-Acapulco

I am very happy to inform all of you who are reading this that we are the champions of division 92. We had about 30 players and divided into 2 teams. One team played in the division 91 and the other was in the division 92. The age of all the guys on my team is between 13-16. The 16 year old guys played for the 93 team and all the other younger guys played for the 92 team. But the cool thing is that the younger guys can play with the older team too. The 92 team won the two first two games and tied the second game 0-0. The 92 team qualified for the quarterfinals and so did the 91 team even though they lost the first two games and won the third. I played mostly for the 92 team but also played for the 91 team. We won the quarterfinal game in penalty kicks, but sadly the 91 team was eliminated in their game and that was the end for them. Even though the 91 team was done playing they were still in it because we are all one team. There are many players and many ages but we are all one team. So they could still cheer us on even though they could not play themselves. In the semifinal game we tied 0-0 and won in penalty kicks again. The next day we played the final game at 9 in the morning. I was very excited to play in this game and be a part of this team. We did not start the game as well as others but we did play very well. The field was wet and muddy, but a lot better than the day before. We played a team from Costa Rica who was a good team, but not good enough. They scored two goals in the first 15 minuets but by the half we were tied 2-2; and I assisted the second goal. I had a shot in the second half that hit the crossbar and played well but we tied 2-2. So we went to penalty kicks again. We won them and everyone was screaming and hollering. We are the champions!!!

I want to thank all of you who prayed for me and my family and for the team as well. It was an amazing time and I hope that maybe I can go back next year. I will get some pictures up in the next few days of soccer and other random stuff. Keep up the prayer.

Pre-Acapulco

Today is the day that we set of for Acapulco. We leave tonight at 11:30 and won't get there till the morning. I am so excited to get there and start playing games. We have worked and trained very hard for this and we hope all that will pay off. We have games Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. And depending on how we do with those games we may play more.

I ask all of you to pray for my team and all the teams that will be competing. Pray for protection for all the guys playing and that no one gets seriously injured. And pray that my family and I can be witnesses to everyone there.