Hey girls (and our princes, Mark and Reid),

It seems like whenever I write in our blog I have bad news and I'm sorry about that, I should write more in here when things are going well.  I actualy was talking to Erin, Alyssa, and Lindsey about this over winter break.  But regardless, I do have something very, very important to write to you all and it is horrible.

I don't know if any of you have heard about this yet, but there is a kid my age who is a freshman at Purdue named Wade Steffey who has been missing since last weekend.  Wade is a great kid and a great student who came to Purdue on a full-ride scholarship for aviation.  The last time he was seen was at 12:31AM last Saturday morning at the door of the girls side of Owen (my dorm).  The two girls who saw him didn't know him so they didn't let him in, but he supposadly had stains on his shirt and was trying to get into the dorm.  He had just tried to call a girl who lives here to let him in because she had his coat in her room.  They had gone to a party together earlier at a frat nearby.  She didn't pick up her phone when she called, so he couldn't get up to her room.  The last person who talked to him, talked to him on the phone 10 minutes earlier (one of his friends) and said at the time Wade sounded fine.  While all of this was happening I was inside my dorm in the lobby with a bunch of friends playing games, so I was basically right here next to all of this.  After that no one has seen or heard from Wade.  I am very scared for him.  He had no change of clothes with him and no coat and it wasn't like him to just up and leave.  He didn't like missing class (which is why he was here anyway, he wanted to go home over the weekend with his roommate, but his roommate left Friday before Wade's classes were over and Wade didn't want to skip class, so he stayed).  So, anyway it's been pretty crazy around her, over 300 people went all around the area with the police yesterday at 2PM searching for him, the FBI has been here since Tuesday, news teams from Indianapolis and different areas keep coming out to the school, the police took a helicopter with infered around looking for him last night, people have been searching in the woods all week, and tons of other stuff, and we just can't find anything.  It's horrible.  There's more info and Purdue's main webpage is trying to stay pretty update with any leads or anything, but nothing is relaly looking very promising right now.  His parents have been in town all week and a ton of people from Bloomington (where he's from) are coming up this weekend and searching for him and everything.  There is a prayer service outside for Wade tomorrow afternoon at 1:30, so I think it would be awesome if any of you could join in that prayer from all different states and just join us in coming to God for Wade. 

There has been a ton of crime at Purdue recently and most of it is strong men getting mugged, and hit over the head with bricks, and other things like that and it's just terrifying, none of them seem to have any motives or even know the attackers.  Almost everything that is happening is happening right by my dorm and right by where I live and where I always am because I live in like the ghetto of Purdue apparently...idk...but it's scary.  I ask that you just pray for safety on this campus, for Wade, and for all of us here because we are all scared to death.  A bunch of my guy friends are all carrying knifes now and most girls have mace and/knifes...but even a marine (probably in the top shape) was mugged, so we're all pretty scared.  Campus employees chekced every room in our dorm and I think every building on campus for Wade yesterday and nothing turned up.  I just want to know where he is and I want some clarity for his parents and hopefully he is somehow, somewhere alright out there...His phone died a few days ago, but he hadn't made any outgoing or incoming calls since he was last seen and it's freezing out there, especially iwhtout a coat...the temperature highs are below freezing and have been all week, there is snow on the ground, its really not a good time to be outside for too long...Things look very grave, so please pray for us here at Purdue and all of those who know Wade.  

On a happy note, my new roommate is a really great girl and I am really enjoying getting to know her.  She's coming with my tonight to Campus Crusade and then we are going to the invisible children world tour (its coming through purdue!) - i don't even know if any of you know what that is, but its a great thing and I'm really excited.  Lots of people are going home and I really wanted to, but I don't want to run in fear, I want to live my life and be careful but not afraid of the things of this world...I don't want this all to ruin my life and for me to have to live in fear.  It's hard though, I've even considered moving back home, this place is pretty scary right now.