Last week in Minot!

My time here is coming to an end, and honestly im excited to move on. Minot is an awesome city with awesome people, and the work here has been super fun - however there's just not enough work to go around sometimes. The times we have work its always fun and interesting, but sometimes we're doing a lot of busy work which is very defeating. Personally I rather be doing hard labor amd helping than doing easy busy work. It's not our sponsors fault its just slowing down around here a little, but the sponsors positivity helps the team to stay focused on the task at hand no matter how trivial it may seem. For example, we've sorted and wrapped a ton of siding for homes..the task itself is tedious and annoying but in the bigger picture wrapping/sorting the siding has helped the warehouse make more siding deliveries...so althoughits annoying in the long run it still is helping home owners get closer to normality.
BUT this past week some of us have been doing restorative lawn care! That has genuinely been fun, we worked with a few older men from another church hydroseeding yards. I love  the work, sometimes raking a tilled yard can be tedious and annoying but you get instant gratification from home owners, and seeing who you're personally helping is a good feeling! They're all so thankful its very rewarding. The old men we work with are fantastic too, Vern, Marlan, Dennis, and Blaine have all taken us under their wing and been very nice. Blaine is probably the one I like the most he was special ops Army, actually helped rescue Marcus Lutteral who wrote Lone Survivor...he is an all around amazing person who has given so much to his country and continues even though he's retired.
Im very thankful for the people and places I've met/gone with A,Americorps but I think Minot will be one of my best memories..you cant quite explain the feeling of giving back to a community who needs help,  it feels good to do good

And its not over yet, this coming week we'll continue yards and warehouse deliveries (hopefully there are deliveries) and next weekend we're doing a community day in which we'll paint 1,000 stars of hope for Moore, OK. Its going to be fun! I hope to leave Minot a little better off than when we got here, I know im already better off because of Minot....but it will be nice to have cell phone service again :p