I woke up and my room downstairs was freezing. It cooled off significantly over night, but luckily I hadn't noticed until Jonny tapped me on the foot to wake me up. The cold made getting out of bed significantly more difficult. Luckily for me there is a 10 degrees difference between our basement and the main floor, so I was pretty well off by the time I sat down at the kitchen table.
Here's a snapshot of what our training looked like for the day:
8am- 10am: Getting to know each other
10am-12pm: Our Relational Life
12pm-1pm: Lunch
1pm-2pm: Our Spiritual Life
2pm-3pm: Our Professional Life
3pm-3:30pm: BREAK
3:30pm-5pm: Figuring Out Life Together
5pm-6pm: Supper
6pm-7pm: Lakota Journey Week: Roles and Responsibilities
7pm-8pm: Seeking Your Professional Volunteer Site
Today was a pretty incredible experience. Taking time to get to know my team of interns (Jonny, Emily, Laura, and Steven) was a very valuable way to spend our time. During that time we talked about who we were in general, strengths, things we struggle with, we drew a picture of our spiritual journey that led us here, and we wrote down questions we would like to find answers to this summer. It was pretty great to hear everyone's stories.
Our relational life is very important during the time that we are out here, so this section of our training was very convicting. Our relational life includes our relationships with each other as an intern community, but more importantly this section included our relationships with the community we now live in (Mission, SD) and the relationships we will build over this summer. The only reason I'm out here is to learn more about the people that live on the rez, so this was pretty huge.
We also talked a lot about our relationship with Christ and how important that aspect of our relational life is while we are on the rez. None of us would be out here if it wasn't for God's hand leading us to this place, so it wouldn't make sense to continue this journey without Him. Constant communion. Every day. That's what each of us will be striving for this summer.
The rest of our day was not super interesting so I won't delve into it too much, but at the end of the night we all divided up responsibilities for Lakota Journey Week (LJ Week), which I am super excited for so I'll share with you guys really quickly.
Basically LJ Week is the week that five different churches come out to the reservation to spend a week ministering to different communities on the rez. I'm going to be the housing coordinator, which is a pretty big job. We have over 150 people coming out during that week and it's my job to ensure they all have rooms to live in during their stay here. We already know where they'll be staying but it's a high school, so keys and other logistics need to be figured out. It'll be a good time. I'm also the liason for a church who's never been out to the rez before, so I'm really going to enjoy working with them and helping them fall in love with the rez.
I think that about wraps up my day. Right now we are all chilling in the living room. Probably going to bed soon. Tomorrow's another big day. Thanks for reading. I sincerely appreciate it.
We'll talk tomorrow,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. The Gospel is more than just the good news of Jesus taking our place as a sacrifice for the sins of humanity. The Gospel is also the direct responsibility we have as believers to live like Christ and glorify God. The story doesn't stop with Jesus being raised from the dead; in fact, that's only the beginning.
2. My Address:
Brenden Forte c/o Sarah Finley
PO Box 1589
Mission, SD 57555
3. Jonny likes his flavor of Chewy bar to be a surprise.
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