this past week was a lot of work! the evil russian push up thing for hodson started, i had four quizes throughout the week, and i went to help out at the church twice. On tuesday i was asked to help the youth pastor because pastor todd was in a meeting. he needed help putting together a video of picture slides from their 06' trips and events. he asked me to help because he thought it would take forever, but he didn't know that you could "select all" and import into movie maker? duh, he thought i was a genius, when really i'm not even close! We went through and labeled all of the albums and he helped me put them in chronological order, then i put it all together, fifteen minutes later i was done, except his computer froze :( i did it over in a couple minutes and he couldn't believe i was done. there was nothing else for me to do so he asked me to find some funny videos that he could show at an event or something. pastor bob had to leave, but he just told me to save whatever i thought was good and to lock his door on the way out.
I went back on thursday and he was working on replacing a door. we talked about some of the churches history bacause i commented on the river that runs by the church. it dropped literally about ten feet from when i was there tuesday! he was telling me how the building means a lot to the people because the almost lost it a few years back due to flooding. he said there were tons of people there sand-bagging, which i thought was pretty sweet! The door took us cllose to two hours and we still didn't get it right, but it was hanging and worked (for the most part) so he had to go and said he would fix it friday. I am still learning all of the extra stuff that goes into ministry; technology, knowing the people and their history, and odd jobs like replacing doors correctly. anyways, still nothing that actually counts towards the practicum stuff, but i'm learning and having fun doing it!