This morning, I woke up right on time, but since I drove straight out to the shed site yesterday and my crew usually doesn't make it out that way until around 9am, I decided I could sleep for a little longer. I ended up sleeping way longer than I should have. I'm pretty sure it was around 8:45am which is late even if I'm driving straight out to the shed.
I got to the shed site around 9am, and I waited for about 15min for people to show. After 15min, there wasn't a car in site. Usually Percy is there earlier than the crew and even he wasn't there yet. I was starting to get worried.
I called into the office and asked if they boys had left yet, and the receptionist said that they had already left. But that still didn't mean they were coming out to the shed, so I texted Marky and asked him where they were at and he told me he was in Parm. Percy had locked his keys in the car so nobody was going out to the shed today. Well I screwed up.
I told Marky I would drive to the office, and he could pick me up when he was done in Parm. The other half of the my crew came back before Marky and Lowen, so they made fun of me a little bit for being late to work that morning.
Since Percy locked his keys in the car, and most of our tools were in his car because he was the lead carpenter on the shed, we didn't have any tools to work on anything with. We were left to sit around. A couple of the guys went to try to get Percy's car doors open but there wasn't enough room for me, so I spent more time sitting around.
While I was sitting around at the office, Marky and Lowen came back. Now that a truck was back at the office, we needed to go out to Rosebud Building Products to get some materials for some fences that needed to be started. Nixson told us that everything would be marked out so all we needed to do was start the 5in poles then we could come back.
We went out to RBP got the materials, dropped off some materials at the shed site, then drove to the fence site to check everything out and drop off our materials there. Of course, the spots for the holes had not actually been marked out for us, so we called Nixson and he said we'll just have to start that another day, but we did have all the materials we needed so that was good.
When we got back to the office, Nixson needed some people to start work on the Rosebud Pow-wow grounds. We had just sealed a deal to reseed the entire area and get it ready for the Rosebud Fair. Much to my dismay, the job he wanted us to do basically consisted of pulling weeds with sharp tools. The catch was that the grounds we were supposed to cover were 95% weeds. This was a nearly impossible job, and they left us out there without water or Powerade. I was none too pleased.
This was the point in time where I really started thinking about how much work effects my attitude and whether or not I am a good example of God when work gets frustrating. I even noticed this problem back in Best Buy while I was working in MN-- when work got stressful, I became very stoic and I would concentrate more on the problems at hand than the work I am doing for God. I never really found the answer or solved this problem, but God was really teaching me something today, and for that I am thankful.
We started walking back to the office after about half an hour of work, because I really didn't want to get heat exhaustion or heat stroke and nobody had come to get us or give us water since we had been out there. We met some of our crew half way and they brought us back to the office.
Afterwards, it was just about quitting time, so I headed back home. When I got home, I started working on some stuff around the house, then I had my second intern check-in with Emily. That went really well! I think we had a great conversation about my experience out here so far.
When I had finished my check-in with Emily, she told me my check-in time rivaled Jonny's by about 10min. We both took about an hour and a half to complete our check-in. I guess we both like to talk. Or something like that.
I finished my check-in then I went back to working on stuff around the house for the rest of the night. I fell asleep in front of my computer at one point, then I went to bed in my actual bed when I realized I couldn't keep my eyes open any more.
So that's my day! Thank you so much for reading and giving me your support!
God bless,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. I need to be careful of how I'm acting when work gets stressful and unreasonable. It's very important for me to be constantly aware of the example I'm being for Christ.
2. Jonny and I love to talk.
3. Acts 21
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