Hi everyone, Meg here. Another shorter letter Micah wrote:

22 Jan 06

Right now, I'm writing because I won't have time after churhc. Divine hours are from 8:00-1300. Church is from 8:15-1000. I'll have about 2:30 hours after church. I tell you what, 2 1/2 hours goes by quick! Iron uniforms, polish our boondockers (boots), squad bag, maintenence, all that. Boom! Hours gone! LOL! Last week I ended up only having 5 minutes to write a letter home, which is why I'm writing to you now.. on this paper.. the ONLY paper I have in my Bible. LOL Anyways, Church is about to end, I'll try to write again after I get back to the squad bay.

Micah

(note, this was written before the last letter i posted. thanks)

Hi Everyone, Meg here. As promised, here is a letter from Micah:

22 Jan 06

Well, I got some time here, about an hour to write you and to home. Anyway, let I'll tell you a little about life here. We get up everday at 6:00, jump out of the rack, into our gofasters (running shoes) and get in line. We have less than 30 seconds to do that. Needless to say, we all sleep with socks on. We usually get 20 minutes to shower, shave, all that. There are 42 of us in KILO Company. Which includes 6 females. So, 36 guys in my squad bay. Many of us don't shower for days. Deodorant does wonders. LOL! Then we line up for chow. Anyways, after morning chow we usually have class.

I'll tell you right now, if I get reverted, it'll be for falling asleep in class. You're only allowed to fall asleep once, the 2nd time, and you go back a week in training. I fell asleep once, so I got a warning, and if I fall asleep again, I'll be graduating on the 10th instead of the 3rd. Hopefully that won't happen. Anyway. Afternoon chow is usually around 12:30. Today it is at 12:50. We live for chow and divine hours. Chow means 20 minutes that we can sit, eat good food, and not have the CC's breathing down our necks. And divine hours are 5 hours without the CC's. The CC's are our Company Commanders. We have 3 CC's: 2 guys and 1 girl. The woman is the LCC, the lead Company Commander. She is the boss.

Micah

And there you have it folks! He says hi and all that good stuff. I'll post the second letter in just a second. ~Meg

Alright everyone! Micah wrote back home to Bethel:

Hey Ya'll,
I've got less than 5 min to write,
I'll have to write again next week,
I'll have more time then.
Love ya'll
Micah
P.S. Love ya mom.

So I have the address now. If you would like to write him, then please email me and I'll get the information to you.

Thank you to everyone who has been praying for him.

Meg

Contact from our coastie! Got an email from Sister Connie saying that Micah had called home for 1 minute on Saturday. He has arrived safely, is getting settled in, and people should start getting letters soon.

I'm sure he's having the time of his life. I know he'll be the best in his unit and will make us all proud!

Meg

Hi ya'll. Micah has arrived in Cape May by now. I said the last goodbye to him at 7:30 this morning before he got on the last connecting flight. :( Yeah. I cried. I hate goodbyes. But he is excited, like a kid on Christmas morning. But please remember to keep him in your prayers.. these first couple of days especially.

Gracie, ya, he'll have a lot of catching up to do when he gets back. Actually though, he'll only be back for about three weeks before he'll be going to A-School. (that's the name of the school, it's for extra training) He'll be there for.... 2 more months I believe. Then he'll FINALLY be settling down in Anchorage.

Jessa, actually, he has to be the one to iniate contact. So if ya'll did send him letters, he wouldn't be able to get them. But email me your adress and I'll send it to him in his next letter, that way he can write you.

Meg

Hi Ya'll! Micah called and I'm on the phone with him right now. He says hi! He is now offically a member of the US Coast Guard! *claps* Oh! On active duty (he points out)! He'll be flying out for good at 9:27 pm (Alaska Time). So as of 12:27 Tuesday Morning January 10, 2006 (my time) we will see the last of Micah...... at least for a while... ok, now he's informing me that he is in fact going to Chicago and Philadelphia and somewhere else.

Sorry Jenna, but he can't receive any packages or gifts or food of any kind.

Lae, he says thanks! He KNEW you had them!

Gracie, he says hi! sorry for not talking to you more.

Bye again.

Meg

Meg Here

Hi ya'll... Meg here.

Yeah, Micah's gone. Nooo!!! Come back!!! :( Man, I'm gonna miss him. Won't we all? But yeah, he'll be writing letters often and I'll be putting updates on here from him. Blog-by-mail.. how cool is that?!

Just wanted to let ya'll know what's going on. Later.

Meg

P.S- Oh yeah, if anyone has anything they want to say to him while he's at boot camp, just put it on the comments with intrustions to send the message to Micah and I'll include it in one of my letters.

Back and Gone Again...

Well ya'll, I'm back from vacation, but not for long, my plane to Boot Camp leaves in three hours. So ya, this is my good-bye, so-long, see ya'll later, have fun while I'm gone. I'll miss the blogging world while I'm gone. I'll be gone for two months, be back in march for 2 weeks. in the mean time.. I'll be posting via letter through Meg. So anyways. Have fun ya'll, I'll miss ya, see ya'll in two months!

~Micah~