So, it's been a while since I've posted. I've been busy in the meantime. The biggest thing was my youth group's missions trip to Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Basically we run a vacation bible school for the Indian kids in three towns: Winner, Ideal, and White River. In addition, a work team builds on to the playground they've built for the kids every year.
This year I was on the Winner team, just like every year before that. It was going to be really weird for our team, because all of the leaders were new. However, it wasn't going to be too bad, seeing half the seniors have been on the Winner team for four years, so we all knew roughly how things should work. And then Mother Nature decided to have fun with us. For the first three days, it rained during the day time. It has NEVER rained during the Kids' Club before. It only presented a problem this year; the year after certain allegations were made against someone who was related to the man who's in charge of the Community Center that we've always used before. Obviously, they weren't exactly happy with us this year, so we could only use the Community Center on the first day. It wasn't too bad, as the rain didn't start until Kids' Club was almost over.
So...second day, pouring rain, and we have nowhere to go. We can't stay at the park when it's freezing and raining. So, that morning, our leaders were frantically calling all the buildings in the area to see if they would let us use something. Finally, we were able to get the Middle School gym. It was weird- we had never been inside all day. EVER. We managed to get through it, and, it actually seemed to be nicer than staying out at the park all day anyway.
Second day, we didn't have the gym. Again there was frantic calling and we got the Armory gym this time. Now, this gym was nice. It worked incredibly well. Everything there went smoothly and we all loved it. About this point in time, I was acquainted with Lucas. Lucas is a little Indian boy about 1.5-2 years of age. He's the most adorable thing ever. He became my little buddy for the rest of the week. He was really attached to me. It got to the point where I had to go do something, and I tried to leave Lucas in someone else's arms. He wouldn't go. When she finally got him off me, he started crying and so I grabbed him back. I ended up leaving him with his older sister, Shaylyn, before I could go do what I had to. The next day we ended the Kids' Club with a barbeque for us, the kids, and their parents. I cut up Lucas' food and was feeding him. In the middle of eating, he started falling asleep. He ended up falling asleep in my lap. It was so adorable!!! He was still sleeping when I handed off to his mother.
The next day, when we were driving home, Shaylyn (from our group) was talking to Shaylyn (Lucas' older sister). Shaylyn was saying that Lucas had been crying all morning, saying, "Lanie, Lanie!" :( I was tempted to tell Kate to turn the van around and go back. I felt so bad leaving the little dude. He was MY Lucas. :(
But, all in all, Rosebud was a good one. :)
No comments:
Post a Comment