Dooley's

8/27/14

Today was a very busy day.  I started off the morning with a staff meeting and Michael was back.  We met for a good chunk of time.  We had a lot to discuss and some very important things to gt through.  After that Michael and I met to get on the same page and get some things figured out like children's messages as well as Sunday school schedule.  I also had a chance to show him the mystery dinner ideas as well as my ideas and plans for Kevin's itinerary for October.  It was good to get this chance to talk and ask questions again for me.  Then I headed off to lunch having been in the office very little so far, which would turn out to be a common thing for today.  At home I made eggs and put in some chicken with it.  It was very good and forgot how much I enjoyed eggs.

I came back after lunch and we left for Trinity to meet with Corey and Mark about youth ministry questions.  I was mainly an observer and it was fun to hear what they are doing at Trinity and be able to remember several areas from Redeemer and hear about things I have not yet experienced.  Then we had a really fun opportunity to help some elderly men and women at Trinity getting downstairs and outside to rides.  I helped a woman named Allene (I think I spelled it wrong) out to her son's car in the parking lot.  I got to explain who I was and she told me about herself as well.  It was a very cool experience.  Then we headed back to Redeemer and started the Lake George meeting right away.  There were some great comments shared there and I have a full piece of paper of writing to put into some sort of format for looking at this event in the future.

Right after that meeting I joined the already in progress confirmation meeting.  This one would be the first time that I lead a portion of it.  I would be taking the back half of the explanation and Michael would be there for questions and support and feedback afterwards.  I felt that I didn't do that well and missed things or said them wrong.  Michael told me after that I sounded very calm and collected and that if I hadn't needed him for answers here and there he would have been very surprised.  That was nice to hear and I can move on from there.  After that I headed home and meet with my parents.  They wanted to go to a place downtown called Dooley's.  There we ate outside and had cheese curds for an appetizer.  Then we each ordered and had tons of food.  We packed up our meal and headed over to Games by James.  We bought a third expansion, only missing one now, for Catan and realized that we had left our food box at the table.  We walked back that way thinking maybe it was there but probably not.  And indeed it was still there and our waitress said hi again.

We walked back to their hotel room and packed up all the stuff they wouldn't be taking with them.  They brought it to my apartment and now my freezer and fridge are full of food.  We then played just the normal version of Catan and I got my chance to win.  So for three days we played and each day someone different one so we each got our victory.  It was a great time.

Today I learned that I can be really hard on myself.  With the confirmation talk today I felt like I didn't do well at all.  But as I said Michael saw it differently and from a perspective that I didn't have.