get 'er done!

Hi Family and Friends,
So here we are on the 5th day of DTS, and I have told you very little about the base and all we have been learning.
On Monday we went to the Cody museum as I mentioned in the previous entry, this one day consisted of our orientation week that the students usually have. Since we are such a small group and will be spending a lot of time together, we just jumped straight into lecture phase, with some fun mixed in.
Pastor Ron was our guest speaker this week. He is a former PBR rider who got saved and did his DTS at the original CWAM base in Montana and is now the only full time pastor here in the small town of Meeteetse. He’s quite a character! He had some very solid Bible teaching to share along with some amazing stories and miracles. His main topic this week (we have one subject for a five day period) was the Holy Spirit. He taught on the character, controversy and giftings of the Holy Spirit. He is a very passionate speaker who diffidently keeps your attention. Every morning after he taught he would ask us questions about what we believed, our doctrine if you will, and “challenge” us (in a very nice way!) about what we believe and why and if we have scripture to back it up. It is very thought provoking to have to “defend” your faith, but also super beneficial, to be able to know the scriptures and principles that you base your beliefs on.
This week we started our journals, they are our form of homework. They include word studies on the different characteristics of God, what has challenged us that week, synopsis of our devotions, book reports and also the start of our sermon that we have to give at the end of lecture phase in June.
After lecture in the morning we have lunch together and then have horsemanship! We just met our horses yesterday, because we have been gone every other afternoon. Both Laura (our DTS leader) and Joe (she takes care of all the livestock) took us out to the round pen for our first ride. I will be riding a bay quarter horse named Gloria who has a lot of patience! She is a good horse. I could repeat a lot of skills that she has, but since I really don’t know what I am talking about, I will just say that she didn’t buck me off and swinging a saddle up on her hurts my wimpy arms or can I blame it on our height difference….
After horsemanship we have work duties, I got nominated to be the kitchen crew, they have a nice kitchen here, a little bigger then a home kitchen, but smaller then a professional kitchen. So far I haven’t burnt anything, but I am adjusting to the elevation here, it’s over 6000 feet.
After supper, we have free time. Which is when I read, read or write this blog and then read some more. We will we only go to town once a week (town being Cody 30miles away) on Sunday. It is very peacefully and quiet out here, it’s still too cold for crickets or frogs and stuff to be out.( I always remember the crickets being sooo loud at CRC in the spring and summer.) One thing we do have is a TON of deer and they are different than the ones at home, they are huge and a weird looking, and enjoying eating Joe’s hay way too much. Cash the cowdog is kinda lazy, but sometimes he gets the notion to chase them off which is fun to see.
Because we are such a small group we have had the opportunity to do things that other schools haven’t be able too. Such as the David Crowder/Mercy Me concert that we went to on Monday night. We joined Pastor Ron and some from his church and drove 3hrs to Billings. It was my first time at a huge concert, besides PlusOne when I was a preteen, but we WON’T go there, anyways it was large, crowded and very very LOUD! I am glad I went, Mercy Me was amazing! I couldn’t believe how many of their songs I knew that I didn’t know was them. So in conclusion, good experience, but I would never go again. Did I mention it was loud?
Let’s see so this weekend, we will be headed to Billings for a Horse Auction. The base has three horses that don’t suit their needs so we will be in Billings all weekend, praying that they sell for a good price.
Well, if you have any question or something doesn’t make sense, or if you just stop by make sure to leave a comment. Last but not least; the number one saying in Wyoming...
Get ‘er done!