Thursday, January 22, 2009

Tiredness/Feed my Starving Children

I can not even explain to you the amount of exhaustion i have been
experiencing recently. and i could not even explain to you why.
i am sleeping, A LOT! but i always still seem to be tired.
My dad make fun of me for it all the time. "when i was a teenager
i never needed sleep."
My headaches are back and so is my back pain. I'm not angry
at God, but I thought it was all gone! I had a good period of
time there where my back did not hurt. I could live a "normal"
life of not having my back hurt to the extent of not even being
able to find one position, sitting or laying, that did not hurt.
We went to Feed My Starving Children on Monday and I was
seemingly okay that whole time we were there, and even at the
mall my back did not hurt, but when we were on the way home,
on the bus, o my goodness!! I could not sit down, or stand up,
or do anything that would make the pain stop! It was horrible!

but Feed My Starving Children was amazing! We went of Monday,
our day off, and we served people. It was so rewarding. Being able
to make a difference in a family, or child's life is so wonderful to me!
It was so amazing to me that so many young people came out! We even
had to turn some of the youth away because we could only take so
many people. That fact alone shows that this generation has so much
potential!
We got there ten minutes early, and had to sign in, where they proceeded to
give us all hair nets. I was very impressed, we only had mild complaining from
the girls on that one. On the way in the joke was that i was only there for the guys.
Well, when we were all sitting down a group of guys walked in and everyone was like
"Amber, there are your guys" and OF COURSE they heard it...can i say embarrassing!!??
We sat through a presentation on what we were doing, and the cause behind it.
We were then off to the work room. They gave us a demonstration, and during it Lonna
got my attention and said i should be standing on the other side, i didn't get it, and then she
pointed out that that was were the guys were!! So me, being well me went over there just for the kicks. Reichert and i started off with putting stickers on bags, while the rest of the group bagged food. They had to make up cheers to get refills or bags, or boxes and any time it was Stone Church
people Reichert and i would look at each other and just laugh. They were the loudest
group in there! SHOCKING i know! lol Finally Reichert and i made our way into the food area!
It was fun there! Especially since there were more people! But Lonna allowed me to seal the bags, after the food was put in them. All you have to do is place the bag on this machine and press down,
not that hard right? Well i didn't think so either, so i was going at it, doing a good job. I would
seal the bag and then throw it onto the table to be boxed. I was going about that when all
of a sudden i see the contents of a bag all over the table...GREAT i screwed one up.
it was bad, we just cleared it off and refilled it a little. Well i did this another 2 times.
man did i feel stupid!! lol
But we were finally done and it was time to pray over the food then go back for a final good-bye meeting. Where basically they ask for money. Well when everyone was still coming in to the good-bye meeting, someone was talking to those "guy's" pastor, well we found out that they are from Minnesota! Are you serious?!?! that is so unfair!! becuase one of those guys was pretty cute, if
i do say so myself!! Lol
We were done and walking back to the bus and i commented on how cute that guy was, but it was a bummer that he lived in Minnesota, and P.erik in all of his niceness said back "well the long distance thing is YOUR thing!" haha funny P. Erik.
Then we went to the mall. and that brings us full circle to the ride home where my back hurt!

wow this one was long!! Sorry!

1 comment:

Mike Stenglein said...

It sounds like you had a great time! Minus a little cleanup on aisle 5.