It's Indian Days! For me that means no work today, which I'm not really complaining about because it's supposed to be 90 degrees all week, so I wouldn't mind only landscaping four out of the five work days this week. Is that a bad attitude? I don't know, but that's how I felt.
I was supposed to go to Saint Francis with Jonny and Stephen this morning to enjoy a parade and see some people, but I failed at waking up at a reasonable time. I also told Emily J. that I would go to NAPA with her to find some parts for her car, and I wasn't really sure when she wanted to go, so I wasn't really sure about going to SF.
I woke up around 11am, and just took some time to chill, read the bible and devos, and have something to eat. I have been super busy the last week with LJ, and I know I will be really busy the rest of my time out here, so any extra time I have to spend in the Bible is something I take advantage of. It was a pretty solid morning-- what was left of it at least.
By noon, everybody was gone. Stephen and Jonny were in SF, Laura was in Okreek, and Emily ventured out to Parmalee. And then there was one. I spent most of my afternoon anticipating being able to work on Emily J.'s car, so I didn't do much of anything for fear of missing her when she came back into town.
She texted me when she was on her way back in to town, then we went to check out her car. Unfortunately, while I was looking at her car, I assumed a couple things that I should have double checked while we were looking at it. So that caused a couple problems because I ended up ordering parts that we didn't actually need. Oops.
After I got back from NAPA, I was talking to Greg about what we ordered, and he had to set me straight in regards to what I should have been ordering. One more trip to NAPA. It should have been as simple as running in there and changing our order but '96 (the year of Emily J.'s car) was a transition year so the rear brakes could have been drums or rotors. Let's run around a little more.
We went back to Emily's to check what her rear brakes were composed of, and we found them to be calipers and rotors. Easy enough. We decided to pull her wheel off to check the caliper and pins to make sure we didn't have to buy more parts than we were already planning, so that took a couple minutes.
The first side looked really nice, which was weird because from what Greg was telling me, it shouldn't have looked that nice. So we put the wheel back on and drove it around for a couple minutes. There was definitely something wrong, but we had thought we heard it coming from the right side. It was definitely the left.
We drove it back to the Intern house because we have cement for a driveway, and we pulled the left side apart to see what damage had been done. It wasn't looking good. From what we could see, the rotor was fried, the pads were wearing unevenly, and the caliper might have been sticking. Hopefully something a little grease can't fix, but we had yet to see.
We put everything back together, then we decided to check around for parts. NAPA couldn't get their parts in until tomorrow morning, so it didn't hurt to check Valentine. Pronto in Valentine was about the same story, but their rotors were almost half price. Sold. We still had to wait, but it was definitely worth it.
Since we couldn't do anything with Emily J.'s car today, Greg, Emily, Laura, and I went to the fireworks shops that were running specials today. There was a tent selling buy one get three free!! Dang that was a sweet deal, but they only took cash! Lame. I never carry cash.
Everybody else took advantage of the deal, then Greg and I ran to see what specials were at another fireworks shop. Their deal wasn't as sweet, but I got away with four pack of 150 bottle rockets for a little of $6. I'm pretty sure I got the quality too! Solid.
When we got back, we needed dinner. Greg went to get dinner with Kelly, and the interns had a quick dinner together. We kinda rushed through dinner because there was still food that needed to be moved out of the fridge/ freezer in the school from LJ week. We had to move that, but the only place that had enough room was Greg's deep freeze in White River, so it took a little longer.
We moved everything without much of a problem. Bread and Ice cream were going to Greg's, but we also had some milk that needed to be moved. We didn't have room for it and nobody we knew wanted it, so we thought we could take it to some of the homeless people that hang out around the Mission shopping center.
When we got there, nobody was around. Weird. But I thought this just gives us an opportunity to rely on God to show us some people that need the milk, and sure enough, as we pulled up to the stop light about 100 yards down the road, there were a couple women sitting there.
So I pulled up near them and told them I had a weird question for them... "Do you want some milk". They kinda laughed at stared, one of them repeated "Milk?" in a tone of disbelief. I told them we don't have anything to do with it so we wanted to give it to somebody, so they said they would take it. One of them asked what we did to it, but we assured her it was still sealed and she took a jug too. As we pulled away, I thanked God for His provision.
When we got back from moving the food, Greg, Jonny, and I played around with some of the fireworks we had bought. This eventually turned into a fireworks war, which is always fun, but very hard to be victorious at.
Our games slowly died down, before Jonny asked if we wanted a sandwich. We thought we might try to hit Subway before it closes, so we hurried off. Unfortunately, our hurrying was to no avail. They had closed by the time we got there, so we went to Gus Stop instead-- little pizza's and Arizona Arnold Palmers are a good reason to frequent Gus Stop.
When we got back, everybody had started a game of Rockband, which was a ton of fun. Kelly, Greg, Stephen, Jonny, Laura, Emily, Emily J., and I played for probably a couple hours. We switched off between drums, guitar, and vocals, which gave us each a chance to show off our singing skills. Greg actually refused to sing or participate what-so-ever. We even started the song and handed him the mic! Nothing. Maybe next time.
After Rockband, the interns had a time of prayer together which is so important! I really enjoy being able to spend time in corporate prayer. It's always a beneficial and encouraging time for us to lift our voices to God and thank Him for His provision and ask Him to lead us throughout our week. Awesome.
I guess that's it. That's my Indian Day! Thanks for reading!!
God Bless,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. Cash is still king, if you want to take advantage of crazy firework deals.
2. Pray for all things. Big or small. (I know I listed this last week, but I'm constantly learning how true this is)
3. Acts 1:24
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