This Time it's Personal

This month was the busiest month that I have had here this year. We worked with Reggie Dabbs, Abaco, Cleansing Stream, and End of the Year test. Busy, Busy, Busy But I did find time to help out the community and the local church. It has been a pretty good year, and I love interning as a youth pastor at harvest.  So realizing that the time was winding down, I decided that on my Sabbath that I would hang out with my youth group and be with them outside of the church walls.  Talk to them on a personal level and they loved it, but I think that I loved it more than they did.  I also  helped my adopted father at the school I helped him move. He does a lot for me here and takes his time to work with me, so I felt that the least I could do was to take out some time to help him. He came and pick me up from the training center on a Sabbath, then took me out to Denny’s for a father son lunch.  I would have to say that that was a wonderful experience. Afterwards we went to the house, changed my clothes and we went to work. At first I was a little  uneasy about it, because he has a huge house.  But we went through a lot of thing sort through clothes, movies, furniture, and what not.  Will sorting through things I noticed that he had a few pictures and posters that he didn’t want.  He remember that I was a sports freak and they were football and basketball posters and said that his biological son didn’t want they so he decided to pass it down to another generation, (a little joke, I’m his adopted son at school), so you know I didn’t turn that down.  Who would a thought that as you are helping others, others can help you as well. Then we  packed a bunch of boxes, and loaded them onto the truck, and such. We did that for about 4 to 5 hours. Then that next Friday afternoon we did the same thing loaded the truck, and unloaded the truck. Then next week was a little different I helped another person from the church, but it still involed brother Dale. I went to His new house that I help unload at, then I helped Mr. Scott pick up some stuff from Mr. Dales house. It was pretty cool how they decided to reward me. Going into I didn’t do It for a reward to for anything to gain. I simply did it to help and serve but they rewarded me with dinner at olive garden and they bought the house a few things. God take’s care of his children.

What i have learned

This week I learned a lot of things. But the most important thing that I learned was that there is a fine line between friends and leaders. But this lesson wasn’t from a person that is a first or a second year student. It was from a person who has already been through the program. There are some things that can be shared abroad, and some things that can’t cross that line or should not even be brought up. This came about during a conversation, no matter how mad or how frustrated you may become, throwing people under the bus just is not called for, you can’t do it. It’s not Christ like, and we; people who are striving to become fully devoted followers of Christ can’t let that happen. Also we found out this weekend that we can be a great family, we just all have to have the right attitudes.   Another thing that I learned is pay attention to details, no matter what you do, details, details, details.  It will be key!  This week I had a task to complete and didn’t really pay close attention to the details and you will pay the price if directions aren’t completely followed.  But I can say that in the end after certain conquences are made, that you learn from the mistakes that you make.  Whether or not you realize it, sometimes certain discipline is good.  It just depends on how you look at a situation and the mindset/attitude that you have!

BOdy SHop

This week was a pretty amazing week, just busy.  We did a lot of things.  Came back from Abaco, and then went on a Cleansing Stream Retreat.  We have not had a lot of time to work on our Physical Fitness or Body Shop. I did do pushup’s in the water, which made it harder because of the restince.  We also did some exercises in the water, but it wasn’t for a long period of time.  While we in Abaco, we played a few games of basketball that worked on our legs, and endurance.  Sunday I had a little time, I decided to walk and just have a conversation with God.  Today, we did a Test that shows our Growth over the School year.  My Growth was made and I have grown 20% for the whole year due to all the body shops.

Serving

This month was the busiest month that I have had here this year.  We worked with Reggie Dabbs, Abaco, Cleansing Stream, and End of the Year test.  Busy, Busy, Busy But I did find time to help out the community and the local church.  I helped my adopted father at the school I helped him move.  He does a lot for me here and takes his time to work with me, so I felt that the least I could do was to take out some time to help him.  He came and pick me up from the training center on a Sabbath, then took me out to Denny’s for a father son lunch.  Afterwards we went to the house, changed my clothes and we went to work.  Packed a bunch of boxes, and loaded them onto the truck, and such.  We did that for about 4 to 5 hours.  Then that next Friday afternoon we did the same thing loaded the truck, and unloaded the truck.  Then next week was a little different I helped another person from the church, but it still involed brother Dale.  I went to His new house that I help unload at, then I helped Mr. Scott pick up some stuff from Mr. Dales house.  It was pretty cool how they decided to reward me.  Going into I didn’t do It for a reward to for anything to gain.  I simply did it to help and serve but they rewarded me with dinner at olive garden and they bought the house a few things.  God take’s care of his children.

What I have learned

This week I learned a lot of things.  But the most important thing that I learned was that there is a fine line between friends and leaders.  But this lesson wasn’t from a person that is a first or a second year student.  It was from a person who has already been through the program.  There are some things that can be shared abroad, and some things that can’t cross that line or should not even be brought up.  This came about during a conversation, no matter how mad or how frustrated you may become, throwing people under the bus just is not called for, you can’t do it.  It’s not Christ like, and we; people who are striving to become fully devoted followers of Christ can’t let that happen.  Also we found out this weekend that we can be a great family, we just all have to have the right attitudes. 

What you Have

This week will be a week I will never forget.  I say all this because this week we were able to go over seas and take a missionary trip to Abaco, Bahamas.  We did a numerous amount of things there that we and them will both never forget.  While on this trip we took a visit to a little town called Peas and Mud.  Now before I explain peas and mud, let me say, people over here in America think they have it bad?  They haven’t seen bad until they go over there.  We Amercains complain, and say that we don’t have this and/or we don’t have that.  But we you go to Abaco, they have nothing, and at they same time you don’t see them complain like we do.  These kid’s wore the same clothes all week, some of them had to wear the other gender’s clothing because that is all they had.  Some of them never wore shoes and they smelt bad.  But you never heard them complain.  We did a little vacation bible school in the middle of their village and at the end of service we passed out candy and stickers.  And it was quite amazing how they respond.  Yes Sir! Yes Mam! And they were so loving and caring even though they didn’t’ have much.  They were respectful and looked after each other.  That’s the mindset that we as Americans need to take on and just learn to be appreciate of what you have, not what you don’t have.