Well another week is over and I can not believe how fast
this summer has went! I have been here for a month and have less than a month
less. I pray that time will SLOW down! This past week truly has been awesome.
Seeing God at work in many lives is such an exciting thing! This week was a
long but a great one! And these past two days off have been much rejuvenation
and relaxation for everyone! We were needing the pick me up boost! All day
today we went to the beach on Crab Island and it was such a beautiful day for
it! It was a time of laughter and smiles and even some bloody feet. While
walking on the jetty rocks many including myself got some cuts on the feet from
the rocks and barnacle. Tomorrow starts the work week. I sometimes get my days
confused because our “weekends” are technically Sunday and Mondays. No one on
our project works on those days, only Thursday-Saturday! So that leads me into
my next conversation: how is work going? Well to be honest it has its tough
moments and this week I have seen some fruit starting to grow. It has
been stressful because we had many machines down and our times were very high
and management was not pleased at all. So tension was high and then our
managers sometimes do not see eye to eye and that tension has been felt. We
have actually been a few days with our ice cream machine and our ice machine
both down! So we have to drive to the McDonald’s in the walmart in Destin and
grab ice and bring back to our store! This week Mary Slate, someone from Auburn
here on project, and I got to know one of our shift managers more and bond a
little more with Matt. Steven is a shift manager who is in a very tough place
right now. He transferred to this store in the fall and hasn’t
really gotten to know anyone outside of work. So he has had some good talks
with the guys on the other project and hopefully are going to go out to eat
with him soon. Matt has
opened up with us and said that he is a believer. He attends church with
his family and that is all. He is in the manager in training position now and
by July will be a manager. He told me that he wants to do that for a year maybe
and then go back to carpentry school. So starting to learn more about his goals
and dreams. Both of these guys are lost in their own way and it breaks my heart
to listen to how lost they truly are. But I know that I serve a mighty God and
he can do anything He wants to with whoever! But it has been very encouraging
to see some fruit that is starting to come from this. We are hoping to have a some coworker hang
outs and a week from Friday as a whole project we do a cookout and invite all
of our coworkers! So I am pretty excited to see who will come from work and for
them to see that us girls can actually wear clothes besides black pants, blue
shirt, and a visor with greasy hair! Haha. Yeah we all look pretty rough when
we get off work most days! But overall it has been great. Last night for our
World Vision prayer time we lit up tiki torches on the beach for the 5
countries we were praying for this week and then broke up into our team colors
and prayed over the countries. I still sometimes have a hard time wrapping my
head around what I am doing this summer. I don’t know any other place I would
rather be this summer or people I would want to be with!
“I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep and they know
Me, as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life down for
my sheep.” John 10: 14-15
We are His sheep and unlike a hired hand He will never
leaves us or let us wonder away because we are HIS sheep and He cares deeply
about all His sheep! Hope that you have a blessed week!
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