Brandon, South Dakota

I just got back from an event in Brandon, South Dakota.  We were at a public high school, which is pretty cool for us to be able to bring our ministry in.  They packed 106,000 meals in three shifts!  In our first shift of the day we had a ridiculous amount of volunteers, and we thought for sure that production would be down (usually when volunteer numbers get beyond a certain point, production goes down), but they blew me away and packed the most of any of the shifts!  One cell had 24 people at it (usually peak efficiency is between 13 and 16 volunteers) and they packed 29 boxes during their shift!  There was also a man that packed who does mission work in Haiti and actually receives the food.  It is neat to see the full circle for him, packing the food and then giving the food to people who need it!  There was a lot of family at this event too; we had parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins of our staff members coming to help...it was great!  

We drove down to the event...thus we had to drive back.  And the weather wasn't so great last night, so the roads were pretty slick and it was a slow drive home...but I laughed so much.  It was a fun staff to be stuck in a car with for 5 hours!  Now I have a couple days to recuperate until I head down to Phoenix!