Unfortunately, for me, I did not get as much sleep as I
should have last night, so, even though 7am is not super early in the morning,
I was struggling to get up. Today I was a little later getting all the doors
unlocked, but I’m pretty sure I unlocked everything by 7:30am.
After I had finished unlocking the dorms, I really wanted to
go back to bed, but I needed to wake up and collect my thoughts. I had to get
ready to present a little bit about myself, how God brought me to my
internship, and what I am doing now that I am out here (above and beyond LJ
week).
I wasn’t too stressed about it. I usually don’t have a
problem public speaking, until about 10min before I have to get up in front of
everybody. However, I still needed to make an outline for myself. This one was
kind of important. Although, that’s a little weird to me, because I feel like I
have given other important presentations regarding topics other than myself
(which is usually an easy topic for one to speak on) and I have seldom prepared
an outline for those presentations.
Anyway, I wanted to write out my outline on my computer,
since it has a keyboard and would be easier to collect my thoughts, but when I
opened it up, nothing happened. I pushed the power button, but still nothing. I
thought the battery must have died, so I plugged it in and tried again. Nothing
happened. This was weird. I had just used my computer on Saturday night and it
was working fine, so there really wasn’t an rhyme or reason that this should be
happening to me right now.
Oh well. I had a presentation to outline and only an
hour to do it. I didn’t have time to worry about my computer, at that point.So I went into the cafeteria to try to outline what I was
going to say. I skipped breakfast, drinking only a cup of grape juice while I
was trying to decide the most important aspects of my story to share with the
churches.
It was about 15min to 9am, and I went over to the intern table and
half-jokingly said that I didn’t really want to speak this morning. Stephen
didn’t realize I was joking, so he told me we really do have to speak. Good
thing he convinced me, or who knows where I would’ve been when it came time for
me to speak.
We worshiped first, and then it was time. The interesting
things about the moments leading up to my turn was that I didn’t once feel
nervous. Someone must have been praying for me, because not only did I not feel
nervous, but my presentation actually went really well. I tried to be as real
with everyone as I could, but I didn’t get caught up in trying to be so real
that I was tripping over my words. I picked specific scenarios to be real about,
so it was pretty solid. I am very thankful that it went well.
After our presentation, we had brunch. Then I had to run up
to Ace Hardware so I could try to find a new padlock for Francis. She had been
trying to make copies of the Youth Center key for me, but since Valentine
screwed it up the first time, Greg thought it might just be cheaper to buy a
new padlock that comes with four keys.
I didn’t find a padlock that was worth the money. Most of
them only came with two keys and were more than $10. Which isn’t a big deal,
except that cutting three new keys would have only been like $6. I ran over to
the Rosebud Exchange to look for some butane, and as God would have it, I found
some pad locks for $7. I called Francis just to make sure it was alright with
her if I got a new padlock for the Youth Center and she was happy about it as
long as it had four keys. Perfect.
By the time I made it back from shopping, it was still early
enough that churches weren’t ready to go out to their sites yet. I talked to
Riverwood and they told me they were headed to the store to pick up a couple
things, so I just asked them to call me when they were headed out to Two
Strike.
When I got their call, I followed them out to Two Strike and
we made it there around 2pm. I was supposed to meet Lauren in Upper Cut Meat to check out the program Glenwood was having up there, but Francis told me she was going to stop by, so I decided it would be best for me to stay in Two Strike to see Francis.
It was wonderful to see Francis. I was very pleased that she was able to come down and talk with us about the program Riverwood was holding. She stayed for probably an hour reacquainting herself with the group from Riverwood, then she had to run to get some errands done.
I tried to get out to Upper Cut Meat, after Francis left, but I got lost on the way out there, so I just went back to the dorms. I needed something with sugar, or I needed a nap, so my reason for going back to the dorms was two-fold. I decided to grab something to drink, instead of taking a nap, and I tried to take a look at a couple things on my car that were causing problems.
After looking at my car for a couple minutes, I decided I didn't have enough tools for the jobs, so I went back to my dorm room to try to fix my computer. I called my dad to ask him if there was anything specific that I could do to try to get the computer running again. He gave me a couple pointers, but he said I should pray. I had been praying already that day, but I decided to spend a few minutes praying specifically that my computer would turn back on.
Guess what? My computer turned back on. God is so good. I told everybody for the rest of the day that God saved my computer. He saved my computer just in time for me to go out to SF for dinner. I spent a couple hours in SF hanging out with a bunch of super cool kids, then we had to go back to Mission for worship and a sharing session.
The session was good as always, and now it's time for bed. Thanks for reading!
In Him,
Brenden
Things I learned today
1. Pray for all things-- always.
1. Pray for all things-- always.
2. You can never be too safe.
3. 1 Peter 3
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