Phil,

That's wonderful! We'll be praying for little Everett that he gets to all
these different levels of black belts. Praise The Lord!

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson


At 11:02 PM 9/13/04, you wrote:
>As many of you know, our 8 year old grandson lives with us until his mother
>is out of the Christian drug rehab program she is currently in.  Little
>Everett has been taking Karate since he was like 5 or 6 years of age.
>Sunday, he was tested for his first brown belt.  There are two levels of
>brown belts in Karate before the black belt levels begin.  Little Everett
>passed.  In December, he will take the next brown belt test and next June,
>he will test for his first black belt and he will still only be 9 years of
>age.  There is a 13 year old girl in the school who has her third degree
>black belt already.  My youngest son, Big Everett, is 22 years old and he
>only has his third degree black belt.  Next summer, however, my son will be
>testing for his fourth degree black belt.  I think there are 8 black belt
>levels he told me once.  Once you reach level five, you are called grand
>master black belts.  At least I think I have all of this correct.  Anyhow,
>just a proud grandpa speaking his mind.
>
>Phil.