Hey Kathy,
Wanting huggs from all of you well that is a big step for him.  Our prayers 
for all of you are working and we will just keep them coming.
Huggs,
Virgie and Hoshi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: we've heard from Chris


> Vergie,
> I see the good as well.  I constantly pray that God will consume the
> dross, but refine the gold in his life.  He has so much to offer to the 
> Lord.
> Mama Kathy
>
>
> At 05:30 PM 3/6/2006, you wrote:
>>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.