The best 32 days of my life

I miss work crew SO much.
It was the hardest five weeks of my life and by far the most work I have ever done. On average, I got less than six hours of sleep a night and took one nap the whole time I was there. The laundry room, dining hall, kitchen and our cabin were not air conditioned. One day in July it hit 102 degrees. Ha, that was one of the best days. I have never sweat so much in my life. I did not have my phone, laptop or any way of communicating with the outside world besides writing/receiving letters and paying to use a phone that 40 girls had to share. Every six days we washed 1200 towels, 1200 sheets, 600 pillowcases and 150 tablecloths. And folded them all too, that was the worst part. (You have no idea what folding does to your arm muscles). And believe it or not, all the clean linens go basically unnoticed. A "thank you" was rare and treasured by laundry girls back in those days.
But quickly the miserable work turned into glorious joy. I would give literally ANYTHING to go back and live there for the rest of my life, doing the same exact thing everyday. There's something about serving Jesus with the same 50 people day in and day out. They become your best friend. They become your boyfriend. They become your family.
Gosh, some days I look back at the pictures and start bawling and just wish and pray God could take me back there to serve with the same people, doing the same things for the rest of my life. And I realize, the reason I miss it so much and long for it so much is because THIS IS THE WAY GOD INTENDED LIFE TO BE. Living amongst people who love the gospel and living fully for Him.
If I thought work crew was perfect, imagine how great Heaven is going to be!!

Oh, the memories...

Where I had my quiet time every morning.

Oh, just taking a break in one of the dryers.
Just a co-laundry girl who turned into my best friend.

One of the most amazing women I have ever met.
Fifties night!
Joey trying to get my hair to look like his. This is how we passed time between buses on welcome day.
 My friends at my birthday party that my WONDERFUL boss threw for me
Accomplishing my life long dream of being on the Pagoda!!
Working hard!
Working hard!
Not working so hard...
Ha, where it all began...
I love this one.
All the lint collected in the dryers over 32 days.
We were supposed to be folding...
One of the most amazing nights of my life. Genesis 9:14-15
Just jamming on our Sabbath.

  My housekeeping family, who I miss more than words could ever describe.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

New Year

A new year has begun and I feel like all the good bloggers post about the new year. They either look back on big moments in the past year or look forward to upcoming events in the new one. I sat in front of my computer for a long time trying to think of something worthy of a new years post. And I can't really come up with anything. I'm not really a big new year person. To me, nothing really changes except that I'll spend the next four months writing 201 4 5. Which is so annoying. I've made the same new year's resolution for the past three or so years. It's to floss everyday. And I already know that I'm going to fail. I know this because it's the third consecutive year that I've made this same resolution. I want to floss. I enjoy the thought of myself flossing every day. And I hate the condescending look my dentist gives me when my gums start bleeding the millisecond after the floss hits them. I just never actually do it. It's hard for me to l...
Read more

How we paid off our debt in ONE YEAR!

Image
You guys... we paid off ALL our school debt.  This whole thing started last January. We were at the Young Life 75 conference in Florida and Dave Ramsey spoke. He was hilarious and wise and I instantly fell in love with him. He gave us all a free copy of his book. I thought that was nice but unnecessary for us. We already "budgeted" and had a (looooong) plan to pay off our debt. But it turns out that Dan needed something to read on the airplane home. By the time we landed in Ohio, Dan had figured out that if we followed this plan, we could have all our student loans, which were our only debt, paid off in 14 months! This sounded a little crazy to me but Dan was sold, so we gave it a try and whataya know... 13 months later and we're already debt free! Here's a picture from that trip last year where we heard Dave Ramsey... and went to Harry Potter World!!! Here's how we did it: Preface: None of these are our original ideas. ZERO. We literally just did exac...
Read more

We're moving... again!

For the past two months we've been renting a house. It's a great house. It's huge and is the perfect location and has a lot of character. Though, there are some down sides to it. It's very old so the pipes froze a lot in the winter. The walls are plaster, not dry wall, so there are lots of big and unsightly holes. Our backyard is a muddy mess. Stuff like that. But overall, I like our house a lot. Unfortunately we have had a few disagreements with our landlord. After a miscommunication in Mid-February she offered that we could break our lease with no penalties if we wanted to move out. At first, the idea was daunting. We had literally JUST unpacked our last box and hung up our final piece of artwork on the wall. We couldn't imagine packing everything back up again, transporting it, then unpacking again. But we had signed a two year lease and just weren't sure if we could stomach another two years of living in this property. So we started looking around, just...
Read more