Rain

ok ladies and germs. Curtis our main contact said it hardly rains in South Dakota.....it has rained everyday weve been here including the little gem of a storm we had 2 nights ago. There was lightning every second and we had 60 mphwinds. On top of that one of our trailor windows blew in and water was everywhere. Now our trailor smells like mold but it could be that thats where all the guys are sleeping. There is somthing unsettling about laying in a bed, in a trailor, that is made with aluminum paneling when you see lightning every second. The other great aspect of the storm is that Curtis is deaf in one ear so we didnt even know if he woke up to find out if a tornado was coming. He did and we were all right. Its hard to be by Curtis because if you say his name he just looks around until he finds a face where he thinks the noise came from.

Today I found a stash of Nutter Butters. They were Stephs.. I cant eat any.

The past days we have been networking around town and have found some good jobs to do while the students are here. Thats about all I have to say about that.

Its getting easier to go to the bathroom here. We dont have locks on the restrooms and there is no door on the stalls. Therefore if your going to the restroom you have to pray the hail mary that no one enters the restroom. Its a bit awkward but im pretty much use to it now. I dont know how itll work when there is 96 kids here tho.

Today I started and finished throwing up drywall and will be hopefully letting the worship people paint it on sunday. Tommorrow is our free day and I think were headed up to Hot Springs to go swiming in hot springs.... Should be fun even though it will prolly be cloudy. When I was in training week I was told that it never rains on Next Step. Upon getting to South Dakota I was told by Curtis it never rains in Pine Ridge. Which makes perfect sense as to why it has rained everyday that weve been here. REDICULOUS.

I was told by my gf to put up more pictures and while i dont have any good ones ill throw some up because I like to make her happy so I will descide them. I dont know which order they load so I will describe then in no particular order. The boy is named Legand and his middle name is Tell and I have no clue what his last name is but here he is at the age of 6 defying gravity. Showing off for the ladies or eing an idiot here he is in all his glory. (Not Pictured is the blue power ranger that he always carries in his pocket) The next are 2 pictures from the butte we climbed. (Dont worry mom they werent high) I also call them Butts instead of buttes because it adds a little more excitment to my day. (excitment is hard to come by round here). The one with the van in the drive between 2 trailors a picture I took i thoguht looked cool. Legends (aka Tellen) trailor is the one on the right of this picture. The last two are the basecamp for our summer. The long white building is the chapel and the small tan building to the right of that is where i will be stayin come sunday. I like to call it the mansion because its so small. The big blue building is where we eat and where the kids will stay. I call it big blue. Last is a picture of a dog that I think is half wolf. I call him Wolfy. He does not like carrots but does not seem to mind potato wedges. Thats pretty much it, all the resst are housing trailors and machine shops. So thats pretty much it. Not to exciting but South Dakota really isnt. except for the badlands we went through last night. Pretty sweet look it up.

Thanks again for reading

Love

Matt