The Final Day at Spirit Lake

Greetings! Weston B here... I think Laura is going to fill you guys in on what we did over the past TWO days because we were so "busy." haha. Well, that's it for me, Laura?

July 8th, 2009

Yesterday was very busy, so we have a lot of stuff to cover. We had many jobs to do yesterday. We had group A that continued with drywalling the duplex. The other two groups split between the two jobs of putting a 8 foot window in a 4 foot hole and the other group also worked at the duplex picking up trash outside, which I had to do. There were many things that we picked up in the pile; old wet drywall, various rocks, random boards with nails still in them, and other miscellaneous objects. Lily, Donald, and Mr. Venner drywalled the living room. The dining room was drywalled by Weston, Steve-O, Kelsey D., Mr. Nowland, Kelsey Hinton, and Ariel. Frisbee, the cat that lives by the duplex, is loved by everyone. She was especially loved by Emmy, who then decided to craddle Frisbee and show her to everyone until Frisbee gave Emmy a tick. Emmy then threw Frisbee across the yard and stomped inside. The window crew consisted of: Trent, Madeline, Daniel Riekena, Kevin McCullough, and Dale Thomas. They had quite a challenge with putting a window in that was 2x the size of the original hole. First, they put it in upside down. Then, they took it back out to put it in properly. Corny jokes about shims then followed leaving the other groups wondering what they were talking about.

Something hilarious happened yesterday. Kelsey Duvall is always tired, asleep, or complaining about not getting enough sleep. So on the bus, Kelsey decided to fall asleep. Weston Baker decided to scheme up a plan to get Kelsey awake, which is very hard!!! So he decided to have everyone yell in unison to get her up. When it finally happened, Kelsey jumped very high out of her seat, screamed something which is not known, and then she put the hood over her head and fell back asleep.

That afternoon, we had a great time at Sidewalk Sunday School in the Rolling Hills neighborhood. One of our favorite things was Jayden making his little Chihuahua/Wiener Dog chase Whitney and Weston. It was so hilarious watching this tiny, freakishly shaped dog chase them!

Mike and Libby Flowers held church and talked about how they got involved with missions. Then group B held devotion about listening and everyone went to sleep with more mosquito bites than they could count.

July 9th, 2009

Everyone in the girls cabin tried to make Kelsey jump again in the morning and get it video taped. Regretfully, this operation fell through. Daniel Nowland, me, and Kelsey Hinton got to mow the yard at the "Little Ghost's" house. Mr. Little Ghost is the Spiritual leader of the community, and he is currently in a nursing home. Even though we had some technical difficulties because of the storm that passed through last night, we finally finished her yard with her very pleased. The groups stayed the same as they were yesterday. Team A finally finished sheet rocking the duplex and group C finished putting the window in. Then we took victory pictures!

After we got finished eating lunch, we went to Fort Totten. Fort Totten is a military fort that has been renovated close to its original state. It had many buildings to peek into, and it had many amazing artifacts to look at. We then went "shopping" and tried to find a way into Devil's Heart. (Devil's Heart is a ginormous mound that Native American boys go to for 3 days on their vision quest and then perform a sundance and tell everyone their calling.) A few people decided to embark on the journey up to Devil's Heart. First, we had to get over the barbed wire fence because we couldn't find a road. This was probably illegal, although we did have permission from Mike Flowers. Huge weeds and grass greeted us, and we had to navigate through it without stepping in fresh cow pies. Finally, we got to the base of the heart. It looked a lot harder than it seemed because there wasn't a path. All of the few got up to the peak and were amazed at the view that was before them. We now realize why the boys stayed up there for 3 days, because it was very tiring getting up there. Everyone took pictures and then went down the mound to the bus.

When everyone got back from their adventure, we went back to the camp. We then ate hamburgers and hotdogs, grilled by the brave Daniel Riekena, Daniel Nowland, and Trent Putnam. After dinner, we got treated to music from Skylee (a girl from Sidewalk Sunday School) and her dad, Chad. They performed some traditional Lakota music, and we all participated in a "round" dance. This dance is a social dance used to greet family and friends.

We had our final devotion then started packing. We are sad to be leaving because Libby cooks such good food, but we are all running out of clean clothes. We are on the road tomorrow and will blog from the hotel. (end Laura)

Sorry this is so long, but I wasn't really paying attention. You know how these girls like to talk. Please pray for us on our travels back to you all and I hope you enjoyed reading the blogs everyone's posted.... so far... God Bless!

Weston