Day 127 January 12

 Today I was with resources.  After our morning meeting, Jenni and I went to pick up Sprouts, and we were surprised by how little food we got.  When we got to the pantry, I sorted out the moldy bread from last week.  By the time I was done with this, Jenni and Kary had put almost everything away.  One thing that still needed to be done was putting a 50lb bag of dog food into smaller bags to distribute to residents.  When we were done at the pantry, we went to Westside to give them the bread.  Then we headed back to the office and had lunch.  After lunch, I added some books to the shelves in the lobby and straightened them up.  Then I spent a couple of hours organizing our closet.  It was mostly fun because I got to use the label maker to make sure everything had a label on it.  It does look much better than it did.  When I was done with the closet, I took off work early and went to look at another van.  This one looked like it had some flood damage on it, so it was not the one either.  When I got home, I spent some time looking at vans on marketplace with Christian.  When we were done with that, we made some supper, and then we had worship night.  For worship night, we did an inductive study on the book of Philemon.  Even though it is a really short book in the bible this method gave us lots of different ways to look at what it was saying.  After worship night, we celebrated Naomi's birthday.  She opened the present I got her, which was a bell for her bike and some goldfish.  After her present, she blew out some candles that were on apples since she is not allowed to have sugar.  After candles, Christian and Leigha did their yearly interview with Naomi, which was really cute and entertaining.  I thought it was a really cool idea.  They videoed it so she can see it in the future.  I spent the rest of my evening trying to figure out scholarships for college.  Then I went to bed.

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