Fried Oreo's, iPhone, Homeward Bound! (Week Two)

Week Two was packed!  Big news of the week though:  GOT MY iPHONE!!

Here's what being part of the ministry looked like that week:

MONDAY:

Pastor John stays home with his family on Mondays so, I set up shop in his office and worked at his desk pretending to be him and looking into my possible future ;).  This included transcribing the recording of the last Pastor Counsel's meeting.  I used to transcribe all the time when I worked for my Papa so I really enjoyed applying my experience and getting to hear how the church approaches making decisions. 

Then, I made a sandwich, summed up the transcription, and e-mailed it to Pastor John.  I also mailed out my support letters for the upcoming mission trip to New York with Calvary Cross-Link (June 12th-17th).  After mailing my letters, I got even more excited about the trip!

TUESDAY:

Pastor John wanted me to start working on putting together a message that I could present to either youth or the entire congregation, so I got some verses together and am probably going to talk about Ephesians 6:12, "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms," but I'm still working on it. 

Then, Pastor John and I went to lunch and ran some errands.  I can't really remember what else we did that day but it was great and I got to make cookies at work! (Who else can say that?! Hahaha).  I treated myself to CiCi's pizza that night which definitely wasn't the same without Gabby (we went like once a week together the last month or so of the semester).  Needless to say, I made sure to eat for her AND me!

WEDNESDAY:

I did a couple of different things. First, Pastor John and I ran a couple of errands.  When we got back I made more cookies and set up for a meeting we were having that night (no table cloths this time but definitely lots of mints, pens, and water!).  I was able to sit in on the meeting.  

Afterwords, I talked to the Youth Leader, Danielle, for the first time.  She told me about this new setup they are going to implement where the youth group is broken down into "mini-ministry" teams (music, dance, etc.).  It is going to be really awesome and I'm excited to be able to be a part of it!

THURSDAY:  

I got to church and helped the Children's Ministry Director, Cher, put some tables in her car to take home and then I played with her son, Joe, who is around 4ish.  We hunted flies together until the staff meeting haha.  After the meeting, Pastor John and I went to Subway before our meeting at a trailer park to discuss throwing a block party for their residents.  

Last year, the church put together school supply 

backpacks for all of the kids who lived there.  Pastor John told me a funny story about how, last year, when he would go to the park trying to setup the backpack event, the ladies would ignore him.  Always the innovator, he brought donuts to every meeting after that and they have paid attention ever since!  (I made a mental note about that for sure hahaha.)  He invited me to dinner at his house that night and I was like, "Absolutely!," because my money was dwindling fast, and I had a free Redbox rental so I brought over, "We Bought a Zoo".

FRIDAY:

I woke up at 6am for Pastor John's accountability group meeting at Chick-Fil-A and it is totally worth it to wake up that early!  Later in the day, the worship leader, Scott, got back from Canada where he was visiting his family and Pastor John, Scott, and I all went to Jack Brown's where I had my second fried oreo (it was even better than my first)!  

After work, I went straight to the Verizon store!! I got my iPhone, went back to my house, and started blowing it up with apps! Then I had dinner with some of my housemates, Simon and Jon, which was another answered prayer because now that I was adjusting more at work, I  wanted to plug in more at Cornerstone (my house for the summer). 

SATURDAY: 

I tried to sleep in but my room was really hot and my biological clock was set to wake me up at 8am.  I went to the bank, Costco, and Jimmy John's, came back home, and chilled the rest of the day.

SUNDAY:

After church, I went to Taco Bell to eat, then straight to Suffolk! Pastor John and his wife, Ashley, were going on a cruise for their anniversary and would be gone for a week and some change, so I was able to go home!  I couldn't put anything about this on my blog until now because I was surprising Gabby and my mom!  It was a total success!  I got Gabby to believe I was going to see the movie, "Battleship", with my friend, Alton, which bought me tons of drive time.  After I surprised her, we both went to my house and surprised my mom :) 

That was basically it for the week!  I was home, safe and sound, on mini-vacation :)