Week Six

Sunday

3:00-4:00 Hang out w/ Students
4:00-6:30 Make dinner
9:00-11:00 Hang out w/ Students

Monday

7:00-9:00 Hang out w/ Students
11:00-2:00 Run errands/Clean up site
3:00-5:00 Hike w/ students
9:00-11:00 Hang out w/ Students

Tuesday

7:00-9:00 Hang out w/ Students
9:30-3:00 Move paint/drive it to another site
5:30-8:30 & 9:30-11 Hang out w/ Students

Wednesday

7:00-9:00 Hang out w/ Students
9:00-1:00 Mix Paint
1:30-5 Inventory
5:00-6 Prep Cook-out
6-8:30 & 9:30-11 Hang out w/ Students

Thursday

6:30-7 Breakfast prep/ clean up
7:00-9:00 Hang out w/ Students
12:00-3:00 Inventory work/ fax
4:00-6:00 Dinner prep/help
8:00-10:00 Help staff/ chill w/ students
10:00-11:30 Help lead in random amazing worship session
11:30-12:00 Clean up sewage back up in bathrooms ☺

Friday

6:00-9:00 Help other staff/ Get students out
10:00-12:00 Clean our site’s kitchen
12:00-11:30 Grocery trip/ shop/ put away

Total: 68.5 hours
(Running Total: 422.5 hours)


Personal Reflection
It was a much lighter week this week! Praise Jesus! We didn’t have any participants this week and Youthworks doesn’t really give paid vacations so I went and worked at another site that it about 20 miles down the road. My area director gave each of us some time of rest because of the highly frustrating week before. It was so nice to have the option of napping when we needed to, and trust me, I did. I had so missed the naps my body craved. I know it will help for this next week. Because we weren’t the main staff I had time to just hang out with students and really connect with them. I also had the time to run random errands and get some work done that we normally wouldn’t have time to do. It was a great refreshing week! I also got a lot of reading done. I am really enjoying Brennan Manning. I highly recommend him. It’s exciting that I feel like I’m getting SO much experience this summer and learning so much from the internship side of it as well. I know it’s nice to have it look like I’m doing so much logistically, but I’m always trying to keep in check that I am allowing God to do a lot eternally. If you who read this could also keep our work projects staff, Eric, in your prayers he has been struggling with some sickness and we need him better! Not only so that he doesn’t feel like trash, but also so that some of the stress is off my site director and I to take over his job.


Spiritual Reflection

I have been asking a lot of questions while out here and learning so much. I’m struggling with the idea of justice right now. The fact that I think Mt. Rushmore is one of the most arrogant things our country could do and that the US has pretty much ruined the Lakota and set them in the heart of the cycle of poverty. It’s all so unfair and I get so frustrated. Lord, open doors for me to show your love. Open the hearts that need to be here to serve, even if it is my own.