Life lately

I haven't been able to blog too much lately but everything has been going pretty great in Leslie County! I have had two weeks of volunteers so far and they were both really awesome. This week, some of the group leaders greeted the staff with all different kinds of treats and FRUIT! They really took care of us all week long. We had two floating volunteers so they took it upon themselves to fix our toilets for us as well as buy us a whole bunch of cleaning supplies that we needed and a few gifts as well. All of the other group leaders were really great, too. We asked for a staff mom and dad each day and so each day we had different "parents." They did really nice things for us like buying us pizzas and soda for our nightly meetings, writing us encouraging notes, and offering an ear if we needed it and extra HUGS! Like I said, the group leaders were all amazing and so were the youth that were here these past two weeks. I had a lot of fun with them at Tropical Sno, during EGs and on runs. I learned a lot of brain teasers from some of the youth while on runs so that was neat.

Our families are great! They are all really appreciative and we had almost all of our families come to our picnic this week! We have a picnic on Wednesday evenings and culture night on Thursday nights. Our culture night is a blue grass band. I learned how to clog this week during our culture night AND someone from ASP won the 50/50 so they called me up to take the winnings as a donation to ASP which was super nice.

We've had a few visitors this past week. We had a staffer in training who was so helpful all week, our chaplain, our boss Ben, and our construction consultant. It's always nice to have visitors :) ALSO, it's always nice to get mail and I have been receiving a whole lot of it lately so THANK YOU to everyone who has been making my day!

I just finished at the hardware store with Jon and Lena and now we're going to write our work orders for the next week and then head to the Breaks to go camping with the rest of the staffs. I'm really excited because I have never seen a more beautiful sunset than I saw at the Breaks two years ago. I.can't.wait!

I don't want to rush this week because I know we have really great volunteers coming (other staffers told me how great the one church is that's coming) but I'm super excited for the end of the week because my mom and dad are coming to visit and I can't wait to see them and show them around Leslie County!

I have a day off on Monday into Tuesday so I am really looking forward to a nice, relaxing evening/day. Not too sure what I'm going to do yet. Maybe go to a state park or something. Wherever I go, hopefully I'll have cell service and I can catch up with a few people.

Anyway, I better get back to work. This week, I'm in charge of a retaining wall, drainage ditch, subfloor repair, and a front porch. If this coming week is even as close to as good as the last week, I'll be a happy camper. I'll try to post more pictures and blog a bit more often!

Talk to you all soon and, again, THANKS FOR THE MAIL!