Today was my first day back to work since Tuesday afternoon. It's been almost a week-- that's weird to think about. Where does the time go?
Since I have had so much time off of work, I was super excited to be back to work with my crew. I've really grown to love spending time with them at work, since the beginning of the summer. It's incredible the way God works in such a short period of time! Hopefully I have been a blessing to my crew thus far.
I wasn't really sure what projects we were working on today or where I would be sent for the day, but that wasn't out of the ordinary. I was just hoping to spend more time with the guys. Unfortunately, when I got to the office, they needed help on a shed project that was taking way longer than my boss thought it should, so he sent me and two youth workers out to that site. It was kind of lame that I was getting sent out to a site with two new youth workers to work with a guy I've hardly worked with in the past, instead of working a project with the rest of the crew, but God uses everything for His glory.
First, I asked my boss if he wanted me to take one of the trucks out to the site so the youth workers could get back if they wanted to take a lunch, instead of having to call somebody to pick us up, and he said I could take the half-ton. I wasn't really anticipating this opportunity because the truck is huge and it's a stick shift. I knew, I knew how to drive a stick shift, but I hadn't had the time to perfect my skills in a manual car, much less a half-ton. Time to test myself!
I really debated getting in that truck and trying to drive it, but I decided that I just needed to go for it. The worst thing that could happen is I can't figure it out and I would have to switch trucks with Marky. I got in and pull the truck around nice and easy. I did it! I was pretty excited. Now to make it through the 16mi drive out to Mission to meet Percy. Here we go!
The drive out to meet Percy went pretty smoothly! I stalled twice, but it wasn't super bad, so that was pretty great! Although the coolest part of the drive was getting the chance to talk to some of the youth workers about who I was and why I was volunteering with the Employment Program. I'm so thankful for every opportunity God gives me to talk about why I'm out on the Rez for the summer. I hope that I left an impression on those boys.
When we got out to Percy's site, we started work immediately helping Percy start work on the rafters of this shed. It was interesting work to say the least. I was able to do half the work while Percy did the other half and the youth workers just took care of grabbing us materials and stuff we needed.
By the time we had finally called it quits, we had done a lot of solid work. The hardest part about it was that each piece of wood that we put up, especially the rafters, took suck a long time to completely level off and tack into the right spot. Very strenuous, tedious work.
After I got off of work, I ran home to get some food, then I went back out to my buddy's for the night to finish up a bunch of random stuff that was necessary to start getting the place back in order and ready to finish the painting. One of the rooms still needed paint on the trim, all of the windows needed to be cleaned of tape and paper, and most of the rooms needed caulk before the painting started. It was a pretty good night! Everything is slowly coming back together! I'm so excited for him!
I finished up the night by changing the brakes on my car. It took my a couple hours at least. I always think about working on my car and I kind of get excited to do some work with my hands, but every time I get down in there and start the work, so many things go wrong that I find more frustration than joy in my car. Maybe some day I'll be able to appreciate even the frustrations in my life.
Thank you so much for reading and supporting me in my ministry this summer!
God bless,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. How to drive a manual!
2. Working on my car always sounds more exciting than it turns out to be...
3. Acts 13
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