Monday, May 31, 2010

Monday, May 31, 2010
Today was such a long day. Actually, it’s not even Monday anymore. It’s after 1am and I am so tired. We have been working since 8am this morning. It’s just now stopping for me and I’m sure others are still working. We cleared all the rooms of the Sandman out of the full-size beds that were in there and replaced them with bunk beds. The catch is that we had to run a U Haul back and forth from storage with the bunk bed parts. We had to assemble all of the beds. We had probably 150 beds to do. It also poured in the morning while we were unloading the truck. A lot of the original Sandman mattresses got soaked but honestly, they need to be thrown out anyway.
My team mostly worked on the resource room. We turned one of the motel rooms into a hangout room and library. We had a couch and table in chairs in the living/dining area for the hangout room. People can play cards or just hang out and talk. This is important because guys can’t hang out in girls’ rooms and vice versa. We turned the bedroom into the library. We covered two couches with sheets and put throw pillows on them. We stacked crates on the dresser and nightstands and placed the books in the crates by categories. We got another lamp for the library and I wrote out our theme verses to post on the wall. I also wrote quotes that we will be mentioning in our discipleship groups on bright posters to hang on the walls in the whole resource room. We worked on the room all day, but we can honestly say that it is the best-looking resource room SBP has ever had.
Tonight for dinner we had pizza by the pool with the Room Leaders and Team Leaders from Area 2 (Troy, West Georgia, and Berry College). I stepped out with a few other girls to go mingle with those girls from Area 2. It was so fun talking to them and getting to know them. Area 1 and 2 don’t mix and mingle a lot. We’ve been praying that it will change this year.
So I am sitting in my room (yes, my very own motel room for me and my girls). I spent about 3 hours tonight setting it up. In the living/dining area, I have a couch with two end tables and a chair. The end tables have my books that I brought and games. I pulled out the table from the wall and placed 4 chairs around it so we can all sit at it together. I set up the kitchen with the things that I brought and organized the food. For the bathroom, each girl will have her own shower caddy to carry in and out so the bathroom doesn’t stay cluttered (I hate that!). In the bedroom, I have two bunk beds sticking out from the wall just like two beds would. On the opposite wall is a mirror and dresser. Each girl will have 1 drawer of the dresser and I am making the extra 2 “free-for-all” drawers where we can keep stuff we are willing to share. Around the dressers are milk crates that we will use for other clothes. I have things like t shirts and shorts in mine. There is a nightstand in between the two beds and I have an extra storage container next to my bed. We also have a closet that each of us can hang stuff in. I unpacked all of my clothes and did a LOT of ironing. Everything is set up now. I have to have someone to look at my AC tomorrow. I think it’s leaking and it doesn’t smell good.
I can’t wait to meet my disciples! I found out today that my number dropped from 4 to 3 but I know it was the Lord’s plan…and we fit better in the room anyway this way. They will arrive in between 1 and 3pm tomorrow.
I am so exhausted. I’m ready to spend time with God to rejuvenate before going to sleep.
Please pray for travel mercies and for my disciples’ hearts.
Stay tuned and stay in love with your Savior.
In Christ,
Christine ><>