Despite the fact that I longed for more sleep, I didn't wake up late. I was up, done with breakfast and my devotions, and at work by a little after 8am. The funny thing about this morning was that the parking lot was almost empty when I pulled in. Not a single guy from my crew had showed up, aside from a youth worker, David and my boss Nixon. The rest of the admin staff wasn't even there. Weirdest thing.
Since Nixson was there, he got us working right away on moving some wood and reorganizing some of the wood we had because it was pretty badly warped. We probably did that for about an hour, before some other guys from the crew started showing up.
The other funny thing about today was the fact that I thought our shed project was done, and that Percy would go out there to touch up whatever needed to be touched up. Well it turns out that Percy didn't even show up to work that morning and he still had all of our tools in his car. This meant we had to go find him and get our tools back.
We spent probably a good hour and a half looking for Percy, loading up our tools, and getting back to the office, which was kind of annoying, because we had better things to be doing, than driving out to Spring Creek when he should have been at work with our tools. After we got back, our day got a little more annoying.
Since Percy wasn't coming in to work and that shed still needed doors, it was now our job to get out there and put those doors up. I really didn't want to deal with this, because on Friday, the crew had tried to hang the doors but the frame wasn't exactly square so the two doors Percy had made wouldn't even fit. Now it was our turn to try to measure out and cut door frames to match the crooked shed frame. I really wasn't sure if I could handle all of this.
The nice thing about our day at the shed was that some other little things needed to be done to the shed to make it look nicer, so while the boys worked on the shed doors, I got to work on the other stuff. I had to pull down the flashing that we had put up the week before and replace it with wider cuts to cover up the soffits, then I had to replace some of the trim on one of the corners because two different lengths had been cut and it didn't look good.
It actually took me a while to finish all of those things, and it was getting hot out, so by the time I was done, we were just about ready to head back to the office. The boys had worked on the doors all day long, but they just couldn't figure out what the problem was or how to fix the doors to make them fit. I guess we'll have to look at it tomorrow!
After work, I came back to work on my blog a little bit, and have some dinner. Then Jonny and I went out to SF to see Susie, Echo, and Keoni. When we got there, we stopped at Susie's house first, which was so cool because I haven't seen her for a while and I really have missed talking with her! She was super excited to see us and the first thing she said was "I missed you guys!" Super cute.
We stood outside her house and talked for about an hour or so, then a couple guys came up and started talking to Jonny about how much they wanted to start a basketball or softball tournament. The conversation was a little less awkward than I made it sound, but I came in in the middle of them talking. He seemed like a pretty cool guy and he seemed to really care about his community and their involvement in activities going on the SF. I respect that.
Jonny and this guy talked for a while, then they asked if they could get a ride down the street to Out West. I didn't care and Jonny was cool with driving out there so we took them out there real quick. It turned out they wanted us to pick up one of the buddies, which I didn't realize, but I was totally cool with because on the way back into town, Jonny and I had the opportunity to talk to these guys about why we're out here doing what we're doing. We live for Jesus, and that's basically what we told them. I didn't get a lot of feed back from them, but they thought we were cool enough to shake our hands after we drove them around.
We were going to stay in town at this point, but we hadn't realized how late it had gotten so we decided to go check out Out West before it got too much later. When we got Out West we stopped at Eric and Romero's house, before heading over to Echo and Keoni's place.
Jonny and I had a ton of fun Out West. Romero was pretty chill, but Echo and Keoni were all wired up! I don't know what it was, but they never stopped running and Jonny and I could barely keep up. It was so good though. I love those kids!
When we got back, I sat down to try to work on my blog some more, but I ended up falling asleep where I was sitting, and trying to get back up to move to my bed was absolutely miserable. I wouldn't recommend falling asleep in anything other than your bed.
That's that! Thank you so much for all of your support!
God Bless,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. Sometimes you have to fix a problem that somebody else caused, and it is in those moments that it is so important to remember to be Christ like.
2. Pretending to drive to Chicago can be a blast when you're with Echo and Keoni.
3. Acts 25
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