I think an appropriate place to start would be last Monday. Monday was the annual golf outing at Life! Promotions. The deal is, each golfer registers and has to send letters to people telling them about the ministry that Life! does throughout the year, looking for supporters. The money raised allows Bob Lenz and the other speakers to travel to schools around the country and speak to the students there, without charging a huge price to the district.. Because lets face it - the higher the price, the less likely the school will bring them in. You can't change lives if you can't talk to the kids. So the golf outing is one of the things that Life! does to help make the ministry possible.
That being said, last Monday was a miserable day. It was about 45 degrees outside, and raining. Anyone ever spent a day on a golf course in these conditions? Not cool. Well, I mean, really cold, but hey.
We actually had to change the location of the golf course THE MORNING OF THE EVENT, because the other course was flooded. So I drove back and forth between the 2 carrying box lunches and the like for the golfers for a while. Let us all take a minute to thank the Good Lord for GPS.
So I was led to believe, or at least I THOUGHT I was told that I would be working inside on registering people and whatnot. However, that didn't take too long, and rather than staying inside, I was given the assignment of Hole 3. Hole 3 was a par 3 hole, and any golfer who eagled it got 40 tickets to enter in the raffles later on, birdies got 20, and pars got 12. So myself and another lady got in a golf cart and drove to the 3rd hole, where we sat for 3.5 hours, handing out tickets to very soggy golfers. It was nice and windy too, adding to the joy of the occasion. Thankfully, the other woman had a blanket with her which she was kind enough to share. Eventually, golfers just seemed to stop coming. We found out later that a good number of them dropped out when the rain got really bad. But no hard feelings, really.
By the time we were called in from the hole, I was totally and completely drenched - every single article of clothing I had on. Not the most comfy feeling ever. So I drove back to my house in Little Chute with 2 other girls in a similar state and we changed our clothes for the lovely dinner in the evening.
That evening I got to sit with Tiffany Thompson, another speaker with Life! Promotions, and one of the people working with the interns on the spiritual portion of the internship. We had an awesome conversation after the dinner about many different things, but particularly about me and some of the things that I've struggled with, or still struggle with. She was an incredibly inspiration and source of comfort and hope to me, and it was such a blessing to have been able to be there with her.
Later that same night *this was like, one of the longest days ever... or so I thought until we did our first road trip...* We were given our "crash course" in how to drive the RV that we were going to be taking on a 11 hour road trip. Note: RV's are approximately 3 times longer than the car I drive, and none of us had ever operated one before. Inspired a great deal of confidence in all of us about going to KY 2 days later. Really, we were totally cool about it.
Well, none of us cried, and no one was killed or physically injured in any way. White knuckles, OH yeah. Bumps and loud exclamations? mmhmm.. But we lived. And after having each of us drive it for 10 minutes, we were declared experts and sent onto the interstate.
Basically, yes. Just the interstate part came 2 days later.
I could keep writing on this one, but I think because of the length of the next bunch of stories, I should probably cut it off here, and start a new post. Cheerio :)
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