Sam's Year of Service Adventure

 This morning, one of my favorite maintenance guys quit, which made me really disappointed.  After the meeting, Vern, the new maintenance guy, and I took the big van over to Bentley and moved a stove out of a unit and into our storage unit.  After that, I took him back to the office so he could take his personal vehicle home, and then I picked him up at his house.  The wind was really strong on the highway, so driving the huge van was a little interesting.  When I had picked him up, we went back to Bentley, where he dropped me off.  I joined up with Alden, and we went and reset more outlets, and I turned a lady's heat on for her.  Then we had to look at a broken garbage disposal, which was under warrenty so we could not do anything.  After that, we cleaned a few more vestibules.  Once our battery for our scrubber died, we went to Home Depot to get a mop and bucket, and then we got some lunch.  After lunch, we had to go back to the storag...

 Today I slept in till 8, but it felt like I slept in till 10.  When I got up, I had some breakfast and then cleaned up my room.  We made some chicken patties for lunch, and then after lunch, we cleaned the garage, and I fixed our fence gate.  When the garage was cleaned, I decided to go on a bike ride to Garden of the Gods.  While I was there, I eyed up the Manitou Incline and decided I was going to go climb it.  I bike from Garden of the Gods over to the trailhead.  When I got there, my phone was almost dead, and I did not bring any water.  I called Christian and Leigha to come pick me up when I was about halfway up, and my phone died completely.  I just gave them a rough estimate, and I was right on time.  The hike was much harder then I thought it would be but I was still the fastest one on the trail.  The view from the top was really good, but there was a really cold wind, so I did not stay long.  When I got off the trail,...

 Today I slept in a little later than yesterday, and when I got up, I headed down to the lodge for morning worship.  The entire weekend featured excellent music and insightful contributions from Trent Voth.  After worship, we had another small group time, followed by brunch.  After brunch, I was on dishes with Michael.  Dishes for high school were so much easier than for junior high.  When we were done with dishes, we went and took a staff picture and then finished packing up and hit the road.  When we got home, I unpacked everything and did laundry.  I did not do much the whole afternoon or evening.

 Today I got up early and helped clear the snow since it snowed overnight.  Once the snow paths were cleared, we spent a while working on the tube run since it was kind of broken.  After we had the tube run useable we got to work on getting the pond ready for broomball and curling.  We had to plow the pond with the tractor and then scrape it clean for curling.  When the pond was ready, we went and had breakfast.  After breakfast, we had worship and small group time.  Then it was time for snow activities.  I did not have obligations, so I hung out at the tube run and the pond.  When the activities had finished for the morning, we had lunch.  After lunch, there was some free time before we had more snow activities.  I was in charge of human curling, but I played some broom ball while I waited for people to show up.  Eventually, some of the tabor group showed up, and we played for a while.  After those games, I had to help le...

 Today I had a half-day of maintenance.  I went down to Bentley with Alden, and we did a bunch of little things.  We had to reset several more outlets and conducted additional testing to determine the cause of the tripping.  When we were done at Bentley, we headed back to the office, and then Tony gave me a ride home.  When I got home, I ate some lunch and then packed for snow camp.  On our way up to snow camp, we stopped at the Goodwill in Woodland Park since it is supposedly better there.  When we got to camp, we ate supper and then had evening worship.  After worship, there was small group time and then free time.  We stayed up pretty late just hanging out.  Eventually, we were told we were being too loud and went to bed.

 Today was a maintenance day.  After the morning meeting, I went with Alden over to Bentley to reset a bunch of outlets that had tripped and shut people's water heaters off.  We got a lot of calls about no hot water.  When we got a break at Bentley, we went over to Rocky Mountain and Plaza to pass out some notices.  Once we had finished that, we went back to Bentley, where we had to fix some more outlets.  We also had to fix a sink, reseal a toilet, try and reprogram some key fobs, and do some other general property maintenance.  When we were done at Bentley, we went over to The Ridge to do some work orders, but before we made it there, we had to turn around and go back to Bentley to fix another outlet.  At the end of the day, Alden took me back to the office, and then I went home.  When I got home, I made some kielbasa alfredo for supper, which was really good.  After supper, I held Josiah for a while, and then I went to bed.