Kathy,
Oh what a tangled web he is weaving.  You know the Lord can still pull off a 
miracle and all it takes is for Chris to ask for His help.  I am praying for 
all of you.  Chris has made some mistakes but he is a confused young man and 
I believe there is good in him.  Hang in there and don't give up on him.
I am sorry for all the hurt all of you are feeling.
Virgie and Hoshi ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:09 PM
Subject: we've heard from Chris


> Hi Guys,
> Chris called last Thursday evening.  We must have talked for more
> than a half an  hour.  He admitted, to me, that he is not very happy,
> but I think that he still feels that he has to find a way to save
> face or something.  He admitted that he knows that he should move
> back home and try to pull his act together and go back to church, but
> he just doesn't want to face that.  He's living with a highschool
> drop out right now; a friend of Nicki's older brother.
> He still works, when he feels like it,  at the tela--marketing
> job.  He has discovered, however that you can not show up for work
> for weeks and still have the job if you want it. I guess that they
> are desperate for workers.  I asked him how he was paying his share
> of the rent if he wasn't working steady.  He told me he was working
> on it.  That gives me chills.   He told me that his supervisor was
> arrested, on the job, for doing cocaine in the bathroom.  He really
> knows how to pick em, the circumstances, that is.
> The thing that concerns me the most is that Nicki's parents enticed
> Chris into taking out a cell phone plan for all of them, in his name.
> Evidently, they can't get a land line or a cell phone plan in their
> own name because their credit is so bad. He thinks that its okay
> because they told him that they will pay his part of the bill and if
> they don't he can just have their phones shut off.  However, they
> have the trump card because, if he does that, they may be pretty mean
> to Nicki.  He told us that they are already mean to her when he
> doesn't give them money.  Can you believe this?  I couldn't write a
> fiction story this stupid. He said that when Nicki's father got his
> pay check last Friday, the first place they went was to the
> cacino.  Yes folks, they do it all in that family, drink, smoke and 
> gamble.
> He told me that he tried to break up with Nicki a few weeks ago
> because he is board with the relationship, but that he went back
> because she got really depressed.  Brother.  Now that he's in even
> thicker with them over this cell phone deal he's going to be dealing
> with them for at least two more years, unless the whole mess goes
> belly up, which will probably happen and in doing so will really mess
> up any hope that Chris had for establishing a credit rating.  I think
> that he's regreting the cell phone thing already.  He doesn't like
> where he is living and he let me say some pretty hard things to him
> last Thursday without snapping back.  He wants to get his deploma
> because he wants to go into the military, but he hates going to
> classes.  He's still failing everything.  He wants things, but he
> still isn't overriding his impulses enough to go about life the right way.
>   He wants to see Caleb in his first wrestling match this
> weekend.  We invited him to stay the night and ride to the meet with
> Greg and Caleb.  If he takes us up on the offer, maybe we'll have
> more time to talk.  One never knows, however.
> That's the latest from :Maine!  As always, thanks so much for praying!
> Kathy
>
> P.S.
> Caleb has been sleeping most of the day so I believe that the worst
> is over for him.  I just pray that nobody else gets it.