The start of this past week wasn't nearly as exciting as last week. I worked every day this week, which was fun! I'm almost past the training stage, and done wearing my silly "in-training" t-shirt. Also, once I'm done training I will get a part of the daily tip pool, which will be good pocket money.
Also, Monday at our weekly meeting we decided this week would be a good time to fast from something that was distracting us from God. Like many others, I gave up FaceBook, and I also decided to try and eat healthier and try to run once or twice a week. I love running because while I run I recite scripture to myself and pray. It's really a great time for me to spend enjoying God's creation and praising Him. I managed to get one run in this week, and worked on the memory verse for this week while doing it.
Tuesday we had a phenomenal women's time. We were dropped off along a trail with the other girl(s) in our action group and prayed together through James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Then we each set off down the trail alone, praying to God the whole way to reveal our sin to us. As it was revealed, we wrote it on our arms with a marker. Once we all made it to the lake, we split up into action groups and our leaders washed the sins off our arms and we all prayed for each other. It was pretty sweet, and I wish I had been more in the mindset to really get a lot out of it.
Group shot of women's development night
The rest of the week was pretty standard. Except for the gallon challenge after weekly meeting.
Ten of us were lucky enough to get the high-speed version of the gallon challenge. The idea is to drink, and hold down, a gallon of milk in one hour or less. We were given 20 minutes. And whole milk.
One of the guys, the one directly to my right, managed to finish his gallon in seven minutes and hold it down for an impressive ten! After 20 minutes there were still four of us left, so they extended it ten more minutes, but we eventually all threw up. I managed to make it through about 2/3 of my gallon, which is pretty good since last time I did it (with 2%, and a full hour) I probably barely passed halfway. It was definitely an interesting experience.
Friday we were lucky enough to go fishing with a local guy, Shawn. He and some of the project guys took us out on boats and we all got to crab and halibut-fish. Our group had quite the fun time fishing! We got four rods down in Shawn's boat, and then the rod toward the front got a bite. We were using circular hooks, so there's no need to set the hook. The fish eats the bait and the hook works its way into the fish to catch it. Since Sam had caught the first fish, it was my turn to reel this one in. The way to reel in halibut is by pulling the tip of the rod slowly upward, and then reeling in real quick as you lower the tip. Since the rods were let out to the bottom of the lake (about 200 feet), it took quite awhile. After much struggling, we finally got the fish up. He had managed to get the bait off two other hooks on our boat, snagging those lines, and managed to get tangled in one of the lines from our other boat. So by the time he was finally at the top, four of us were fighting over the same fish! The fish, a huge one (to me, though not to halibut standards) at 60 or so pounds, ended up being shot twice to kill it so we could get it in the boat.
After getting all the lines untangled (or cut) we were able to get rods down for a little bit longer so April could catch one, which meant all of us in the boat had caught one (excepting Shawn, who fishes all the time).
As we were getting ready to leave, however, Shawn realized that the big fish, which had been hanging over the side with the other smaller fish, had somehow slipped off the rope. Super bummer!! Most of the men were upset that they didn't get to eat any of it, whereas I was bummed I never actually got a picture with the whopper I helped reel in.
Me with the other big fish-about 40 pounds
We finished the night by going back to campus where the guys taught a couple girls to fillet their fish and we boiled the crab that we'd caught. Then we sat around the stove eating freshly cooked crab with butter. Delish!!
Saturday we did a prayer hike up Mt. Roberts. Being part of the prayer team, I got to help organize it, and-belatedly-ran the first station. It was really neat though, because we got to hike among the beautiful mountain while praying, whether out loud or silent.
I'll admit, it was a lot more difficult than I expected it to be! But worth it because we had a worship service at the top. My group made it for the last song and a half, but it was still great. And we saw a para-sailer fly by.
Most of the girls around a cross about halfway up Mt. Roberts
Kelly, April, Emily, Hope, Stephanie, Sam, Me, April, Shelby
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