Pirates of the Poudre and Project #3

Wednesday...oh Wednesday.  It seems like only a couple of days ago.  Wait, it was....

It was a blast.  I went white water rafting with 6 other people.  Sadly, it was quite impossible to take pictures of it becuase we were wet during the process.  Lest be assured, it was a blast.  I wish we could've gone longer however and gone on tougher rapids.  But this was a good start.  Afterwards, I played ultimate frisbee and then hung with Jennee.  It was a really enjoyable day and fit in great for my day of rest.

Thursday was our third project day.  We got an opportunity to do a service project this week and it was much exciting.  The picture of the people you see is my entire project group laying on the grass outside of a church before we started to work.  We cleaned up the majority of their facilities after their vacation bible school ended and then we did some painting in their gym.  It was pretty flippin' awesome to be honest.  Plus I got to paint something about 25 feet in the air so they let us get on a lift and paint.  So cool!  We also had a really awesome discussion in the morning.  However, the evening was somewhat of a struggle as we ran into communication problems and ran out of time.  I feel if we had an extra hour in our days, we could do a lot more.  It was still good though and I look forward to keeping up our growth as a group.

Something else that's been going on has been a new speaker coming to town.  A guy from New Life Christian Fellowship at Virginia Tech came and spoke to LT on Tuesday and Thursday.  On Tuesday he talked about setting goals, and on Thursday he talked about dealing with suffering.  This was very appropriate as he had just a few months ago started to deal with the death of 33 people at the VaTech campus.  It was pretty incredible hearing him talk.  He was a stark contrast to the speaker we had last week.  Far more even keeled and less intense, he struck me a lot more.  Very genuine and humble, he was a guy I truly respect.

This is definitely a long post, but shwatever.  

One more thing...I should have a more extensive photo album up soon, so I'll let you know about that when it happens. We've got The Rock again tomorrow night.  John Drage is speaking on "Transformed" which is gonna be pretty sweet.  We got a chance to talk and it's gonna be fun to be programming some of the rest of the summer.  John is the Colorado LT director and he is a pretty awesome guy.

anywho....until later!