Work Day #3

Hi everyone, its Laura Schaudt. Today in the morning I wore a long-sleeve because even though its summer time in Idaho, it was cold. My group started out weeding a garden for the Stine Family. They are teachers here at the ranch (well actually Mrs. Stine is the principal). The garden took us a long time to weed but it was fun because we had some good conversations with each other. After that it was lunch time and it was delicious like every other meal we’ve had here. Then my group took a trip to Walmart to shop for the families on the ranch. We put all the supplies in a laundry basket and will give them to the families tomorrow at our group barbeque. Hopefully the baskets will really bless the families. Although the day wasn’t filled with too much physical labor for me, I still had a hard day and am tired. And they’re turning the lights out riiiiiiight nowwwwwwwww….so I’m going to bed. Goodnight!

Eyyy this is Leland Holden… so today I did some work and stuff like I cut down this tree and pressure washed this house and played capture the flag and whatnot it was pretty cool I guess.. yaaaaaaay.. Later ha

Today was pretty laid back for a work day. My group worked on finishing up the barn that we moved on Saturday. This is Abi Penner, by the way. We mixed and poured the concrete to secure the building, and basically just tidied up a little bit. The majority of my day was spent raking rocks. In a horse pasture. With lots of horse poop. It was pretty fun actually, and not very demanding. It was great because the mindlessness of the task allowed for connecting with people, people that I might not have talked too much otherwise. This whole trip has been that way for me. God is definitely good.

Hi, this is Brad C. It was back to work today and my group was tasked with making a 4’ by 3’ wood box to put various balls and outside toys in to be placed near the basketball court. It was a fun job as we got to use a chop saw to cut some wood and Jeff Turner’s special “left handed” hammer to pound some nails (it worked pretty good even for those of us that are right handed). The box came together nicely and after lunch we were looking for more work to do. In the afternoon we worked on scraping and painting a floor and then pulling a old metal poll, that used to be used for tether ball (we think), out of the ground. The poll turned out to be more work then we expected as it was buried about 3 and a half feet in the ground and secured by two layers of concrete with a dirt layer between and on top. We thought we had it out after the first concrete layer only to find that we were only half done.

We had home made mac and cheese for dinner that was very yummy and in the evening we played a game of capture the flag with the ranch kids. It was a well fought game that ended in a draw when we came in and Matthew gave a lesson on the next fruit of the spirit, kindness. He used several examples from Jesus’ ministry of times when he showed kindness to all sorts of people including those that were out to kill him. One example he gave was the servant of the High Priest who had his ear cut off when he was coming with the mob to take Jesus and kill him. Even when this man was coming to kill him Jesus showed kindness by healing him.

I hope you all are enjoying our blog thus far. We have read some of the comments that have been left to the group and we all have been encouraged by them. I would encourage you all out there reading this to leave us a comment and let us know what you think.