I flew!

The weeks have been full and I have so much that I’d like to share with you all. We had another retreat at which I counseled. It was for high schoolers, so in the game 9 Square, I felt significantly less skilled. Can I go back to the 5’7″ 7th graders? While we were in the staff meeting divvying up tasks, I begrudgingly gave up board games for a steep hike. On this hike, which I wasn’t overly excited for, Olivia, that’s the other counselor, and I had four students with us, one girl, three guys. We naturally split up somehow into two groups, guys and girls. If I wasn’t prepared for the hike, I certainly was not ready for the vulnerability of these teens. All of your prayers would be cherished and needed for these brothers in Christ. They were inspiring as they shared about suicide, abuse, and substance abuse. I did the best I could, talking to them and letting them know I loved them. It truly was the best hike I’ve ever been on.

During the week, Roger and I visited the Hazard airport (Wendel H. Ford) and talked to Jordyn, a flight instructor there. On Tuesday of the next week, I was scheduled to fly out of courtesy of camp. The visit made me miss all of my pilot friends from EAA 9 who are building an RV-12 build kit (a type of an aircraft). The Tuesday on which I was supposed to fly rolled around, and in an unfortunate twist, the weather was far too windy, so we rescheduled for Wednesday. So on that day, Jordyn and I climbed into the school’s Beechcraft Musketeer sport (code BE19). I did none of the preflight or takeoff because I was not familiar with the plane and extremely rusty at flying. At first, I was so nervous, but then once we were in the air, I took the controls and realized even though I wasn’t familiar with everything, it was still a plane and I could fly it. We flew over Bethel Camp and then did some maneuvers.

Upon our return to Wendel H. Ford, Jordyn took control for the first landing, then switched to only controlling the power for the next landing leaving me to work the controls. With just the controls, I my landing was extremely smooth. On the third and final landing, it was all me, and it was as smooth as butter. Praise God for giving me such a good instructor and being able to help me wet my feet again in that industry, which I love.

The final thing I want to talk about is Roger and my project for the week. We went to the neighbor, Hiram, who locally is pronounced harm. Again, I ask for prayer. He is living in a camper,

which now, thanks to Roger and an intern, is partially roofed. He is adding on, and Roger gave him a roof, then we sided his add-on. Our friend came this weekend to help hang drywall in the Sylvan house, which went extremely well. We now have 80 percent of the drywall done and will start mudding this week once we finish the drywall. On Saturday, I had a few friends over and we played board games from 2-8, which was an amazing close to a great week.

This next week is starting wonderfully with the remembrance and celebration of our Savior’s rising and victory over death. Personal prayer requests are for me to have more energy and motivation.

Thank you all so much for your prayers, and continued support.